dbshapco

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by dbshapco 6mo ago
I feel like any argument that begins by asserting a dichotomy is almost certain to be circular and will proceed as if the dichotomy were a fact rather than an unproven hypothesis. I don't believe there is a dichotomy, or even a spectru
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by dbshapco 7mo ago
I'm agnostic, but ... "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." For a more modern
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by dbshapco 8mo ago
When I was in university I took a lot of courses in management science, which is basically a lot of applied psychology, and learned a lot of stuff like this. Then I went out into industry and watched as all these principles about managing e
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by dbshapco 2y ago
The power of narrative made personal. If we aren't plucked chickens we are storytellers. The venue and media have changed, from oral tradition around a fire to photons sliding down fibers and fingers dancing on keyboards. Narrative i
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by dbshapco 2y ago
<rant> Swiping felt like the death of dating apps. Dating has always been a numbers game (the more potential partners one interacts with and dates the higher the chances of forming successful relationships). Modern dating apps conve
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by dbshapco 9y ago
The Internet has become a carrier signal for advertising.
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by dbshapco 10y ago
Anyone actually recommend the book from which the article is taken? I also tried to read the wa v. ga blog post on the site to get a further sense of the author's approach, but the server returns an out of memory error (from a blog po
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by dbshapco 10y ago
Emotionally and quite illogically. You can take the kid out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of the man.
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by dbshapco 10y ago
I think it is the feeling that you can't mess up that this references and which persists. My past was a single mother, deadbeat dad, welfare and food banks. Now I have a comfortable six-figure income and have been employed for over two
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by dbshapco 10y ago
If you have five architects in a room, you'll get six opposing opinions on architecture.
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by dbshapco 11y ago
1) Culture must evolve with other elements of the company and at certain stages of growth and transition a company may need to intentionally hire to provoke and shape cultural change. Your change agents will be getting flak from many direc
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by dbshapco 11y ago
Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_t... With the current exchange rate we'll have another wave o
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by dbshapco 12y ago
DE has meaning outside of Microsoft. I recognize it, and am not in Microsoft's orbit. Generally it's one step above Senior Principal Engineer and considered an executive position. That said, tech titles have not normalized as muc
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by dbshapco 12y ago
Yes, wear your opponents out, Thunderbolt. It only takes getting up one more time than they knock you down.
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by dbshapco 14y ago
The title is provocative (it's a numbered list, and a rant!) but the author would have been better served with "Seven Ways to Make Agile Better", for no other reason than taking a positive slant. Agile can be built on, its not necessary to
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by dbshapco 15y ago
This seems to weaken the captcha for bots, since a simple Google search for (for instance) 'do you know we are going' completes the sentence. No need to defeat the obsfucated OCR test. If the goal is to keep out some idiots (since these te
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by dbshapco 15y ago
Large parts of the Internet are simply a media clearinghouse, used to transmit and store information between parties with little value add beyond providing interfaces. Who controls the media and how it is structured, and how it addresses i
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by dbshapco 16y ago
My experience is the opposite. The simplest solution is harder and takes longer. I think easiest or quickest is what is really meant in this formulation, but rarely do either of these result in simplest. I start with the former and strive
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by dbshapco 16y ago
Seattle.
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by dbshapco 17y ago
An example from my code: /// - parse an HTTP input stream as XML /// - requires a progressive parser (currently xpat, which is distributed with /// Apache) /// - the XML in turn is mapped to database operations, and the resu
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by dbshapco 17y ago
In this specific case, the dashboard-page function is actually sequencing operations, not performing them (except for 5, and I'd wonder why that couldn't be moved to a separate function), and can be described as such: // - control the l
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by dbshapco 17y ago
. . . and one of the plenty of good reasons being producing API documentation automatically via javadoc, doxygen, etc. Having the API documentation source and code live together is a big win. It's easier to maintain the inline documentati
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by dbshapco 17y ago
At least nobody is making movies and songs about Twitter. Endless references in popular media, yes. Songs and movies, no. "Breaker, breaker, looks like we got ourselves a convoy."
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by dbshapco 17y ago
It all depends what books you read -- say if you just read programming books and no theory, which tends to be drier and less interesting because the pseudo-code examples, if the book even has them, won't compile directly. Which is what univ
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by dbshapco 17y ago
"[S]pecifically target candidates rather than to post a job ad. I would suggest targeting a company you think has great people[.]" Like Rapleaf? Or was 'everyone but us' implied?
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by dbshapco 18y ago
"There is not that much different between a dancer in a strip club and a startup or huge multinational corporation." That's right. It's almost freakish how our inventory management system is exactly like pole dancing.