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by tabtab 3y ago
A good many times the customer doesn't spot important issues until they see it in a UI, preferably interactive. The design process is done best with a combination of formal written requirements and mockups/demos.
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by tabtab 3y ago
I found a lot of holes in the justification. The scenarios make a lot of questionable assumptions about how the future will change. I'll see if I can find a certain critique that used to be floating around the web...
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by tabtab 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd agree. A lot of the use-cases are for niches or systems programming. I don't see it for business CRUD that often unless either the framework forces it on one, or they are using LINQ, which as I pointed out, c
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by tabtab 3y ago
In theory. Practice has proven messier to many. Maybe some have a "functional mind", but they shouldn't extrapolate their head to others. Functional has been around for 60+ years. If it were the magical productivity and Lego-
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by tabtab 3y ago
Modern HTML browsers have become Swiss Army Spaghetti. Perhaps we need to split the standard into smaller components so one size doesn't have to fit all. I suggest at least 3 sub-standards: A) Document-oriented standard. Perhaps HTML s
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by tabtab 3y ago
Since there's already plenty of HTML browsers, instead explore an unserved need, such as a stateful GUI markup browser & standard. HTML/DOM is missing many expected GUI idioms, and has an inherent text positioning flaw: https
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by tabtab 3y ago
"Stepwise refinement" is an intuitive and powerful concept, in part because it helps you grok and debug in a "fractal" kind of way, level by level. But it does have limits at a larger scale. (Event-driven architecture is
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by tabtab 3y ago
Now this is what the web was meant for: odd things that are amusing and useless at the same. (At least initially.)
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by tabtab 3y ago
Make a website showing several realistic scenarios of it doing helpful things, and document it well.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Something else the Dutch did right.
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by tabtab 3y ago
Sometimes deregulation is a great recipe for short-term growth, but catastrophic crashes. You can surf chaos for profit for only so long.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Would it be a stretch to call GPT "glorified Markov Chains"? (I used tweaked M.C. once to make a music composer bot. I actually got a few decent tunes out of it, kind of a Bach style.)
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by tabtab 4y ago
Windows is annoying largely because Microsoft has insufficient competition. If you want to "do real business", you pretty much have to use Windows. Google was giving MS a run for their money, but seems they mostly backed away for
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by tabtab 4y ago
There is a big need for a state-ful GUI markup standard, for both desktops and http apps, as HTML/CSS/DOM has many gaps and problems (see link), and reinventing them via JS/HTML/CSS/DOM has proven to be a chaos part
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by tabtab 4y ago
Right before the election: "Here's Candidate X humping a crying puppy..."
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by tabtab 4y ago
Mass phishing attacks. Humans no longer need to study an org's content to try to trick them. AI will generate a large pile of fake emails trying different angles and send them to different employees roughly simultaneously. Similar for
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by tabtab 4y ago
Some did but never made it back to tell about it (cue scary music)
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by tabtab 4y ago
They really want D&P (development and profit), or D&$
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by tabtab 4y ago
Both the old and new stink in different ways. It's good to have options when something doesn't work right in one or the other.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Just have circuits eat more vegetables and exercise more. It's what my doctors keep telling me.
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by tabtab 4y ago
Sorry, the future is AI turtles all the way down to HAL.
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by tabtab 4y ago
GPT4 is already out? I just got GTP3. "You bought the wrong bot, silly head!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRMVhlNP5I
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by tabtab 4y ago
Per an Einsteinian viewpoint, they could be the same thing. Einstein basically labeled the creating force "God" without characterizing it as any specific person, place, force, or thing(s); saying, "I don't really know ye
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by tabtab 4y ago
"Always do X" and "Never do Y" are almost always bad advice. Live by rules of thumb but don't become a zealot or rigid purist. Some duplication is acceptable, but lots is probably a sign that something is factored p
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by tabtab 4y ago
Why offer TWO snoop vectors? And crypto miners would target WASM over JS, giving WASM a bad name.
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by tabtab 4y ago
I'm sure a lot of hype-centric start-ups intentionally try to surf buzzwords. Theranos mostly got in trouble because it made medical claims, which are more heavily regulated. If I sold a "microservice distributed edge-cloud webs
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by tabtab 4y ago
Many colleagues of mine have expressed frustration that domain expertise is under-rewarded. Knowing IT and the organization should get one a double knowledge bonus, but most agree it doesn't in practice; they are still perceived as a r
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by tabtab 4y ago
That would probably expose it to so many security concerns that it would face a similar fate as Java applets & Flash: causing more hacking/snooping than benefits for a typical browser user. And I can't get a consistent answer
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by tabtab 4y ago
I agree some kind of event-driven architecture is ideal for typical business & admin CRUD. However, our existing languages and toolsets seem a poor fit and I've yet to see a good one. They force things into hierarchies and make i
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by tabtab 4y ago
We all need to diet when we get up there in years.

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