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by tabtab 6y ago
The Prince of Whales: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-48622001
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by tabtab 6y ago
"Grog, get your ugly art-work out of our neighborhood now! I lowers our cave resell values and attracts mastodons in heat."
543.
by tabtab 6y ago
All-or-nothing abstractions can make for chaos and confusion. Incremental abstractions seem a safer bet even if the longer-term result is not as good as the One Big Tool approach. Automate or simplify one aspect at a time. Look for the most
544.
by tabtab 6y ago
Compressing white noise and other "hissing" kinds of sounds is not something MP3 is good at. Compression perhaps can be split into frequency vectors and noise vectors. Frequency vectors would be plotted lines of specific frequenci
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by tabtab 6y ago
Web "standards" are majorily screwed up. We can't build tools like interactive charts, such as an ERD editor, because the charting and drawing tools are separate from the data entry tools (INPUT tags etc.). And they still don
546.
by tabtab 6y ago
Typical internal CRUD applications took about 1/3 the time and 1/3 the coding to produce in my experience with the desktop IDE's of the late 90's. The web bloated things up so that you spend time hooking layers to more l
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by tabtab 6y ago
Today we call that the Burning Man event.
548.
by tabtab 6y ago
In other words, ads and tracking are given priority over content. Welcome to Capitalism!
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by tabtab 6y ago
Indeed! I've been trying to figure out if we MUST sacrifice such productivity and K.I.S.S. to get web or web-like features for rank and file CRUD intranet apps. Are the bottlenecks solvable? Related debate: https://www.reddi
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by tabtab 6y ago
What VB should have done was have an optional "utility band" or the like on a screen on which to place the invisible widgets.
551.
by tabtab 6y ago
NYT should more clearly split news from op-eds. Op-eds are supposed to be opinionated by definition.
552.
by tabtab 6y ago
Warren Buffett said one of his greatest assets is the ability to "no" without fear of social pressure and retribution. Too many bosses and customers want fancy eye-candy without knowing and/or caring about the carrying cost o
553.
by tabtab 6y ago
As a viable option, I'd like to see absolute coordinates* added to HTML/DOM/CSS so that we can pick a layout engine of our own choosing on the server side. The server-side engine would do the layout calculations and then pass
554.
by tabtab 6y ago
Politicians got so used to lying about voting that they eventually stepped on the toes of the rich and powerful via lies. Bad habits often come back to bite as your victim base grows outside of that which you can contain. You can bleep with
555.
by tabtab 6y ago
But with this you don't have to install anything new: it's just leveraging your existing RDBMS. You just need a few sample SQL snippets to borrow from.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Maybe parts of it can be borrowed to implement Dynamic Relational (DR), but it looks too different from RDBMS such that there's a big learning curve. A goal of DR is to only deviate from RDBMS conventions JUST enough to get sufficient
557.
by tabtab 6y ago
This kind of reminds me of Paul Graham's article on how "suit culture" ruined Yahoo, a company poised to be bigger than Google but squandered it by being engineer-unfriendly. http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.ht
558.
by tabtab 6y ago
One can also use the sql SUBSTRING function to actually draw horizontal ASCII-art bar-charts in order to eyeball anomalies. Use a WITH sub-query to find the minimum and maximum range to normalize bar width range. For larger data-sets you ca
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by tabtab 6y ago
I'd like to see Dynamic Relational implemented to have something in-between "architecture-less" and familiar RDBMS conventions. It's close enough to existing RDBMS to reduce the learning curve, and can be incrementally
560.
by tabtab 6y ago
We need a stateful GUI markup standard so that each language doesn't have to reinvent GUI's or GUI adaptors.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Dynamic Relational: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s... Unlike the NoSql movement, it embraces SQL and many RDBMS conventions to reduce the learning curve. It only removes or changes RD
562.
by tabtab 6y ago
There's been a lot of products that try, including MS's current "Power Apps" and "Power Automate" utilities. But the problem is that lots of intricate business rules need to be understood and maintained longer
563.
by tabtab 6y ago
That seems kind of a circular argument: we need another OS but which emulates existing OS's for compatibility. I agree that compatibility probably overrides other concerns. A 3rd OS would need some revolutionary feature(s) to overcom
564.
by tabtab 6y ago
That explains why I'm bald AND have a small wanker.
565.
by tabtab 6y ago
No, it's just one part of a bigger issue. I did drift the topic a bit, I admit. Sign of old age :-)
566.
by tabtab 6y ago
If you can document how to do and think "properly" and efficiently under FP, that would be helpful. Sometimes it's really hard to convey how our mind works to other minds. Thus, "it works for me" is hard to extrapol
567.
by tabtab 6y ago
That may be part of the problem, but it also may be true that some minds simply work better under one paradigm than another. Since one must show proficiency in imperative to get into the field, that's a filtering mechanism that guarant
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by tabtab 6y ago
I'm not saying people "should be" judged on hair, but in practice they are. If you look old, you score lower in IT interviews. I'm just reporting human nature, not making it. I don't have access to humanity's
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by tabtab 6y ago
The real problem is maintenance. Maintenance of software is about 2/3 of programming costs. It's counter-intuitive, but has proven true over time. Tools that make it easy to create the original application often make maintenance w
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "If anything, there's a genuine threat to industrial societies in that their birth rates are almost all sub-replacement." That's because budgets etc. assume population growth out of institutional habit. If populati

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