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Yes :-(

Passing the torch to the next generation of tourist cum expert. You can't expect these folks to stick with their avocatiom more than a few months before quitting.

This has changed a lot for the better in recent years.

Also, a lot of geniuses are socially inept. I doubt you said everything right in your interview either. It helps to smile and keep going when one person in ten shows a flaw.

Why would you ever work somewhere where employees were not considered part of the company?

Inheritance is explicitly discouraged in style guides, except for specific cases of extensible framework classes with a vendor / customer split.

Now look at the Java Generics FAQ.

The way we treat agreements after death affects how much trust the living place in each other.

Completely rewriting things is one of the worst decisions an intermediate engineer makes. That's what killed Netscape.

Applying learning to a new project, now that is something different.

"smell" is ill-defined!

The point is that with less significance you are less confidential what your conversion rate "would have been" under other courses of action. You can't say "this or that test has higher conversion" because of some simulation that has totally different structure than your real website.

Statistical about managing unknowns, not creating knowns, and everyone ignores this!

It's the old normal. See also the famous article about how most medical research is mathematically wrong.

Same way every product from GWO and T&T on down: show a pretty graph that ignores the underlying assumption that it's even possible to use statistics to conjure certainty from uncertainty, and trust that users will never know or care about the difference.

/former AB test software dev who fought my users to try to stop them from misinterpretation results, and failed.

AirBnB attacked Craigslist users, not the website itself. AirBnB didn't post a copy of CP online. The spammed users could have tried to bring action against AirBnB under CAN-SPAM.

Google's web index is NoSQL, called BigTable, which Cassandra cloned.

and another 5 years to get hardware running with the performance characteristics of the original software.

You might be interested to learn about Analytics, AppEngine, Predictions API, Developer Storage, and I/O 2012 is a few weeks away...

It's funny to see the startup crowd rediscovering age-old techniques... Seen the Amazon.com home page recently? Does it look the same every day for a month?

Can you get a 1-year refillable prescription? I have prescriptions that are refillable X times in Your months.

Occams razor tells me that if IKEA's system saved any more money than Google's etc, Google etc would switch systems.

IKEA makes simple pieces designed for reuse across their whole inventory, so it is natural that their components extend to third party aftermarket designs.

Yes. My $300 dollar chair is horrible for how I sit. But how do you align good desk/monitor height with your elevated knees? I need a desk that has minimal surface area in front and center, so my knees have room to pop up.

The way to way to think about IKEA lifespan is not years. Each move and reassemble ages a piece, as does exceeding its load-bearing capacity. If you don't move it and don't overload it (especially those flimsy backs of bookcases held in by tiny nails), a piece will last many years.

What smells bad to me is the ever increasing hype and pricetag around the thus vaporware product that is really just a bag of features that should be added to a strong and stable IDE like Eclipse with PyDev/JDT/etc. People are getting so excited by the iPhoto-pretty screenshots, and forgetting the dozens of other features they benefit from in an IDE.

Of course, so could a paperclip.

I thought cargo cult science was (mis)copying techniques without understanding how they work. The original example was building a fake airport / ATC at an abandoned military base and hoping cargo planes would land there.

It's ambiguous, not inaccurate. If the military used a certain COTS revolver as standard equipment, and the revolver had a eye-first camera with cellular upload to the public Internet, and that feature was not approved and known by the gun selection people, it is fair to say that "military revolvers upload battlefield images to the Internet, a serious security breach.

You can cover for it by raging against the people who misinformed you.

What OS do they run? It's hard to imagine porting to another OS with insanely tiny marketshare and weird APIs. What is the app publishing ecosystem on these phones?

Citation?

Any examples of this on YouTube? What movies have sunrise scenes long enough to see sun motion?