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by dcminter 2y ago
It's nothing like as as grotesque as the headline makes it sound. Worth reading. Suggested headline: "Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens" or something like that?
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by dcminter 2y ago
One good reason is that it's not always obvious who has the rights. Even if the copyright holder is clear it can be hazy whether there might be outstanding NDAs and licensing deals that would cause problems. So it's usually safer
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by dcminter 2y ago
I think that must have been the logic. I just contend that it was a stupid approach! They damaged their consumer brand badly to give an imperceptible boost to the business product their customers were already locked into.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I know, that's my point - branding Lync (thanks for the correction, I forgot the spelling) damaged the Skype brand to no real benefit. I know Teams is fairly pervasive, but that's on the usual Microsoft Enterprise stranglehold, ce
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by dcminter 2y ago
Personally I think their big, incomprehensibly stupid manoeuver was the Skype vs Skype for Business (Link) split. Had they merged them into a single client that could speak either protocol and share contact lists the story would have been v
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by dcminter 2y ago
Eclipse was nice but WebSphere Application Developer was pretty horrible - I'm not sure how they achieved that! (WSAD was/was built on Eclipse)
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by dcminter 2y ago
To be facile, this post ignores the existence of numismatists!
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by dcminter 2y ago
This, I think, is good advice. What I sometimes say is that you don't get over it, but you do get used to it.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I just don't buy that there were enough Lisp devs around for that to be a significant source of the hate. Besides, Json has plenty of those issues and doesn't garner a fraction of the distaste. On the other hand SOAP and the tooli
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by dcminter 2y ago
It always seemed to me that most of the hate around XML was really misdirected hate for SOAP. XML (and particularly XSDs) I rather liked, but maybe I just never dove deep enough to feel the pain.
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by dcminter 2y ago
I'm guessing it was possible before the window-opening behaviour came in (unless it was always there from the genesis of frameset), but it was assumed that the underscore prefixed version would be less likely to conflict with existin
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by dcminter 2y ago
Quite right. My late father used to do free audiobook recordings for LibriVox¹ and while I know he enjoyed their forums, after he died we discovered a little clutch of hand written letters from people who had enjoyed his recordings. It wa
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by dcminter 2y ago
My first job out of university was working for a company that did ergonomics and keyboard training for banks. My typing speed is pretty epic but somehow my posture is more piltdown man than finishing school.
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by dcminter 2y ago
> OK, those ones about shifting priorities? That’s startup life. I've seen it at pretty much all scales. I think it's usually worse in bigger corps actually. Great point though - it behoves us to remember where the money for o
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by dcminter 2y ago
Glad you enjoyed the read. I do find the commercial corruption of some areas of computing frustrating - but there are still pools of tranquility if you choose to focus on them. I'm having some fun trying to self-curate an interesting s
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by dcminter 2y ago
Ergonomics were so-so. Definitely a risk of neck-strain from having the monitor a bit low. The keyboard was pleasant to use but required a lot more pressure than a modern chiclet laptop (I think the zenith of computer keyboards was actually
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by dcminter 2y ago
> Seems like an oversight not mentioning IRC in this section. Fair. I never got much exposure to it. It definitely wasn't available to us at the Poly and then I somehow didn't try it afterwards despite being over-excited about
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by dcminter 2y ago
Well, possibly. It looks just as likely that it's nothing to do with the Amazon themselves and just a seller with less than stellar technical chops tried to auto-translate their products via Chat GPT. Is it "slop" ? Well, it&
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An early social un-network(paperstack.com)
94 points by dcminter 2y ago|25 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
European here - I don't think I have free speech like US Americans and I wouldn't take it as a gift.
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by dcminter 2y ago
How about "pingui"? :)
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by dcminter 2y ago
I believe Douglas based it on something that happened to him - though take with a pinch of salt as I can't recall where I read this. I can believe it though as I had the same thing happen to me - I believe in my case the building had s
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by dcminter 2y ago
Chat agents often seem to suffer from Genuine People Personalities...
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by dcminter 2y ago
Agreed, the fact that the technology quarterly and other tech writings appear to be written by people who understand what they're writing about is exactly why I'm willing to extend some trust to them on subjects where I'm clu
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by dcminter 2y ago
https://archive.is/tBcXE
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by dcminter 2y ago
> Today the daily build is too slow of a cadence, people do continuous integration, usually at every check-in. Yeah, that one stands out to me too - I think "do you do continuous deployment " would be more in the spirit of the
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by dcminter 2y ago
I think even back then the "Do you have an up-to-date schedule?" was a bit self-serving (Fog Creek had a related product). On the other hand things like source control really weren't ubiquitous at that time and yet nowadays i
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Ask HN: What woud you substitute for the Joel Test 25 years later?
2 points by dcminter 2y ago|3 comments
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by dcminter 2y ago
> "Would it surprise me, my interlocutor persisted, if SETI fails to find another civilization in my lifetime?" On its face that's a rather silly question; if I'm in a position to reflect on whether SETI has found a c
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by dcminter 2y ago
I think it's a reworked quote from someone else originally, but I like "Writing is easy - all you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until your forehead bleeds..."

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