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by drderidder 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious: in the mid / long term will this lead to more affordable housing, or just more densification? If duplexes are the new norm, wouldn't standalone single-family houses just become more expensive? Are there
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by drderidder 7y ago
It's not that hard to make programmable / re-assignable physical dials and switches to interface in a tactile way with changing software applications.
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by drderidder 7y ago
I like the point "The function documentation is its contract". I experimented using JSDoc instead of TypeScript on a recent javascript project and have found it so enjoyable, partly for that reason.
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by drderidder 7y ago
It used to be a commonplace (and interesting) to see Japanese people frequently take out their stamp for anything requiring a "signature" but in recent years I really haven't seen it happening much. I was always able to use a
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by drderidder 7y ago
I agree. People tend to forget that their "rights" end where another person's rights begin. Every right comes with responsibilities. While freedom of speech is important, the right to live peacefully free from hateful invecti
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by drderidder 7y ago
Dave Thomas, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto [1] wrote an article called "Time to Kill Agile" [2] a few years ago (which he subsequently re-titled "Agile is Dead"). He has some good insight on how Agil
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by drderidder 7y ago
Driving is fun. Being a passenger is not so much fun. Technical issues aside, for this simple reason I don't see self-driving cars becoming popular.
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by drderidder 8y ago
It's those multi-client scenarios for which the API-first approach is a perfect fit, actually. Once the API is hammered out, it forms the common foundation for building gui's, cli's and even machine-to-machine interfaces. As
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by drderidder 8y ago
Exactly. At the very least, they shouldn't be monetizing content they haven't vetted.
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by drderidder 8y ago
Compile-to-JavaScript technologies have come a long way and seem well-suited to porting certain legacy applications to the web as proof-of-concept projects, but I think an API-first approach supporting a lightweight, HTML/JavaScript we
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by drderidder 8y ago
I don't know if this is still common practice, but radio edits were often mastered differently back when I briefly studied music production. The station also likely uses signal processing to compress the dynamic range and increase the
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by drderidder 8y ago
The typescript fever smells like most of the other herd stampedes over the past several years. Check out this talk from a few years ago by Eric Elliot "Static Types are Overrated". He goes over how types don't mean fewer bugs
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by drderidder 8y ago
Which is why it makes sense for a boat, but as for this article about van life, not so much.
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by drderidder 8y ago
Yeah, I have one of those on my boat and they do work fine but you definitely can not wait 27 craploads to empty it out. Those "27 flushes" is how much the clean water tank can hold, not an indication of the waste tank capacity wh
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by drderidder 8y ago
The first example being related to typography reminded me that Jan Tschichold was one of those influential typographers who's book, The Form of the Book, along with Raul Rosarivo's Divina Proporcion Tipographica, re-popularized th
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by drderidder 8y ago
> “There is an all-too-real possibility that other nations will attempt to leverage our actions in China in order to demand our compliance with their security demands.” .,.. And the country to make the most demands for private user data,
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by drderidder 8y ago
That article by Joel Spolsky was one of the few I can't fully agree with. The greatest successes of my career have often been in creating "next generation" implementations of software using newer or better technology and desi
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by drderidder 8y ago
It's becoming a common occurrence to fall victim to false positives from algorithmic filters. False positives are just always going to be part of any kind of machine-learning algo. In the end it's statistical probability, and prob
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by drderidder 8y ago
It's an interesting visualization but gives only one side of the picture. Emigration away from the US happens increasingly as well.
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by drderidder 8y ago
Releasing the data to corporations creates a different Big Brother.
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by drderidder 8y ago
Thanks for saying that. Somewhat related, inspired by John Robbin's "Diet for a New America" [1], since 2015 going mostly vegetarian for breakfast/lunch was one of the better ways for me to reduce my footprint. 1. https
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by drderidder 9y ago
Several years ago I joined a stealth-mode spinoff of a large telecom equipment manufacturer, and worked on deep-packet inspection (DPI) on 10Gb/s fiber-optic networks. The initial motivation for the project was a desire by telecom comp
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by drderidder 9y ago
I’ve always thought self driving cars are a monumentally dumb idea. There, I said it. I feel better now.
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by drderidder 9y ago
Check out the Toto Washlet 350e. https://washlet.totousa.com/product/s350e
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DIY rocket scientist blasts off(canoe.com)
4 points by drderidder 9y ago|0 comments
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by drderidder 9y ago
Congratulations, you just described 99% of pop music.
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by drderidder 9y ago
You miss an important point, JSON is a subset of valid parseable JavaScript. This is a huge win when working with the web stack.
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by drderidder 9y ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
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by drderidder 9y ago
It's disappointing that the company with the Xerox PARC legacy, that spawned many of the innovations people take for granted in modern computers, couldn't figure out a way to carry on. One day I'd love to read a rise-and-fall
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by drderidder 9y ago
I read A Wizard of Earthsea around age 12... it opened the world of fantasy/sci-fi. Sad for her passing and reminded that I always wanted to read more of her books... RIP.

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