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by zb 16y ago
BTW every time you use the word "inciteful" I wonder if you made it up on purpose or if you just can't spell. And that worries me because anybody who thinks that "insightful" is spelled "inciteful" clearly doesn't have any idea what it mean
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by zb 16y ago
I don't understand where systems thinking comes in to this. Because anybody who has thought at all about systems will realise they the are complex and hard to predict (because we can't know everything about the system), and therefore that t
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by zb 16y ago
If anybody hasn't yet read Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", it's really worth checking out. http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by zb 16y ago
It was Eisenhower.
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by zb 16y ago
This post was rubbish last time it appeared here too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960662
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by zb 16y ago
This article irritates me. It seems like trying to apply the equivalent of the Waterfall Method to life. I'm perpetually disappointed that ideas like this have such a big following here, because I like to think that most HNers would agree w
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by zb 16y ago
But we would all prefer points between Y and Z to X, so why don't we enact policies that achieve that? It seems to me that that becomes a whole lot more difficult in a society with more than two members.
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Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning(uctc.net)
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When someone asks if you need a lawyer, it's not actually a question.
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by zb 16y ago
If I understand the question correctly, it's because Firefox is single-threaded. A better question might be why Firefox is single-threaded. Apparently it's something to do with JavaScript. An even better question might be what connecting to
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by zb 16y ago
Any time a product is hyped as divorcing ends from means, you know it can be safely ignored.
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This Jugaad sounds very similar to what we Kiwis call the "Number 8 wire" approach. (New Zealand is a long way from anywhere, so a tradition developed of making running repairs using whatever was at hand - specifically, farm fencing wire -
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by zb 16y ago
To be fair to the journalist concerned, if you read to the bottom of the complaint you'll find that there are 7 claims of patent infringement and 1 of copyright infringement.
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OT, but could there be anything more irritating than a giant "Feedback" button that hovers over the text you're trying to read? How about if you clicked on it to give feedback about the feedback button and discovered that it didn't actually
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by zb 16y ago
Not at all. If you shift all the risk from the client to the supplier then the price will go up. There's no free lunch. Of course you could be the client who strikes the jackpot because the supplier underestimated the job - in which case yo
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by zb 16y ago
>> And if I estimated something incorrectly, I didn't charge for the extra work. > Very honourable, and a really good way to show your customers you are confident and willing to eat your mistakes. Things like that will create a
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by zb 16y ago
First off, I plead guilty to putting words in your mouth. My comment was an accurate description of what annoys me; I leave it up to the reader to decide whether it's an accurate description of your agenda. 1) If there were no aging, everyb
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by zb 16y ago
I wasn't planning to post in this thread, but now you mention it, what annoys me is people who seem to think that their particular utopia will be the first to have no unintended consequences whatsoever. Double the annoyance factor when they
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by zb 16y ago
Occasional false negatives are the price you pay for filtering out the crackpot ideas and I, for one, am OK with that.
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by zb 16y ago
I'm sorry, did you just say that Donald Norman doesn't know what he's talking about and then recommend that he go read his own book to find out why?
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by zb 16y ago
Great article. The distinction between formulaic and versus insightful questions seems very similar to the difference between top-down and bottom-up processes.
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It's hard to take seriously an article about how software development is different when it neglects to mention what exactly it is allegedly different from .
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by zb 16y ago
Thanks for the reply; I wasn't sure if you were following this thread. So, if I understand your argument correctly, you're advocating that domain experts create software in high-level languages so that we don't have to write code. The probl
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by zb 16y ago
Roughly, I think the point is to solve for X: blueprint:building :: X:code This is exactly backwards. The answer is: blueprint:building :: code:software Failure to understand this is the reason why most comparisons between software an
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by zb 16y ago
Since typography relies on human judgement of appearance, people cannot be replaced. However, much of their dull work can be automated: if LilyPond solves most of the common situations correctly, then this will be a huge improvement over e
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Turtles all the way down.
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by zb 16y ago
Not sure if you saw the graph hidden in the side I actually missed it, thanks. But what I'd really like to see are the number of police reports of unintended acceleration by model. And, thanks to the nature of human memory, after the fir
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by zb 16y ago
I'd love to see some statistics on the number of these incidents that have occurred with Toyotas versus other makes as a proportion of the total fleet. These incidents happen all the time, and it almost always turns out that the driver was
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by zb 16y ago
I'm surprised that in 2010 accusing (or even stigmatizing) other people of racism based on vague assumptions is still acceptable. You know what? You're right. If you read my comment carefully you'll note that it was actually directed at j
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by zb 16y ago
Yes. Do you know something about labour policies in, say, Taiwan, Japan or South Korea that I don't?

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