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Comment on “What” is more Important than “How” by Greg Stickley

Greg Stickley — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:37:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing that video, the speaker makes a very good point. What he is saying sounds right to me but I think I may be focused on a time before “Why” can really have any meaning to a company or individual. Exploration and experience comes from asking “What” questions and from this exploration, conclusions can be made. Without experience, a solid core “Why” can’t really be achieved. “What” knowledge is acquired as we “feel” around the world and bump into reality. Only after we’ve bumped into a few things can we start to ask “Why”.

So I should amend my post to indicate that it applies to the group or individual with little or no experience.

Comment on “What” is more Important than “How” by Chris Stock

Chris Stock — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:06:23 +0000

Reading your post, I thought of this video that discusses why, how and what as it relates to leadership: http://bit.ly/9Hd8ps.

Comment on Breaking up a list into random groups of size n by Greg Stickley

Greg Stickley — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:34:20 +0000

I’ve posted this code to github along with some rspec tests.

http://github.com/egreg1968/random_groups_of

Comment on Understanding the Code Series: Installment 2 – Convert seconds to a time string by Greg Stickley

Greg Stickley — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:21:47 +0000

Your implementation is shorter, clearer and faster than the one I wrote. My only improvement can be to replace the map and join methods with the following:

return “%02d:%02d:%02d” % hms

Even with this change your code is still faster (and clearer). But the code I posted is still interesting in gaining some understanding of other Ruby methods and it’s cryptic nature is kind of fun to think about.

Comment on Understanding the Code Series: Installment 2 – Convert seconds to a time string by Dan Lynn

Dan Lynn — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:02:40 +0000

def seconds_to_time(secs)
Time.at(secs).gmtime.strftime(“%H:%M:%S”)
end

Comment on Breaking up a list into random groups of size n by Greg Stickley

Greg Stickley — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:28:52 +0000

Good point. I’ve fixed the code to only randomize the one time at the beginning of the method.

Comment on Breaking up a list into random groups of size n by Dan Lynn

Dan Lynn — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:48:05 +0000

Why randomly sort them each time through the loop? The first time before the loop should have done the trick.

Comment on Collaboration Is Key, Even If You’re The DOD: Scaling To The Enterprise by genevievesolutions

genevievesolutions — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:46:32 +0000

Cheers. Good Stuff!!! Thanks for sharing.

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