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by osullivj 2y ago
Totally agree on YAGNI. I call it premature abstraction. My rule of thumb is I need to see 3 repetitions before refactoring cos 2 is not a reliable indication of functional invariance.
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by osullivj 2y ago
Check out TN DuPuy, the US military theoretical who imported the German Auftragstaktik doctrine into US military thinking.
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by osullivj 2y ago
Fascinating piece of work; thanks! Great comments on V8 JIT optimization in the blog comments that I will apply. Gotta pick up one comment... "It is an intentionally incredibly sparse language, possibly even relative to other assembly
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by osullivj 2y ago
Suspect not as later Wittgenstein tells us "the meaning is the use"; don't look at the dictionary definition, look at many examples. And that's what LLMs do.
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by osullivj 2y ago
US has more hi wealth families that can support startup kids, like Gates, making learning by failure more practical.
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by osullivj 2y ago
"It is worth recalling today, as Russia and China confront the United States, that the proximate reason for America’s entry into World War II was its determination to save those two countries from extinction." Nonsense! Great powe
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by osullivj 3y ago
Do tell, says this Caravaggio, el Greco and Beccafumi obsessive...
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by osullivj 3y ago
Wonderful! Thanks. IMHO Aquinas adoption of, ironically, Ancient Greek rationalism eliminated hesychastic mysticism from Catholicism. Western writers who repurpose Buddhist meditational practice as "mindfullness" overlook hesychas
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by osullivj 3y ago
UK too; my first dose was in 88, we called it E or Ecstasy then. Never heard it called Mandy in the UK, but then I'm 50+.
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by osullivj 3y ago
Yes, I've worked on Fujitsu ICL clones running VME.
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by osullivj 3y ago
Also 40 years, 25 in banking. Done several Unix to Z/OS, and Windows to VME integration projects.
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by osullivj 3y ago
You're overlooking the war in the Pacific. Hitler hoped that Japan would keep the US busy, and wanted a free hand to attack lend lease shipping. US Atlantic supply was key to keeping the UK and USSR alive and fighting. The UK shipped C
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by osullivj 3y ago
My Corsair K63 is much quieter than a Model M. No need for a din to USB converter either.
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by osullivj 3y ago
One of the reasons for the UK productivity gap is our oversize services sector. In services businesses meet demand by adding headcount, and falling demand is met with layoffs. Since UK hire and fire rules are more flexible than eg FR/D
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by osullivj 3y ago
Higher income tax
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by osullivj 3y ago
A very big chunk of that 100B benefits budget is the state pension.
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by osullivj 3y ago
Yes, aren't these harbingers just aggressive early adopters chasing the shiny new thing?
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by osullivj 3y ago
Ditto on Ember, React, Vue and Elm. Was a jQuery minimalist, nut now moved on to Haxe-HTML5. Yes, it compiles Haxe to JS. But the JS it generates maps back to the Haxe very simply, and it's straightforward to debug in Chromium dev tool
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by osullivj 3y ago
Zachary's Show Stopper covers this ground in a very readable manner, and gives a lot of useful detail on Dave Cutler's design ideas, and DEC VAX VMS background.
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by osullivj 3y ago
Remember it well. I wrote a custom graphics card device driver for some mech eng code that would never fit in the 640K limit imposed by DOS.
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by osullivj 3y ago
The Malvern Hills?
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by osullivj 3y ago
The forces arrayed against you are too great, and likely driven by financial and political considerations. Best get another job, or keep your head down. I have worked in large orgs where senior managers have taken back handers from vendors.
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by osullivj 3y ago
Even Wittgenstein's Tractatus?
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by osullivj 3y ago
Was that in VME ?
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by osullivj 4y ago
56, coding since 79, first paid gig 83. I've had these dips periodically in my career. First in 1990! When I get bored or frustrated I tend to find it's down to mgmt. IMHO single biggest factor in job satisfaction is relationship
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by osullivj 4y ago
Because we can't not hack. I've always been interested in writing, and read a bunch of "how to become a writer" stuff. I read a piece with some great writer answering the Q "how do you know you're a writer?&quo
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by osullivj 4y ago
Perfectly sound line of reasoning. The obvious counter is to point out that many of the world's biggest economies require young productive folk paying taxes to support the elderly. That's a problem for developed economies with fal
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by osullivj 4y ago
The shift from child free adult to parent is similar in scale to adolescence. Can you remember being a pre-sexual child, all the confusion of teendom, and then sexual maturity. As a sexually mature adult, would you ever elect to revert to b
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by osullivj 4y ago
From Shakespeare's Henry V, circa 1599... Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead. Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George! ' Res ipsa loquitor...
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by osullivj 4y ago
Do you have a Mercury vs Voila comparison?

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