I guess I don't really have an opinion about that. Certainly an exact representation of decimal numbers was essential, and was something we needed to implement at the time, but going to a fully rational numeric stack…
I seem to remember that we were aware that fractional commodities were going away, but exact rational values would still be important to be able to represent historical holdings and transactions.
I committed to the GnuCash codebase pretty regularly in the 1999-2002 era... I think maybe I actually implemented the fractional representation that the article discusses? Not sure, it was a long time ago! I definitely…
One thing I think is missing is an understanding of why there is such a top-down push for timelines: because saying "we aren't sure when this feature will be delivered" makes sales people look like they don't know what…
As it turns out, the magic sauce that makes everything taste better is just ketchup. It's good (maybe even indispensable) for some things. Please don't go "ketchup native" on my ice cream.
How else are you going to liquidity-stalk that company you left with some options or even shares? I take my first cup of coffee with a little tea-leaf reading based on the activity of the CEO and my former coworkers. If…
I feel some genuine grief about what GTK has become. It started out as a toolkit for application development and leaned heavily into the needs of the C developer who was writing an application with a GUI. It was really…
I am still skeptical about the value of LLM as coding helper in 2025. I have not dedicated myself to an "AI first" workflow so maybe I am just doing it wrong. The most positive metaphor I have heard about why LLM coding…
I don't know that the hardware is dead yet. They got a cash infusion last year and there are occasional hardware updates in their Discord. It's just a slow process with 1-2 engineers total working on the many different…
There's no hurt feelings like the hurt feelings of a junior engineer, who has spent the last year kvetching about how much they hate working on legacy junk, hearing someone else refer to one of THEIR projects as "legacy…
I ran face-first into this effect at a successful startup where I started as employee number 9. When everyone can sit around one big table, you don't have to consciously polish your "brand" all the time -- most people…
You can still buy bikes like that. There are plenty of people still making frame sets that will work with standard drive train components, standard sized stems, and plain ol handlebars in a variety of shapes. And they…
I worked for an Intel spinoff whose CEO was a former high-level Intel exec from the 1990-2010 era. Internal goss attributed much of Intel's decision to stay out of the iPhone to him... there was a supposed quote that…
I love the developer experience of Dear ImGUI, even though I use it through Python wrappers that confuse things sometimes. It just slices like a sword through several layers of often-pointless abstraction and puts the…
I was tech lead on a team with a guy like this. We sat down and had a long discussion and whiteboard sesh about a piece of code that could/should have been about 500 lines of code in half a dozen files. Walked out of it…
For medical procedures, I think it makes sense to check ID - just for the potential testimonial "audit trail" in case of actual or purported malpractice. "Are you CERTAIN that the X-ray we are looking it is of the…
If you are working on a large collaborative project, switching between branches can mean needing to rebuild your container images. It's not something I do every day, but it happens enough that the difference between 1…
> But it's a bit disappointing to see that it's still pretty much a one-man project. I don't know much about this project and I have never used it. But in my experience as a developer and user of software I couldn't…
You can't really have a GOAT in a creative field -- I would never ever want to diminish Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan -- but really Ella is the GOAT. She just makes perfection sound so easy. Listen to the…
Marathons have been my tire for about 15 years of city and road riding, and I have only flatted once -- direct hit on a nail IIRC. I am always amazed at their longevity and reliability.
I have used unstable as my daily driver since they named it "unstable", which I don't even remember what that was but at least 20 years ago. I have never (yet!) gotten myself into any trouble, by following a very simple…
I feel a lot of sympathy for the GNOME developers. They are 15 years past the "let's build something cool!" stage and into the long, long grind of support and compatibility and being expected to work everywhere all the…
I don't think the meaning is anything terribly sophisticated. I read it simply to mean that if you invest money in the company, that's money that is at risk of going poof if the company folds. If you take the money out…
The graphical dataflow languages that are popular for music and audio programming (thinking Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor etc) do this in a way that makes the value of "namelessness" a bit more clear. When you connect the…
I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined variable, assumes something that's not true, syntax error that…
I guess I don't really have an opinion about that. Certainly an exact representation of decimal numbers was essential, and was something we needed to implement at the time, but going to a fully rational numeric stack…
I seem to remember that we were aware that fractional commodities were going away, but exact rational values would still be important to be able to represent historical holdings and transactions.
I committed to the GnuCash codebase pretty regularly in the 1999-2002 era... I think maybe I actually implemented the fractional representation that the article discusses? Not sure, it was a long time ago! I definitely…
One thing I think is missing is an understanding of why there is such a top-down push for timelines: because saying "we aren't sure when this feature will be delivered" makes sales people look like they don't know what…
As it turns out, the magic sauce that makes everything taste better is just ketchup. It's good (maybe even indispensable) for some things. Please don't go "ketchup native" on my ice cream.
How else are you going to liquidity-stalk that company you left with some options or even shares? I take my first cup of coffee with a little tea-leaf reading based on the activity of the CEO and my former coworkers. If…
I feel some genuine grief about what GTK has become. It started out as a toolkit for application development and leaned heavily into the needs of the C developer who was writing an application with a GUI. It was really…
I am still skeptical about the value of LLM as coding helper in 2025. I have not dedicated myself to an "AI first" workflow so maybe I am just doing it wrong. The most positive metaphor I have heard about why LLM coding…
I don't know that the hardware is dead yet. They got a cash infusion last year and there are occasional hardware updates in their Discord. It's just a slow process with 1-2 engineers total working on the many different…
There's no hurt feelings like the hurt feelings of a junior engineer, who has spent the last year kvetching about how much they hate working on legacy junk, hearing someone else refer to one of THEIR projects as "legacy…
I ran face-first into this effect at a successful startup where I started as employee number 9. When everyone can sit around one big table, you don't have to consciously polish your "brand" all the time -- most people…
You can still buy bikes like that. There are plenty of people still making frame sets that will work with standard drive train components, standard sized stems, and plain ol handlebars in a variety of shapes. And they…
I worked for an Intel spinoff whose CEO was a former high-level Intel exec from the 1990-2010 era. Internal goss attributed much of Intel's decision to stay out of the iPhone to him... there was a supposed quote that…
I love the developer experience of Dear ImGUI, even though I use it through Python wrappers that confuse things sometimes. It just slices like a sword through several layers of often-pointless abstraction and puts the…
I was tech lead on a team with a guy like this. We sat down and had a long discussion and whiteboard sesh about a piece of code that could/should have been about 500 lines of code in half a dozen files. Walked out of it…
For medical procedures, I think it makes sense to check ID - just for the potential testimonial "audit trail" in case of actual or purported malpractice. "Are you CERTAIN that the X-ray we are looking it is of the…
If you are working on a large collaborative project, switching between branches can mean needing to rebuild your container images. It's not something I do every day, but it happens enough that the difference between 1…
> But it's a bit disappointing to see that it's still pretty much a one-man project. I don't know much about this project and I have never used it. But in my experience as a developer and user of software I couldn't…
You can't really have a GOAT in a creative field -- I would never ever want to diminish Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan -- but really Ella is the GOAT. She just makes perfection sound so easy. Listen to the…
Marathons have been my tire for about 15 years of city and road riding, and I have only flatted once -- direct hit on a nail IIRC. I am always amazed at their longevity and reliability.
I have used unstable as my daily driver since they named it "unstable", which I don't even remember what that was but at least 20 years ago. I have never (yet!) gotten myself into any trouble, by following a very simple…
I feel a lot of sympathy for the GNOME developers. They are 15 years past the "let's build something cool!" stage and into the long, long grind of support and compatibility and being expected to work everywhere all the…
I don't think the meaning is anything terribly sophisticated. I read it simply to mean that if you invest money in the company, that's money that is at risk of going poof if the company folds. If you take the money out…
The graphical dataflow languages that are popular for music and audio programming (thinking Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor etc) do this in a way that makes the value of "namelessness" a bit more clear. When you connect the…
I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined variable, assumes something that's not true, syntax error that…