Chiba-City

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by Chiba-City 2y ago
Our legacy "computer industry" was a lend/lease styled business model industry. Our legacy "computer companies" were financing companies. Not "computing" companies. That lends/lease financing business
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by Chiba-City 2y ago
Great article. Read all of it twice. Don't fixate on one or two sentences. I once worked in Fed Govt IT system. Remember the 2015 OPM (Office of Personnel Management) data breach? If not, read up on that (use a search engine). Over 22
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by Chiba-City 2y ago
I enjoy making photographs on black and white films. Different films are something like different musical instruments. A C# played on a guitar and a C# played on an oboe sound different. The lens, the exposure, the developer and the process
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by Chiba-City 3y ago
Years ago, I threw away my coffee maker, espresso maker, microwave, toaster oven and most other kitchen "appliances." I did keep a few electric grinders/mixers. But I also have some manual grinders. I make coffee in a glass j
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by Chiba-City 3y ago
Sorry to ask, but where do you get your "facts" ???? China developed, organized and promotes Kylin (Linux based) with a high degree of desktop penetration with the express purpose of replacing Windows and Apple desktops (laptops,
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by Chiba-City 3y ago
Garbage collecting interpreters are (mostly) for wimpy scripting kiddies. The obvious historically documented exceptions are the "Symbolic AI Researchers." In 1990, SQL (and dBASE and Excel) was a "computer language" for
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by Chiba-City 3y ago
This article makes sense and explains a great deal. Learning and training trigger dopamine release. Both "learning how" and "learning that." The photography example they use (tool mastery) is a great example. Amateur pho
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
Does anyone follow British domestic politics? They can't stand Polish (et al) immigrants amongst their numbers, much less browner skinned Indians and muslims. Brits are an increasingly irrelevant, racist, and post-Imperial bitter and r
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
These bills are self-defeating. I suffer no affections for narcotics dealers and human traffickers seeking anonymity, but I also suffer no affections for "Western" bankers fixing LIBOR and NSA tapping phones of our NATO "alli
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
I doubt it. Mastering an instrument and music reading/writing trains linguistic, focus and cooperation skills. Acting in plays trains memory and cooperation skills and performance skills. Field sports trains spatial reasoning and compe
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
BTW, notice how our very phrase "counter-intuitive" largely indicates credible consensus contradicting TV narratives, commercial advertising, news "headlines" and fragment's of yesterday's propaganda. Credible
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
HN itself is full of wonderful "counter-intuitive" narratives. College is the road to riches? We've heard Peter Thiel and others explain otherwise. "Health food bars" aren't just candybars? Whey protein doesn&#
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
First, eliminate advertising. Next, eliminate anonymity. Next, focus on teaching things that can be taught. For one example, the old (pre .com) comp.lang Usenet forums were fantastic. For another example, Consumer Reports is a blissfully du
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by Chiba-City 6y ago
This is nonsense. Fools "debating" and babbling "what the TV said" are liabilities. What's more, what 7.7B fools "like" and "don't like" never matters. Simpler facticities, such as design an
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
First, it would certainly depend on as many sample variations we can find. Second, you are approaching tautological nonsense where patents and copyrights are nothing more than excuses for undeserved "outsized returns." Maybe that
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
There is nothing obviously wrong with copying things and nothing obvious right with "inventing" them first. DOS was not first but beat CPM. Microsoft even went on to PROMOTE its "fast follower" modus operandi. VC's
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I don't understand the appeal. We used to call this "slipstreaming" changes. I understand a variety of methodologies going back decades. Is this for content or entertainment applications where users are victims and data integ
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
It is easier today than ever before to share a basic great books history and philosophy "story" today. We can include our primate biology, geology, food history and organizational and strategic narratives from Sun Tzu to Aristotle
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Nerds are raised on sci-fi. I was. They keep waiting for the future to happen. Scouring for "new technologies" is sometimes called "scouting." It's really important for a company to appoint "scounters." Th
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
That's your team's problem. Optimizing single developers for "getting their part over" is not contributing. Software delivery is not like taking tests in school. It's team delivery over multiple release. The only wi
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Great piece. 1) The title might be "Incidental Complexity is Killing Software." 2) Typing speed of scripting languages is truly a HIGHLY deceptive metric. Server resources are not free, and unit testing is wasted on type checking
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
This is true. Ancient USENET was once fantastic before SPAM and trolls invaded. The stores of free non-fiction books and journal articles in PDF is also a giant treasure few could have imagined a few decades ago.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
The original getopt was a really tight library.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I was not saying it was lacking those features. Feature plans are aces up sleeves for new releases. Multi-release planning turns out to be a great way to "time box" the current release.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Great idea and great general model as a recipe or planning tool. The possibilities seem endless - adding structure (popular sequences of groups of exercises, complements or foci, etc.), adding voting, comments or open signup to plans, addin
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Our lack of universal and convenient primary care hinders the formation of small or new large businesses. Our medical care quality is low due to lack of data sharing that national health services enjoy for free. Our oddly expensive but low
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I played a tiny part in debugging early XML-RPC implementations. XML-RPC had most of the efficiency and representational flexibility of JSON today. Then SOAP came barreling in. Software is full of heartbreaks :/
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I was going to mention RMI, but couldn't recall the TLA. Does anyone else remember LANS and Windows NetDDE? That got end user machines involved in "distributed" computations.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Reminds me of distributed architectures like CORBA turning into spaghetti in the 90's.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I've waited 50 years for an organization like Strong Towns to combine a) sound accounting and b) urban architecture in a USA context. These guys are sobering consequentialists, testing principles against their realized potential. That&

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