terryk88a

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by terryk88a 5y ago
Commenters have mentioned both Dunning-Kruger and Gell-Mann Amnesia. Gell-Mann Amnesia is rather strictly defined by its creator in the journalism domain, but perhaps it could be stretched to include the commentary here at Hacker News. Stil
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by terryk88a 13y ago
Arrrgh!
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by terryk88a 14y ago
The price point is way out of line. $25 ???
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Amazon down for some(nbcnews.com)
3 points by terryk88a 14y ago|0 comments
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by terryk88a 14y ago
comments here that allude to the history of spaghetti code are actually a bit off topic with respect to the article, but the early fortran family (pointedly - F66) had severly limited control structures in the language: a very weak for loop
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by terryk88a 14y ago
to pull one's chain, to see what kind of reaction he'd get from whatever suckers and chumps he can fool with this BS or he really believes this BS and has narcissistic personality disorder
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by terryk88a 14y ago
A while back (seems like it's been about a year) Radio Shack solicited ideas to make their stores more relevant. I suggested they install 3d printers in every store to bring hobbyists back in. Crickets.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
For those who aren't well read (grin) a very good read looking at a dystopian future where 3d printers have displaced manufacturing is Cory Doctorow's "Makers". The Creative Commons licensed book can be downloaded from his website, craphoun
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Absolutely you do not have to subject yourself to his whims. You would be free to walk out the door if you found the grammar test offensive, or the push-ups test, or the rope-skipping test. You do not deserve respect. Ever. You must always
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Pretty awesome distillation of the history of software tools since, oh, no later than 1980. Back in the dino days, the rate of change was tiny compared to today's daily delta V. We mostly had monthly and a few weekly rags to tell us about t
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by terryk88a 14y ago
I'm really excited to see this concept made real. Based on comments here, multi-factor (non-wallet) authentication is used to identify the parties. This method of ID verification is a technique that I helped pioneer at Equifax many years ag
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Ummm. Step 1 of any 12 Step program.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Vague indeed. For example, what does "universal access" mean? How about "free to connect"? Is this declaration demanding that access to the internet be free to all? As in no cost? The language "access" to this or that has been subverted in
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by terryk88a 14y ago
That's an interesting site, very nice lessons. But one would have to actually read the material to understand the chart (grin). But that chart is getting on toward what I expected to see at the subject of this HN post.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Snnnzx.. wha? This may best thought of as a lexical analysis of 1300 popular novels. E.G. what is the most popular word following the word "it". The key of a tune 'controls' the chords available, using a typical chord progression. A song in
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Why don't you ask "What's the least efficient way to print a string 100 times?" Unrolling loops can be a good thing when optimizing code, but you can't get much worse than tail recursion. It's always a win to eliminate this code pattern.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
take it to reddit
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Oh all right. Great job.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
dang! don't do this! don't teach anybody how to use emacs! it's my productivity secret weapon and I don't wanna share!
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by terryk88a 14y ago
seems to me that in the last, oh, call it 9 months to a year that Google has been building up speed to jump a mighty big shark. maybe this trend goes back as far as when they realized that gravy-wavy was flopping. this is just more of the s
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by terryk88a 14y ago
I'd tend to agree since that (having kids) applies to me. There's clearly a filtering effect, probably eliminating more experienced people. However, he apparently has no shortage of suitable talent available when using this method.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
No No NO. There really Really REALLY has never been a satisfactory set of metrics for code quality. Not for COBOL and not for rails.
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by terryk88a 14y ago
Heh. My wife was turned down for a product management position because she did not send a thank you note. She forgot because she was (we were) so excited about the position. The hiring manager went back to the recruiter asking for somebody