Morendil

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by Morendil 3y ago
Enjoying this a lot ! Possibly too much ;)
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by Morendil 5y ago
"Research paper", ha. I came across this a few years ago, I call it the "Frankenpaper". See this gist for why I call it that: https://gist.github.com/Morendil/85336bf97211f9f31102ce2ee4e...
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by Morendil 9y ago
This needs some signal-boosting! I would trust someone with a sharp eye like that to review my code much more than I would trust the author of the original article. The PDF that requires an email can also be found here without giving one:
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by Morendil 9y ago
Not in-depth across the whole set; I picked apart one or two before coming to the conclusion that there was something inherently flawed in the whole approach of modeling study of the phenomenon after the protocol for medical intervention. T
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by Morendil 9y ago
I'm a big fan of TDD, but I quit reading this article the second my eyes came across "IBM System Sciences Institute" and the chart that accompanies it. This is by now one of the most thoroughly debunked memes in our professio
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by Morendil 9y ago
It's normal to experience emotions related to what happens at work. It's called "being human". And dealing with emotions - putting words on them, accepting them and moving on - is a key skill and a part of growing up. Wh
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by Morendil 9y ago
It's quite common, and known as "plagiarism". It will usually get people discredited quite thoroughly.
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by Morendil 10y ago
For more than you ever wanted to know on the "studies" about 10x programmers, see http://leanpub.com/leprechauns
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by Morendil 10y ago
I'm all too aware of these many citations. A few years ago, I went to the trouble of chasing down most of the papers and books, and evaluating how well each of them supported the claim. To put it mildly, I was underwhelmed. For just on
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by Morendil 10y ago
I'd put the cost of defects claim in the category "not even wrong". If someone made quantified claims about "the number of minutes of life lost to smoking one cigarette" I would refuse to take them seriously: I woul
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by Morendil 10y ago
I'm disappointed to see a book aimed at "professional" developers continue to spread outdated and debunked information, such as the NIST "study" adduced as evidence for the imperative necessity of "defect cost
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A catalog of French government APIs(api.gouv.fr)
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by Morendil 11y ago
"Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts huge numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US" ...not only are those forecasts not from the cited s
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by Morendil 11y ago
A fantastic book on the history of the search for gravitational waves: "Gravity's Shadow" by Harry Collins.
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by Morendil 11y ago
Point him to "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" by Bach, Kaner and Pettichord: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471081124 Also, "manual testing" is a slightly unfortunate monicker for the activity we ar
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by Morendil 11y ago
As far as I can tell France universally uses "Flow A" (get your card back first, then your cash). When I started using ATMs, in the late 80s, I remember that "Flow A" and "Flow B" were about equally common, the
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by Morendil 11y ago
Or similarly https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shareware&year...
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by Morendil 11y ago
I own one of those. They're rad.
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by Morendil 11y ago
This. Also, the (rarely surfaced) assumption that whoever is doing the hiring can tell a talented programmer from an average one. This is rarely the case.
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by Morendil 12y ago
> The idea of this is not "try to break the robot" Think of it this way. If you want to learn what constitutes strong chess play, will you learn best from playing a) yourself or b) a much stronger player? Having a "collabo
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by Morendil 12y ago
Next time it's up, try asking a few of these: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/davise/papers/WS.html
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by Morendil 12y ago
That headline should read: "33% of human judges flunk the Turing Test".
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by Morendil 12y ago
Let's please upvote this to ensure it remains the top comment on this story. Head and shoulders above your usual science reporting.
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by Morendil 12y ago
After a couple years of fantasizing about owning one, I finally took action month before last. I built a Prusa i3 from parts, single-sourced everything as a kit from RepRapWorld.com; that's more expensive, but much more convenient when
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by Morendil 12y ago
> I've come to believe that these problems are unsolvable. "Unsolvable" is strong. My take is that these problems stem inevitably from approaching the goal ass-backwards. You're trying to force a particular testing
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by Morendil 12y ago
> This device purports to be able to measure glucose levels non-invasively. It doesn't. The campaign page specifically disclaims that.
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by Morendil 12y ago
This seems neither new nor groundbreaking, however. http://dst.sagepub.com/content/8/1/54.short ETA: a 2011 review of the state of the art: http://knowledgetranslation.ca/sysrev/articles&
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by Morendil 12y ago
I saw this campaign a few weeks ago, felt very tempted, ultimately decided it was prudent to wait for the final product to be available. The discussion here has raised some interesting points pro and contra. Much hinges on how well the rese
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by Morendil 13y ago
I don't mean to make fun of you, but: http://badassprogrammers.com/ basically demolishes that line of argument (and in the bargain confirms that Poe's Law does apply in Zed's case). Particularly poignant is t
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by Morendil 13y ago
You're quite right that people tend to miss the broader point. Could be my fault, could be that more people - on this site in particular - ought to be familiar with pg's Disagreement Hierarchy: http://paulgraham.com&#

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