Icathian

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by Icathian 6y ago
As someone without a lot of knowledge about that time in computing's history... so what happened? Is there a good place for me to go read up on this story? Thanks!
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by Icathian 6y ago
Really it's more akin to succession I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession
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by Icathian 6y ago
My assumption is that the cost/benefit math means that this is still worth it for them to do. Put as much lipstick as you can on that pig and go to market with it is not an internally inconsistent or illogical path. Even if it sucks
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by Icathian 6y ago
Since you called it out specifically I figure you might be interested to know the idiom is actually "swing a cat. Definitely a disturbing mental image, I agree.
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by Icathian 6y ago
In fairness, I think that while you mention security as a main source of this, you have it a bit out of order. Security pressures and expectations are substantially higher these days. Applications written thirty years ago faced far fewer
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by Icathian 6y ago
I'd say yes, but with a better business model for the authors. There's some really good stuff on there, though discoverability isn't great. Overall I like it, seems to re-strike the balance that Medium was going for and miss
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by Icathian 6y ago
I always find this such a strange argument. We're in the middle of hundreds of comments arguing about convenience and losing time fighting with bugs and environment problems. For the umpteenth time in the last year. And the price of
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by Icathian 6y ago
If you have a plumber fix your toilet, and multiple years later it breaks, and you go to them expecting their insurance to pay out for a replacement, how do you think that conversation will go? If you hire an engineer to build you a bridge,
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by Icathian 6y ago
If the actual expectation of every piece of software published is that the author is responsible for every harebrained choice made with it, then nothing would ever get published. That simply isn't practical. My responsibility is to me
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by Icathian 6y ago
I use a p50 series thinkpad for work and it's quite good. The keyboard layout isn't my favorite, but otherwise I'm a fan.
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by Icathian 6y ago
I think I see it slightly differently. People have a shifting baseline of expectation around software that isn't present in "traditional" tools. The hammer you inherited from your grandfather still does what it did the day
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by Icathian 6y ago
Would you mind offering a bit more detail about the "toggle"? Which browser, what's the name of the extension, etc. I would love something like that but don't really want to go through the effort of setting up a whitel
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by Icathian 6y ago
There are a lot of alternatives being tested out right now. Most of them do a great job of the training and certification parts of college. The problem is that we've also loaded in a "maturation/social growth" responsib
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by Icathian 6y ago
I guess I'll be that guy, since everyone else in the comments is praising the post. This feels twee and goofy, at best. Not sure why it's on the front page.
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by Icathian 6y ago
This is me as well, for league of legends. It's the one game I and most of my friends play exclusively, and is how I keep in touch with the ones who live far away. I'll have a windows box around until league runs on Linux or di
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by Icathian 6y ago
I want to agree with this post, and in general the calcification of big companies allowing for disruption is true, but I just don't see big companies "toppling" very often. Who are the real mainstays who have actually died?
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by Icathian 6y ago
I made the switch years ago and there is lots that python does better. I really, really wish for a perfect port of dplyr and ggplot2. Those are what I truly miss, everything else I'm pretty happy with.
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by Icathian 6y ago
Does this meet the need you're describing? I've been looking for a good project to get my feet wet in rust and your idea sounds like a perfect one, but a quick Google search makes it seem like a solved problem. I'd like to u
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by Icathian 6y ago
My entire industry (subset of healthcare) mostly uses a single application for 95% of our core business functions. That application is written in Visual FoxPro and is, predictably, pretty terrible. Obviously it isn't going to get bet
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by Icathian 6y ago
While getting accepted is obviously not a given, the program's admission rate is very high. The founder, Zvi Galil, is on record speaking to the philosophy of democratizing CS education that motivated the program. Which is a flowery w
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by Icathian 6y ago
I don't have the same length of perspective you do, but this has been my experience as well. I chat with buddies from old employers, and they still tease me about stuff I put into place 10 years ago that I would have bet good money wo
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by Icathian 6y ago
This really resonates with me. I never understood why my mom would spend whole sundays with football on, but have probably watched 20 hours of worlds for league of legends in the last two weeks. I play with my friends and have for 10 year
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by Icathian 6y ago
I can't tell if this is thick sarcasm or if you've read a bunch of press releases I missed. Do you have sources for any of your second or third paragraph?
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by Icathian 6y ago
Honestly such a brazen step might be good in the long run. People are all to happy to be boiled frogs, and an overreach like that might jolt some off their ecosystem.
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by Icathian 6y ago
I think the issue is that parallel workflow is a bridge too far for the current legal profession. They do sequential and they like it. A tool that makes the sequential workflow better will gain more ground than one that tries to change th
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by Icathian 6y ago
They already have. And at the time it was being developed and gathering momentum, some plausibility as a thin defense of it was helpful. Why go through that process again now when the existing system is already firmly in place?
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by Icathian 6y ago
Unfortunately web browsers cost money to make and maintain and people at large have shown they won't buy one the old fashioned way. Finding something that works is a hard problem.
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by Icathian 6y ago
I used to use SAS macros to conditionally generate monstrous SQL queries all the time. It was a bit hacky, but man I could make a thousand lines of SAS do just about whatever I wanted however I wanted. It really feels like a powerful way
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by Icathian 6y ago
Was just gearing up to type this. Onyx is a known GPL abuser and won't get a cent from me unless and until they fix that. Chinese company or otherwise, the FOSS community is clearly going to have to help support GPL when the courts c

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