bobm_kite9

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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
My favourite piece of advice here: | Sometimes, incidentally, it's much easier in these transforming events to figure out the losers. You could have grasped the importance of the auto when it came along but still found it hard to pick
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
really? I know electronic miniaturization is an amazing thing, but is this big enough for all data and calls to be tapped from?
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
In the UK, we have something similar to this for most of our motorway junctions, except that the traffic lights are replaced by roundabouts and there's no need for changing sides of the road. I take it all this extra complexity is just
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
I love the inline videos and graphs. How was this done?
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
This is pretty sweet. I should really try and understand BPMN better. I'm assuming you work on this project in some capacity: if so, you might be interested in looking at my software ( http://kite9.com ) which does automat
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
Really good points. I expect you're right about the expressiveness, although I don't really know exactly what you mean by this. The "buffet of abstractions" available in Scala actually put me off it. For me, there are
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
Martin Odersky is a clever guy, there's no doubt about that. But, at the beginning of the talk he introduces the scala compiler as having 40 steps. And he says that translating from scala to the JVM is a translation from a complex in
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
He means that compilers create an in-memory database, representing your code, which could be put in an actual database. Not that compilers can be used as a general DBMS. I think.
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
Yeah it's a good question, I think. It's a shame no one else pitched in. There are some answers on SO, but they're usually closed down as it's not the appropriate forum for this kind of debate. Nevertheless, it's
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
This is really two questions. Or maybe three. Can you edit it to be a single one? Personally, I'm most interested in the Grails part and I'd probably weigh in on that, but I'll see which way you take it.
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
I posted this on here because I was interested to learn today that although battery technology (being based on chemistry) isn't improving very quickly (certainly not exponentially like electronics does), the cost _is_, and it's th
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Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit 2015 [pdf](about.bnef.com)
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
The PageObjects tip is a really good one. Previously using Selenium you end up with a complete maintainability nightmare. I used Geb on a recent project, and I actually felt that the tests I built demonstrated a passable level of engineeri
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
Ok, so everyone has pointed out how insecure this would obviously be, and all the simple ways in which you could fool it. But, I'm left wondering, did the guys at mastercard never even think this through at all? This is people's
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by bobm_kite9 11y ago
Is this really about terrorism? I have a feeling that terrorism is the excuse being used to try and surveil the public generally. Why would they want to do this? My feeling is so that they can keep control of public order. It's a my
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by bobm_kite9 13y ago
ouch!
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Are Humans the Horses of the 21st Century?(robmoffat.co.uk)
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by bobm_kite9 13y ago
Someone in the thread above suggested the same. This needs doing.
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by bobm_kite9 13y ago
(plug starts) Can I also suggest Kite9? www.kite9.com/kite9/gui.html Which does automatic diagram layout. It's not quite doing UML yet, but a reasonable approximation thereof. It's more visual/drag-and-drop than U
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by bobm_kite9 13y ago
I was sitting on a swing today, thinking about this line of thinking. UML is getting out of date, I've thought so before: http://www.kite9.com/content/muddle-uml I've also thought about what I would like in
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A Worthwhile Hangover(kite9.com)
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Startups vs Patents(kite9.com)
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by bobm_kite9 13y ago
Maybe it's the images you chose, or a sense of nostalgia, or retro kitsch, but to me both those cars look completely awesome now. On the other hand from a maintenance point of view... probably not so much
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Show HN: Kite9 - Automated SVG Diagrams(kite9.com)
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Show HN: Kite9 - A Javascript and SVG Diagram Editor(kite9.com)
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