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by programminggeek 5y ago
The "I am trustworthy" part is totally taken for granted and too many supposedly trustworthy people lie straight to the public face just to maintain the narrative they are pursuing.
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by programminggeek 5y ago
I don't think shipping every week is a good idea or sustainable. At what point do you take away features that are no longer useful or don't work out? Or does the ball of mud accumulate forever?
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by programminggeek 6y ago
One area where curation will fail is in "fancy bias". As in, the same bias that keeps crowd pleasing entertainment from winning awards. People who are in the curation business (critics, reviewers, etc.) tend to favor things that m
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by programminggeek 6y ago
One could make a case that the nation was better off when not everyone was forced into being a two income household and more parents stayed home to raise their children. Closer knit families, better long term relationships, more skills and
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by programminggeek 6y ago
Sounds a lot like "This Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop" meme articles from the early 2000's.
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by programminggeek 6y ago
On a largely content based app/site, most of "scaling" comes down to caching. However you do that is up to you, but somewhere between caching at the browser layer, proxy layer, web server layer, or memcache layer, things shou
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Some people hate pair programming. I happen to be one of them. It kills my personal job enjoyment/satisfaction and if I was coerced into pair programming too often, I would find a job elsewhere. So, the cost of losing one or both of th
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Note that this story has been told and retold for years. Whatever difference in pay he paid has more than paid for itself in press attention and marketing.
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by programminggeek 7y ago
I think Kinect would have been fine if they didn't bundle it with the XBox One. As in, it would have been a solid niche input device, but most games don't need it or benefit greatly from it, so adding $100 to the price of the cons
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by programminggeek 7y ago
We have a collective based system, not an individual based one. So everybody goes to the same schools with the same curriculum with the same baseline opportunities. It's not optimized for individual success at all. So the people who wi
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by programminggeek 7y ago
This model is sort of absurd. It doesn't take into account the most important factor... people. If you made a model of the world today back in 1920, it would be comical. Imagine you went back to say 1920 and told people that in 2020 th
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Competitive sports(or anything else) at a high enough level is more about genetic selection than training. The training reveals and reinforces potential and is obviously necessary, but at some point anything that is competitive enough it re
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Now that people in the western world have largely abandoned churches for their attitudes toward "sin" and morality, they replaced churches with corporations, media companies, and governments to dictate what is sinful in society. O
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Note that peer groups have a lot to do with thinking problems in general. If you are poor or broke and hang out with poor or broke people, your thinking will be different. Also, people tend to hang out with other people making roughly the s
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by programminggeek 7y ago
It's an invented problem based on a belief that we control the planet. Yet, if we DID control the planet, we could simply fix it. What if the planet got warmer without our input? What then?
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by programminggeek 7y ago
The real irony is if we truly did solve Global Warming, the propaganda machine would either decide we are creating carbon emissions from something else, or go create a new global crisis to panic about. IE - the words will change, but the fr
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Reinventing the wheel is a good idea. It's how you learn. Programmers who say "don't reinvent the wheel" don't understand how the craft of wheel making works.
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by programminggeek 7y ago
University isn't utopia. Not everyone wants to live there. Also, there aren't enough university research dollars to adaquately fund AI research relative to the current demand. This is a good thing.
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by programminggeek 7y ago
I think the Google Pixel 3a is the best reasonably sized and reasonably priced phone for most people. Performance is good, camera is great, price is sensible.
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by programminggeek 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by programminggeek 7y ago
Better idea... give out AOL CD's.
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by programminggeek 7y ago
It's not taking a risk if you have a safety net. That is the point of the safety net, to eliminate the risk.
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by programminggeek 8y ago
It is worth listening to the Dave Ramsey podcast just to understand how people spend their money foolishly. Yes, there is bad luck and lack of opportunity, and there is also boatloads of foolish spending and borrowing too. There are plenty
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by programminggeek 8y ago
Apparently nobody understands that the super rich make their income from long term capital gains treatment on stocks and this won't touch the wealth of the top 1% meaningfully anyway. TL;DR - Buffet, Gates, and Bezos will still be stup
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by programminggeek 8y ago
Lord help them when they realize that all designed things tend to look the same. Within a particular generation, all things tend toward a familiar design. There is a herd mentality to fit in with the crowd, allowing for only minor differenc
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by programminggeek 8y ago
Screens are designed to distract, not educate. A screen is a great place to learn if you are not in a classroom or if you are trying to avoid class. It's a terrible way to be "in class". I learned this in college back when la
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by programminggeek 8y ago
The real fallacy is thinking that it is ONLY one factor and hoping that by isolating that one fact that you can prove and predict all things. That is foolish in my experience.
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by programminggeek 8y ago
They are slow because they are complex as proven by the fact that it's complex to even explain why they are slow.
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by programminggeek 8y ago
Web API's happened instead.
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by programminggeek 8y ago
Plenty of people can afford to retire, but they spend money like fools and then wonder why they don't have any. Read The Millionaire Next Door or listen to Dave Ramsey and you'll quickly learn that you can save plenty on a low inc

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