Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)

Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them ... by batasrki on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @01:19PM (#627031)

The talk is from CUSEC, probably this one: http://vimeo.com/2723800

As for his "attitude", I've actually met him and talked to him face-to-face. His internet persona is a put-on and he only talks like that to piss people off. In actuality, he's a really nice guy who is super-smart and who does not take shit from people. It's actually too bad that there aren't more of him in our industry. Scope creeps, memory leaks, etc. would be a thing of the past.

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them ... by ironkeith on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @01:25PM (#627041)

You are who your project yourself as, and to the billions of people who haven't met him who may stumble across his stuff online, he comes across as a selfish dick. IRL he could be happiness and teddy bears stuffed with sunshine, but so far as I'm concerned if the industry was full of people like him it would be in ruins.

Also, that was the exact video I was talking about, so thanks.

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them ... by PonyGumbo on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @09:13PM (#627816)

Thanks for posting this. I went from despising Shaw (based on his writings) to kind of liking him.

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them ... by mahmud on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @10:17PM (#627872)

You like someone for being a double-faced troll? IMO, I like him less now because he actually doesn't believe in what he says online.

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