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by mybrid 5y ago
It will be easier to get all the OS creators to normalize new line to one thing. Then pick a text delimiter that is reserved solely for delimiting, like say '|'.
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by mybrid 5y ago
Versioning is marketing. This is just the latest Coke Zero. Anything public facing is marketing. I remember when marketing got ahold of memory and disk size in the 1980s Then it was CPU size. Size matters. As someone once quipped, "If
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by mybrid 5y ago
It is interesting to consider what happened to Browser as OS market. It is also interesting to consider with what happened to OLPC, one laptop per child, initiative. If all one does is use a device as a web browser then it doesn't matt
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by mybrid 5y ago
When I see these kinds of takes on movie quality dropping I typically encounter the impact CGI has had over time. I was surprised that you did not similarly decry the impact of CGI on cinema and the over reliance on it.
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by mybrid 5y ago
This disease has a striking resemblance to the history of Lyme's disease transmitted by ticks. The symptoms last for years. The original bacteria is treated with antibiotics and cleared up. Ongoing treatment of antibiotics can help wit
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by mybrid 5y ago
The sad part of this is that we've know these kinds of trends were going to happen since the advent of the computer and automation. Computing and automation leave the average physical and intellectual ability behind. Someone born in th
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by mybrid 5y ago
In a cultural perspective emotional investment is commensurate with tradition, norms and mores. That is human nature that any endeavor will take on the trappings of our evolutionary heritage. Programming languages are no different. Taboos a
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by mybrid 5y ago
TLDR; humans are tribal American politics has regressed on a scale of civilized to tribal. This is something we can all intuit and I think articles like this are going to become more common place. How do humans overcome base nature to becom
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by mybrid 5y ago
Most senior engineers I know are key men. The have the corporation by the short curlies and, uhhh, dealing with the key men egos is something everyone has to put up with. Words like "senior" and "principle" engineer refl
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by mybrid 5y ago
Unregretted Attrition Rate assumes managers can tell the difference between a bad employee and a good employee. My experience is that 90% of managers don't have that skill.
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by mybrid 5y ago
Life is a feedback loop. What this means is if they hire to fire then the dead weight is not going anywhere, just the people who were hired to be fired and the problem is worse.
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by mybrid 5y ago
It has been my experience that most programming terms end up being business or marketing driven if they gain much traction. My pet peeve at one time is API. This term contains the word "interface", meaning external code will inter
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by mybrid 5y ago
Genetic engineering is something that does not get taken into account in these dystopian predictions. Humans can learn to accelerate the evolutionary process as well as reconstitute extinct species. This is especially true if we consider th
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by mybrid 5y ago
Long before it was ML it was called data mining. The textbook example is Walmart discovered that men buying diapers rewarded themselves with beer so Walmart created endcaps with beer and diapers. What the textbook didn't say is whether
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by mybrid 5y ago
Money rules software no less than any other industry. Sometimes I think the hubris of software is meritocracy and efficacy rules software. Sure... Software is prone to the tower of Babel, not invented here, tribalism, and greed that permeat
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The State of Data Engineering in 2021(lakefs.io)
4 points by mybrid 5y ago|0 comments
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by mybrid 5y ago
It's all about the Benjamins. VC's don't care about society at large, just the money they can make.
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by mybrid 5y ago
Fortune magazine predicted this back in 1992. They did a study that correlated the growth of developers graduating from college was either flat or linear. The growth of computing needs was exponential. The end result of would be an exponent
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by mybrid 5y ago
IDEs are amber and throw away effort. All the break points, data integration and what not is thrown away after the bug is fixed. Further this IDE effort is not shared between developers. Log debugging is reusable out of the gate. Log debugg
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by mybrid 5y ago
There is a dimension that gets overlooked in these discussions: tests. Every bug should start with a mind set to create a new test: unit, integration, or end-to-end. These are regression tests. Now, whether the test is needed or not is a de
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by mybrid 6y ago
Most people commenting on human nature have no formal education in it. A good place to start is Steven Pinker's, "The Blank Slate, The Modern Denial of Human Nature." Claiming everyone should find something easy is a blank sl
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by mybrid 6y ago
I think the author is way to generous to the PERL community and the drama of PERL 6. I think the toxicity that eventually led to Larry Wall bowing out is being replicated in Python and Guido leaving. I left PERL for Python in the mid-2000s
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by mybrid 6y ago
Materials can be traced to point of origin, especially nuclear active material. There is no such tracing with software. A checksum only guarantees that two things have equal software. It does not say the difference of origin between the two
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by mybrid 6y ago
The only thing I will say is that this would not meet my personal code review standards for logging. Rule number one is never put functional calls in a logging statement, only log static data. As optimistic as one might be that the 'ic
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by mybrid 6y ago
Party on! I applaud this effort. As a UI/UX engineer I can say that there is no one debugging UI/UX experience to fit all. Of course there is the active/passive division between active debugging and logging. There are further
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by mybrid 6y ago
Bills of Materials work with hardware because origins can be tracked. Good luck tracking the origin of electrons. I worked in manufacturing for a company the dealt solely with MilSpec (Military Specification). Crates sent to Nuclear Power p
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by mybrid 6y ago
A better discussion is about what happened in the late 1980s and lasted until the dotcom bust: empowerment. The empowerment movement was in some sense inspired by Just In Time (JIT) manufacturing. The idea presented simply is to harness the
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Aluminium Cassette Will Give Electric Cars 1600 KM of Range(youtube.com)
2 points by mybrid 6y ago|1 comments
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by mybrid 6y ago
Been 30 years since college physics but I believe the total heat+electricity output of the fuel cell will then again be needed to separate the aluminium waste in order to recycle the aluminium? That's a zero some game except the 80% lo
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by mybrid 6y ago
Simple and easy are two words with no meaning. Why? Because simple and easy attest to common brain paths that do not exist. In computer science the divide between functional programming ease and simplicity as with the likes of Lisp and proc

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