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dgcoffman | 7 years ago | on: We need to talk about systematic fraud

> In a 2016 study1 in Scientometrics, Byrne and Labbé reported 48 problematic papers, including the 30 papers that had incorrectly identified nucleotide fragments. These were all written by authors from China.

dgcoffman | 7 years ago | on: Coders Automating Their Own Job

> leverage smart development practices into making the job a lot less labor-intensive.

I think we instead do the same amount of labor, but accomplish more.

dgcoffman | 8 years ago | on: Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

Says quite a lot more about American police, I'd say.

dgcoffman | 8 years ago | on: Is the open office layout dead?

Had the same experience working a consulting job one time. Awful, dirty rows of terrible monitors and keyboards, fluorescent lighting, chintzy chairs.

Hotdesking sends to me the pretty degrading message that people are entirely fungible (probably also called "resources" at these places). I'm opposed to it.

And yes, everyone just sat in the same spot everyday.

dgcoffman | 8 years ago | on: Lack of ethics education for computer programmers shocks expert

My CS degree program required an ethics course. It was an immense waste of time.

dgcoffman | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: As an employee of a company, how do you assess its health?

Users and revenue.

User and revenue growth rate.

One bad sign is if the CEO is replaced. Another bad sign is if the company can't figure out how to make money.

dgcoffman | 9 years ago | on: Coinbase adds support for Litecoin

Segwit and Lightning Network; agility of Litecoin to evolve and advance. These are the reasons LTC is moving now.

dgcoffman | 9 years ago | on: Ignite UI is now open source

Infragistics is a bespoke software dev shop that does mostly Microsofty line of business web stuff. SharePoint, ASP.Net, Silverlight, SSRS/SSIS, etc.

I think they sell to big companies who are Microsoft vendor-locked (probably also Microsoft itself).

Ignite UI is a component library, like Telerik UI.

Very similar to Telerik.

dgcoffman | 9 years ago | on: Full technical details on Asana's worst outage

We reconstruct history from timestamps in Slack and our logging and monitoring systems.

dgcoffman | 9 years ago | on: 23andMe Is Monetizing Your DNA the Way Facebook Monetizes 'Likes'

Happy to participate. You're welcome, whoever benefits.

dgcoffman | 9 years ago | on: Why I'll never abbreviate a variable as long as I live

Ah, good ol' TransactionTemplatePayloadFactoryExtension.

dgcoffman | 9 years ago | on: Why I'll never abbreviate a variable as long as I live

Yeah, the problem isn't that the airplane is on fire, the problem is that it crashed into another burning airplane as both tumbled uncontrolled through the sky, hurdling toward the earth.

dgcoffman | 10 years ago | on: Fuckit.py – The Python error steamroller

Ruby has a language feature for this and it's pure 100% poison.

http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_method_missing.html

dgcoffman | 10 years ago | on: Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance

Still can't calculate height or fire mouseLeave events correctly.

dgcoffman | 10 years ago | on: We apologize

Reddit users are too stupid to effectively use reddit.

dgcoffman | 10 years ago | on: “I Wear Goggles When You Are Not Here” – GitHub for Windows Release Notes

"I wear goggles when you are not here" is a mis-heard song lyric from the Macy Gray song "I Try".

Actual lyrics: My world crumbles when you are not here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6kY_I7rUiE#t=53s

dgcoffman | 11 years ago | on: Ten Commandments of Sushi

I prefer dipping my sushi in wasabi mixed with soy sauce and I don't care how anybody else things I should eat it.

dgcoffman | 11 years ago | on: New Features in C# 6 (2014)

I would love to read a blog post about why they thought it was impossible and maybe walking through the implementation.

dgcoffman | 11 years ago | on: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

Just tried Yik Yak after reading this. In SF's FiDi, appears to be mostly dudes looking for gay hookups. Am I doing it wrong?

dgcoffman | 12 years ago | on: Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That

Okay, but that kind of polymorphism is actually a replacement for conditional logic, e.g. switch on type antipattern.

People hate conditionals. People hate polymorphism.

Everybody is wrong about everything pretty much all of the time, it appears.