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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Excellent comment. Read my mind. Yes, low level and high level error handling can coexist, but this style of programming works much better (in my opinion) as a blackboard exercise or a do-it-once-then-done situation. Love me some DDD, but y
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
There's some interesting team/org organizational dynamics going on in churches in the U.S. From the outside, it appears that these megachurches are offering sort of an AWS for religion, facilitating small-group worship that happen
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Yes, exactly. The only thing I'd add is that raising those issues and trying to find resolution is probably even more important than the code. People can see whether the app is working or not. They can't see when these conflicts h
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Yes. Another way of stating that is that all professions (aside from math-based ones) are inconsistent at some level of detail and have various workarounds for that. Even accountants are paid to give "accounting opinions" about th
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Honest question: you've never ran across a situation where varying business users are describing realities in the business which are inconsistent with one another in various ways? Because there's this whole school of thought that
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
That's true in a universal sense, but humans don't exist in a universally-logical world. Yes, all code/abstractions are broken, ie, all models are broken but some are more useful than others. That, however, is not the point.
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
The difference is in the level-of-detail. Humans can't create logically-consistent models in-depth, no matter what the domain. Programmers, at least old-school domain-model-driven programmers, live in a world of constantly reminding pe
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Interesting thought experiment: aside from streaming videos, how much bandwidth do you actually need a day? That's updates, posts, tweets, news articles, and so forth. Not very much. It's not unusual to load a humongous site with
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Perhaps so, however I did not call myself humble. Apologies. I overstated. How about "I study a lot of stuff" And now the reply, if I've accurately modeled it, is "So you've studied a lot of stuff, what makes you an
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
As a self-taught polymath, I did a lot of research many years ago on how good teams create good products. I reached some unusual conclusions at the time, but they've stood the test of time. The main one in regards to John's tweet
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Medicine is an interesting area because all of the incentives lean towards incremental, long-term subscriptions for small-but-measurable gains. So if your fraud is an improvement by 2.5% instead of 2.45%, it's both unlikely to get a lo
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Books have been around for centuries. You can't redefine the term because lawyers. If anything, that kind of ninja editing of intellectual history is fraud on a civilizational scale. Doesn't mean you can sell license subscriptions
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Related question: I've written probably a million words over my lifetime. Is there an easy way to load up GPT with my thoughts to have it be a fake me?
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
I wrote on this over the weekend in an essay titled "Forced Boredom" A lot of this is standard advice for various creators. I think, however, that it's possible to optimize yourself for the process. I find in my professional
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Why is everybody forcing me to upload to the web the very files I want to keep private to myself? If any code in the universe should run locally, it's this kind of code. I don't get it. Great UI, though. But I still don't get
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Gad! I have spent all morning trying to --- password protect a static html page. How in the hell does HN have a story about the exact topic I've been struggling with appear just a dozen or so hours after I started working on it. Wow. I
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
I bet I could probably put movies and media on a BluRay using whatever format was the most stable over the past ten years and be sure that it would be readable by somebody without too much trouble 20 years from now. After that, however, pla
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Thanks. I was looking for something that would work without me being around or there being any kind of script or computer for somebody to maintain. Something akin to a family picture album, only with digital media
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
A bit off-topic but relevant to the aging problem of tech: is there any commonly-available persistent storage medium you would use to store say, family movies for 100 years? Or is that a hopeless cause? For instance, will BluRay players be
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Technology Has Lost Its Pragmatism(danielbmarkham.com)
4 points by DanielBMarkham 4y ago|0 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
I keep reading these microservice essays where the author is lost and I really feel their pain. In that spirit, let me try to make things as simple as possible. (True) Microservices have no dependencies on anything but unstructured text dat
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
In a way, where this is all ending up could be called "A War On (Anonymous) Chitchat" In any set of human interactions, it's common for folks to run on autopilot. This is the normal background noise of our lives. But with wid
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
That's an even better take as this kind of thing will tend to feed on itself. I continue to be amazed at how counterintuitive this all is. It may feed on itself, but in practice that might involve looping through dozens of somewhat adj
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
One of the interesting things I've noticed is that these systems are being rewarded and trained based on emotive response, not our logical system of sources and proofs. Due to the enormous complexity of the models, our idea of cause-an
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Yup. I'm not going to argue with myself, but you are correct that this is a complex and fascinating topic that deserves more attention. Space constraints led me to vastly oversimplify. If you'd like more of a rebuttal/clarifi
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Yes, I agree that the author that his work is important. I further agree that the sentiment expressed by his correspondent is common. Further, Google is just the first step in the internet repurposing machine. The tech is 20 years old. It d
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
You're conflating a lot of things here. The title of the original essay is "nobody cares about your blog" if I agree with the author in the sense he meant it, I'm not sure where the problem is. Likewise, "the author
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
We're going through an epistemological crisis the likes of which haven't been seen since Europe went through the dark ages. (Disclaimer: I just wrote about this and submitted the essay on HN https://danielbmarkham.com&#
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The Overlords Finally Showed Up(danielbmarkham.com)
142 points by DanielBMarkham 4y ago|146 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
irt "...I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know how he got visual effect X on his blog? ..." I cannot describe the sadness I feel when I see the title of an essay I might enjoy, decide to use HN comments as a way to decide,

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