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by sblom 5y ago
> Most of the really innovative interactive design stuff found its first expressions in the Windows-based versions of Visual Basic, and here’s where I started becoming nervous about where Windows programming was headed. Not only could yo
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by sblom 5y ago
His IntelliSense-enforces-bottom-up-programming rant couldn't be more wrong these days. IntelliSense (plus refactoring suggestions) is perfectly happy for you to speculatively make a method call that doesn't exist and then to infe
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by sblom 5y ago
Totally possible that an FBI agent would be using the intelligence community sense of "open source" meaning "publicly available", rather than the sense of "open source" that's the mode around here.
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by sblom 5y ago
Because they want something from the audience.
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by sblom 5y ago
What browser prompts for permission to follow a redirect? OAuth flows don't require cross-domain interaction in any of the ways that browsers have fought to reduce.
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by sblom 5y ago
Why not? M-W's lexicographers openly discuss their process of descriptively documenting language as it's observed in real use. If usage of the word "cromulent" continues to grow to the point that it reaches the threshold
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by sblom 5y ago
I took conradev to mean "the model of distributing the same content to everyone via traditional (passive) CDN". Movie theater watermarking is done during playback, but if Netflix was going to do watermarking, it would have to be d
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by sblom 5y ago
There's room for both extreme concentration and extreme communication, and most teams need some of each. I actually snorted at the essay's idea that communication and concentration can't mix. I'm not sure what he thinks
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by sblom 5y ago
My experience at Microsoft in the late 90s and early 00s jives with his descriptions, mostly. But the essay went out of its way to be cynical and reductive. He's not making things up, but I don't think his takeaways are worth, wel
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by sblom 5y ago
This essay is rooted in nostalgia and reads as a post facto justification for "I like the old way better". "I've never done waterfall" or "we specified everything (on paper! millennials don't read amirite)
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by sblom 5y ago
But today's announcement would have been Windows 10X if it hadn't been canceled...
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by sblom 5y ago
It's not really about Rule 30 specifically. It's more about Rule 30 being a particularly simple example, probably, of Wolfram's Principle of Computational Irreducibility. From what I can tell, he'd love to drop that &quo
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by sblom 5y ago
And that was all about proving that Rule 110 was capable of universal computation. (They first found a way to map Rule 110 to the tag system put forth in that prize.) This zoo of 3-predecessor cellular automata is an impressive lot.
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by sblom 6y ago
Is "commute" the right word for that? I'm not a mathematician, but it doesn't match any usage in my poorly trained math-lang semantic net.
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by sblom 6y ago
I doubt that "learn how to speak C++" is why anyone _does_ read the standard. The standard is used for things like ensuring broad compatibility among compiler implementations. CLARIFICATION: I suppose that might have been your poi
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by sblom 6y ago
There's no requirement for the over-the-air television networks to air Presidential addresses. They usually do, but there have been some notable cases where they have declined. I think FOX (not Fox News, FOX the broadcast channel) skip
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by sblom 6y ago
It has always fascinated me that Smalltalk nearly universally comes with a window system and self-editing run-time. I remember Sun's "Lively Kernel" project. It looks like this has some of that DNA in it. I can't claim t
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by sblom 6y ago
>A recount provides absolutely no evidence in either direction on what I'm alleging. Georgia electronic votes were all backed by voter verifiable auditable paper ballots. That's independent of whether the software is competent
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by sblom 6y ago
Cliff Stoll has appeared on the Numberphile YouTube channel dozens of times, and they're all informative and hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JX...
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by sblom 7y ago
Baader-Meinhof Dunning-Kruger?
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by sblom 7y ago
Cough. Python 3. Cough. (I don't dispute the majority of your point, but I don't think all 10 year, backwards-incompatible upgrades are created equal.)
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by sblom 7y ago
Of _any_ dynamic language? That's a pretty bold claim.
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by sblom 8y ago
The final puzzle in Synacor was BRUTAL, but overall, such a fun experience.
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by sblom 8y ago
An oldie but a goodie. Unbelievably good playground for playing with functional languages. I had so much fun doing a bad job solving the optimization challenges.
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by sblom 8y ago
Isn't that (EF6, I mean) only on Windows, though?
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by sblom 8y ago
Isn't it a-b instead of a%b?
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by sblom 8y ago
Still probably not related to amount of transactions.
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by sblom 9y ago
Or at least where many different voices are published. :)
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by sblom 9y ago
Andrew Plotkin (aka Zarf) wrote and published PlotEx[1] while working on Hadean Lands. [1] http://eblong.com/zarf/plotex/
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by sblom 10y ago
I believe that the Windows 10 logo requirements are exactly the opposite of that. If you look at the UEFI requirements for Windows 10[1], specifically clauses 19 and 20, it says for non-ARM systems the user MUST be able to put Secure Boot i

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