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by keithnz 4y ago
I think the clue is in the article, he worked on some badly designed legacy app....which he blames on the language / tech stack. I see this a lot across many tech stacks, people create some monster, but critical, application and then
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by keithnz 4y ago
I think it's easy to see it as a toy, that's basically how I played with it to start with, it's fun to get it to write stuff about all kinds of things. But it actually has a fair amount of knowledge that has crossed over a t
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by keithnz 4y ago
More generally... my unwritten article is "Reducing developing bad beliefs about code by not listening to Uncle Bob". He has been trying to say profound things for a long time now. He was super active in the XP community in early
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he shows what he does in the article...
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by keithnz 4y ago
for a lot of 80s computers the command line / basic environment was an interactive thing. It would immediately execute your commands. Some of those commands were for listing contents on disks and loading programs from disk/tapes
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by keithnz 4y ago
When I was a teenager I got https://www.amazon.com/Basic-electronics-theory-projects-exp... which was great. In my 20s, I kept checking out "The Art of Electronics" which was fantastic, and I seemed to be the o
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by keithnz 4y ago
it doesn't have to be, ATM you could turn it off, or ATL you could control how loud it was
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by keithnz 4y ago
My eldest son when he was at school used Small Basic, which was actually a really good environment for learning, but for some silly reason (badly justified in my opinion) they didn't provide functions (you could do the equivalent of a
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by keithnz 4y ago
Really tricky, I've recently been trying to work out what language to do with my 12 year old son. In the past we have played around with things like scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) which is a great introduction
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by keithnz 4y ago
dismissive? I think maybe that's your attitude to LARPing? I think LARPing is great fun! Nothing wrong with it, going back to period where things were different, less technology but still interesting skills involved to do things we ta
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by keithnz 4y ago
The irony, when I grew up writing programs for my Atari in 6502, I dreamed of having the amazing resources of computers today. Now people are going back to the simpler times. Sort of the programmer equivalent of LARPing medieval times
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by keithnz 4y ago
I found power toys didn't work too well, especially when you want to turn it off and on, or put exceptions for some programs I just have a simple autohotkey script + vim like keys for going up and down in textboxes/selection/
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by keithnz 4y ago
Yes and no... for software I use all the time I don't mind. But there's some stuff that are occasional use type things, and I'd just like to pay a single one off cost that makes sense to me. But usually, it is some low ball
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by keithnz 4y ago
there's a big section of the article that talks about that (at a high level). Essentially all in the second half of the article with the title "From radio waves to laser light"
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by keithnz 4y ago
in dota the tactics is to do with the execution of abilities, often times in coordination with other agents in execution of their abilities to get combo effects while adapting to the situation as it unravels.
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by keithnz 4y ago
reminds me of the million dollar home page... http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage )
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by keithnz 4y ago
I went through this debate recently also and also ended up realizing there was no clear cut winner, but we did end up coming down on the same method of using headers. But oddly I get anxiety when I see other APIs that have gone for a differ
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by keithnz 4y ago
I play a lot of Rust and I'm 51. I do ok! One of the interesting things I found when playing FPS games on Roblox with my 11 year old is that a lot of players don't know how to do the "Dance" so are always looking the w
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by keithnz 4y ago
it's the way to go, small keyboard, big mouse pad.
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by keithnz 4y ago
out of interest, with all these big layoffs, does the tech job market in the US pretty much consume these people pretty quick? or does it take quite a while for these people to find new jobs?
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by keithnz 4y ago
didn't seem to work, I selected "first 30 people" and it showed a bunch of "big/medium" ones.
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by keithnz 4y ago
idle thought, given 20 questions you can ask any questions that can be answered with a yes or no, what would the smallest number of questions to guess a number between 1 and a million?
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by keithnz 4y ago
I put my IP in, and it put a blue marker way off on the left in the middle of the black... now I know it is a bit of a joke to leave New Zealand off maps, but geeze :)
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by keithnz 4y ago
VR doesn't seem as useful as AR, and AR isn't going to be a thing till we get something "wearable" in the sense you are happy wearing it like glasses / a watch.
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I would expect the government happily reduces the count limit to 70 in response
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I quite enjoyed Liz Rices video on containers... though I'm not quite sure which one I originally watched and she seems to have done the talk quite a few times ( and updated it ). But here's one https://www.youtube.com
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not to mention ORMs that query a lot of data through non ideal joins.
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by keithnz 4y ago
I'm enjoying it, I've joined mastodon.nz which is a good choice if you are a kiwi, there is also a new dotnet.social server if you are into .NET I think we are in a bit of sweet spot where there isn't that many people that y
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by keithnz 4y ago
I thought the same when I joined twitter with its "tweet". In my head it just seemed weird, but quickly didn't even think about it anymore once I found interesting things
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think they missed a zero, more like 6 million... https://bolha.us/@gutocarvalho/109298885964017612

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