I agree. It's amazing. I feel like I've got a private Emacs consultant at my elbow.
This is the way.
Folks focus on the impact simplicity has on the customer, but it's also worth noting the impact it has on the manufacturer. With a simple product they get a simple business. - Simple warranty support - No deep bench of…
Upvoted. Sooner or later the Grim Reaper comes for us all.
I'm more curious about the other direction. How many times has a model replied to a request with "Are you sure?" I'd bet just about zero. In my job I do it all the time; people ask for stuff and I often spend a lot of…
We had to pause the movie and explain to our kids who June Cleaver was. It was a fun echo, because when I was a kid I watched it with my parents, and my Mom had to explain to me who Ethel Merman was.
Code filled with errors and warnings? PR's merged with failing CI? So I guess they've achieved human parity then? (I'll see myself out)
As always, anticipated (at least in some sense) by Neal Stephenson: https://www.wired.com/1994/10/spew/
Kim Stanley Robinson's description of a Martian space elevator falling and wrapping twice around the entire planet convinced me that they aren't a good idea. https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/clarke
I knew which scene that was before I clicked the link.
I think Library Science has contributed much more to modern computing than we ever realize. For example, I often bring up images of card catalogs when explaining database indexing. As soon as people see the index card,…
Back in the 90's I worked at Nortel and visited a modest size Captive Office in Los Angeles. It supported maybe 20k or 30k people. I was amazed by the field of lead-acid batteries, 1.5m high x 50m^2.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past" - William Faulkner Visual code is all over the place if you look; Any time something advertises itself as "low code" or "no code" it's a drag-and-drop flow based UI like this…
"No one wants to write ifs, fors and whiles as connected nodes" For what it's worth LabVIEW presents those structures as container boxes, which IMO works well enough. To put it another way, visual coding has many…
Exactly! Several different sorts of folks have an interest in product architecture, and each group needs the story told at a different level of abstraction. So inevitably one has to maintain a few different flavours of…
We're not as far apart as you might think. Clock time is correlated with performance, but by no means determinative. More important is initiative, enthusiasm, leadership, reliability, etc. All in, I work very little…
I've been in high tech for 30 years, and I've been laid off many times, most often from failed start ups. I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for…
No, the carrier leverage did not come from network policy, it came from sales-channel. That is to say, in those days one way or another every device passed through a carrier's hands before reaching the customer. So…
Remember Jim B. scoffing at how you had to plug an iPhone in every night? And how much more efficient BlackBerrys were with data? Steve knew that the customers did. not. care. And that the carriers would build more cell…
I was at RIM at that time and saw _exactly_ the same thing. When I started in 2008, in addition to WiFi and apps they were squabbling with carriers about whether or not the Blackberry needed an antenna. Carriers were…
The sort order of the alphabet symbols is arbitrary, but since all of the words are composed of an ordered set of symbols then sorting the words relative to one another is trivial.
Now I'm wondering how well calibrated those automatic public cuffs are in the first place...
Maybe an apochryphal story, but a famous orchestra conductor was talking to the players before a Mozart review show and had this to say: "Look, I know that professionals like you have been playing this music since you…
In the old days we'd use tcpdump and wireshark for this, but nowadays everything is encrypted up in the application layer so you need this kind of thing. Or tricky key dumping hacks.
The inspection and debugging features this offers are great additions though. I've stared at VCR yaml enough times to not want to ever do it again.
I agree. It's amazing. I feel like I've got a private Emacs consultant at my elbow.
This is the way.
Folks focus on the impact simplicity has on the customer, but it's also worth noting the impact it has on the manufacturer. With a simple product they get a simple business. - Simple warranty support - No deep bench of…
Upvoted. Sooner or later the Grim Reaper comes for us all.
I'm more curious about the other direction. How many times has a model replied to a request with "Are you sure?" I'd bet just about zero. In my job I do it all the time; people ask for stuff and I often spend a lot of…
We had to pause the movie and explain to our kids who June Cleaver was. It was a fun echo, because when I was a kid I watched it with my parents, and my Mom had to explain to me who Ethel Merman was.
Code filled with errors and warnings? PR's merged with failing CI? So I guess they've achieved human parity then? (I'll see myself out)
As always, anticipated (at least in some sense) by Neal Stephenson: https://www.wired.com/1994/10/spew/
Kim Stanley Robinson's description of a Martian space elevator falling and wrapping twice around the entire planet convinced me that they aren't a good idea. https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/clarke
I knew which scene that was before I clicked the link.
I think Library Science has contributed much more to modern computing than we ever realize. For example, I often bring up images of card catalogs when explaining database indexing. As soon as people see the index card,…
Back in the 90's I worked at Nortel and visited a modest size Captive Office in Los Angeles. It supported maybe 20k or 30k people. I was amazed by the field of lead-acid batteries, 1.5m high x 50m^2.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past" - William Faulkner Visual code is all over the place if you look; Any time something advertises itself as "low code" or "no code" it's a drag-and-drop flow based UI like this…
"No one wants to write ifs, fors and whiles as connected nodes" For what it's worth LabVIEW presents those structures as container boxes, which IMO works well enough. To put it another way, visual coding has many…
Exactly! Several different sorts of folks have an interest in product architecture, and each group needs the story told at a different level of abstraction. So inevitably one has to maintain a few different flavours of…
We're not as far apart as you might think. Clock time is correlated with performance, but by no means determinative. More important is initiative, enthusiasm, leadership, reliability, etc. All in, I work very little…
I've been in high tech for 30 years, and I've been laid off many times, most often from failed start ups. I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for…
No, the carrier leverage did not come from network policy, it came from sales-channel. That is to say, in those days one way or another every device passed through a carrier's hands before reaching the customer. So…
Remember Jim B. scoffing at how you had to plug an iPhone in every night? And how much more efficient BlackBerrys were with data? Steve knew that the customers did. not. care. And that the carriers would build more cell…
I was at RIM at that time and saw _exactly_ the same thing. When I started in 2008, in addition to WiFi and apps they were squabbling with carriers about whether or not the Blackberry needed an antenna. Carriers were…
The sort order of the alphabet symbols is arbitrary, but since all of the words are composed of an ordered set of symbols then sorting the words relative to one another is trivial.
Now I'm wondering how well calibrated those automatic public cuffs are in the first place...
Maybe an apochryphal story, but a famous orchestra conductor was talking to the players before a Mozart review show and had this to say: "Look, I know that professionals like you have been playing this music since you…
In the old days we'd use tcpdump and wireshark for this, but nowadays everything is encrypted up in the application layer so you need this kind of thing. Or tricky key dumping hacks.
The inspection and debugging features this offers are great additions though. I've stared at VCR yaml enough times to not want to ever do it again.