CodeyWhizzBang

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by CodeyWhizzBang 5mo ago
I think that's maybe the point of the article: "Whereas before, average was expensive in terms of both time and effort, average became cheap."
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5mo ago
A car that starts 50% of the time isn't "average". The average new car starts more or less every time. (And if you said 'modal average', I'd say the modal average new car starts every time).
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5mo ago
Not everyone can be average. Half of people will be below average. I might not agree with the point, but I can see that idea that many things just need to be "good enough" (which we might define as "average") and we save
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by CodeyWhizzBang 6mo ago
My point more was that you said it wasn't a widely shared opinion, but to my mind, it is broadly the status quo. Whether that is good or bad is a separate point.
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by CodeyWhizzBang 6mo ago
Is that definitely not a widely shared opinion? I feel like I can think of lots of situations where society puts in to protect children rather than leaving it to the parents (age ratings on films and games, YouTube Kids, regulations around
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by CodeyWhizzBang 6mo ago
The article says: Why is beauty a productivity-enhancing attribute for males in non-quantitative subjects? Generally, it is difficult to disentangle the reasons behind why beauty improves productivity (Hamermesh and Parker, 2005). However,
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by CodeyWhizzBang 1y ago
I am very struck by this remark: "Kovid has stated numerous times that any patches which work towards python3 compatibility without hurting python2 functionality or performance would be happily accepted. Oddly enough, no one has ever t
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by CodeyWhizzBang 2y ago
Unless it's the LTSC edition of Windows 10, which has support until 2029
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by CodeyWhizzBang 2y ago
I'm not convinced "big digital projects" in the private sector fare any better. As far as I can see, the scale of the project is a bigger problem than whether the originator is a private or public company. Public companies ju
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
This is only iOS
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
According to the article: "Those who got the stipend were less likely to be unsheltered after six months and able to meet more of their basic needs than a control group that got no money, and half as likely as the control group to have
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
The thing is, if I read a study that says “actually, everyone should be drinking 3 glasses of wine a night” I disregard that study as clearly nonsense and would question any future studies I saw by that author. But with ChatGPT we're n
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
This might be me being picky, but you mentioned at first: "I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from" And then here said: "It's an endlessly enthusiastic
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
Might it be made difficult to replace them, even if they're cheaper, because of the political influence of the goal/gas lobby groups in America?
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
Or the classic result of updating the code but not updating the comment: //Returns the user's full name return user.email;
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by CodeyWhizzBang 3y ago
They do have MDM. But that doesn't necessarily stop people installing their own apps.
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
Although the grammar is quite poor in the 50 IQ one
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
The BBC is semi-public sector. Bonuses are incredibly rare.
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
The problem is, creating the code isn't really the bottleneck. It's the stakeholder negotiation and conversations and understanding the business problem and updating the site when the business problem changes and updating the word
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
There's a line in War of the Worlds that was innocuous at the time, but is impossible to read as intended now to our modern eyes: "He heard footsteps running to and fro in the rooms, and up and down stairs behind him. His landlady
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
I do agree with you that Apple have done well to support this. But also 2016 is only 6 years ago. It's not just Apple thing, but it really doesn't feel sustainable for us to keep write off our hardware every half a decade.
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
I genuinely don't get this mindset at all. Even if they were to pay you, they're hardly going to pay you very much to do some coding assessment that's a few hours work.
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
This feels mad to me. Companies don't pay people to go through the application process to work for them.
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
I think the point is they're not working for free - they're doing an assessment. If they're asking you to do real production work for free, that's one thing. But giving you an exercise to assess you is something entirely
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by CodeyWhizzBang 4y ago
The assignment is an assessment though, it isn't actual business work. I've seen before this suggestion that companies are trying to get free work out of candidates, but I find that really hard to believe. I don't know if you
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago
The reality is, their core business is law. They probably don't hugely care about IT as long as it works. The most likely thing, if they found out, is they'd give him some other IT stuff to do as well to fill his time (which he ma
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago
I think it's the personal essay style that is quite popular at the moment - the mix of topic with the author's experience of that topic. (Personally, I quite like that style, but then I think I read for the experience of reading a
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago
That sounds like it's almost a case of the students not trusting that the ideas the teachers are explaining will be important. Maybe this is extrapolating too far, but I wonder if something has happened in technology that has led to a
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago
But isn't the issue that it is people going into computer programming who are struggling with the concept - not just casual users, for whom it really doesn't matter that much if they don't know how to navigate a folder struct
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by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago
I agree. It would be interesting to see the PHP sites broken down into wordpress and non-wordpress

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