dwmtm

7 ms·

1.
by dwmtm 10y ago
This is a great list. When micro services work, it's because they made it easy to verify each of these [obvious] bullet points. For some jobs, file this under premature contemplation. When other methods work... My top two are "cla
2.
by dwmtm 10y ago
Per capita spending is a little misleading here, is it not? Ceteris paribus, http://www.novinite.com/articles/143867/Bulgarian+Teachers+w... suggests Romania gets Bulgaria's educational results at nine tenths
3.
by dwmtm 10y ago
Capitalism leads to some unfavorable outcomes. Algorithms do capitalism better, leading to more unfavorable outcomes. Therefore, algorithms are the problem. I don't know what I missed, but it looks like algorithms merely provide the r
4.
by dwmtm 10y ago
Calm down, Kent.
5.
by dwmtm 10y ago
Please correct me: The Triple Package says successful individuals are in some sense drawn from populations that inculcate certain traits. The article discusses success as an individual trait, and not a group trait. Narrow reading, misreadin
6.
by dwmtm 11y ago
Aha. This is a nice motive for the no-more-Linus-in-Linux conspiracy theory, if one thinks that it takes a Linus-level principled stand to keep openness on this issue.
7.
by dwmtm 11y ago
Why not look at the areas where people in engineering and product management came from? It takes very few steps before we start expecting all metrics to resemble global metrics.
8.
by dwmtm 11y ago
Which makes this circular comment a little ironic.
9.
by dwmtm 11y ago
So three coin flips leads to a gender disparity- I guess if you don't observe any of them, no discrimination of heads or tails could occur...
10.
by dwmtm 11y ago
I think you need to draw a better comparison to http://io9.com/5691604/how-ma-bell-shelved-the-future-for-60... for this crowd.
11.
by dwmtm 11y ago
I'm asking if managerial information is a strict superset of engineer information. Control of admin passwords to software seems useless or illegal w.r.t. the concept of information here.
12.
by dwmtm 11y ago
Is there any meaningful sense in which a tech-tracker has more official or unofficial access to information?
13.
by dwmtm 11y ago
This kind of architecture is akin to surgery, and there aren't enough cadavers available for practice. (Zombies, on the other hand, maybe.) The Conway's Law factors are also harder to treat "fairly" in a theoretical sens
14.
by dwmtm 11y ago
Do you really need to fact-check a metaphor?
15.
by dwmtm 11y ago
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen
16.
by dwmtm 11y ago
You're telling us a lot more about how you use speech in an attempt to shame other people and a lot less about how shaming and insulting 'stupid' is relative to 'so stupid'.
17.
by dwmtm 11y ago
He covered this: > I'd usually speed read
18.
by dwmtm 11y ago
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
19.
by dwmtm 11y ago
So television interviews...?
20.
by dwmtm 11y ago
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment o
21.
by dwmtm 11y ago
Lip service is the first step.