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by zenogais 11y ago
I think creativity is more than just inference from limited data (which computers can do also). It has to do with either discovering a way to connect two or more seemingly unconnected things or discovering a new means by which to connect tw
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by zenogais 11y ago
I'm actually quite optimistic about this. Finding good, high-quality advice on hiring best-practices is difficult. We're currently looking to re-tool our hiring process at the place I work as we look to expand, and this could not
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by zenogais 11y ago
This is just not historically accurate at all. There was a wide variety of methodologies before agile came along - Spiral, Cleanroom, OOP, TSP, RAD, RUP, et al. These are not all waterfall - waterfall was never really a prescribed method of
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by zenogais 11y ago
I've always loved this and many of the other insights and distinctions introduced by Nietzsche. While "The Birth of Tragedy" is a bit of a turgid read, the works following it are much sharper. I'd honestly recommend his
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by zenogais 11y ago
So noblesse oblige is back in style again eh?
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by zenogais 11y ago
This was pretty much the reason I didn't go to grad school, despite having a full ride. Seemed like a one-way ticket to misery and poverty, and I was kinda over that after working my way through college (having as many as 3 jobs at a t
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by zenogais 11y ago
I devoted a several years to studying continental / post-structuralist philosophy (Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Irigary, et al), and while I can't claim any authoritative knowledge I'd say I've at least done my ho
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by zenogais 11y ago
Introvert here, who has also frequently been called a social butterfly. I think the hardest thing for folks to understand is that introverted does not mean socially inept or shy. I love being outgoing, but it also takes a toll on me. I need
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by zenogais 11y ago
If you're stuck in an unsatisfying situation, accept it for what it is at the moment and keep looking for ways to get out of that situation. I grew up in a really small town with little to no industry and a massive drug subculture beca
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by zenogais 11y ago
Jonathan Blow is working on at least part of this (sorry, the only links I could find were to his videos about it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTqZNujQOlA
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by zenogais 11y ago
I'll take an initial stab at this. Suitcase word seems to be a nicer name for polysemy - the ability of word to be packed with meanings - which is often surprisingly unproblematic in ordinary speech and writing. Essentially contested c
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by zenogais 11y ago
After finishing it, I'm almost certain the author just produced a shorter more accessible version of the argument from "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey. It's basically a Marxian interpretation of the is
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by zenogais 11y ago
I'll add another shameless plug here. I wrote nosetests plugion for profiling your test suites called nose-perfdump https://github.com/etscrivner/nose-perfdump
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by zenogais 11y ago
If we avoided reading books simply because they have criticisms, we'd never read anything.
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by zenogais 11y ago
Thank you for sharing this, fascinating read and interesting viewpoint.
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by zenogais 11y ago
It's both good and bad. It's more proof that at least some life experiences can produce heritable traits - typically called Lamarckism, and long considered a discredited contender as an evolutionary theory. Whether these traits ar
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by zenogais 11y ago
This was fantastic. Thank you.
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by zenogais 11y ago
Kind of a weird, cliche-informed rant here about lisp. To clarify, lisp simply offers functional programming by default and metalinguistic abstraction - most languages don't. So it tends to be used by people/organizations seeking
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by zenogais 11y ago
Agreed. The real title should be "Refactor loops with map, filter, and reduce"
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by zenogais 11y ago
It's been posted in the comments below, but I'll reiterate it because it needs to be said. This article is more about the issues of naive database adoption strategies than any deep fundamental flaw with Cassandra. I've deploy
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by zenogais 11y ago
I've been following this project for well over a year now. It's come a long way, has a long way to go still, but it's pretty exciting as an alternative to weak consistency stores available now.
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by zenogais 11y ago
This is how I bootstrapped my way into a full-time engineering job (note, I also have my BS in Computer Science), I'm sure you could do something similar: Find some businesses that need some simple, short-term coding work - python work
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by zenogais 11y ago
This kind of black and white thinking is exactly the problem though. Either science or mysticism. Science will never be infallible, and in fact has strict limits on what it can know [1][2] - there's nothing to fix here, except the perc
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by zenogais 11y ago
Yeah, I think missing that expertise is a spectrum and not a binary is a big mistake. There are plenty of sub-par programmers who would never survive in a high-skill environment, but who consistently satisfy their clients. This is an import
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by zenogais 11y ago
There are two common theories on greatness - (1) it results from hard work (2) it results from natural talent. Both are wrong. Multiple studies show that high degrees of skill are the result of deliberate practice, and that its results even
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by zenogais 11y ago
It's part a larger myth that probably needs to die also. See the book "Talent is Overrated" for a thorough and scientific evisceration of the idea.
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by zenogais 11y ago
My thoughts exactly. The resemblance is pretty striking.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Can't tell you how many times I've Googled this and had to dig through the docs. Thank you!
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by zenogais 12y ago
To me this is always what MVP has meant. The fact that some products initially or completely fail at this is, from the product maker's perspective, part of the feedback loop the MVP is there to establish.
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by zenogais 12y ago
You're asking people to abstain from something that requires less work than what you're recommending. For most people the incentives just aren't in the direction you're arguing.

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