neilobremski

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by neilobremski 3y ago
Any shuffle algorithm is fine but the problem is Spotify's brainlessness: it routinely plays songs it just played . If you are any long-term user then you have playlists of hundreds of songs and my guess is that you haven't heard
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by neilobremski 4y ago
I think Gates is right that AI is the next era (obvious) and wrong about its positive improvements. More convenient productivity has brought about more garbage output and done nothing to release modern anxiety. If anything, AI is going to c
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by neilobremski 4y ago
Programming is now more opaque configuration than it is traceable logic paths. This makes paper debugging impossible.
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by neilobremski 4y ago
This article may as well have been about writing to file streams does not block until a read occurs. Maybe the documentation (on sockets?!) could be more clear but at some point more words don't help with conceptual understanding.
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by neilobremski 4y ago
We tell our daughter what the acceptable limits are. Sometimes she pushes or breaks those limits. We talk to her about it, take away privileges for a bit, and then resume. She is 8 and addicted to her Kindle 3 but so far so good.
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by neilobremski 4y ago
Reminds me of Xitami on Windows 95 ... I wonder if that project is still around
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by neilobremski 4y ago
I'm 42 and just getting started in ML and "the math" myself. I never got beyond algebra in High School but I have made a successful career in programming. I'm taking it day by day, I dedicate an hour each morning to plug
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by neilobremski 4y ago
I'm not sure I ever considered the iPod Touch a music player; Apple hasn't made a decent MUSIC PLAYER in years. They've made a lot of very capable portable computers that sit on your wrist or rest in your pocket but there&#x2
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by neilobremski 5y ago
Don't get too comfortable with Google or any big cloud provider (including Digital Ocean). They have their own reasons for doing what they do and those reasons are not at all aligned with you or any small/startup company. I'l
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by neilobremski 5y ago
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2402 (It took a few minutes to get this link to work for me)
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by neilobremski 6y ago
The systems I work on tend to be comprised of free software but "business logic" is private. I don't know if this would please the GNU founders but a lot certainly runs on open source and I can't imagine this changing an
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by neilobremski 6y ago
Something I'm trying to do on my own team is to make the wiki more of a browsable "table of contents", a glorified list of all the salient things. Searching to find the answers on Slack/Email/Jira/etc is fine a
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by neilobremski 6y ago
Didn't everyone do this at some point? Sort of like everyone that started C++ in the 90's rolled their own string class. I remember doing this before "JSON" hadn't yet found its acronym (shaking rake ... get off my
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by neilobremski 6y ago
And I suppose writers must have a Moleskine notebook and use clear penmanship? Hmm ...
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by neilobremski 7y ago
It's harder to have conversations in an open office because they disturb non-participants. I find myself wasting time booking conference rooms when I could have simply popped into so-and-so's office. I remember a long long time ag
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I'll agree with the point that "version numbers are useless to the end user" except when there's an incompatibility. To that end, I'd prefer release tracks to be indicated in the TITLE and breaking (API) changes in
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by neilobremski 7y ago
These points look like the old (timeless) guidelines I remember for creating a web page ... solid, good, and as plain as a saltine cracker. I love it and it stores well but convincing the world while we romp through the hype of technologica
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I think all current and ex Microsoftees can agree (and probably other workers in Big Tech Corp) that this is not only obvious but ongoing and dastardly resilient to getting solved! At some level this must be a sociological thing because hum
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I didn't know this either ... https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kuri...
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Where can I find these people who have automated everything about their jobs? (Assuming their jobs were complex at all) I would like to hire them ...
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by neilobremski 7y ago
I have to agree. My wife is going through a bootcamp and I am stuck helping her with the fundamentals after the instructor tries to breeze past them. She's not a "figure it out later" kind of person and wants to know details
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Within the company you have to remember that there are greedy executives (as anywhere) built on top of a fatty layer of incurious middle management and mixed in with enthusiastic tech heads. Whether or not the happy chaps working on the Lin
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Runs ... but not well. It may be different now but I knew an engineer on the Office for Mac team some years back and it did not sound like a pretty port. I have both a Mac and a Windows machine at work and Excel on the latter is lightning f
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Yay, FastMail! I've been using them for going on three years with no end in sight. Gmail adds all the "cool" features but us old men appreciate not being told how to reply ...
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by neilobremski 7y ago
There isn't much difference between superheroes and Disney protagonists: inherent and unearned talents followed by lying and abuse of them and then finished up with their (usually powerless) friends reminding them how special they are
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by neilobremski 7y ago
> The platform says it will never sell user data and relies on "the generosity of individual donors" rather than ads I'd prefer "The platform says it will never sell user data and relies on paying customers rather tha
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by neilobremski 7y ago
As someone who works in the domain name industry, I'd like to note that there is ever increasing pressure to police domain name use. When you buy and use a generic TLD such as "com" or "ninja", you are buying a US p
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by neilobremski 7y ago
The upward migration is imminent for ALL CONNECTED applications and not just Python 2 to 3. An issue I've seen with PIP (that must be relevant to other platforms as well) is that version-locked packages are for software that can no lon
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by neilobremski 7y ago
Brave is awesome and I'm happy to see them reaching this point. I've been using this as my primary browser for the past 2 years and my absolute favorite thing about it is the simple profiles switching. HOWEVER that's also the
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by neilobremski 7y ago
My wife and I have been talking a lot about giving license to make mistakes and that means letting others do what they're going to do without mocking them for it. Be ready to help them with the "right" way if they fail but al

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