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by bpyne 6y ago
Good point. Her teachers tend more toward the exception you described. They have conversations about the quality of sources. Teachers definitely follow some links to make sure students aren't bullshitting. She was definitely introduced
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by bpyne 6y ago
Critical thinking is taught in schools. When I think back far enough to my daughter's elementary school education, teachers were trying to develop it by at least 4th grade (9-10yo). Starting the next year, she had classes in civics tha
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by bpyne 6y ago
I tried black coffee for short durations and hated it. So, I'm willing to say my experience follows the conclusion of the study. However, people have wide variations in what they taste (and smell) as pleasurable. Without reading the st
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by bpyne 6y ago
I quite several times over the years, one time as long as 6 months. I go back, ultimately, because I love the flavor. That said, I would never work as early as 9am if I didn't have to. Caffeine allows me to jumpstart my brain for progr
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by bpyne 6y ago
The author seems burned out given his age. (I'm going to assume a male author given how few women were in the field 20 years ago.) I went through the same stage after working for a mid-sized financial institution. I had a plan to retra
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by bpyne 6y ago
Yes! That was my experience exactly.
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by bpyne 6y ago
My university realized the need for a proof writing course a little too late to help me. Students who did well in the more abstract math classes, aside from the outlier "gifted" mathematicians, formed study groups. I wasn't m
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by bpyne 6y ago
I didn't notice if "participation" meant meals available or actually picked up by kids. Kids, particularly younger ones, who are in unstable households may not get to school in time to pick up what's available. Some dist
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by bpyne 6y ago
My biggest problems as a math major at the undergraduate level were proofs. I could muddle my way through abstract algebra proofs but real analysis just didn't click. The oddity is that I could read proofs for both subjects: the reason
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by bpyne 6y ago
I have the same reaction. I suspect a lot of RAM is wasted by os's and applications.
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by bpyne 6y ago
Python is an excellent teaching language. It's simple to install. You follow a tutorial by typing something at the REPL and it gives you results. Learning stuff like importing modules, etc. happens as your coding ambitions increase. So
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by bpyne 6y ago
Interesting tidbit. I'm take an online course in Mexican cooking. The first unit is making tortillas. The chef covered the traditional way. You take dried corn, cut from the cob, and soak it in lime (pickling lime) water overnight. The
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by bpyne 6y ago
Interesting. Does the domain setup forward to your web mail account?
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by bpyne 6y ago
I think we need to be careful about the free speech debate in this case. Free speech applies to civic life, not your relationship with a business. Near me we have a bar that doesn't tolerate swearing. On your first offense, the bartend
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by bpyne 6y ago
It's amazingly difficult to get away from. For those of us who had Yahoo email accounts, trying to get people to stop emailing them is a slow drawn out process. My wife and I switched to Gmail accounts at least 5 years ago. We still ge
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by bpyne 6y ago
Ironically, I ran into this talk by Guy Steele today. He presents the development of the Computer Science Metalanguage. https://youtu.be/dCuZkaaou0Q
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by bpyne 6y ago
"The hypothesis that COVID is man-made is an inevitable result of already existing conspiracy theories about Chinese communist plots and "globalist/NWO" population control programs that go back decades. The only novel as
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by bpyne 6y ago
Scared people sometimes look for control over a situation to feel less scared. The hypothesis that COVID-19 is man-made makes it seem like we have some control over it, whereas, the thought that it developed outside of human control and mig
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by bpyne 6y ago
It's causing disenfranchised citizens to believe in a global conspiracy to subvert a man with a trail of failed businesses and marriages, as well as, dictatorial aspirations. It should be treated as a Hollywood recycled plot, but peopl
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by bpyne 6y ago
"Well, the client knows his business best, but sure as hell they do not know how to make software best." My "clients" are all internal. As I work with more departments, I realize how little they know how they operate. Th
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by bpyne 6y ago
There's no single culprit, but you hit part of the problem. - Users prioritizing new features over rock solid performance hurt us badly. Basically, we as customers are our own worst enemy. - Software done as distributed services when i
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by bpyne 6y ago
Tech as it stands today requires a cognitive overhead that I think is wearing down people. It seems like we can make more complex software but we can't make it work smoothly. People are spending far too much time searching the web for
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The “Oh Shoot” Moment
3 points by bpyne 6y ago|4 comments
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by bpyne 6y ago
Yes a hundred times! Part of the fatiguing part is that you have to move frequently between big picture and highly detailed thinking. Trying to keep functional requirements, design, and implementation detail in mind constantly drains mental
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by bpyne 6y ago
I looked up Trondheim, NO weather. It's only Rhode Island cold not Minnesota cold. Plenty of people in Providence, RI bike in the Winter. Trondheim also doesn't have the range found in either RI or MN so you don't get ridicul
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by bpyne 6y ago
Yes, startups are the wild, wild, west. I spent from 1994-97 in startups. I loved the lack of bureaucracy. But we spent too much time in firefighting mode. Through trial-and-error I found medium-small organizations in the non-profit world m
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by bpyne 6y ago
"I ran into this early in my career when a senior engineer at a startup reviewed my Python PR for operating on a CSV dataset and insisted I rewrite it in Pandas for performance." Did a performance problem exist? If not, then I wou
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by bpyne 6y ago
Other commentors gave good advice about how to negotiate. In the US, there's an expression called "Keeping up with the Jones'". It means you're trying to match what you see other people getting in income, material g
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by bpyne 6y ago
I notice that Ada 95 included inheritance. My experience in other languages with inheritance is that the feature creates a lot of complexity. Have you used inheritance in Ada and, if so, has it created any issues?
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by bpyne 6y ago
Ada came to mind when the parent mentioned separate interface and implementation files. Making methods in the implementation private unless they appear in the interface was an inspired design decision. I use only Oracle's PL/SQL d

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