the6threplicant

I like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ccXzM3x8A (The case for String Theory). It shows that there is a natural progression to String Theory that very few other theories have.

When we start using voice activation commonly I'm hoping we're going back to offices.

There will always be a war between developers and sales. Sales always needs a foot in the door - and incomplete software can get them there. The customer (and sales team) might even expect faulty software, but just as long as you can demonstrate some features can be delivered that might be enough to get the sales through (and pay for the better quality).

It's great that we want great software and even make the customer be part of some feedback cycle but sometimes you need to play "dirty" to make your company survive, and making your sales department happy is one of them. A good sales department knows the business and requirements better than any developer and sometimes you need to listen to them and not "agile your way around it".

Too many drinks with the VP Sales guy yesterday. :/

This is why lectures are so important compared to a text book.

In a lecture you try and emphasis how some things are important - while other things you can hand wave away. A textbook can't do that.

Imagine if Labor won.

* A robust FTTP that would be paid back nicely, and

* A carbon tax that would now be an "emissions trading scheme" doing it's part to reduce carbon emissions.

> call ourselves Computer Scientists, some Software Engineers,

Which means you are not scientists. You might be very positive towards it but I've met a lot of the above and seen some very anti-science rhetoric from them.

Why is it that EM advocates always seem to be dark matter-deniers? There's observational evidence for DM, a lot more than for the EM drive.

It's a great site but internationally the ads ruin the experience. You think you've clicked on a link but the site still hasn't loaded all of its ads and you have clicked on the wrong link.

Also waiting 30 seconds for a video ad to see 10 seconds of content is kinda stupid.

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