mcculley

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   by mcculley 4y ago

   Presumably, for the same reasons they drink alcohol and consume caffeine. Most parents are not thinking ahead.
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   I regret to report that I am not doing anything especially clever (e.g., CRDT). In some cases, I am doing things that are expensive in terms of storage, bandwidth, or local computation to facilitate synchronization. Basically, my schema des
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   I don't know if it was the best, but one of the codebases that really helped me out in the mid-90s was XEmacs. It was portable to many kinds of systems and had lots of features that most applications never have to worry about (e.g., an
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   I have built a proprietary Swing desktop app that we use inside the tugboat company I run that does this. The wrinkle is that instances of this app are only intermittently connected to the Internet and our central instance of PostgreSQL. Th
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   That had occurred to me in that we have analog computers and devices. But aren’t all algorithms “computational”?
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   How do “computational algorithms” differ from other kinds of algorithms employed in headphones?
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   I get enormous value out of having a box of thank you cards, envelopes, and stamps in easy reach. I keep a box on my desk and in my travel bag. When someone does something for me (e.g., an introduction, buys lunch), I have little friction t
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   I am completely a proponent of humanity using cheap energy to elevate our standard of living to ridiculous levels. I’m just wondering what we will do with the waste heat. I cannot believe that we will limit ourselves to current levels of co
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   I am amused by the optimism of these responses. Nobody is concerned that if we end up with cheap nuclear fusion that humanity won’t use a lot more of it? Would humans stop building resorts in deserts?
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    If we had energy cheap enough for every human to live at the highest current levels of consumption, wouldn’t we have to do something with the waste heat? Radiator fins on space elevators? Or can we send it out into space from the ground?
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I encourage my competitors to keep thinking this.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    This is a straw man. There is a spectrum of choices between having Alex Jones on multiple times and treating him seriously and censoring him.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I walked into an Apple Store and asked, “What monitor/TV should I buy such that my AppleTV remote can control the volume and be the only remote I need?” The geniuses shrugged. I asked, “What brand are these displays in the store that a
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    This is another example that Twitter needs richer semantics. It should not be possible to delete a tweet. There should be some way to mark it as "retracted".
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I replied to the comment you wrote about “20 year olds”.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Correct. I chose the words “significant” and “experience” deliberately.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    There are exceptionally talented 20 year olds. There are none with significant leadership experience.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I am describing applications deployed in commercial settings. This is not a privacy issue, if that is what you are talking about. Again, you seem have very strong opinions on incorrect assumptions. I’m kinda bemused by that.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    The possibility of these very rare events does not change my mind about best practice for many kinds of deployed applications. I have production apps running right now using this pattern. The users would not be served better by stopping the
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I have the logs from my deployed apps. I know exactly how many times my users are getting those exceptions. We use those logs to fix the bugs and improve our apps. You seem to have a lot of opinions about my apps from your own unfortunate e
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    This has not been my experience at all. The JVM is not corrupted by a NPE or out of bounds access unless you are using native code. For example, I worked on a large X-Windows/Motif application with many developers. If some library dere
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Yeah, I implemented an “atcrash” handler as a library which I embedded into multiple projects. But it was only so I could walk the stack, dump a stack trace into the terminal, and tell the user, “Please email this to the developer.” And the
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I have worked on big projects with up to ~100 developers. On the C projects, someone's null-pointer dereference brings down the whole process. On the Java projects, the event handler or daemon thread has an exception handler at the top
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Organizations should definitely think very carefully about creating domains they expect others to trust. @SwiftOnSecurity used [0] a turn of phrase recently that I had not yet encountered and I think it is a great way to put it: "stron
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Nothing makes me want an electric car more than this trend.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    It would not be economically viable without the market distortion caused by the subsidization. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I had read this kind of timeline before but then more recently encountered claims that the Native Americans had horses (e.g., https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/yes-world-there-were-hor... ). Is there any validity to t
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Paying for bandwidth used is exactly what I am talking about. In less developed places, 1Gbit/s is simply unavailable and usage is capped. There is no economic incentive to build better infrastructure for applications that do require a
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    That’s a chicken and egg situation. The costs are fixed because they have no incentive to build more infrastructure. If you live in a place with only one or two ISPs and they only charge a flat rate per month for capped usage, you never get
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    The usage in Switzerland, South Korea, and other developed countries is very different. They use the bandwidth available. Netflix and YouTube show us that many people want more bandwidth. There would be no data caps if paying for bandwidth