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by fabricode 14y ago
Then what about the author's other points where you can increase your productivity if you avoid all alcohol and get good rest. If productivity is what is most important, then maybe your employer should be allowed to limit your alcohol cons
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by fabricode 14y ago
Not sure about the rest of you, but I'm not clicking on a dickey.xxx link to read about anything.
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by fabricode 14y ago
Ironically, his blog is title "Mystic Rhythms: We Suspend Our Disbelief and We Are Entertained" This is a song title and lyric taken without credit from Rush, specifically their Power Windows album. http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/
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by fabricode 14y ago
Maybe because scary things crawl out of dark holes? Because you can drop things into holes & not get them out? Because you can hurt your little finger putting it into holes where it doesn't belong? How about Flash Gordon's Trial by T
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Long term maintenance of web applications and Perl(cattlegrid.info)
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by fabricode 14y ago
There is no viral effect to our products. You certainly know your market better than I do, but it seems to me that you are taking advantage of a viral effect. As people use Jira (for instance) and they move around from one company to ano
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by fabricode 14y ago
"You have illegally been subjected to make..." "Try the new app right now, its beautiful:" As clever as it is, it would have been far more effective if you had checked your grammar before printing two hundred flyers.
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by fabricode 14y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything specific to a "Perl Shop" on the list. Perl specific maturity items would be: 1) Do all packages have documentation (pod) stored in the package file(s), and is it up to date? 2) Are there tests built using
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by fabricode 14y ago
These ideas are named to honor the person who did much of the grunt work to get them proven/accepted, but we continue to use the name as a convenience. If you're working with educated people, it's a lot easier to say, "apply DeMorgan," than
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by fabricode 14y ago
You said: Actually it does [mean he's wrong] because it is upon that logical fallacy that the counter argument is entirely built upon Wrong is the wrong word :) What you're looking for is "invalid". An argument is valid if and only if th
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by fabricode 14y ago
If you are able to make this happen, it would be very interesting if you could get the visitors to write a short note before entering about what they expect, how well they think they'll handle the disorientation, etc. After they're done ha
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by fabricode 14y ago
A great article, and you must be commended on your dedication. That said, it reads almost exactly like the opening to "American Psycho". Sure, Bateman's routine is slightly different than yours, but both narratives have the same affect. Be
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by fabricode 14y ago
I cannot believe you missed the most important reason: you shared some of your life with your daughter. My dad was a programmer, and I was always hacking away on the computers that we had around the house (sure... it was an Atari 800.... bu
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by fabricode 14y ago
The true nightmare begins when it says... Please log in with your Facebook id and password
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by fabricode 14y ago
These question marks are almost as annoying as the "self-interview" question marks made popular by former Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld. What is a self-interview? Well, it's when you ask yourself a question then immediately answer it. Are they
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by fabricode 14y ago
Fantastic. I clicked on your CV just because the link was available on the side, and I was shocked to find out that you're still in high school. There are professionals that would have taken 10x as long to explain it only half as clearly
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by fabricode 14y ago
Very nice article, but I did not like the example data he was using. The problem is that both population and tournament city could be dependent on year. Population (obviously) changes from year-to-year, so either his original data is incorr
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by fabricode 14y ago
Welcome to ABC, Inc. In these two cubicles we have our vetting department. One screener always tells the truth, while the other always tells a lie. If you could only ask one question... oh never mind.
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by fabricode 14y ago
What would be annoying? The comments with the highest votes would still be at the top. He/she said nothing about randomizing the comments. The only effect of the idea would be to eliminate "celebrity" votes.
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by fabricode 14y ago
Management is orthogonal to code design/dev/maint. No one (ok... almost no one) has no management nor coding skill, rather each of us has a mix of the two. The great organizations I've worked in had extremely smart people in management and
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by fabricode 14y ago
No one is being punished for being wrong. From the article, the problem with the leaders was in how they handled the management of the team and the publicity of the announcement. You know there are problems when many of the collaborators a
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by fabricode 14y ago
Cute & fun, but not engineered very well. In order to have the sunken bed: - he's raised the floor (effectively lowering the ceiling) - cut his floor space dramatically - made the center of the room unusable (stairs) - introd
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by fabricode 14y ago
I've used the HUD available on the C5 Corvette, and it's no more distracting at first than any new car's radio, wiper controls, etc. Once you've driven with it for a bit, it really does increase the attention paid to the road. Your quick c
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by fabricode 14y ago
Everyone seems to be confused by the "I am sending you the only copy" aspect of this letter. I'm sure he kept excellent records, and keeping a copy (or the original) for himself would be a standard business practice for someone in the comm
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by fabricode 14y ago
I thought the overlord joke was from the Simpson's, but it turns out that they got the idea from 70's high camp: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-x-ov... More on topic: I believe that one of the main reasons why the
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by fabricode 14y ago
Probably when you've found that you don't have to read the documentation for the base language in a while. Everyone constantly reads docs on infrequently used libraries and for gotcha parts of a language, but that's far different from havi
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by fabricode 15y ago
I did catch your conclusions in the penultimate paragraph. However, I don't believe that "assigning [a] quality control role to the next person downstream" is a workable solution. This is a form of passing the buck, saddling someone else
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by fabricode 15y ago
> The Starter, the Architect, the Debugger, the Finisher and the Stereotype. These articles aren't very informative if they don't have some new insight into how to maximize the output of the team by exploiting the traits of the stereoty
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by fabricode 15y ago
This may not fail the metaphor test. Take a real folder in your hands and try to stuff in it a drawer which is too small. Your corner tab will stay in the corner while the rest gets "smushed". If anything, this makes it a bit more intuiti
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by fabricode 15y ago
Removing the "ums" (a distraction) is a far cry from going to the dark side of public speaking ("vacuousness"). One insight I had into public speaking was that good speakers pause. There is white space in their delivery. These are typical

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