MikeTaylor

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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
Stewart Lee nailed it in this 90-second video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyGND49CBYk
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
Did @pg respond to any part of this thread?
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
Exactly! Exactly!
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
One of the killers for me is the dropped support for 32-bit binaries. I don't have a gaming box, so I play Steam games on my MacBook. Lots of the games I want to play (e.g. all the BioShocks) are 32-bit.
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
Did the FireFox people ever explain why they abandoned a more typical version numbering system and instead started releasing a new major version every couple of weeks?
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
The article addresses this. Ships are restricted to docking where there are ports, which are expensive and potentially fragile infrastructure (e.g. after a big storm), and can only be situated at the water's edge; while airships can pi
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
Yes, but no amount of explanation and analogy would enable them to understand what the heck a monad is.
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
As far as I am concerned, Stroustrup's greatest contributions to programmer are these three quotes, all from thre 2nd Edition of The C++ Programming Language: "The most important single aspect of software development is to be clea
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
Developers love agile. The thing they hate is Agile. Which is completely different. (Notably, it's not agile.)
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
Add to the LOOOONG list of "I really liked X but a recent update has screwed it up". It's amazing how often this happens.
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
This kind of thing was one of the foundational notions of Plan 9, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I often wonder how different our world would be if they'd only had the foresight to release the code freely instead of keeping it
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
He isn't the judge of anything. He's just asking a question.
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Major releases are disasters, and should be avoided whenever possible(reprog.wordpress.com)
2 points by MikeTaylor 7y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
This is obviously the right thing. Still, I can't help lamenting it. There was something delightfully baroque about knowing that the kilogram was in a vault in France. I'm going to miss it.
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
No-one remotely confident would ever fail a candidate for not knowing what "fizzbuzz" means. But any competent interviewer would fail a candidate who, having have "fizzbuzz" explained to them, could not implement it.
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
Exactly. You want to know, roughly, something like "is this candidate in the top 10%?". You might conclude "She seems to be at about the 85th percentile, give or take 10%", so she might be in the top 10% of might not. Bu
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by MikeTaylor 7y ago
Obviously interviewing isn't 100% accurate. Almost nothing is. You definitely can't tell in 60 minutes whether someone will be a success at your company. But you often can tell, with very very nearly 100% confidence if someone wil
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
As a Brit, I find it weird to see an article about economic catastrophe that doesn't even mention Brexit: the world's first self-inflicted economic omnicatastroshambles.
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
"We'll do a rewrite, simplify everything, get rid of all the edge-cases." Guess what? It turns out that all those edge-cases were there for a reason. You needed them. And by the time you've added them back, or equivalent
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
I am an academic, with about 25 scholarly publications, depending on how you count them (see http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/ for a list and for links to download them). I am here to tell you that we DO NOT
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
There is only one good reason to do a Ph.D, and that is because you really really want to invest 10,000 hours of your life into researching a topic that you love deeply for itself. I have a Ph.D in vertebrate palaeontology, which I got beca
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
This title is misleading. The post actually says that the reason "simple" comes first is because without it you can't have "correct" (nor "fast", not that that matters so much). So he's not saying sim
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
Awk really has been superseded by Perl (and therefore arguably by Python, Ruby, etc.) But sed remains a thing of beauty, all its own, and very well worth learning. Hardly a day goes by that I don't use it in some one-off command like
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by MikeTaylor 8y ago
This should be Elsevier's corporate motto.
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
> [`but` is] an infix operator that first clones the object on the left hand side and then mixes in a role provided on the right hand side into the clone. Yeah, thanks. I always wanted an operator that did that. I wonder why Perl 6 hasn&
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Thanks for the tip -- I'll try Arrow .
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Agreed that Buffy does this, like so much else, just right. It's why I had such high hopes of Angel .
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
This is dead on target. It's also why I found the TV series _Angel_ (the _Buffy_ spin-off) so unsatisfying. There is a truly fascinating story to be told about a vampire whose soul has been restored to him, and who is always at war wit
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
I note with amusement that I had to delete the last three characters from this title to get _Hacker News_ to accept it. We have an identifier too long to be a _Hacker News_ title.
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PutFixedDueDateScheduleStorageFixedDueDateSchedulesByFixedDueDateScheduleIdRespo(reprog.wordpress.com)
1 points by MikeTaylor 9y ago|1 comments

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