Tried it out on some REST response from a local test server. And, well, as much as I applaud the effort, I also think that I'll stick to my text editor for browsing JSON data and to jq for extracting data from it. My…
> Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things Yeah, well, Communism was meant to put an end to poverty and class injustice. Brexit was meant to restore glory to Britain. The Catholic Church was mean to put…
At one time I was contracting at a place where every process was broken, from IT to management to testing. It wasn't really a place that attracted talented developers. There were a some developers that were talented and…
Here in .dk-land we have several Blue Apron style businesses. The most prominent one started out more than two decades ago by as a kind of subscription service -- every week you'd get a bag containing the produce of the…
> it makes them easily replaceable I don't think a developer is ever "easily replacable" (discounting obviously incompetent people which shouldn't have been hired in the first place). As soon as we join a team we start…
Well, the whole thing is computer data, stored on media. Already these days it's hard to find hardware to read the 5.25" floppy disks that I stored my code on in the late 1980s, and that's just three decades. Preserving…
Further advantages of gold over bitcoin: 1) Has been used for millennia. Bitcoin was invented ten years ago. 2) Accepted as valuable by most of human population. Bitcoin mostly as valuable within internet echo bubbles.…
Attila the Pun gave them a bad name
I would imagine that if all the crypto people moved to some smaller email service with a more lenient policy, this service would end up with far bigger deliverability and blacklisting problems than Mailchimp ever had.…
I also read through the thing, and it was all empty buzzwords and white noise to me. Was hoping to at last have someone describe an actual use case for the blockchain, but nope, another blank.
> "Taking 1.6 seconds, the process of opening and closing the car via an app is up to six times faster than before. In addition, efficient cryptographic encryption takes place." A remote car key. You've invented a…
I think that if search worked, the Wiki could be a great hub of information. For the search to work, it should make an effort to get to know you, that is, try to track which pages you have previously edited or opened,…
True dat. Writing no documentation is also a bad path. Personally I've come to favor keeping the technical documentation close to the code. That is, keep it as markdown files and check it into git. They are just as…
The last couple of places that I have worked also had a number of sensible rules in place to ensure quality. E.g. - never commit directly to master, always create a PR from a branch - always make sure tests are green…
I work as a freelancer on six month contracts, embedded into regular development teams at customer sites. Before that I have held regular SW developer positions. A bureau helps me out finding contracts so I spend very…
I don't think any "real" countries have any interest in cryptos becoming a competitor to their respective national currency. That would be giving away control over the economy, and why would any government want to do…
Also, unlike the for loop alternative, it clearly expresses the intent. "I am filtering this array, using this condition". The functional programming style really shines here, and it shines even more whan you start…
Over the years, a lot of governments have outlawed offshore online gambling. They mainly do so by proxy, by making it illegal for banks or credit card providers to transfer money to unapproved gambling operations. In…
I think that as the value of bitcoin decreases, a lot of the mining will stop for want of profitability. Right now it's still Klondyke days and everybody is out there with his pickaxe. In a few months, slightly used…
I really like Typescript. It's really well designed and gets typing right IMHO: Strong enough to help you where it matters, flexible enough to get out of the way where it doesn't. Also, type definition hell is…
> Will corporations develop religion According to the Civ1 tech graph, which I consider the authoritative resource, they just need to develop philosophy and writing in order to research religion. They definitely got the…
Gamifying this kind of thing would be intriguing. I'm imagining some server that would work like spamnesty, i.e. you could easily let it handle your spam. But I'm also imagining the possibility of registering as a bot…
"The working class should seize the GPUs."
Entertaining blogpost. And reading the 2006 comment thread below is also pretty entertaining. All of the comments seem to be about ten years old. Most of them tend to agree that Microsoft seriously botched this feature.…
Agreed. Large nuclear arsenals powered by glitchy software is a bigger concern. It's chilling how close humanity has been, on several occasions, to turning its planet into dust.g.
Tried it out on some REST response from a local test server. And, well, as much as I applaud the effort, I also think that I'll stick to my text editor for browsing JSON data and to jq for extracting data from it. My…
> Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things Yeah, well, Communism was meant to put an end to poverty and class injustice. Brexit was meant to restore glory to Britain. The Catholic Church was mean to put…
At one time I was contracting at a place where every process was broken, from IT to management to testing. It wasn't really a place that attracted talented developers. There were a some developers that were talented and…
Here in .dk-land we have several Blue Apron style businesses. The most prominent one started out more than two decades ago by as a kind of subscription service -- every week you'd get a bag containing the produce of the…
> it makes them easily replaceable I don't think a developer is ever "easily replacable" (discounting obviously incompetent people which shouldn't have been hired in the first place). As soon as we join a team we start…
Well, the whole thing is computer data, stored on media. Already these days it's hard to find hardware to read the 5.25" floppy disks that I stored my code on in the late 1980s, and that's just three decades. Preserving…
Further advantages of gold over bitcoin: 1) Has been used for millennia. Bitcoin was invented ten years ago. 2) Accepted as valuable by most of human population. Bitcoin mostly as valuable within internet echo bubbles.…
Attila the Pun gave them a bad name
I would imagine that if all the crypto people moved to some smaller email service with a more lenient policy, this service would end up with far bigger deliverability and blacklisting problems than Mailchimp ever had.…
I also read through the thing, and it was all empty buzzwords and white noise to me. Was hoping to at last have someone describe an actual use case for the blockchain, but nope, another blank.
> "Taking 1.6 seconds, the process of opening and closing the car via an app is up to six times faster than before. In addition, efficient cryptographic encryption takes place." A remote car key. You've invented a…
I think that if search worked, the Wiki could be a great hub of information. For the search to work, it should make an effort to get to know you, that is, try to track which pages you have previously edited or opened,…
True dat. Writing no documentation is also a bad path. Personally I've come to favor keeping the technical documentation close to the code. That is, keep it as markdown files and check it into git. They are just as…
The last couple of places that I have worked also had a number of sensible rules in place to ensure quality. E.g. - never commit directly to master, always create a PR from a branch - always make sure tests are green…
I work as a freelancer on six month contracts, embedded into regular development teams at customer sites. Before that I have held regular SW developer positions. A bureau helps me out finding contracts so I spend very…
I don't think any "real" countries have any interest in cryptos becoming a competitor to their respective national currency. That would be giving away control over the economy, and why would any government want to do…
Also, unlike the for loop alternative, it clearly expresses the intent. "I am filtering this array, using this condition". The functional programming style really shines here, and it shines even more whan you start…
Over the years, a lot of governments have outlawed offshore online gambling. They mainly do so by proxy, by making it illegal for banks or credit card providers to transfer money to unapproved gambling operations. In…
I think that as the value of bitcoin decreases, a lot of the mining will stop for want of profitability. Right now it's still Klondyke days and everybody is out there with his pickaxe. In a few months, slightly used…
I really like Typescript. It's really well designed and gets typing right IMHO: Strong enough to help you where it matters, flexible enough to get out of the way where it doesn't. Also, type definition hell is…
> Will corporations develop religion According to the Civ1 tech graph, which I consider the authoritative resource, they just need to develop philosophy and writing in order to research religion. They definitely got the…
Gamifying this kind of thing would be intriguing. I'm imagining some server that would work like spamnesty, i.e. you could easily let it handle your spam. But I'm also imagining the possibility of registering as a bot…
"The working class should seize the GPUs."
Entertaining blogpost. And reading the 2006 comment thread below is also pretty entertaining. All of the comments seem to be about ten years old. Most of them tend to agree that Microsoft seriously botched this feature.…
Agreed. Large nuclear arsenals powered by glitchy software is a bigger concern. It's chilling how close humanity has been, on several occasions, to turning its planet into dust.g.