francoisdevlin

I drive electric you insensitive clod!

The article makes the joke in a caption

I think the fine doctors over at penny arcade documented this earlier....

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Okay, citations for both sides should sort this out...

I was in architecture for years, and I would help anyone who came to me on one condition. They would need to go back to their desk, and write up a 3 paragraph description of their problem, what they tried, and where they were stuck. It has a lot of benefits.

1. It weeded out the people who wouldn't invest anything.

2. It let a good 25% of the engineers "rubber duck" their way out of a problem.

3. When the problem got past the first two filters, the problem was much better defined when we worked on it together.

A tangent - I love using minio in dev & test for their s3 simulators. Being able to throw away a bucket and start from scratch, and having everything self contained in my docker-compose command is a real blessing.

Has anyone ever used min.io for production stuff? What are the pros & cons over vanilla s3?

Classic write up on this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2011/01/the-5-bes...

It sounds like your tastes are an outlier, and didn't present a good ROI

You just made the author's point about respect...

This seems fraught with first amendment issues. Could a lawyer explain how this could pass & hold up in court?

Am I the only one that expected an article about Pixar?

It's a cool toy, and obviously I'll be the manliest developer on my team if I had this... But what does it actually do? If I need that much compute for a problem, doesn't renting the capacity on AWS make 100x more sense? There's no way I could actually make use of all that hardware

It trains the parents

Find harder and harder problems, and keep doing that until the problems are tougher than you. Failing is okay. It'll give you some perspective, and you'll meet some people at least as smart as you on the way.

Then wait until you have kids, and you'll realize how out classed you can be :-)

sqlite. It's truly magnificent

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

Will there be a man made ravine breaking it into northern & souther halves, though?

What are you concerns? What should engineers in this space be considering?

The fact that the presenter is a beautiful, well dressed woman speaking at a commercial venue certainly helped this get popular.

TED is here to make a buck...

Says the emacs user.

Am the only one who is baffled by their explanation of correlation? FTFA:

"correlation in educational attainment between a parent and a child is generally around .4 to .6. This basically means that, if my parent has one more year of schooling than your parent, I will automatically end up with 4/10 to 6/10 of an extra year of school than you have, all else equal."

This doesn't line up with my understanding of statistics

tl;dr?

Until you handle the first level concerns, you don't get to the second...

This list is incomplete. I own some VSTAX (Vanguard, .04%) and FUSEX (Fidelity, .04%) etfs, neither are on this list. I've seen even lower mentioned at Vanguard (The "institution" version of VSTAX, .02%)

Am I the only one that's tired of this bills showing up every 3-6 months? What will it take to stop this type of BS for good... or is that an impossible dream?

Except...

1. No one dies if they don't get See's Candies

2. There are other chocolates out there

Perhaps the people who care too much aren't that smart in this case.

See the Napoleon anecdote:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/27/dumb-and-gets-thing...

Thus proving the point about market cap...

Is this for real? Can anyone else corroborate this?

I find the sub threads the correct things in a helpful (kind tone, provide citations), however

People don't understand the value of their time, news at 11.