HelloNurse

قبل 16 ساعةdiscuss

Unable to be willing. The combination of not knowing any better, political parties and media that don't care or exert a contrary pressure because they belong to billionaires, and powerful health sector businesses appears to be very effective.

HelloNurse

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

One of the points is that, for a startup, not flailing around is very difficult and unlikely: these patterns of failure and "classic bullshit" are the universal norm. This piece "articulates a point of view or personality that you had never before considered": that you and your startup are no better than the characters in the tale, and equally doomed.

HelloNurse

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

It can be accurately simulated with appropriate brushes and rags, water and soap, and a sufficient number of hands.

HelloNurse

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

Considerable arrogance is required to think you can improve on mature products enough to conquer a large market share. Such arrogance should be supported by having, if not a demonstrably fantastic prototype, at least an obviously good idea; otherwise you are following the example of Juicero or Theranos.

In the article, the "smart" oven is only a speculation (maybe it works, and maybe someone will pay for it) and as such it is appropriate as a relatively low effort and low risk experiment on the part of an established oven maker (develop rudimentary automation and offer it as a very mildly disruptive feature at a modest price increase).

HelloNurse

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

Brilliant autobiography.

HelloNurse

قبل 9 أيامdiscuss

On the contrary, the new trend of telling a bot to write code automates disregard for architecture.

HelloNurse

قبل 10 أيامdiscuss

  >  I've been thinking about the futsal effect - which is how Brazilian footballers developed superior skills through a constrained small-sided game with 5 on each side, then moving onto a full football game with 11 on each side. My understanding is the constraints are designed such that the most important and difficult skills are trained in a fast, immediate feedback loop.

You might be underestimating how being one player in 10 rather than 1 in 22 and being never far from the ball makes every player more than twice as involved in the game, yielding more intense training than a normal game: feedback loops become more frequent, but not faster. For even greater intensity it is possible to play football with even smaller fields and teams, and in a cage to reduce interruptions.

This has nothing to do with iterations of the kind found in software development, which are about products and external constraints, not about training for individual skill and collective coordination.

HelloNurse

قبل 10 أيامdiscuss

A contributor in good faith is going to accept criticism and resubmit an improved change: less files modified, more explanation, more focus, references to actual tickets and discussion with actual developers.

HelloNurse

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

Is this a joke? Instead of using a formal aspect specification that people (and bots) can get wrong, like any other programming language, trust a bot to do the right thing spontaneously and implement an aspect oriented architecture without tools?

HelloNurse

قبل 18 يومًاdiscuss

The flaw in the argument is postulating a subscription model for a product that a normal customer needs very sporadically. Even old-school selling of perpetual licenses and support fees would be inappropriate.

Instead, sell expensive one-off consultancy projects to help some company understand one specific code base, with the only long-term relationship of satisfied customers recommending you and calling you again for new projects.

HelloNurse

قبل 22 يومًاdiscuss

The quoted code suggests that the wrong sizes aren't evident constants in code (there is a function to compute/retrieve them) and extra inspection during debugging is the most plausible way to detect them.

Hopefully this kind of bug is enough to teach the important of measuring, logging and testing to a naive optimist.

HelloNurse

قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

Judging from the initial portion of the anime Dragonball pivoted gradually from a loose adaptation of Journey to the West (with Goku as the protagonist among funny versions of traditional characters) to a more original and specific setting and plot (with Goku as the most important of many Saiyan and martial artists).

HelloNurse

قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

There is a lot of room to do exactly the same thing more efficiently, which doesn't count as different algorithms.

HelloNurse

قبل 24 يومًاdiscuss

The "amazing" organizations seem amazingly evil.

HelloNurse

قبل 25 يومًاdiscuss

Vocabulary please. A "codec" is software that CODes and DECodes multimedia content, while specs describe an encoded file or stream format (occasionally involving network protocols and other concerns).

In a normal standard development process experimental codecs come first, then those that have proved to work well, including having good enough performance, are described in the spec; after standardization there's very little room to "develop the algorithms" because nonconformant implementations would be useless.

Reverse engineering is limited to the abnormal case of having access to some codec but not to the standard that describes it.

HelloNurse

قبل 25 يومًاdiscuss

Email domains of employee addresses aren't necessarily owned by the company. For example:

  - a startup with legacy personal email addresses from one or two universities
  - a spin-off sharing the email domain (and the whole IT infrastructure) of the parent company
  - cheapskates using six approved free email services

For security purposes, on the other hand, the important part is proving that the LinkedIn account is owned by the organization.

HelloNurse

قبل 25 يومًاdiscuss

With a company-managed list of owned domains where real employees have their work email addresses (unrelated to website domains).

HelloNurse

قبل 30 يومًاdiscuss

My experience with responsive breakpoints is that they require compromises and therefore it's hard to make a manager commit to them: everything must look perfect, and identical, on every different device that exists, and if it doesn't it's the designer's fault.

HelloNurse

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

You need to distinguish the prevention of actual type errors during the execution of a Python program, which would require mutilating the Python language, and linting Python code to find proven or likely defects, which is merely fraught with complications (open world and closed world assumptions, expecting more or less adversarial behaviour from callers of a function, etc.) and necessarily dependent on adding optional type declarations.

HelloNurse

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The rhyming is good, making "Oldavista" a generic wordplay that is merely more obvious to find for German speakers, and the name is insignificant compared to the effort of reproducing the whole Altavista page.

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