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by mtkd 9y ago
it's a tool in the toolbox - just occasionally it can give a really elegant solution to something that would otherwise be spaghetti like many other features on the fringe of a language it's important to understand when it's a
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by mtkd 9y ago
it wasn't a specific comment about the article - but volume of Uber related articles currently in the media generally
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by mtkd 9y ago
I've seen noticed so many high voted anti-Uber stories across so many media channels recently - I can't help but suspect there is something more going on here there are plenty of other companies pushing boundaries in other areas n
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by mtkd 9y ago
yes, but with a larger screen and keyboard not sure why such negativity on that comment - I've met many people who see a phone as a distraction, but want to retain some instant communication capability there is a real hivemind phenomen
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by mtkd 9y ago
you can't get SMS I need a 2 week battery life, LCD screen, SMS/pager thing, with a Blackberry physical keypad and no voice or apps - and a simple mute switch
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by mtkd 9y ago
I fought having a phone through to 2008 - now I'm reconsidering wanting one again if there was a pure messaging device right now with no voice - I'd bite their hand off I don't need a mobile browser or even apps - all they do
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by mtkd 9y ago
memory is hazy, but using SP to move the memory was fast enough you could blit most (not all) of a screen in one refresh cycle - which is, I think, why games like Uridium ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvULd4zHz8Y ) were r
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by mtkd 9y ago
at the time Z80 was popular ('87 ish) there were few/no tools outside of Hisoft Devpac ( http://www.secarica.ro/images/zx/genp351.gif ) neither was there any internet / forums etc. to learn how others
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by mtkd 9y ago
there are quite a few things you can do with oysters, the British used to use them to pad meat pies out: http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/beef-stout-oyster-p... you can even brew with them: http://ww
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by mtkd 9y ago
long term average mortgage interest rates are over 5% - if you're working in a STEM field what thought process leads you to blowing 1+ years net salary on a deposit for a 2yr fix at 1.53% with a 20+ year commitment?
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by mtkd 9y ago
but you're one child or a 1% increase in interest rates away from being in trouble
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by mtkd 9y ago
I call them input metrics and output metrics - you can't usually directly improve output metrics like 'daily active users' - but they are necessary validation of operational performance (just don't look at them every day
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by mtkd 9y ago
a great old coder I've worked with for many years often says - I might not know the solution - but I know what it isn't - that knowledge/perspective mixed with younger coders who will do some heavy lifting is a very powerful
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by mtkd 9y ago
self hosting where possible from now on for me Wunderlist was super useful - fast, all devices in sync, excellent browser version starting to rethink using so many hosted services now - Zerigo is closing too in 10 days - that was another se
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by mtkd 10y ago
when I think of all the segfaults I've seen in last few years - it's usually been in some horrible bindings to unsafe C/C++ "if you need segfault protection, you're a bad programmer" is a ridiculous statement -
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by mtkd 10y ago
this just gives them resource liquidity for operations - the people that take things forward are mostly acquired if you have to start using structured interview questions to expand a team - you've already lost
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by mtkd 10y ago
the siesmic impact of that decision has been kind of lost - iphone etc. all happened because of the moment in time Steve J and others took that decision
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by mtkd 10y ago
when I said JS - this was exactly the myopic view I was referencing all roads lead back to where it all started - that higher-level OS interaction cul-de-sac - it's a cul-de-sac
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by mtkd 10y ago
it was a great time to be alive - BeOS, Next - nobody knew what the race would even look like nevermind who would win it I do hope some of the next-gen have a go at a new OS instead of building yet another JS or CSS framework - right now ev
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by mtkd 10y ago
around '92 (as a student) I wrote to CEO at IBM to rant that if they want OS/2 to get some market share they need to start letting students/universities use it for free a few months later I got a letter back thanking me and n
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by mtkd 10y ago
if you've not tried it already take a look at "M+ 1M light" - I run it at quite a high font size - it's similar but less ornate to Iosevka on the whitespace - Sublime and Atom have a setting to put an unobtrusive dot or
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by mtkd 10y ago
"creates meaningless web tracking data" or creates a massive botnet which will eventually be used for some nefarious PPC scam or worse you decide ...
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by mtkd 10y ago
I had a look at this again a few months back - Lazarus is where I got to also - but it felt a bit of an underwhelming/complicated solution esp. if you used Delphi or even VB 20 years ago more and more people are talking about it again
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by mtkd 10y ago
surely the microservice set needs to be tested as a whole too - especially if the services are consumers of each other this is the biggest argument against going large on using them in my view - you create a collection of ghettos with the i
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by mtkd 10y ago
the danger in my view is that it is seen as a binary choice - which, if you go all in on microservices, just shifts from one problem to another - they need to be seen as just another tool for architecting and scaling there is nothing wrong
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by mtkd 10y ago
It’s easy to disregard nothingness because there’s no thought available to encapsulate it. There’s no metaphor that fits because, by definition, once the nothingness becomes tangible, it ceases to exist. We’d be surrounded by this stuff th
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by mtkd 10y ago
If anyone using Delphi to build big apps in early 90s was told that to do the same function in 25 years time they would need HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby or PHP or similar, some SQL, some Rust or Go and probably a few DSLs - it would take months lon
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by mtkd 10y ago
in a post on Quora about what it's like to fly on Air Force One: First, as we started to descend I instinctively went back to my seat and buckled up. But I noticed a lot of the other "frequent flyers" were still up and walk
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by mtkd 10y ago
the killer app for me on this will be telepresence at music or sport events - without the planning/travel/parking etc. also ability to control volume and possibly even stadium/venue position
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by mtkd 10y ago
if, 150+ years ago, when we were building all the rail infrastructure in India, someone said - that there would be no fast line from Delhi to London in 100 years - people would think you were nuts - right now it's tricky to get from Lo

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