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>At first glance, this is sound—even admirable—advice for aspiring business leaders. But a closer look at Klarman’s remarks, as well as the origins and trajectory of his career, suggests a deeply flawed messenger.
And I realized this was just another article which refuses to engage ideas and falls back to ad hominem. I don’t care if the messenger is flawed, or what somebody thinks his or her motivation is for delivering a particular message. I want to hear a critique of the message itself.
The ultimate act of conservation is suicide. Few are that committed. We are all hypocrites.
And yes, perhaps one based indexing introduces a class of bugs when you need to call into c. But zero based indexing has the same problem if you need to call into fortran, and calling fortran is really common for numerical code.
Friends of mine smoke regularly have basically the opposite experience. It really appears to me that weed affects people in really different ways, so it’s hard to make a general statement.
The more something has been “designed”, the more the sight falls into the untrustworthy category, barring substantial evidence to the contrary.
I’m not sure exactly how dependent particle physics is on ROOT, so direct comparison is difficult.
It seems like maybe not the best reasoning to say “humans, do it this way, so that’s how my robot should do it.”
Also underrated is how easy it is find find something in paper book, based basically on how thick the two sides feel in your hand.
I’ll generally forgive an open source project for poor docs, because I can read the code(and it’s free, so how much can I really complain??) Closed source that costs thousands? You better have have your docs tight. That said, labview docs are worse than many open source projects. Most of it boils down to useless tautological statements like
“X: the input variable x”
Three things that make the matlab docs so much better:
1. A plethora of examples, in the same page as the function doc. Labview makes you open a special program (no, it’s not available via a web search) and search for an example. The search function sucks.
2. Web searches for matlab docs return the doc for the latest version. Almost always with labview, you get something from like 2012.
3. A real discussion of the algorithm being implemented, with real references. I can’t recall ever seeing a citation in a labview doc.
So there’s some impressions, from a users point of view:)
This befuddles me.
Gmail search often leaves out results I know are there, and sometimes comes up erroneously empty. I can verify this, because I store my emails offline. They are indexed by notmuch. I find notmuch to be not only faster than gmail search, but far more thorough: notmuch gives me hits that gmail skips.