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by jmfldn 6y ago
I wish ad tech wasn't a thing, I wish we hadn't produced so many winner takes all monopolies. I wish the early promise of the web had been more fully realised I guess. I think the kind of idea Tim Berners Lee is promulgating with
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Part of me isn't suprised, did we really expect a conviction? The other part of me thinks that if you can do this then the impeachment system is broken, or at the very least the dangerous partisan split is irreversible. Put more simply
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Your point about the FP crew being seeming obnoxious sometimes is true. The style itself can be great, I use IO daily and the monadic style is the glue that holds our apps together. The difference with my team, or approaches that work gener
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Maybe the issue is that Scala requires a bit more wisdom that some languages. The problem is that the profession is filled with inexperienced people because of the rate at which new programmers are appearing. In that world you either want s
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"I think people can be good programmers and poor software architects at the same time. Sounds like that's what has happened in this case: brilliant abstractions that are misused and result in a buggy product and less productive te
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by jmfldn 6y ago
"I'm on exactly that kind of team now. They've been working on a very simple problem for several years now and have an enormous, sophisticated, but still buggy and unstable solution. They're really smart people, and they
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by jmfldn 6y ago
I didn't realise how many fake quotes he had attributed to him. Reminds me a bit of the many fake Buddha quotes that do the rounds. Some are obviously just the sort of guff you'd read on Instagram hovering over a naff picture of a
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How has the UK managed to master the vaccine roll-out?(aljazeera.com)
3 points by jmfldn 6y ago|0 comments
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Engineer can mean anything from aerospace engineer to someone who fixes boilers in UK. I.e.someone might say they're a boiler 'engineer' but they didn't build or design the thing. It doesn't have a single meaning he
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"Even if the social network finds a hosting provider, setting up all the different services it needs could be prohibitively slow, or even impossible. For all the talk of hybrid and edge computing, hyperscale cloud still has some hard t
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Why Parler Can’t Rebuild a Scalable Cloud Service from Scratch(thenewstack.io)
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Sure we will all die, assuming humanity was alive at the end. To be specific about my objection, you said that this event will not repeat and I'm saying, I'm not sure and neither are certain others. An eternal recurrence is not ru
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by jmfldn 6y ago
The universe flying apart and cooling doesn't contradict Penrose, it's part of the theory just to address that point. An infinite structureless, massless universe is a singularity, or so the theory goes. Assuming this was "se
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Science tells us no such thing, and when you're talking the ultimate fate of the universe then there is no consensus, just different theories. There's the big freeze, the big rip, the big crunch... all manner of ideas. Then there
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by jmfldn 6y ago
As many have said, far too little too late. It's easy to do now he's on his way out out. Still had four years of milking the cash cow beforehand. At least we know where Twitter stands now, unless you are literally involved in an a
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by jmfldn 6y ago
If only it were that simple, that it's just serving people what they want. Running with that idea for a second, isn't what people want partly a function of propaganda, brainwashing and so on. The narratives that we're fed are
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by jmfldn 6y ago
It's changed beyond recognition since 2015 let alone 2011. Seems odd to base your judgment of it on an experience 10 years ago.
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"The first episode of Screenwipe, from 2006, credits only Brooker and Robert Popper as writers. Death to 2020 lists 18. I know which I’d rather rewatch. It’s not only Death to 2020, either. Recent Black Mirrors have lost the edge that
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The rough edges of TV are being sanded down. Netflix Death to 2020 proves it(independent.co.uk)
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Something that seems to be missing here is retention. By giving this sort of flexibility to employees you will improve it. This will offset losses in producitivity, assuming a 4 day week created any (which is a moot point), as people become
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by jmfldn 6y ago
A rather extreme and ridiculous prescription but there's no doubt that we live in economies of overwork which are a product of a particular kind of economic system of endless, mindless growth. This is the cause of rampant inequality, r
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by jmfldn 6y ago
This expresses the problem perfectly and echoes everything I've seen in the industry at least. Great comment.
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Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression(theguardian.com)
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I wrote a piece of software for my Comp Sci MSc thesis designed to show periodicity where the periodicity has either a recursive structure or larger periods contains smaller periodic structure within. It was largely based on the arc diagram
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This is superb! Takes me back to my very first computer and the thing I first programmed back in the 80s.
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Yeah all the time! It doesn't help that for certain technical books, they work much better on a tablet, phone or laptop. I wish e readers worked better for certain kinds of material.
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> Statically typed languages without Sum Types (aka tagged unions aka enums) which includes Java, C# and C++ amongst others drive me crazy: they have no ergonomic way to express "or" types. This is a massive expressive hole whi
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by jmfldn 6y ago
Love Discogs. Represents the best of the Web.
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If only they would leave us alone. Seems unlikely.
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Essentially a plan to test 10m a day with a quick self-administered test using technology that doesn't yet exist. This talk of the 'Manhattan Project' makes me think Dominic Cummings is behind this. He's known to be obs

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