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by zb 17y ago
This is politics very thinly veiled as economics, and there's also a lot of misinformation in it. I can't tell if you're referring to the article, or to the rest of your comment.
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The Ugly History of Tool Development at the FAA (2002)(baselinemag.com)
1 points by zb 17y ago|0 comments
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by zb 17y ago
Git submodules pretty much solve this problem in many cases.
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Google Translate vs. the Humans(nytimes.com)
1 points by zb 17y ago|1 comments
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by zb 17y ago
Ars Technica: "I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, or is immoral, or unethical..." This guy (first sentence, no less): "There's an interesting article on Ars Technica about how blocking ads is somehow unethi
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by zb 17y ago
The response linked in the comments from the author of the original blog post he's complaining about sums it up pretty nicely: http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2008/04/passion-doe...
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by zb 17y ago
It seems to me that the media want stories about what global warming is affecting right now . Which is ridiculous, because the point is what might happen in the future and how quickly we can adapt if the rate of change is high. Unfortunate
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by zb 17y ago
Well, the time and motion stuff he's talking about actually go back further, to Frederick W. Taylor in the late 19th Century. Robert Kanigel's biography of Taylor The One Best Way gives a very good history and a much more in-depth analysi
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by zb 17y ago
No, they didn't. The first result (and the one you'd get from I'm Feeling Lucky) was still the actual Facebook Login page. The RWW article was in the Google News results, which appear above the search results on the Google results page.
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by zb 17y ago
I didn't know they'd added TeX formulae; that's awesome. It's going to be a very long time before we see near-universal MathML adoption, but this pretty much eliminates the need for it. Whoever came up with the 3D pie charts needs to be l
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by zb 17y ago
Anything by Scott Meyers. They're really as good as everyone says.
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by zb 17y ago
> The term engineer has undergone serious deflation over the years Sorry, but I don't buy that. The term 'engineer' has been around since the Renaissance. Licensed Professional Engineers have only been around since the 19th century. Nob
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by zb 17y ago
> who the hell would do something so crazy People trying to crack other people's browsers, that's who.
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by zb 17y ago
That's a great talk, but I sort of took away the opposite from it. Munger mentions checklists and algorithms a couple of times, but it's clear that what he is really talking about are heuristics ("I was using some rough algorithms that work
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by zb 17y ago
Gawande's original article in the New Yorker is definitely worth a read: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_... Having said that, I'm pleased that this review mentions unintended consequences and the limits of t
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by zb 17y ago
No need. This kind of stuff happens even to people working for the same company, in the same building, in low PDI countries. Outsourced projects fail for exactly the same reasons that other projects fail. The difference, if there is one, is
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by zb 17y ago
He did say there were only two categories. They're just numbered 1 through 3 for some reason ;-)
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by zb 17y ago
If you've never used a DVCS, the concept seems crazy. Everybody has their own repository? Everybody pulls patches from everybody else? Seriously?!? The reality is that everybody - even Linus - has a centralised repository containing the can
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by zb 17y ago
I was under the impression that this is generally considered a bad idea because copyright law in some countries does not recognise the concept of a "public domain" (i.e. you can't disavow copyright even if you want to). I don't know if that
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by zb 17y ago
Google Apps + Google AppEngine. Total cost: $0 (since you already have a domain).
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by zb 17y ago
Also, I spell potatoe with an ‘e’, as God intended, so you know I’m right about this. Wait, Dan Quayle writes iPhone Apps?
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by zb 17y ago
Using Stacked Git to maintain multiple patches is a useful alternative to keeping multiple branches for some workflows. Obviously it depends on what you're doing with them.
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by zb 17y ago
Actually, Y2k01. Engineers don't use decimal points - it's too easy for them to disappear during copying.
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by zb 17y ago
A note to the author/submitter: It's Gantt, with two 't's, and it's not an acronym. Pedantry aside, it's important because assuming that it is an acronym obscures its Taylorist origins.
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by zb 17y ago
They do but they iterate when solving the problem, usually on paper. If they make a design mistake and it's in production or prototype phase it's much more costly to address. And because of this development cycles are longer and a lot more
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by zb 17y ago
Do you have personal experience with mechanical engineering projects that suggests that most work best with large, lowly-paid design teams using management-friendly technology, or are you just assuming that they would? I'm just curious, bec
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by zb 17y ago
Yes, I wasn't sure about that either. The whole thing really is worth reading (in fact the sidebar was arguably the less interesting part).
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by zb 17y ago
A nice reminder that the artifact is not the product.
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by zb 17y ago
Interesting - in the embedded software world we have the exact same problem with hardware. Mocking the hardware can confirm the internal consistency of your ideas about how it works, but most problems stem from your ideas being inconsistent
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by zb 17y ago
If you wrote the article, then yes.

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