MikeTaylor

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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
What does the "[flagged]" mean in the title?
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
From the press-release: "Microsoft's history with the OSI dates back to 2005 with the submission of the Microsoft Community License" Well, that is not exactly true. For those who have forgotten the history, or weren't ar
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Just in case anyone else runs into this and doesn't know what's going on: we had a problem with Yarn 1.0, because it doesn't recognise repositories that don't end in a trailing slash -- for example, "@folio:registry
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What We Get Wrong About Technology(timharford.com)
297 points by MikeTaylor 9y ago|122 comments
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
My official job title is Software Guy.
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
If the W3C does this, it will be time -- regrettably -- to turn away from that organisation and make a completely new one that exists to serve users of the Web rather than those seeking to monetise it. That Tim Berners-Lee has lent his name
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Where is the Watney Triangle?
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
This is all very nice, but the fact that the article doesn't even _mention_ images or attachments shows how divorced it is from the reality of most people's email experience. I happily used emacs as my mail-reader from 1989 to abo
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Definitely, definitely, Kernighan and Plauger's 1976 book _Software Tools_. The code is in RATFOR (a structured dialect of FORTRAN) but all the ideas are language-independent. It remains, four decades on, the best book I have ever read
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
The two-step plan for effortlessly being better off than you otherwise would be (I won't say getting rich): 1. Buy the cheapest car you're OK with. 2. But the best house you can afford. This is simple. Cars (especially new cars) d
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“What should I prioritise that ahead of?”(reprog.wordpress.com)
1 points by MikeTaylor 9y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
SO MUCH GREAT ADVICE! Thank you all, folks, this has been an education.
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Folks who know pizza: What can those us with regular ovens do? You know, the sort of oven you find in most kitchens that top out at 250C (500F)?
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by MikeTaylor 9y ago
Exactly. The Basecamp instructions are written on the assumption that not all of their employees will be "lucky" all of the time (where "lucky" means "treated with what in most countries would be considered a bare m
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by MikeTaylor 10y ago
It seems that the lessons of Rob Pike's 1983 talk "cat -v Considered Harmful" have still not been absorbed 34 years later. Here is the abstract of the talk, together with the link to the paper (co-authored with Brian Kernigha
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by MikeTaylor 10y ago
I know you can. But for someone who mostly uses GIMP to crop screenshots, for example, the workflow is used to be: 1. Load PNG 2. Edit PNG 3. Save PNG 4. Quit Now it's 1. Load PNG 2. Edit PNG 3. Export as PNG (retyping the extension) 4
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by MikeTaylor 10y ago
Shame they are still refusing to fix the deliberately-introduced "can only save in XCF format" bug.
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by MikeTaylor 10y ago
A better headline would be "Some journals refuse to meet conditions for publishing Gates-funded research, which is their own stupid fault",
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by MikeTaylor 10y ago
Let me summarise all the comments: 1. People who are tech leads feel that there is a need for tech leads. 1. People who are not tech leads feel that there is no need for tech leads.
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by MikeTaylor 10y ago
It doesn't put any blame on anyone. It encourages us to stop and think in such a way that there is no blame for anyone. (Typically, the people who built the fence are not here any more, so we can't make any more requirements on th
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A short, practical, quiz: figure out where you stand on copyright(reprog.wordpress.com)
1 points by MikeTaylor 10y ago|0 comments
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A short, practical, quiz: figure out where you stand on copyright(reprog.wordpress.com)
2 points by MikeTaylor 10y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 11y ago
There is no such thing as "no longer open source". The story here is in fact "the copyright holders of RoboVM have made a proprietary derivative".
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by MikeTaylor 11y ago
I think everyone missed it. Glad you, at least, didn't :-)
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by MikeTaylor 11y ago
Never gonna happen, Go 2 is considered harmful.
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by MikeTaylor 11y ago
Yeah, the Futurama one is just fine if you subscribe to American Exceptionalism. Which would suit 4.48% of the world population just fine.
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by MikeTaylor 11y ago
Needs to have Pluto knocked out :-)
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Various parochial national standards were referenced (1997)(jiscmail.ac.uk)
1 points by MikeTaylor 11y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 11y ago
That is true; but surely provision of an RSS feed constitutes a presumptive licence to redistribute.
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E-Book piracy: a moral dilemma(reprog.wordpress.com)
5 points by MikeTaylor 11y ago|1 comments

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