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> 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?

ilbeon The 10 most useless graduate degrees (Computer Science)

Lists like these are what's useless

Cool, I tried a few searches for links I've saved off and it works quite well

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.

ilbeon 5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability

Spaces, really? Can someone speculate what might be happening under the hood?

ilbeon Learn C and build your own Lisp

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.

ilbeon How the secret police tracked my childhood

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...

ilbeon The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App

Good point, I held back on mentioning such blogs, I'd definitely support filtering those out too.

ilbeon The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App

Can we just discontinue submissions from forbes, wsj, bloomberg, theguardian, wired, and techcrunch?

ilbeon How the secret police tracked my childhood

I hope that more people who believe in a "new collaborative economy" for America come across stories like this.

ilbeon Capitalism is making way for the age of free

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.

ilbeon Health Insurance in 3 Minutes

Cool, I like how you guys show the Low/High $ amount. Is high the same thing as 'out-of-pocket maximum' on hc.gov?

ilbeon Health Insurance in 3 Minutes

How do you guys submit it to healthcare.gov afterwards?

ilbeon Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

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."

ilbeon Google’s Search Results Ditch Underlined Links, Increase Font Size

The ads are also bigger, no?

ilbeon MMM Receives Legal Threats

Will the original thread about KISS Trust be restored?

ilbeon Boston hospital experiments with Google Glass in ER

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?

ilbeon Fixed – The easiest way to fix a parking ticket

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."

ilbeon Why Most Unit Testing is Waste [pdf]

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.

ilbeon Why Most Unit Testing is Waste [pdf]

"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?

ilbeon Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta

I hate to be negative, but this is designed perfectly for gamblers. Invest in index funds.

ilbeon I Still Don't Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem

Why not just get a $300 projector and plug your laptop in?

ilbeon E.W.Dijkstra Archive: Interview (1985)

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

ilbeon New Evidence: There is No Science-Education Crisis

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.

ilbeon New Evidence: There is No Science-Education Crisis

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.

ilbeon Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory

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?

ilbeon “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

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.

ilbeon “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

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.

ilbeon Fake Name Generator

Curious what you find this useful for? Filling out online forms instead making stuff up off the top of your head?

ilbeon Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)

I do most of my programming in Java and I'm convinced I want to learn functional programming, just to broaden my thinking. What are some considerations regarding starting with SICP book/Scheme vs. Scala vs. Closure vs. Haskell?