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by scandox 8y ago
I like existing but I dislike the idea of it continuing indefinitely. Once you accept it will have some limit it might as well be 80 or what have you. The idea of any afterlife in which my personal identity is still coherent fills me with d
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by scandox 8y ago
Cash is a huge freedom we take for granted. I would back this totally.
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by scandox 8y ago
> By working on mainframe systems newbies will learn the correct IT discipline for managing mission critical software. I've spent my whole career avoiding mission critical software development: basically if it flies, runs in a hospi
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by scandox 8y ago
> The bottleneck has always been in understanding all the implicit assumptions baked into the system that for one reason or another are essential to its correctness. > It takes a particular kind of masochist to enjoy reverse engineeri
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by scandox 8y ago
Ok so while we're here: - preveriable -> proverbial - rediculuded -> ridiculed - bares -> bears - By unleashing a never-ending stream of fiction, masked a truth -> By unleashing a never-ending stream of fiction, masked as t
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by scandox 8y ago
Oh good on you. I'll carry on from that point then.
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by scandox 8y ago
> sets a scary president for alls voices that are other I can't read past this kind of error. It's a typo too far for an article that is asking me to take it seriously. Proofreading is "proof" that the author has take
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by scandox 8y ago
As someone who spent 2 days fighting with an Emscripten config I can say that good information is worth the money.
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by scandox 8y ago
Look I'm happy to take my part of the blame but some of what was wrong was so damn subtle. Ultimately one does trust people to make design decisions at some level of code that one does not second guess...
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by scandox 8y ago
Here's a profile of a developer: - Easy going and pleasant. - Really interested in programming and tech in general - Talks intelligently about the problem at hand. Asks all the right questions. Agrees a plan of action in collaborat
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by scandox 8y ago
Or the actual barrels of cash
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by scandox 8y ago
So would it be fair to say it's like freelancing but you feel like you're part of a corporation? Like freelancing with the social and motivational aspects of working at say Google or whoever?
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by scandox 8y ago
Thanks. I think what I thought this was, was WindRiver Linux. Next time I'll engage the tired eyeballs.
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by scandox 8y ago
Can someone explain to me why anyone needs this? I once had to try to use it with some weird Intel SOC but I gave up. So...Real question.
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by scandox 8y ago
There's a world of difference. Plutarch is - as an old friend of mine once said - "an old club bore telling rambling anecdotes about famous men". Thucydides work is incisive and focused. Both are enjoyable though.
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by scandox 8y ago
We're building new services on GCP and we like it, but even still for each element we develop a formal plan for moving it somewhere else because everyone here feels like severe and arbitrary changes or even termination is always a lurk
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by scandox 8y ago
The real bug is the failure to use semi-colons. I literally cannot comprehend the non-use of semi-colons in JS.
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by scandox 8y ago
Wait. Good books stick around. 10 years is a reasonable minimum delay. What are you going to miss? And yes this does not apply to books about JavaScript.
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by scandox 8y ago
Is that MongoDB again?
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by scandox 8y ago
> Whatever the key to self-reflection turns out to be, it clearly will involve the processing of internal symbolic representations. Clearly?
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by scandox 8y ago
You've got a great career. You've successfully moved between several companies. You easily got a job when your last employer went bust. What can go wrong? The revolution comes. You're stood up against a wall and shot. You&#x2
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by scandox 8y ago
Christopher Tyerman's body of work on the Crusades is really interesting in this regard. One of the key points he keeps pressing home, is that though we think of Medieval people as ignorant and superstitious, they were in fact highly r
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by scandox 8y ago
In Fred Hoyle's book The Black Cloud you could argue the prediction of the internet. He proposes a radio based data network with IIRC both compression and encryption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cloud
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by scandox 8y ago
Doubtless he would like to be
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by scandox 8y ago
In 1999 there was an email going round about how ridiculous dotcom valuations were. Taking Amazon, I think, as an example it said it would have to earn more than Kodak, Boeing, Caterpillar etc to ever be worth it's valuation. There was
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by scandox 8y ago
Generally speaking as one gets older one's commitments and expenses rise - that's why it gets harder and harder to change course because you can't easily take the pay-cut.
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by scandox 8y ago
This is always my advice to people between 18 and 23: be careful what industry or area you go into - there's a good chance you'll never leave it.
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by scandox 8y ago
You know ten years ago I would have 100% agreed with you. In fact I would have been outraged as to why anyone would want to know. And yet today, I consider the provenance of a product to be more or less my No. 1 consideration in whether I w
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by scandox 8y ago
He's quoting someone else though he is agreeing with them. The full quote is: > We need to address the undervaluing of HTML and CSS for what it is: gender bias. Even though we wouldn’t have computer science without pioneering women,
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by scandox 8y ago
I think to talk about this as a moment in time when the job is done is the mistake. It needs to be considered both as something achieved and demonstrably sustained/sustainable for a meaningful length of time into the future. That'

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