rjknight

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by rjknight 10y ago
Why are they curating by choosing which developers to allow, rather than by choosing which apps to allow, similar to the iOS App Store?
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After the smartphone, the next commodity technology platforms(robknight.org.uk)
2 points by rjknight 10y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 11y ago
He just suggested that now is a good time to give jobs to people who are losing them as a result of market conditions beyond his control. That is a strange definition of 'vulture'.
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by rjknight 11y ago
"Toxic" is a particular bugbear of mine. I often see references to toxic individuals, or toxic cultures, which seem to use the word as a way of avoiding having to explain what is disagreeable about these individuals or cultures.
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by rjknight 11y ago
Sadly, "toxic", "fratboy" and "insecure" are a long way from being constructive criticism either.
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by rjknight 11y ago
It's like how bank accounts are always used as an example when describing transactional systems, despite not working that way in reality (two near-simultaneous transactions can result in you having a negative balance, and this is a f
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by rjknight 11y ago
> This is pretty much the epitome of bad design. It creates a nightmare data model. The only advantage is that you can get away with this in the most brain-dead way possible when adding/removing fields without having to create a pro
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by rjknight 11y ago
So, let's look at the design. Drupal wants end-users (not limited to developers) to be able to create new types of entities, add fields to those entities and store complete revision histories for those entities as they are created and
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by rjknight 11y ago
Much of this can be avoided by enabling caching. Running Drupal without entity or page caching is like running a desktop app in debug mode, or compiling without any optimisations.
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by rjknight 11y ago
Obligatory link to the nearly-identically-named project: https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
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Have we been wrong about the benefits of Vitamin D?(independent.co.uk)
29 points by rjknight 11y ago|14 comments
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by rjknight 11y ago
This isn't really true. If a requirement is 'creative' - that is, it involves doing something that has never been done before, as opposed to a standard design pattern - then it will also require a creative implementation. So
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by rjknight 11y ago
Right, and I'm saying that a huge amount of users wouldn't pass that initial barrier of training before dropping it. This may be the case. But these people (myself included!) are getting older by the day, and will eventually d
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by rjknight 11y ago
I'm guessing a bit, but it sounds like you're suffering from trying to find the 'right' way to do something. I've been in situations where I've spent weeks or even months re-writing things because I read one mo
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by rjknight 11y ago
There's a whiff of the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy about this though. The OP was suggesting that some designers are focusing on the decorative aspects of design because that's what looks good on a Dribbble profile. Gi
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by rjknight 11y ago
The spiders are not insects, but in a war they will side with the insects. Traitors, traitors, spider traitors - they'll betray us and they'll make us human slaves, in an insect nation!
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by rjknight 11y ago
I must be about the same age as the author. This certainly brings back memories! Oh for the days when we could just uncomplicatedly assume that anyone who knew anything about technology was also an instinctive anti-authoritarian, too.
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by rjknight 11y ago
I agree, although I think that some of those are less critical issues. For me, the reason to be aware of the politics around APIs is that APIs - unlike libraries - imply an ongoing relationship. With a library, it is presumed (leaving asid
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by rjknight 11y ago
I'm puzzled by the pushback this is getting. There are many questions about APIs which are purely technical: What does this API do? Can I invoke it using my preferred language? What performance characteristics does it have? Is it s
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by rjknight 11y ago
This problem sneaks up on us, because in non-emotive contexts it's normally acceptable to say "what percentage of users will be affected by this?", and if it's below a certain percentage it may be the case that it's
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by rjknight 11y ago
The confusion of negative liberty (freedom from) and positive liberty (freedom to) goes back a long way.
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by rjknight 11y ago
Do we really need this kind of culture war nonsense? I don't agree with anyone being barred from speaking at technical conferences for their political views, but then bringing Steve Klabnik's politics into it doesn't feel li
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by rjknight 12y ago
I am not an expert in American lawmaking procedures, but this does not appear to criminalize anything.
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by rjknight 12y ago
This reminds me of David Graeber's bullshit jobs[1] thesis, that those doing more "real work" tend to get paid less because real work is enjoyable. It sounds awfully like Nadella is saying that "more responsibility&quot
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by rjknight 12y ago
Is this surprising? CEOs of 120,000-employee corporations are not exactly well-known for their belief that those employees all deserve a raise. It might be stupid for Nadella to want to nickel-and-dime MS employees, especially female ones,
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by rjknight 12y ago
I didn't see any victim-blaming in that post - the victim is obviously due our full sympathy in each and every case. The question is what to do about it. The OP suggests that we might be able to form better communities, suggesting
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by rjknight 12y ago
> For the most part, high-profile "targets" from the troll's perspective are already known to the public anyway. According to Dunbar's number, the average human can maintain meaningful social relations with around 150
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by rjknight 12y ago
Sounds like a good argument for letting them vent on the internet instead, then.
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by rjknight 12y ago
I don't understand why "your mother" is the reference point here, when "so easy, someone who works in marketing could do it", since that's more relevant both in terms of commercial application and likelihood of
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by rjknight 12y ago
It could just be bad writing, but Amazon's point about elasticity reads like a sleight-of-hand trick to me. They say: > So, for example, if customers would buy 100,000 copies of a particular e-book at $14.99, then customers would b

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