jakubp

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by jakubp 4y ago
No, no. You are going in the right direction in analysing the morality of such proclamation. The point is, you can a) give others and collect reward in terms of other's people perception/rewarding of you (what the Bible passage ab
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by jakubp 4y ago
GDPR covers EU citizens. I don't think it says anything about non-EU citizens.
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by jakubp 5y ago
I wasn't suggesting OP's mother wanted to manipulate. I wanted to express that it's a very common situation in relationships of all kinds that there's assymetry in desired closeness and it's difficult / non obv
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by jakubp 5y ago
Many people cry, shout or even try to manipulate you when you tell them their behavior (based on excessive attachment or dependency of some kind) is an issue for you. Many of the same people's loved ones realize that and are in a clinc
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by jakubp 5y ago
If you were running a business, and wanted someone to do tech talks, or design/run interviewing for tech candidates, or have mentoring for junior devs, would you prefer non-developers to do it?
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by jakubp 5y ago
If that's the case, I could write an article "Company X developed technology that enables people to see individual atoms and hear the explosions on the other side of the Earth."
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by jakubp 5y ago
Clickbait :( It's a device that plays back - through headphones - specific normal-range sound which is crafted in such as way as to help you locate a source of another (ultra)sound which you normally wouldn't hear. Nothing in this
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by jakubp 5y ago
When you say "then walk into the center", you do realize you are talking about a (edit) 20-30 minute walk one-way. A car could cut that in 2 minutes. In my lifetime I was a driver in a city where it took exactly 5 minutes door-to-
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by jakubp 5y ago
In my town you have largely 4 options: - walk - drive - take a bus/tram - bike Walking is too slow and cumbersome for most people (e.g. 6-8 km one way to work seems like too much to do every day), and impossible if you want to go shopp
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by jakubp 5y ago
I am presenting a counterpoint to the claim in the article that "it's just 1 more block" in a real world scenario (under somewhat different condition though: non-grid street network). Do you think the phenomenon I described d
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by jakubp 5y ago
While I don't know of the safety impact of removing left turns, the actual trip time impact in a busy city is severely understated. In my city (700k people), an old European town, city center has seen the removal of a few key left turn
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by jakubp 5y ago
My point was I didn't understand why making a decision that gives a manager an extra (hidden) benefit is a crime - i.e. it's not money laundering (money laundering is misrepresenting the source of money, right?, and "wire fra
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by jakubp 5y ago
I wonder... what's the actual crime here? I don't know how US law works. In my country there is no "bribe" in the private sector, it's probably still not allowed in some cases (certainly publicly traded companies),
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by jakubp 5y ago
You are wrong about apples and potatoes - the blog post author does mention your story just under different term: utility, which is a standard way to express the notion you touched: the total utility of an apple and a potato in the right ha
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by jakubp 5y ago
That's not accurate. You actually type numbers in right after the color choice and it shows you chart of the projection etc. No login necessary.
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by jakubp 5y ago
Same here. Lack of Watt output and expected (measured?) kWh cost in the lead of the story is baffling.
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by jakubp 5y ago
While 27 minutes nighttime sleep didn't affect outcomes, another effect they observed was that afternoon naps DID increase productivity and well being. So it's not that more sleep can't help -- maybe it depends on specific ty
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by jakubp 5y ago
I don't get why there is no way to edit apps live through the operating system. Before I knew how programs work I didn't understand why I can't recode anything as user - change menus in Windows 3.1, change what they do, chang
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by jakubp 5y ago
Click "list" in the top menu https://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?scope=all
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by jakubp 5y ago
Were you never curious "What did the Romans or Egyptians really think about X? How did they really spend their days?" I know I am curious and history books leave more questions than answers. Even the most well preserved facts abou
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by jakubp 6y ago
How much exact meaning can you infer from the murals? Text is using the visual channel to transmit what language can convey, and language can convey generally almost everything we try express (likely more accurately and succinctly than draw
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by jakubp 6y ago
You are wrong about inability to reproduce. At least one recent replication was done in Poland (2015) by a respected academic team incl. professor Dolinski. The main result was consistent with what Milgram observed: most people did what the
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by jakubp 6y ago
Agree on the second point. I tried to convince some managers and sales guys to stop giving estimates at all and build trust otherwise, didn't work :) As for consistent, my point was if you have 100 SP in backlog, delivered 50, then I c
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by jakubp 6y ago
I've done backlogs before; both very high-level and very detailed; with and without mockups (even final graphic designs) and detailed description in the form of multi-page spec or user stories (depending on the fashion of the decade I
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by jakubp 6y ago
Oh man, thank you for the fractal nature of reality. That is the perfect term to describe what I saw about ever-changing requirements. No matter how closely you define something, things will always keep changing on all levels when closer to
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by jakubp 6y ago
If it can't be done upfront it's largely useless for business folks ("so you have an estimate but can't translate it into time? so why do it? go away" :). If it assumes remaining work is equivalent in time to done w
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by jakubp 6y ago
If someone can conclusively teach inexperienced programmers good approach to estimates (methodology) + help embed this into sales process of a software house-type company, I know some folks who'd love to have this :) My own experience
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by jakubp 6y ago
Thank you, you put it well. That is what I meant.
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by jakubp 6y ago
I made a mistake. I was responding to the first commenter's words "The fading of WWII in the public memory could be argued as the biggest single risk that society faces". And in my view, the continued attempts at making peopl
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by jakubp 6y ago
Oh boy. In my country, memories of war (World War II in particular), tragedies, sacrifices, "heroes" etc. are continually fueled by the ruling party. They built hundreds of new monuments in the past 10 years, gave thousands of s

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