kieckerjan

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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Regular unquoted search has declined in the eyes of many people. Quoted search worked and works fine (if you take into account the caveats about tokenisation etc). They are improving the snippets. It is all in the fine article.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Greybeard here. Whenever a younger colleague is picking on code that I wrote ages ago (and which is not up to modern standards, never mind that it worked for 15+ years without complaints) I reply: "listen buddy, I have bugs that are ol
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Of course people form judgments about you. But it is very easy to exaggerate how consequential these judgments are. In the end, people are remarkably tolerant. They may think e.g. that you are an inconsiderate lout but that is perfectly ok
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I did my last webdevelopment in the early noughties, so I have little skin in the game. My mental summary of this debate is that if you need your browser to be a universal turing machine instead of a renderer, you are probably not doing it
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Interesting that you bring that up (rereading). I found that the first and foremost reason to learn at least a few poems by heart is that you will be able to "reread" them at will without the printed text: on the bus, in the showe
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I had a colleague who used to sit across me. Really swell guy, but literally every sip of coffee he took from his mug ended with a smacking sound followed by a contented exhalation. Boy, did he love his coffee! Believe me, I do not have mis
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I am a bit puzzled that learning to admit that you are wrong is sometimes treated as attaining some kind of superpower. I would say it is just part of growing up. (Having said that, some people seem to never grow up.)
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I am a big fan of Dsri Seah's Compact Calendar with its "candy bar of time" layout. Should not be too hard to make a script for that format. https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
There is value in writing even if no-one reads the result. I would even argue that the main value of writing is in the process of writing. Writing helps you structure your thoughts. It provides you with a mental grip on the world. This goes
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I know that some people take comfort in looking at the remains of their dead loved ones. My stepfather always insisted on visiting the funeral home when e.g. one of his friends had died. It provided him with some kind of closure. I myself h
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
> I suspect Beethoven's Ninth will continue to inspire I hope and suspect so, but taste is a fickle thing. It may be hard to believe but Bach, nowadays considered by many as the greatest composer ever, almost faded into obscurity.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I think that in your tweens your identity is more tied up with music than later on. In my and my friends' case we would literally define ourselves in terms of music: the bands we'd listen to signalled a lot about who we were and h
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
I made the grade.
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Trigger warning: shameless (but pertinent) brag coming up. In my first year of college I had to write a short essay for an English course. I was rather lazy as well as a fan of wordplay so I wrote an essay describing the life and work of an
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
Like many nerds my age I cut my teeth on the C64. Those were my high school years. When I went to college in '89 my parents concluded I needed a "proper" computer, i.e. a PC. It cost a fortune and although it was faster and b
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by kieckerjan 4y ago
It correlates closely with another one on the list: "You are as big as the things that make you angry."
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
They did. One of their lobbyists Vince van Son is the son of Dutch emigrants, and another one, Edo Haveman, even worked for members of parliament before. Maybe the problem is that Dutch "resources" are easily Americanized. The Ame
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Naturally this news has gotten a lot of coverage in the Netherlands. One of the reasons mentioned for the amount of pushback is the "bullying" attitude of Meta in the negotiations and the aggressiveness of its lobbying. (See e.g.
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Except for donning the occasional robe and wizard hat, which I do not own, I do not do that. Frankly your confession disturbed me a bit. Not because you (and doubtlessly other people) do it, but because I read the comments you cited and the
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Impressive initiative. I understand too little of this matter to judge the merits of your approach. However, it is clear to me that if cultivated meat achieves feature parity with "regular" meat and becomes cheaper to produce, it
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
> And, to be fair, _most_ of the kids when I was in school just wanted to play Space Invader clones and not write Basic programs. Exactly. When I was a teenager in the 80's the kids in school came in three classes: the majority who
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Why static languages suffer from complexity(hirrolot.github.io)
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Very quotable principle. Any attribution?
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Is it me or is this essay really an incoherent mess? As much as I would like to agree with the author's stern verdict (and I am saying this as a systems programmer with more than 20 years experience) I cannot make out the central argum
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Actually for Amsterdam there is a well known example: traffic expert David A. Jokinen, partly funded by the car lobby group Stichting Weg, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokinen_Plan Fortunately his plans never cam
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
Reminds me of Mark Forsyth's quip in his delightful book _The Elements of Eloquence_: "To write for mere utility is as foolish as to dress for mere utility"
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
That will be Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells, by Harold McGee. I doubt it will have the same impact as his masterwork On Food And Cooking, but, by jove, it blew my mind several times. The book is a somewhat systematic to
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
> For humans, ignoring quoted parens is maybe easier, but i would say it's a flex to assert that you can tell if (3,(g(f('('),x))) is balanced at a glance. True, but mentally balancing parentheses is usually something tha
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by kieckerjan 5y ago
The way I see it, most syntax highlighting is actively adding mostly irrelevant information to the cognitive load of programming: stuff that should be obvious if you know the language. It does as little for my understanding as a novel in wh

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