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Re:MonolithFirst
on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @02:42PM (#9654846)
> there's a definitive architectural skill set that CAN BE LEARNED
Would you care to share what that skill set is, for the sake of improvement of a mid-level engineer like myself?
Re:The 10 most useless graduate degrees (Computer Science)
on Friday February 27, 2015 @05:19PM (#9121734)
Lists like these are what's useless
Re:Instant search hacker news
on Friday May 02, 2014 @11:17AM (#7686178)
Cool, I tried a few searches for links I've saved off and it works quite well
Re:Night Walk in Marseille [video]
on Saturday April 05, 2014 @01:47AM (#7536113)
This is a taste of augmented reality. I like it. I'm left a bit unsatisfied though. I want to experience the real thing now.
Re:5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability
on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:53AM (#7531365)
Spaces, really? Can someone speculate what might be happening under the hood?
Re:Learn C and build your own Lisp
on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:44AM (#7531295)
Wow, very timely, yesterday I needed to brush up on C and was wondering how I would go about it. Thanks. Very minor note: the link to "Learn C the Hard Way" on the faq page links back to the faq page.
Re:How the secret police tracked my childhood
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @12:05PM (#7516485)
Well, like in this article [1] on the front page yesterday, there's a sentiment that individual rights and private property per capitalism should give way to something more "collaborative." Only "collaborative" is not new, it stinks of failed historical experiments and the exact kind of repression described in this article in Romania.
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/capital...
Re:The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:52AM (#7516373)
Good point, I held back on mentioning such blogs, I'd definitely support filtering those out too.
Re:The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:16AM (#7516096)
Can we just discontinue submissions from forbes, wsj, bloomberg, theguardian, wired, and techcrunch?
Re:How the secret police tracked my childhood
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:11AM (#7516049)
I hope that more people who believe in a "new collaborative economy" for America come across stories like this.
Re:Capitalism is making way for the age of free
on Monday March 31, 2014 @05:02PM (#7504147)
What's most troublesome is statements like this, typical of the guardian:
"A new economic paradigm – the collaborative commons – has leaped onto the world stage as a powerful challenger to the capitalist market."
Whereas capitalism as a philosophy is about individual rights and private property, this "new collaborative economy" stinks of failed historical experiments.
Re:Health Insurance in 3 Minutes
on Saturday March 22, 2014 @01:30AM (#7447827)
Cool, I like how you guys show the Low/High $ amount. Is high the same thing as 'out-of-pocket maximum' on hc.gov?
Re:Health Insurance in 3 Minutes
on Friday March 21, 2014 @10:07PM (#7446817)
How do you guys submit it to healthcare.gov afterwards?
Re:Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)
on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:54PM (#7438695)
These two are good points:
1. "There are just two grades of commodities in the world: the best -- and the others."
2. "...whether he can talk and write effectively... If you write and speak neatly and accurately, it is because your thinking is orderly; if your expression is forceful, the thought back of it must be forceful. But if you blunder for words, punctuate incorrectly, spell incorrectly, and express yourself clumsily, I'm sure to believe you mind is cluttered and ill-disciplined."
Re:Google’s Search Results Ditch Underlined Links, Increase Font Size
on Thursday March 13, 2014 @02:37PM (#7393838)
The ads are also bigger, no?
Re:MMM Receives Legal Threats
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @03:51PM (#7387876)
Will the original thread about KISS Trust be restored?
Re:Boston hospital experiments with Google Glass in ER
on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:07AM (#7385639)
This sounds incredibly useful in a hospital/emergency room. A definite step up from the use case of walking around town blinking to take pictures. Anyway to see more screenshots?
Re:Fixed – The easiest way to fix a parking ticket
on Thursday March 06, 2014 @05:29PM (#7357062)
I'm with you because I had the same experience with a judge while lawyerless. I showed him a manufacturer tech spec on my car to make the point that based on its 0-60 acceleration, it was physically impossible that I was going 67 mph by the time I reached the intersection where I was clocked from where I started accelerating. His response upon seeing the specs was, "What are you, trying to sell me on a car?! This officer (witness) has been with the department 15 years. Guilty."
Re:Why Most Unit Testing is Waste [pdf]
on Thursday March 06, 2014 @10:45AM (#7354348)
I think there's a bigger design problem then, e.g. those functions should really be classes. I'm just talking about doing a few 'extract method' refactorings.
Re:Why Most Unit Testing is Waste [pdf]
on Thursday March 06, 2014 @10:31AM (#7354230)
"If you find your testers splitting up functions to support
the testing process, you’re destroying your system
architecture and code comprehension along with it. Test at
a coarser level of granularity."
What? Splitting up large functions into smaller, well-named units destroys code comprehension?
Ask HN: Do you consider anyone a pioneer in computer science since 1990?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science
Re:Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta
on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:20PM (#7315640)
I hate to be negative, but this is designed perfectly for gamblers. Invest in index funds.
Re:I Still Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem
on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @10:07AM (#7305326)
Why not just get a $300 projector and plug your laptop in?
Re:E.W.Dijkstra Archive: Interview (1985)
on Thursday February 06, 2014 @10:36AM (#7190849)
the hopes of functional programming is that...it will be easier to exploit a lot of concurrency
Is this not exactly what is happening today?
Because computing is now supposed to cure all the ills of the world and more... The current boom in computing is an immediate reflection of absolutely unrealistic hopes.
Are we not repeating history exactly? E.g. medicine-quackery, chemistry-alchemy, astronomy-astrology
Regarding AI: Can you research something that is not science? I feel that the effort to use machines to try to mimic human reasoning is both foolish and dangerous.
Amen
Re:New Evidence: There is No Science-Education Crisis
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:27PM (#7179287)
I don't think it's legal per se. A lot of people who graduate college haven't learned anything. I've seen it in both CS and legal.
Re:New Evidence: There is No Science-Education Crisis
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:22PM (#7179253)
Anyone who has read Grapes of Wrath knows that the correct statement is, "Companies would rather not pay ANY professionals high salaries..."
Call it a conflict of interest or call it the market. One way or the other, the conclusion is improve your skills, increase your value, and in the name of friendly competition, skin the company alive for as much as you can get for the skill the company demands. They are playing the same game with you.
Re:Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory
on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @12:34PM (#7178912)
Thanks for sharing, I also found your previous post thought-provoking and motivating. How sales-oriented is independent consulting? Do you look for new technologies to branch out into and if so, how?
Re:“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass dis...
on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:49AM (#7103740)
From that very article, "Yushchenko was declared the official winner and with his inauguration on 23 January 2005 in Kiev, the Orange Revolution ended." Democracy worked.
Re:“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass dis...
on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:19AM (#7103525)
Ukraine is a democracy. Why not vote for the other guy next time? How does it make sense to go out and burn and break things instead.