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by yoz 8y ago
> Google (and to some extent FB, Microsoft and Amazon) is where the danger lies. You can't point to any single company and blame them for this mess, because the problem is in the interactions /between/ companies. There are
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by yoz 8y ago
I was at 18F for almost 4 years. In that time, many of the projects I worked on were internally-facing. The US Government runs thousands of internally-facing websites and web applications. Many of them are entirely internal to single agenci
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by yoz 8y ago
I got to play with Dynamicland for a couple of hours last week, thanks to a meetup organised by Steve Krouse and Omar Rizwan. Steve runs the Future Of Coding podcast ( https://futureofcoding.org/ ) and Slack community, and
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by yoz 8y ago
I've read that story several times. It's never sat well with me, and it's only now that I have a concise argument against it: Pike is conflating the diagnosis process with the quality of the chosen solution. In practice, they
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by yoz 8y ago
Weird, it seems to be totally smooth for me on Chrome 72 (MacBook Pro 13" 2017).
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by yoz 8y ago
What's happening with Stencila? I only found it recently, and it looks like a potentially fantastic project, but development seems to have slowed right down.
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by yoz 8y ago
I worked for 18F (a digital transformation organization within the Federal Government, working with many different parts of it) for nearly four years. The lack of profit pressure was one of my favourite things about it, and one of the reaso
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by yoz 9y ago
I find this exciting and fascinating in all kinds of ways. There's a huge amount of potential here, and the kinds of IDE improvements I've wanted for years. Unfortunately, I also found the UI so difficult that I gave up. When I go
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by yoz 9y ago
At 13:45 he talks about: 1: streaming a Unity/Unreal game into a surface texture 2: packaging an entire Unity project into an ORBX file So... am I understanding this right: that ORBX can contain not just a light field, but all the asse
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by yoz 10y ago
Check out Cog: http://mamburu.net/cog/ While development has slowed to a couple of commits a year, it's a lovely, lightweight, open source MP3 player that has much of the simplicity that I miss from Winamp. Drag f
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by yoz 11y ago
I remember it very differently. It's particularly interesting that you start with 1995, since that's the year of Bill Gates's "Tidal Wave" memo. A large chunk of MS suddenly devoted itself to getting Really Good At
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by yoz 11y ago
Since nobody's mentioned it yet: If you want a musical accompaniment to this piece, try Jóhann Jóhannsson's amazing "IBM 1401: A User's Manual" http://ausersmanual.org/ Listen to part 1 here: https
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by yoz 11y ago
I was hired into 18F last year. I work out of San Francisco, where we have a team of about 15 working in the center of the city (UN Plaza). It's the second-largest office; the largest is DC, but we have smaller offices in Chicago and N
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by yoz 11y ago
"Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers, and the original downloads are always available." In other words: "Yes, we take your project and wrap it in an adware installer."
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by yoz 12y ago
I'm not part of GDS, though I used to (like frabcus) volunteer for MySociety (or, more accurately, for FaxYourMP & TheyWorkForYou, which were later pulled together as MySociety). Also like frabcus, I know quite a few of the GDS fol
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by yoz 12y ago
I work for 18F in the Bay Area. We have a team of (currently) 17, mostly working out of the GSA office at SF Civic Center, though a couple of us usually telework.
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by yoz 12y ago
+100 It was great having Douglas around for ideas and contributions: he did many things for Starship Titanic beyond the core ideas, such as designing puzzles and even composing bits of the score. However, as anyone who ever worked with him
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by yoz 12y ago
Thanks for the correction, Richard!
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by yoz 12y ago
Here's how the AI worked (second-hand, because although I was semi-involved with the game, I wasn't on the dev team). The original natural language parser was Velocitext, an engine we licensed from Virtus. I say "original&quo
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by yoz 12y ago
What Shim said. Trust the Shim.
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by yoz 12y ago
Hey, folks. I'm Yoz Grahame, the chap in the article who coded and (very badly) ran the forum. Many thanks to Lewis for writing such a great piece, and to dnetesn for posting it here! If you're interested in learning more about St
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by yoz 16y ago
Everyone has a friend of a friend who was falsely accused of sexual assault. Everyone has actual real friends who are women who've been victims of actual real sexual assault. Usually at least 10% of them. (That'll be 10% who've actually dar