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by dwd 8y ago
The Internet Archive is the closest I have to a resume of past projects. So many things I've worked on no longer exist (at least not in the same form) but can still be found there.
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by dwd 8y ago
I get what you're saying - Doonesbury is maybe a good example of one that you really had to be there. On the other hand a lot of the classics that do have a time based cultural context can still be very funny. Take Asterix where a lot
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by dwd 8y ago
I made the mistake of tossing my whole CD collection and now find that there were albums I once enjoyed that don't exist in Spotify that I can casually jump into on a nostalgic whim. I also am finding the longer I'm on Spotify the
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Global Pumped Hydro Atlas(re100.eng.anu.edu.au)
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I would have to agree with you there - after flicking through Bostrom's latest "work in progress" thesis I came away thinking it was quite underwhelming.
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by dwd 8y ago
A few highly addictive browser-based MMO management games came out in the early/mid 2000s. OGame, Travian and Inselkampf were three I spent some time in. On top of the simple clicking to maximise your holdings in-game, there was an add
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by dwd 8y ago
Good way to make your article about games and AI (fun and cool stuff) very depressing. The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. The AI runs on a different timescale t
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by dwd 8y ago
It's been almost 20 years since I completed my degree. Three things that I got out of it: - engineering processes, - data structures and modelling, and - algorithms and the application Learning to code well in a particular language you
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by dwd 8y ago
Not so much aberration but a gradual corporatisation and then collapse of the industry of "recorded music". To a large extent the performance side of music has remained unchanged. For a period it may have become subservient to the
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by dwd 8y ago
I enjoyed it as well, and then it occurred to me that his buildup and the way he just dropped in on them and would be stuck for a period of time read like Ford Prefect researching for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was left wo
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by dwd 8y ago
I'll just leave this here... https://www.tahitiheritage.pf/cocotier-a-quatre-tetes-de-tep...
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by dwd 8y ago
It seems a lot of these volunteer armies are treated not just as expendable, but as a way to remove undesirables from society. Brought to mind the slaughter of the Donbass volunteer battalions. Russian volunteers "holidaying" in U
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by dwd 8y ago
MVC is not OOP (at least not what OOP was originally) and it's a shame that corruption of the idea was allowed to creep in. I do like your use of the word "anemic" to describe the method free classes that pass for objects the
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by dwd 8y ago
What you're referring to is a Pub/Sub model which is probably explained better here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pa...
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by dwd 8y ago
I would recommend reading the chapters on Finite State Machines from Object Oriented Design & Modelling - Rumbaugh, et al. Given it was written nearly 30 years ago - the concepts it puts forward are much closer to the ideas that Kay had
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by dwd 8y ago
Sounded a bit like a spoiler given how many times they failed to use it and the trademark lapsed. Tesla might still have had a problem of it being too close to the E-Type (Jaguar) if Ford hadn't challenged them.
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by dwd 8y ago
He's been waiting 10 years to make the joke about his s3xy lineup of cars. I prefered the BFR working name (with a nod to Doom).
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Is he reading off an auto prompter? He seems to be better just chatting and speaking what ever's on his mind but stumbles when he's trying to be on message.
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Volkswagen Group was pushed as much as taking a bet. Part of their settlement for the diesel emissions scandal was committing investments into EV and paying into funds to help US states transition. On top of that they basically destroyed th
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by dwd 8y ago
Some countries never moved away from the fax: Japan and Israel in particular. For legal documents that have to be sent in a timely manner and give you a verifiable receipt of delivery, you need to go with a fax rather than email. Your fax i
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by dwd 8y ago
Great analogy, and very thought provoking. Had me thinking about different strategies you might use in Tetris and how they mirror development. For example, when you do the big setup to drop a vertical 4x1...and it doesn't arrive. Class
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by dwd 8y ago
Agent Carl Force went to jail... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/corrupt-silk-roa...
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by dwd 8y ago
Guinea Fowl have a reputation for warding off snakes but can be worse than chickens as far as the bullying. They are also stupid and I've heard many stories of them wandering as a group, crossing paths with a dog and the whole flock ge
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by dwd 8y ago
Firefox is a good start, then it's also worth checking your browser with the EFF Panopticlick to see how your settings affect your uniqueness. https://panopticlick.eff.org
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Seems his list was missing an important one: Not playing the victim. Yes, sometimes other people will cause you harm. Could you have avoided it, probably not as you can't always predict the future. How you move on from a bad situation
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There was a more recent article in the NYTimes that offers a more flattering coverage (possibly as Paul Watson had stood down after a number of costly court cases) https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world&#x2F
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Luck is making the better decision in a timely manner based on incomplete knowledge where each option appears equally valid. However, people generally are poor at calculating probability combined with risk/reward and simply make bad de
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Business analysts are generally good at writing system requirements using BDD style syntax. From that you construct the required model, which is then generated as code. Getting from a model to code is pretty well covered. Parsing the busine
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Hi Nick I've had some experience around Model Driven Design and code generation tools for building web apps using technology such as the Eclipse EMF and Ecore for modelling common components. How do you differentiate your software fro
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Correct, you could generalise it further as: people believe economics reflects reality, not that they are simplistic models used to facilitate a political idea. The only economist I've heard of coming close to creating an all encompass

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