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by Drbble 14y ago
Yes :-(
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by Drbble 14y ago
Passing the torch to the next generation of tourist cum expert. You can't expect these folks to stick with their avocatiom more than a few months before quitting.
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by Drbble 14y ago
This has changed a lot for the better in recent years. Also, a lot of geniuses are socially inept. I doubt you said everything right in your interview either. It helps to smile and keep going when one person in ten shows a flaw.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Why would you ever work somewhere where employees were not considered part of the company?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Inheritance is explicitly discouraged in style guides, except for specific cases of extensible framework classes with a vendor / customer split.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Now look at the Java Generics FAQ.
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by Drbble 14y ago
The way we treat agreements after death affects how much trust the living place in each other.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Completely rewriting things is one of the worst decisions an intermediate engineer makes. That's what killed Netscape. Applying learning to a new project, now that is something different.
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by Drbble 14y ago
"smell" is ill-defined!
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by Drbble 14y ago
The point is that with less significance you are less confidential what your conversion rate "would have been" under other courses of action. You can't say "this or that test has higher conversion" because of some simulation that has totall
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by Drbble 14y ago
It's the old normal. See also the famous article about how most medical research is mathematically wrong.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Same way every product from GWO and T&T on down: show a pretty graph that ignores the underlying assumption that it's even possible to use statistics to conjure certainty from uncertainty, and trust that users will never know or care ab
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by Drbble 14y ago
AirBnB attacked Craigslist users, not the website itself. AirBnB didn't post a copy of CP online. The spammed users could have tried to bring action against AirBnB under CAN-SPAM.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Google's web index is NoSQL, called BigTable, which Cassandra cloned.
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by Drbble 14y ago
and another 5 years to get hardware running with the performance characteristics of the original software.
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by Drbble 14y ago
You might be interested to learn about Analytics, AppEngine, Predictions API, Developer Storage, and I/O 2012 is a few weeks away...
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by Drbble 14y ago
It's funny to see the startup crowd rediscovering age-old techniques... Seen the Amazon.com home page recently? Does it look the same every day for a month?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Can you get a 1-year refillable prescription? I have prescriptions that are refillable X times in Your months.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Occams razor tells me that if IKEA's system saved any more money than Google's etc, Google etc would switch systems.
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by Drbble 14y ago
IKEA makes simple pieces designed for reuse across their whole inventory, so it is natural that their components extend to third party aftermarket designs.
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by Drbble 14y ago
Yes. My $300 dollar chair is horrible for how I sit. But how do you align good desk/monitor height with your elevated knees? I need a desk that has minimal surface area in front and center, so my knees have room to pop up.
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by Drbble 14y ago
The way to way to think about IKEA lifespan is not years. Each move and reassemble ages a piece, as does exceeding its load-bearing capacity. If you don't move it and don't overload it (especially those flimsy backs of bookcases held in by
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by Drbble 14y ago
What smells bad to me is the ever increasing hype and pricetag around the thus vaporware product that is really just a bag of features that should be added to a strong and stable IDE like Eclipse with PyDev/JDT/etc. People are getting so ex
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by Drbble 14y ago
Of course, so could a paperclip.
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by Drbble 14y ago
I thought cargo cult science was (mis)copying techniques without understanding how they work. The original example was building a fake airport / ATC at an abandoned military base and hoping cargo planes would land there.
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by Drbble 14y ago
It's ambiguous, not inaccurate. If the military used a certain COTS revolver as standard equipment, and the revolver had a eye-first camera with cellular upload to the public Internet, and that feature was not approved and known by the gun
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by Drbble 14y ago
You can cover for it by raging against the people who misinformed you.
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by Drbble 14y ago
What OS do they run? It's hard to imagine porting to another OS with insanely tiny marketshare and weird APIs. What is the app publishing ecosystem on these phones?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Citation?
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by Drbble 14y ago
Any examples of this on YouTube? What movies have sunrise scenes long enough to see sun motion?

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