carl_sandland

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by carl_sandland 2y ago
It's nice having access to specialty magazines like Edge, APC, PLAY etc and the newspaper coverage is nice (The Australian, WSJ). The various 'feed' topics work reasonably well. There are some problems: 1. The (MacOS) reader
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by carl_sandland 2y ago
Some complexity is inherent to the problem, but most seems to be incidentally introduced by the realities of deployment (non-functional), configuration (functional) and chaos monkeys (users). There is a particular 'breed' of incid
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by carl_sandland 2y ago
Why can't we use some sort of metadata tagging system instead? Isn't this what the person is indirectly trying to do: declare some simple tags, such as "US politics", but indirectly via a bunch of garbage fed into an aut
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by carl_sandland 2y ago
I keep safari "unblocked" just for this kind of scenario, as sometimes the blocking breaks stuff I want to see that doesn't work otherwise. It's becoming rarer for sure over time. Didn't mean to impinge on safari, i
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by carl_sandland 2y ago
thanks for the interesting read, one amusing thing: I went to the site and "where is the adds?", then I remembered I'm using a add-hardened firefox to view it ;) Sure enough using safari showed me the horror. Serious question
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
a bit of velcro on the battery attached to the rear of the strap? that should balance it out a bit.
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
I don't think the problems are intentional, rather they are the unforeseen outcomes of rapid technological and societal evolution, of man leaving faith behind and discovering themselves insufficient. This only seems to be accelerating.
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
partly ;) I do seriously wonder if our brains are just overloaded, the rest was various conspiracies I come across (what gave it away, the communists?)
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
The answer you're looking for is that woke culture arrived. Your God is not dead, you've just abandoned him (again). Social media is obviously a catalyst for patterns of communicated harm that have always been around. The communis
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
what about AWX then? it moved from shipping as a simple docker compose to a kubernetes operator! I'd much rather it didn't.
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
Can great, quality software come out of a group of 'mediocre' people? I think you'll find that you do indeed need a strong(er) process and set of rules to follow, that's fine but not always applicable. I think you need t
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
I wonder if there is potential to combine generative AI with low code approaches, where the non-coder would work with the AI on a higher order description of the problem (data, states, events) and the AI could generate the MVP code. It kind
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
Great book and great memories, now get off my lawn. I'd love a book in similar spirit, targeting say OSx/Metal, that started from first principles and built a 3d (flight|space) sim, in a fun language (simple C++). And yeah that me
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
The market often doesn't know what it wants until it taste's something. I'm wary of any true 'formula' for creating art. It must be hard for artists to be heard (ironically given our digital age). Patreon is a good
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
Getting a bit triggered by all this "lonely adult" type language, some of us (maybe more than a few) are alone for "reasons", we might even have more cash because of that. There is no stigma/shame attached to living
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
Maybe implementations have much less value than has been assumed and paid for by stakeholders over the decades. If code is a throw-away implementation detail of some model/abstraction then why are we getting paid so much money again? R
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by carl_sandland 3y ago
I mean I'm kind of shocked we're still getting away with WFH at all; it was just a blip in time and will be gone within 5-10 years entirely. There are very few pure software roles that don't require high-bandwidth, interactiv
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
would complete code coverage from tests of this line found the problem, or was it temporal somehow ?
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
There's no such thing as 'technical debt', just call it crap code (or a 'hack') and face the impacts of having to live with it. Its been my experience that these things get logged to Jira as 'medium' or &#
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
I think I may mean open-source, which is not really a coop. I guess a small start-up with like minded people is pretty damn identical. The coop part implies the lack of a profit motive though; just smart people solving problems with non-ec
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
I empathize and completely agree; I like the distinction made between programming and 'software engineering'; the latter is all pure fantasy driven by the profit motive. I think we've been too nice to capitalists and need to
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
To think that the decades of email suffering finally ended with... slack. Now I look back at those email driven times with relative fondness. Slack is being used to drive multiple, concurrent SYNCHRONOUS discussions. Left unchecked, none of
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
I think that low code has some promising application areas, just not building operational systems; 1. As a requirements gathering (business prototype?) tool (the outcome is a spec used to develop the real system). 2. As a 'leverage&#x
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
With regards to short term work; It does seem like the barrier of entry for shorter term contract work can be dramatically lower than with full-time "join our cult" scenarios. My personal pet peave is when smaller companies seem t
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
Apologies if this is a bit daft, I just experimented with Java/Clojure interop and I think most people here are talking about Clojure/Java interop: note the different order. I built a Java 'application' that uses Java&#x
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
lol i thought you meant that bizzare c/c++ windows variable naming pattern. lpwszSomeName
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by carl_sandland 4y ago
This is a fascinating, complex topic. Why are a group of very clever, smart people spending ANY energy on giving each other high-school level report cards? Why does one of our best ever tech companies become focused on everything but the cu
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by carl_sandland 5y ago
There are times I feel that "there are no real requirements" is the most accurate description. At least, not in the form that developers can actually start to craft a quality running system from. It's all requirements theater
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by carl_sandland 5y ago
Really interesting discussion here; it's heartening to feel the underlying desire by commentators to find effective moral principles. It strikes me that what we have now has evolved into an economic/money system that is complex, d
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by carl_sandland 5y ago
Putting up with crap from all the peripheral people sucking the life out of creating great software. So many self-absorbed, clueless people trying to tell me what to do. If you are great at coding and getting software to work.. BELIEVE in y

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