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by pmjones 1y ago
I always wondered -- was this an actual experiment, or is it a just-so story? EDIT: looks made-up, at least according to this: https://factschology.com/factschology-articles-podcast/monke...
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by pmjones 1y ago
"Tradition" is smarter than you are. You might be able to ignore it for a while, maybe years, but the Gods of the Copybook Headings will eventually return.
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by pmjones 1y ago
Dissolve.
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by pmjones 1y ago
I agree, and wrote about it here: https://github.com/pmjones/adr/blob/master/MVC-MODEL-2.md
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by pmjones 2y ago
Good luck, and good hunting!
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by pmjones 3y ago
Prior art: "How to Be a Programmer" by Robert Read https://braydie.gitbook.io/how-to-be-a-programmer/en
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by pmjones 4y ago
"World to end tomorrow; women, minorities hardest hit."
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by pmjones 4y ago
> society recognises that there should be a way to assess the correctness of scientific claims That assessment must include "replication" not merely "review."
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by pmjones 4y ago
I don't recall who said it, but paraphrased: "To see how useless the news is, read last week's paper." Further, if you must consume news: avoid watching it in favor of listening to it; avoid listening to it in favor
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by pmjones 4y ago
Great conclusion point: "Metabase supports public transportation."
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by pmjones 4y ago
I first read the title as "naive" technologists.
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by pmjones 4y ago
I picked up some Alan Watts in one of the ways the article describes: as samples spliced into music. I found it fascinating, and listened to some of his lectures, and while it was fascinating with some occasional revelations, in the end he
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by pmjones 4y ago
I know you hate you got caught out; I'll let it go this time. You can have the last word here if you like.
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by pmjones 4y ago
It is a damn shame that some people confuse "socialism" with "voluntary cooperation and exchange for mutual benefit."
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by pmjones 4y ago
If use must use an alternative, "pederast" works well.
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by pmjones 4y ago
As with many things, female averages are higher. But females scores also tend to cluster toward the middle. Male averages are lower, but have more scores at both the low end and high end. Thus, the best male performances are higher than
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by pmjones 4y ago
It's PHP, but my book [Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP]( https://leanpub.com/mlaphp ) may help -- deals with code improvement, especially the organization of that code. The examples are taken from a real codebase,
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by pmjones 4y ago
I do not see the author blaming "vaccines" (plural, of all types). I do see the author blaming the mRNA "vaccine" (singular, deployed under EUA for SARS-CoV-2) combined with subsequent exposure to the virus. Quoting th
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by pmjones 4y ago
Archived link: https://archive.ph/bXlVV
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by pmjones 4y ago
Thank God.
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by pmjones 4y ago
There's only one?
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by pmjones 4y ago
I wrote Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP for exactly this situation. https://leanpub.com/mlaphp And it's (still) free!
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by pmjones 4y ago
TIL: Monkeys are racist, somehow.
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by pmjones 4y ago
"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Codebases on fire, edited in production. I watched websites uploaded from development through an FTP gate. All those files will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die()." Mo
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by pmjones 4y ago
The above-average joe wants to see (among other things) successful replication, which is in short supply. Cf. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433810-400-the-repl...
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by pmjones 4y ago
See also Starting Strength: < https://startingstrength.com/ > and < https://smile.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Tra... >.
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Facebook Manager of Community Development Fired After Child Sex Sting(twitter.com)
4 points by pmjones 5y ago|0 comments
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by pmjones 5y ago
"All science is either physics, or stamp collecting." (Ernest Rutherford)
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by pmjones 5y ago
> Do you have any evidence for this? It's the very definition of how computer models work. The modeler writes the program, determines all the inputs, determines how the logic of the program will respond to the inputs, etc. The model
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by pmjones 5y ago
Models say only what the modeler tells them to say.

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