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Khosla's gripe seems to be not with the goals of a liberal arts education, but its implentation and evolution (or lack thereof, according to him). That being said, perhaps more exposure to the liberal arts would have prevented the author from making this typo.
Vinod Kosla wrote: Gladwell famously argued that stories were more important that accuracy or validity without even realizing it. /ravi
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 2*B |~ 2*Bβ=?
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GPS is an utterly pervasive and wonderful technology, but itβs increasingly not accurate enough for modern demands. Now a team of researchers can make it accurate right down to an inch. You are (exactly) here
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Maybe they re-wrote Einstein's general theory of relativity from scratch, removing the 5-10 feet bugs.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Pointless.
Does it make sense to calculate the location of a moving object with such accuracy?
Does it make sense to calculate the location of an object larger than an inch with such accuracy?
Can you tell me, to the inch, the location of the Taj Mahal? The Pentagon? Mount Rushmore?
If you have misplaced your iPhone, do you need more accuracy than "it's in your couch"?
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It's a boon to marketers, though. When you are walking down an aisle at your local supermarket, the marketer will want to send you a text at the exact moment that you are standing in front of their product, which may only be 3-6 inches wide on the shelf. They will certainly want to know if you stopped and turned and looked at their product. Because then they can send a follow up text asking why you didn't actually purchase said product (they'll know that, too because they will correlate your cash register receipt with the phone that was standing in the checkout line at that moment).
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Why would my wife take my phone to the store?
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Ha! you've never tried to decide which is the right exit on a roundabout... have you?
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At speed?
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You know... it is always the same... smoking and noisy tires...
Just joking...
But this is a stupid thing GPS systems make today, if you enter a roundabout while speaking or similar, it's easy to miss the right exit... specially when something has changed since the last map update...
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I think this is awesome, and they are very developer friendly: what3words makes the entire earth addressable down to 3mx3m squares in 3 words.
It's loads easier to say, as a human, "scenes.shed.booth" than either "Just near the north-west corner of the main lake of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia" or "Lat/long -33.863523, 151.217154"
And it works in uninhabited/unmapped places, too.
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Managing a team of software developers is a tall order. This is doubly true when the line management includes both org chart duties (career development, HR administrivia, etc) and responsibility for the teamβs performance when it comes to shipping. A partial list
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The longer you spend in the technology industry, the more you can expect to earn. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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I am sure there are a lot of 50+ aged tech people that would not agree with the article.
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One can expect whatever one chooses to expect, but that doesn't mean it'll happen.
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Surely the key is to change jobs frequently as annual pay reviews tend to be small compared to the increase you can get moving companies.
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Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To avoid paying for a lot of code, we build reusable software. The problem with code re-use is that it gets in the way of changing your mind later on. Some people should delete all their code
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Sometimes I think I'd been better off deleting someone else's code and rewriting.
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Write code that is not easy to delete, not easy to extend but easy for reuse ability
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Rail against profiteering and raise the timeworn example of Red Hat all you like, but building a viable business around 'real' open source is as dicey as it's ever been "You be the judge, I did it for love"
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GitHub is finally responding to a group of frustrated developers who wrote an open letter to the open-source code repository last month. Please don't leave us for SourceForge!
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Bunch-a gits, the lot of 'em.
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SourceForge wants to be a trusted repository of open source software. Its first step is killing DevShare, the revenue sharing bundleware program. Complaints (and everyone leaving for GitHub) do work!
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Party! Let's have a party!
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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