> I was unnerved by the fact that the author consider plain activities as hiking or cooking as necessarily better than creative ones Cooking involves just as much creativity as Lego, it's a useful skill, and it's not…
You left out a lot of context for that quote. Here's the full paragraph: > No wonder I feel guilty as I’m driving my children to see “The Lego Movie.” I should be taking them on a long hike or handing out aprons and…
And if that's true, is it really much different than what we have today? If you have deep pockets, you can already buy speed by using the services of a CDN like Akamai. We already have an unlevel playing field.
If he hasn't already, the author should really read The Lean Startup before criticizing the term that it popularized. In the context of the Lean Startup, the V in MVP doesn't refer to financial viability. "To apply the…
Depends on your definition of inferior. I can count the number of desktop apps that I use on a daily basis on one hand, and they're all development tools. I have more than twice that number of pinned tabs in my browser…
Yeah I think it's interesting that the final approach with "logical units" and "collaboration units" mirrors a functional approach with "functions" and "higher-order functions". The advice to write small "logical units"…
> But you have to do it as soon as you get in, put your feet up, watch teevee, allow an hour to pass and it all goes wrong. I totally agree with this. If I plop down on the couch right after getting home from a day of…
> If you're in a loud environment and need quiet, then communicate that to your boss. I did, on many occasions. > If they don't, then they're probably not worth wasting your skills on anyway (plenty of fish in the sea).…
> This isn't morally wrong. My friend, a graphics programmer, did this with videocards in order to test his graphics engine on various types of hardware configurations. If the companies didn't want you to do this, then…
Are you actually committing code every day, or do you somehow represent non-code related progress (e.g. reading a programming book) in a repo?
Drones may cheapen war in the way that you describe, but that still doesn't negate the fact that they kill less innocent people than the weapons and tactics that we used to use. You seem to argue that the expense of a…
Are you using an especially old version of Spring? I work with Spring MVC on a pretty regular basis and I've never had that much trouble with defining a new controller/model/view. Controller: Add an @Controller…
Well, you can already do java based config, which is not the same as annotation based config. As with XML config, Java based config lives outside of your application code in classes dedicated to configuration. You just…
The comment you're replying to wrote: "Ignoring the obvious difference in reach and success, in what way are Go, Dart and Android not equivalent to C, C++ and Unix in terms of open software projects?" You replied with:…
My bad, I have the Galaxy Nexus through Verizon and assumed it was the same for other carriers. I forgot it was available unlocked through the Play store. I'm used to ignoring all of the news from Google and waiting an…
That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy…
Yeah, the study showing a correlation between a country's economic status and its gender differences is interesting, but all it really means is that economic factors might have an effect on gender equality IN ADDITION…
"What about medical students - if they know that the difference in diagnosis accuracy between a medium and a top student has been reduced to just 2-3%, why strive to learn more than the other?" From what I've heard, med…
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" has a great chapter on human predictions versus those made by forumlas. The superiority of simple forumlas was being demonstrated way back in the 50s (see "Clinical Versus Statistical…
And yet it's primarily ideas from literature (from the "niche and isolated genre of science fiction") which Taleb rails against. But since he apparently doesn't like sci fi, I guess it doesn't count. I don't think…
We recently started using Solr in a similar manner where I work. We don't go as far as to pack an index in with our code, but each page serving instance has an embedded Solr server that it uses to pull a lot of fairly…
> I was unnerved by the fact that the author consider plain activities as hiking or cooking as necessarily better than creative ones Cooking involves just as much creativity as Lego, it's a useful skill, and it's not…
You left out a lot of context for that quote. Here's the full paragraph: > No wonder I feel guilty as I’m driving my children to see “The Lego Movie.” I should be taking them on a long hike or handing out aprons and…
And if that's true, is it really much different than what we have today? If you have deep pockets, you can already buy speed by using the services of a CDN like Akamai. We already have an unlevel playing field.
If he hasn't already, the author should really read The Lean Startup before criticizing the term that it popularized. In the context of the Lean Startup, the V in MVP doesn't refer to financial viability. "To apply the…
Depends on your definition of inferior. I can count the number of desktop apps that I use on a daily basis on one hand, and they're all development tools. I have more than twice that number of pinned tabs in my browser…
Yeah I think it's interesting that the final approach with "logical units" and "collaboration units" mirrors a functional approach with "functions" and "higher-order functions". The advice to write small "logical units"…
> But you have to do it as soon as you get in, put your feet up, watch teevee, allow an hour to pass and it all goes wrong. I totally agree with this. If I plop down on the couch right after getting home from a day of…
> If you're in a loud environment and need quiet, then communicate that to your boss. I did, on many occasions. > If they don't, then they're probably not worth wasting your skills on anyway (plenty of fish in the sea).…
> This isn't morally wrong. My friend, a graphics programmer, did this with videocards in order to test his graphics engine on various types of hardware configurations. If the companies didn't want you to do this, then…
Are you actually committing code every day, or do you somehow represent non-code related progress (e.g. reading a programming book) in a repo?
Drones may cheapen war in the way that you describe, but that still doesn't negate the fact that they kill less innocent people than the weapons and tactics that we used to use. You seem to argue that the expense of a…
Are you using an especially old version of Spring? I work with Spring MVC on a pretty regular basis and I've never had that much trouble with defining a new controller/model/view. Controller: Add an @Controller…
Well, you can already do java based config, which is not the same as annotation based config. As with XML config, Java based config lives outside of your application code in classes dedicated to configuration. You just…
The comment you're replying to wrote: "Ignoring the obvious difference in reach and success, in what way are Go, Dart and Android not equivalent to C, C++ and Unix in terms of open software projects?" You replied with:…
My bad, I have the Galaxy Nexus through Verizon and assumed it was the same for other carriers. I forgot it was available unlocked through the Play store. I'm used to ignoring all of the news from Google and waiting an…
That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy…
Yeah, the study showing a correlation between a country's economic status and its gender differences is interesting, but all it really means is that economic factors might have an effect on gender equality IN ADDITION…
"What about medical students - if they know that the difference in diagnosis accuracy between a medium and a top student has been reduced to just 2-3%, why strive to learn more than the other?" From what I've heard, med…
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" has a great chapter on human predictions versus those made by forumlas. The superiority of simple forumlas was being demonstrated way back in the 50s (see "Clinical Versus Statistical…
And yet it's primarily ideas from literature (from the "niche and isolated genre of science fiction") which Taleb rails against. But since he apparently doesn't like sci fi, I guess it doesn't count. I don't think…
We recently started using Solr in a similar manner where I work. We don't go as far as to pack an index in with our code, but each page serving instance has an embedded Solr server that it uses to pull a lot of fairly…