kpil

52 ms·

511.
by kpil 10y ago
You are probably right, but I am privately a bit concerned regarding the crashed Air France Flight 447, and the conclusions made regarding pilot error. I can't shake the suspicion that the Airbus man-machine interface and programming i
512.
by kpil 10y ago
OK. I did. Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world . EIGHT!
513.
by kpil 10y ago
Since I just read that eight men own half of the capital in the world, I tend to agree. Eight!
514.
by kpil 10y ago
The very idea that it's irrelevant what's on the other side of a shipping line is both a powerful abstraction in economical theory, but in real life an almost perverse ethical dilemma. It's easy to construct a thought experim
515.
by kpil 10y ago
Easy. Glowing eyes = robot. Special rule also applies for Tricia Helfer-type robots, that only occasionally and inexplicably glows, and then in a sinister way. R2-robots are exempt, as they just beeps annoyingly while getting lost. The tho
516.
by kpil 10y ago
"Western"? So in the middle east, they are all relaxed about female nudity? Arguably, almost all cultures and religions have rules related to nudity, sex and in particular, females bodies and their sexual behavior.
517.
by kpil 10y ago
But come on, the default mode is "emacs" for a reason.
518.
by kpil 10y ago
I have had several water proof phones, and that typically happens when the phone have gotten wet and then dried. It seems that with a bit of bad luck, the mic can get clogged up if a drop of water ends up in it. Try to hold the phone in run
519.
by kpil 10y ago
Why not do some inspirational sketches and videos and see if the ideas actually convinces someone. Or maybe UX as a separate role only works in hierarchical organisations where you only have to convince a few people that maybe don't c
520.
by kpil 10y ago
>To overcome that with software, we need to dramatically reduce the cost of developing software, enabling ordinary employees to develop their own software. I think this is the key to running an effective organisation. It requires that mo
521.
by kpil 10y ago
I have noticed that a lot of young people have never learned to read fast or skim large documents. My guess is that is the reason we're tortured with hours long videos with very little content.
522.
by kpil 10y ago
I think that relational databases made a huge leap forward. It's built on top of a solid foundation presented and accessed using a 4-gl language that describes intent. But I guess as a database, it's just a continuation of the hie
523.
by kpil 10y ago
No idea, but VMS have something like that, and probably also other mini computers of the era. I'm only 40 so I'm to young to know :-) I think that Unix' "everything is a stream" concept won because it's simple
524.
by kpil 10y ago
It also sounds like a journal entry from a concentration camp administrator.
525.
by kpil 10y ago
It's sad that nothing has been learned from the past 40 years , so instead of building on the good parts of say ASN.1, amateurish protocols like json is invented, solving absolutely nothing of the hard bits, while improving some super
526.
by kpil 10y ago
The barriers slice motorcyclists though...
527.
by kpil 10y ago
Let's hope so. I'm a bit reluctant to write this, but it made me worried, so here we go : I had a chat with a taxi driver in Stockholm the other day, and we talked about the situation in Somalia and that he planned to move back th
528.
by kpil 10y ago
Unrelated, but a friend of mine lives in a house from 1600 or so. The ceiling is painted with hundreds of funny animals, from normal cats, dogs, pigs, bears, through exotic lions, tigers, elephants, crocodiles, apes, and topped with some fa
529.
by kpil 10y ago
Because developers like GitHub?
530.
by kpil 10y ago
As an anecdote, I was called into a meeting with the CTO of a fairly large European bank, and a sales guy from GitHub a couple of month ago. I got the feeling that they are selling rather aggressively right now.
531.
by kpil 10y ago
Most likely they had humour also in 1562.
532.
by kpil 10y ago
I used to keep track of my expenses in more detail about 20 years ago when offline (paper slip) card payments was still used. I noticed that there was a 25% chance of never having to pay a taxi bill as the drivers seemed to be notoriously b
533.
by kpil 10y ago
I'd say there is some room for confusion, even if it's not in the grammar. I have spent quite some time chasing bugs of the type (- a -1) where the second minus ended up there because of either a copy/paste-error or a brain f
534.
by kpil 10y ago
Why? Because you think sql is not good or because you think there are better relational databases? I'd say that Oracle delivers quite much value for your money for many applications. I have worked with all other relevant relational dat
535.
by kpil 10y ago
It's also requires a lot of know-how, that takes long time to build up. Building electrical cars removes some of the difference because the traditional drive train is a large chunk of engineering. (Hint, China can't design good en
536.
by kpil 10y ago
Ah, but why not expose the DOM on /sysfs and just hack away using sed and awk. What could possibly go wrong.
537.
by kpil 10y ago
I think that the models are quite advanced and where the money goes. It does not mean that you just can't take a couple of web developers and make it usable, but as the market is small it might pass the price point with a supersonic ba
538.
by kpil 10y ago
While this is probably not a too bad idea, I just can't stop myself lamenting over the customisability of Jira. Before going bananas with Jira, either be very strict or use separate instances. I currently work at in a relatively large
539.
by kpil 10y ago
Ha, never thought about it but I guess it's problematic to compete on cost in a scenario where the clients often need the best advice they can get...
540.
by kpil 10y ago
I wholeheartedly agree to almost everything you say and especially that everyone is probably able to learn some programming in a suitable language, just as they can learn to read and do math - and it would be good for them if it was taught

More ›