mkozlows

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by mkozlows 5y ago
Workspace is ad-free.
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by mkozlows 5y ago
There is zero evidence -- I mean literally, none, go look for yourself -- that emissive screens are better for your eyes in any way than reflective one. Shining a lightbulb directly into your eyes isn't any worse than shining a lightbu
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by mkozlows 6y ago
There is a big "ugh, Electron apps" contingent of Mac users. Or at least, there's a loud one, and I guess they figured it's also a big-enough one...
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by mkozlows 6y ago
They cut 25% of their workforce. That's 250 people. Figure all-in loaded cost of $200K per person let go, and that's $50 million in budget they cut. Mitchell Baker had made $2.5 million. You don't get $50 million out of non-t
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by mkozlows 6y ago
It's pretty obvious that Covid supply chains have affected Google's hardware strongly. The Pixel 4a was delayed months (and the Pixel 3a ran out of stock before the 4a was introduced), the Pixel 4 is out of stock before the Pixel
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by mkozlows 6y ago
Hard disagree. Some of the best managers I've had are non-coders. I think a technical manager needs to be able to understand technical concepts at a high level, but actually writing code? Nah. (Some of the worst managers I've had,
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by mkozlows 6y ago
I think the "you can run iOS apps on your Mac now" announcement basically guaranteed touchscreen Macs. It might be possible to use many iOS apps with a trackpad, but it's not going to be a pleasant experience. Put together a
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by mkozlows 6y ago
1. They explicitly said yes, there would be a whole range of CPUs that they're making. This isn't just "throw the phone CPU on a desktop," they'll have laptop class and desktop class CPUs that are different. 2. They
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by mkozlows 6y ago
Apple literally puts technical measures in place to ensure that it's 100% impossible to download outside software.
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by mkozlows 7y ago
I mean, it doesn't, but this time it actually makes sense: If you want more storage as part of a GSuite account, you just buy it. There's no reason to buy a consumer-focused package for a business offering that has the same thing
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Back in the dawntimes (aka like 1995/96), you got to all sites by starting at the Yahoo! directory, and browsing to the category that you were interested in, and then going through their list of sites. If you made your own site, gettin
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by mkozlows 7y ago
If you're in your 40s, and there are no managers younger than you, you're in a very unusual organization. (But if you're bothered by having a manager younger than you, that's on you; I'm not sure what the inherent p
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Here's the classic Hixie write-up, from 2002: https://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
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by mkozlows 7y ago
That's a misleading date for UTF-dominance -- as the link notes, it's counting things as ASCII if they only have ASCII characters, no matter what the encoding was specified as, and ASCII is a subset of UTF-8. I'd put UTF-8&#x
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Yeah, I kept waiting for the article to mention covariance and contravariance, and it never did. A very weird explanation of a not-that-weird phenomenon; I suspect the author didn't really understand what's going on.
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Project Zero's whole brief is "end to end security" even outside of Google's corporate borders.
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by mkozlows 7y ago
When a project has been going on for decades, things that have only changed in the last few years are not going to be immediately and obviously understood by people. The legacy of confusion and weirdness around the Perl 6 project is a legit
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by mkozlows 7y ago
The thing is, there are a LOT of new things in Perl 6. Its approach to regexes (with grammars) feels genuinely revolutionary, and it's got a lot of other neat things about it. I don't think it'd be instantly super-popular if
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Sure, but most people don't know or care. They just type "python" and Python happens. If they need to find another implementation, it's possible, but there's no question about what the default implementation is.
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by mkozlows 7y ago
I mentioned it in another comment, but a really obvious one is that functions in Perl don't have parameters. Every function just takes in a list, and can do whatever it wants with that list. This page gives a good overview of the situa
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by mkozlows 7y ago
... which is the whole point of renaming it, right? "Oh, it took too long to update Perl and now Perl is dead" is true. "Raku is an interesting new language with some neat features, and excels at this particular type of probl
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Off the top of my head: 1. CPAN was great 20 years ago, but it's a joke compared to modern dependency management systems. 2. Functions don't have explicit parameters, and still shift off of @_. (This can be kind of a catch-all for
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by mkozlows 7y ago
To my mind, the blockers for Perl 6 adoption in order of importance have been: 1. The name, saddling it with the legacy of Perl. (I say this as someone who really liked working with Perl back in the waning years of the old millennium, and b
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by mkozlows 7y ago
There's no saving Perl 5; it's a legacy language in legacy maintenance mode for good reason. Renaming Raku/Camelia could help that language quit being saddled with the perception that it's also legacy in the same way, th
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Perl 6 is more different from Perl 5 than Java 11 is from Java 1, or ES2019 is from OG Javascript. It is genuinely a different language, and pretending that it's the same language has been a huge problem for both of these languages to
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Development skills are absolutely 100% more portable than management skills, because a) basic math says that everyone hires way more devs than they hire dev managers, and b) many dev managers get promoted from within so there are even fewer
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by mkozlows 7y ago
I spent a while working at an accessibility company, and while I was there, worked on two separate things: 1. Remediating customers' sites that were inaccessible. (Which, btw, for all the "ambulance chaser" comments: Somethin
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by mkozlows 7y ago
You've got a very different memory of Usenet than I do.
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by mkozlows 7y ago
On reflection, the thing I miss about web dev in the '90s is the low user expectations. Because I was going to say I missed the simplicity of it all -- your front end was just HTML, no CSS (which didn't exist yet) and only sometim
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by mkozlows 7y ago
Yeah, they said that in 2017 -- four years after it was introduced in 2013 and left to languish. And even then, you had to cross your fingers and hope that what they came up with would be good for you. (And based on the pricing of the new M

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