mvindahl

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by mvindahl 9y ago
Heh .. my bad, Stefan Molyneux of course.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
This DaMore guy doesn't have a lot of political savvyness. First off, I think his manifesto contained more nuance than has been attributed to it. I agreed with some points and disagreed with others. I think the length was a bit excessi
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Like it or not, I think speaking openly against defined corporate dogma will get you in trouble in most places. He should probably have realized that and adjusted his course accordingly. Outright being fired is a pretty harsh sanction, and
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Going a bit off topic here but your remarks on religion makes me curious. I'm from a firmly -- albeit lazily -- protestant country and don't describe myself as religious in any meaningful sense, but still an interesting subject. M
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by mvindahl 9y ago
My main problem with the predictive power of exponential curves is externalities, usually some tradeoff or some limit to resources. Try as I might, I probably couldn't put it better than it's done in this talk: http://i
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by mvindahl 9y ago
True. Making any exponential curve look like a hockey stick is mostly a matter of picking the scale. I could probably create a chart showing how the population of the earth went vertical during the reign of the Caesars. Of course, a logarit
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by mvindahl 9y ago
As programmers we really like to automate away the mundane stuff, and we're not too fond of human interaction. I'm grossly exaggerating, of course, but for a lot of us, this was the push and pull that originally drove us to hack
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by mvindahl 9y ago
We're also some who regard the whole concept of "the Singularity" as being a quasi-religious crackpot theory no matter how you slice it. Mind you, it's a powerful meme. Religious tradition abounds with references to some
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Having worked with plenty of frameworks and libraries over the years, I also find myself solidly in favor of libraries. In a sense, IMHO, you are a slave to the framework but a master of the library. (On a side note, pretty much the same di
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by mvindahl 9y ago
And even then I think that it's important to realize that you can only get that far in terms of predictability. First off, it's a complex system; your sampled data set is incomplete by definition. Secondly, your theory is part of
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I kinda dislike dealing with the configuration too but it's there for a reason; because one size doesn't fit all. Then again, it's not a major pain point for me as long as I stick to the defaults. And deferring the transpilin
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by mvindahl 9y ago
As far as I recall, IE, since reaching adulthood some few years ago, has identified itself as Mozilla when asked. It's a very pragmatic solution to the problem of a lot of websites having code to check for IE and apply all kinds of hac
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by mvindahl 9y ago
<iframe> already does something like that, although admittedly in a clunky fashion
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Not sure, but maybe Google is just using some readily available set of topological data? The hole, being man-made, would display as flat in the same ways that do the buildings of Mirny. I know for a lot of places, Google use fancy algorithm
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by mvindahl 9y ago
The best person form the job is the person who will make the team perform at its best. Which in IT would probably mean a technically savvy, creative person with good social skills and some domain knowledge. Those would be the merits upon wh
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Take one day at a time. Do your best and trust that it's good enough. Every month that you continue to get a paycheck will prove that you are good enough to be where you are. (Or maybe your really are an imposter, and your superiors,
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by mvindahl 9y ago
There is a tradeoff between development speed and execution speed. For web apps, development speed is usually the most important of the two and the language ironing away the most technical details tends to be a strong choice. Roughly speaki
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Word. I have also worked on projects where existing tests were treated like holy cows. Deleting a test wasn't disallowed as such but it really required a convincing justification. Ironically, this made it especially hard to touch the i
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by mvindahl 9y ago
The question is if WASM is really meant to be a compile target for anything resembling Javascript, or indeed of any language implementing garbage collection. And yeah, I know that there are proposals to include GC in WASM. And yeah, I know
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote that I read about the admirable society of Dubai. Apparently, the law requires that once the officially measured temperature exceed 50C/122F, the slaves (or whatever the official term is) are given the day off
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Mostly - Reply All - Planet Money - Hanselminutes Reply All is about the internet and planet money is about money, but in both cases it's as much about people and the interesting things that we do. Hanselminutes is Scott Hanselman inte
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I've had similar experiences. It's not enough to scare me away from using TS but it comes with a price, and I wouldn't apply it to a project until it reached a certain size. First off, I really like the language design. It&
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Fortunately, some telcos didn't. My wife made the switch from Telmore to Oister due to being annoyed with Telmore's price hike. It was the proverbial straw I guess ..
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Nice idea. A bit simplistic in its current form, though. One thing that would be really nice would be some kind of discussion thread for each topic. What does the customer really need? If there are ten interested customers, do they want
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by mvindahl 9y ago
There as several affordable and easy-to-use Photoshop alternatives around these days. My personal favourites (on MacOS) are Affinity Designer and Pixelmator. I'm sure that there are others which save you the price tag of Photoshop and
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Dane here as well. We own a Peugeot iOn which we bought for $15,000 a few years back. At the time it was about two years old but hadn't driven very far. The price and size is about the same that you'd pay for very low-end gasoline
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I agree with your point that past failures, however many, does not guarantee future failure. Aviation is a good example from history. And we should definitely keep researching stuff, even things which seem like a l
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by mvindahl 9y ago
That's actually very interesting. Never heard of that before. A few remarks off the the top off my head: 1) Visually, it reminds me of electrical diagrams, perhaps taking it one or two steps up the ladder of abstraction. I can see how
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I think visual programming is one of those ideas that intuitively seems like a good idea but never is. Thus, it never really dies, it just gets picked up as a kind of rite-of-passage by new generations of developers. Managers also tend to l
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by mvindahl 9y ago
They'd place the conservatives on one planet and the liberals on the other. With filter bubbles being fully separated, they can shard the database :-P

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