MrMcCall

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721.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
The only thing reliable about them (and the humans that create them) is that they easily fool a bunch of fools. Of course, it does appear that they are incredibly reliable at being somewhat reliable, but that's not the kind of reliable
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Willful ignorance and oppression of others have many causes, none of them anything less than an evil perversion of the life of compassion we should each be choosing to manifest. Such evil is always worse under the guise of religion, because
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
For a very long time, people have told me that what I'm doing is impossible. What I've realized is that they say that because they have limited themselves as to what they're capable of, and then they slather on a bunch of h
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks for that wonderful exploration of the problem space. Side note on magnets: when our kids were young, I got one of theose stick-and-ball magnetic sets that are capable of making geometric figures. So I made a Archimedian-style polyhed
725.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Order is the soul of dataflow integration systems, which is programming. And this is because order is the sole purpose of the universe, itself, as it spreads change across time and space. And there are most definitely rules to what change
726.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's new since I've been tramping around VS.NET (F# 2 or 3 & C# from 10ya). My immediate purposes require that I avoid depending on unique programming language/environment constructions, but it helps to learn, so thanks
727.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
The problem is that programming languages have always focused on the definition side of types, which is absolutely necessary and good, but the problem is that only limiting use by, e.g., "protected, private, friend, internal, ...&quo
728.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes to all that, but the blame -- as always -- belongs to the money people. They are the ones chasing shiny new sh_t instead of fixing what their existing systems are f_cking up royally. It bears remembering that those money folks are the
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I give them all my power, every day. And often shout at the living dead.
730.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, that's why I added the caveat, after giving you an up. I was speaking to the wider audience that frequents these parts.
731.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yup, but I ain't telling y'all sh_t. You can figure that sh_t out for yourself. ;-) I'm not really impressed with what y'all are building anyway. More FANG-sh_t? Microsoft-adeverywhere-2030? Salesforce? Better insurance
732.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Rant accepted :-) One thing that certainly has changed, over these years, is that the size of applications is much, much larger now. And, certainly, we never had to think about security in the 90's, for regular-degular business apps, a
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
A better resume is built with SQL Server EE than it is with linked-across-the-LAN Access tables. It's also a better solution, but takes far longer to implement. [True story from nearly three decades ago.] A selfless engineer doesn&#x27
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It is intrinsically difficult for the know-nothing money guys to trust people whose expertise is of a vastly different order -- across various dimensions such as technical difficulty and creative explorative engineering -- than what it take
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"The Law of Very Few Managers are Worth a Sh_t" Well, it's at least a theory with a fair bit of supporting evidence :-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"That is the lady." --The King, from Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia"
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Concordia_disaster
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It is always discomforting to learn of our mistakes, failures, fallabilities, and other times we've caused unhappiness in others. The fact is, however, that those are the most fruitful and important experiences to learn from, for spiri
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks. This guy (John Ioannidis) is the real deal. You can tell both by the dense, detailed fact sets, presented one after the other in logical order. And hearing the honest, intelligent tone of voice ensures his fidelity. "The voice
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
They can also absolutely ruin a captain's affair with a dancer.
741.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
And not a minute too soon ;-) William Gibson pays a very nice tribute to Borges in an essay for $MAGAZINE that is in his "Distrust That Particular Flavor", which I wholly endorse, as I do every single last thing I've read or
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
They're calling looting a hobby?
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"Working their way from the ground on down." --Ben Harper Even in death, we're all time travelling ;-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
spoiler, spoiled
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
[From the footer: "For those who don’t know this is a parody of The brilliant Story of Mel if you’ve never read it I highly recommend it!"] I like what the author is saying. I, too, just code in my terminal (but with vi, of course
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I wonder, did anyone ever make one of those with an "erase" button?
747.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, as per usual the momentum of the majority remains rooted in the low desires of the self.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Wow, today I learned (from the fifth picture's description) that the Japanese society of the time was not very different than that of what I know of the ancient Greeks, in terms of how men sexually abused boys and young men, as a socie
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I know Brazil was Gilliam. I was merely commenting on his writing style.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I don't think there is enough heat energy on Uranus to facilitate the kind of brain that facilitates human-level thinking and behaving. Earth has vigorous blooms of life around our deepsea volcanic vents, but those life forms are not g

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