andreadallera

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by andreadallera 15y ago
And you're a true manager right to the end, my friend. Making decision with your heart alone and refusing to see logic and data when they're in front of you. May our paths never cross in real life.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Again, perspective. On average, that's certainly true. In this specific instance, not so. Take a 16 year old boy from the ghetto in the US and compare it to a rich upper caste Pakistani girl. Who has the most advantages?
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by andreadallera 15y ago
What does her death has to do with you ? What does her death has to do with all of us? What disgusts me is the lack of tact and consideration of editors and maybe her parents - the first are ready to exploit the death of a 16 years old gir
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by andreadallera 15y ago
You know sons and daughters of multi-milionairs having problem finding a job and moving out of the house?
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Your reply makes me sad. I'll try to explain why: Empathy should have nothing to do with your ability to evaluate facts. Empathy has an evil cousin, politically correctness . When politically correctness comes into play, you lose the game.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> we get a bunch of morons on here telling us how the accomplishments aren't as good as they seem. Whoa, easy. I have expressed my opinion and I have backed it up well I think. No hate for the poor girl, that's just terrible that somebo
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by andreadallera 15y ago
You've got a shitty boss and a shitty job. If you're worth your dime you should start looking for something else right now.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> You have your opinion and I have mine. So let's not try to have a discussion about it? I've never understood that frame of mind.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Is this serious? Correlation != causation. A PhD should know that.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
At least in my community, when you talk about "sql server" it's obvious that you're talking about MS SQL Server. In the same way, postgreSQL is "postgres" and Oracle Database is just "oracle".
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> and made it to the Redmond campus based on her own ambition and drive to do something for herself. Sorry but no. Again, I don't want to belittle her accomplishments - it's certainly a feat for any girl or boy her age to be even able t
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by andreadallera 15y ago
No no no not at all - Sorry if it came out that way. On a personal level, I am deeply sorry for her death. Given time, she might have become a great programmer. On a more general level, when I see something like this on the news, I can't he
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Exactly what i thought. Plus, from a marketing point of view, porting sqlserver to unix would have been suicide for Microsoft given their primary objective (for what concernes the server market) since XP is to enlarge their market to the se
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by andreadallera 15y ago
I hate to write this, since the tragic happening but really, the hype is widely unjustified. I started programming when I was 8, I know a lot of people that started meddling around with computer around the same age, and I was born a decade
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> Taking a step back you have to ask: Why are these publishing companies given such power Publishing companies have not that much power. What they publish is decided based on how many references the paper gets and how prominent in the a
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by andreadallera 15y ago
In the article, they probably meant "organized crime" as a whole. To a foreigner, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta don't say much.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Credit crunch is going to make an already terrible situation worse. The biggest problem is that every kind of "external" help (like, for example, EU lending money to italian banks at a low interest rate) is only going to help Mafia because
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Define "liquid market".
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by andreadallera 15y ago
On one hand, I feel your pain. On the other hand, cost and value are not the same thing, and so aren't value and market price. If you do something and what you do costs much more than the market value of its output, make sure it's not your
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> Astronomers are incredibly dedicated to outreach. I really don't want to sound overly critical - I'm sure that there is good will behind whoever made the site you linked - but that site is what represents astronomers' dedication to o
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Given the state of the situation, a wiki-style site for information sharing is just not going to happen. Nobody, authors first, has the interest for something like that to happen - researchers are very interested in sharing, with other res
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Nice job. The code in watcher.js is weirdly imperative. Are you coming from C/C++?
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> Repeat after me: scholarship is not a publishing business. Nope - it's much more than that. It's a way for a caste of too-often incompetent and self-absorbed university dwellers to perpetrate itself. I've had the misfortune of working
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by andreadallera 15y ago
> Code is becoming the new lingua franca of Web activists around the nation No, it's not. The sentence doesn't even make sense. > If you can code, you can launch new movements, upend traditional campaign dynamics and pressure candid
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by andreadallera 15y ago
I'm not an enterpreneur and I don't want to be one.
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Honestly, no. Not here in Italy, at least. "once you’re 10 years into your startup career, as he is, you have access to all the same incredible resources" - what is going to give you those "incredible resources" you're talking about? Time?
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by andreadallera 15y ago
It would be suicide to do it now . What about in some months, when everybody has forgot about the debate and most of the users are constantly logged on google+ and use the feature as their standard search? Again, Facebook does it all the t
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by andreadallera 15y ago
Might this be a trojan horse? This feels like what Facebook does... they announce a feature which raises public concerns about privacy, then they play it down a bit on the first release and then proceed to push it as originally planned on a
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by andreadallera 15y ago
I'd really like to know that too. Also, are they collecting data themselves? If not, where are they getting it from?
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by andreadallera 15y ago
More often than not programmers, even the very good ones, have never learn how to sell themselves. So, they end up working for a fraction of their real value. If this guy ever found someone good via this method, it's almost certainly one of

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