saltyoutburst

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by saltyoutburst 4mo ago
For a word nerd exploration of how colours are defined in dictionaries, check out 'True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color' by Kory Stamper. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23769
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Stack Overflow lays off approx 40 staff(meta.stackexchange.com)
16 points by saltyoutburst 7mo ago|0 comments
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by saltyoutburst 9mo ago
Do you have any references for "vibe coded monoliths tend to collapse in on themselves at ~30,000 LOC"? I haven't personally vibed up anything with that many LOC, so I'm legitimately curious if we have solid numbers yet
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by saltyoutburst 1y ago
The doco (with section on Erik) is on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w
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by saltyoutburst 2y ago
Credit where credit is due. https://x.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868
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Australian government has introduced new cyber security laws(theconversation.com)
3 points by saltyoutburst 2y ago|0 comments
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by saltyoutburst 2y ago
Great doco about origami that Erik appears in. 'Between The Folds' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
Seeing him present those demos/techniques in person would have been an amazing experience. Is there video of that presentation online anywhere? I'd love to know the background of how he developed his programming techniques and vis
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
He asked us, "Be you angels?" And we said nay. We are but men, write!
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
It's fascinating that easing, which is what this article mostly boils down to, is something that each new generation seems to need to (re)discover on their own. I remember being fascinated by Yugo Nakamura's experimental websites
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Sustainable software delivery: The core-capabilities and plugins model(eddiewould.com)
2 points by saltyoutburst 3y ago|0 comments
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
My favourite meta-talk post is Zach Holman's 'The Talk on Talks'. https://zachholman.com/talk/the-talk-on-talks/ It covers some of the same basic design territory but also touches on delivery, Q&amp
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
Octopus Deploy was bootstrapped (and profitable) from 2012 until its first funding round in 2021, which is a pretty good stretch. https://venturebeat.com/business/devops-automation-platform-...
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
It's great to see simple non-productized playfulness on the internet again. All the fun experiments on https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ remind me of Yugo Nakamura's now-defunct site http://yugop.com/ f
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by saltyoutburst 3y ago
* ...can't be _un_installed
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Microsoft acquires web-based video editor Clipchamp(venturebeat.com)
7 points by saltyoutburst 5y ago|0 comments
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by saltyoutburst 5y ago
#6 is missing. Are 7-11 off by 1?
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by saltyoutburst 6y ago
If you are interested in how the world is doing -over the long term-, check out 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress' by Steven Pinker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlight
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by saltyoutburst 7y ago
"The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English." via the 'Why do we use it?'
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by saltyoutburst 8y ago
This is a very long-standing problem that Stack Overflow has had so it's good to see them taking it seriously (regardless of whatever the underlying motivations may be). How long-standing you may ask? Here's my answer from _2010
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by saltyoutburst 8y ago
The integrity of this article is completely undermined by the fact that the author is a senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University and then includes self-serving, biased and inflammatory statements such as "the curric
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Aftermath of discussing politics on Stack Overflow(meta.stackoverflow.com)
3 points by saltyoutburst 9y ago|0 comments
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by saltyoutburst 10y ago
Jeff Atwood blogged about this last week. 'Can Software Make You Less Racist?' https://blog.codinghorror.com/can-software-make-you-less-rac...
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Did the Australian census really suffer a denial-of-service ‘attack’?(theconversation.com)
1 points by saltyoutburst 10y ago|0 comments
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by saltyoutburst 10y ago
I get RSI in my wrists/hands from typing/coding. But three small changes to my desk set up keep it almost entirely at bay: 1 - Use a vertical mouse. I like Evoluent best but they are expensive. Anker is much cheaper but not quite
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by saltyoutburst 10y ago
We haven't given up, there is simply not enough financial incentive to make the software any better. See 'We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not to' https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/sapm/2014&
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Anger at 'stolen' online courses on Udemy(bbc.com)
73 points by saltyoutburst 11y ago|40 comments