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by thwarted 7y ago
This is odd considering how relatively rare pre-packaged, proprietary software that makes boat loads of money actually is. CS students today are exposed to a lot more open source (look at what comes with a $5 hosting account) and SaaS, w
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by thwarted 7y ago
The Commodore 64 supported (or maybe it was the 1541 drive that implemented it) what was called "relative files", which were composed of fixed-size records that were accessed by index. I always thought they sounded cool, but never
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by thwarted 7y ago
I didn't say you couldn't write games using PowerShell. I said there doesn't seem to be books or docs or blogs about using PowerShell for games, or for really anything other than system automation and system utilities. I&#x2
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by thwarted 7y ago
PowerShell is a relatively recent default inclusion in Windows, and it's not marketed or thought of as "You can build your own games with it!" Bookstores used to be packed with things like "The Big Book of Computer Games
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by thwarted 7y ago
Twitter threads are a tree, but the representation in Twitter's web interface and mobile apps is linear and it's not obvious which tweets are in response to which. There are hints in the interface if you're aware of them, but
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by thwarted 7y ago
But pretending that we have no impact or control of any kind in the process of evolution on Earth is just an attempt wash our hands of responsibility. Intelligence can be humanity's evolutionary advantage. But that does not mean huma
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by thwarted 8y ago
This is so absolutist. You must have a boring life. Sometimes it's about making things fun, sometimes it's about making fun things, and sometimes it's about both. Driving a car is fun. Building a custom hotrod isn't. Goi
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by thwarted 8y ago
"…Meanwhile, 5 billion users do not care and want things to be easy, fast, work well, and be well integrated." They can see blog titles, so... no dice.) Hard to place all of the blame on the open standards people if the other
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by thwarted 8y ago
Using superglue to keep paper cuts closed is a household remedy, at least in American midwest. But most paper cuts are hardly considered to require medical attention. I assume you're talking about surgical cuts that would otherwise r
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by thwarted 8y ago
If PR firms are so entwined with traditional news and media, I wonder how entrench PR firms are in the social media space Watch the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix
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by thwarted 8y ago
Look into the history of the Netflix Prize. There were two main factions, those who used only the data provided and those who used metadata about the films. The Wikipedia page on it covers some issues around the privacy concerns.
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by thwarted 8y ago
The role of IT and QA is also to shield the company from all kinds of liability: legal, process, financial, failures, continuity, etc.
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by thwarted 8y ago
There's a great book called "Welcome to Moonbase" by Ben Bova (1987) written from the perspective of an established colony on the moon providing an information handbook for someone recently relocated to live and work there.
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by thwarted 8y ago
a long-term path to messenger interoperability. I remember when we had that before E2E was popularized, it was standardized, and then walled gardens broke their interoperability in the name of (claimed) better user experience and user num
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by thwarted 8y ago
Or you could use at(1) or batch(1) to invoke the job once. That seems significantly easier and less error prone than trying to clean up crontab.
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by thwarted 8y ago
There's "blame" and there's "fault". Faults are correctable, blame tries to place responsibility on actors. Few faults can be corrected without acknowledging where responsibility lies. There are multiple kinds
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by thwarted 8y ago
That's one thing that frustrated me about dep. go get is deficient in this area too. I understand the need to namespace packages, but requiring them to be hosted (or have metatags on a page) at the location the import path specifies i
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by thwarted 8y ago
Systemd solves real problems that have to do with virtualisation and/or containerisation. systemd predates the industry love affair with containerization and virtualization for workload management, although work on containerization w
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by thwarted 8y ago
Just like politics and the news, when you read of something being attacked, I think "who is saying this, doing they have an underlying bias against this thing they are attacking"? Why would someone speak-ill (attack) something t
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by thwarted 8y ago
DMOZ tried that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
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by thwarted 8y ago
You were 5 when this occurred.
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by thwarted 8y ago
The summer that never ended. In relation to the internet, summer never ending was never a thing. Eternal September¹ is a thing. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by thwarted 8y ago
This is about the economic environment composed of teams and games won where the medium of exchange is talent, and how the rules for how access to talent and other restrictions enable a more level playing field that keeps any one team from
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by thwarted 8y ago
How are these a comparison? One is revenue, the other is cost. How much revenue resulted from the $45k/min cost?
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by thwarted 8y ago
And what about “We want less traffic. Build more roads.” Macroeconomics rarely have such simple solutions. Sorry, I thought it was obvious that when I said "build" it was building housing, since that is the YIMBY platform were t
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by thwarted 8y ago
YIMBYs advocate for building and removing the impediments to building. They consider this to be compatible with just about any and all activist and low income community goals (and they aren't necessarily wrong). "We want housing t
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by thwarted 8y ago
Many (not all) activists would prefer to block everything than compromise. And not everyone realizes that some of these (air quote) "activists" are really NIMBYs and are bad-actors, claiming to be really aggressive pro-affordabl
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by thwarted 9y ago
I wish we could say this about IPv6 too.
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by thwarted 9y ago
With Linux changes to the kernel can require cascading upgrades to packages or make packages obsolete or break packages. This is the exact opposite of Linus's well known and ranted about position on kernel compatibility with user spa
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by thwarted 9y ago
But a fact is that lots of incompetent site makers do not add RSS feeds to the websites they build. ... Some feeds include javascript and XML readers fail on them. And then there's the Wix or Squarespace or whatnot websites, and they

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