MikeTaylor

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Let's Do Everything (2010)(reprog.wordpress.com)
2 points by MikeTaylor 8d ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 2y ago
How tragic that the goal of startups isn't to make something useful but to get acquired (with consequent inevitable dismemberment and shuttering). Well done on the $200M, I guess.
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by MikeTaylor 2y ago
Just dropping in to say that The Elements of Programming Style is worth reading three times — and I have read it many more times than that, and benefitted from it. Here's my review (from 2010) if you're interested: https:/&#
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by MikeTaylor 2y ago
It's amazing how much science just gets no funding to speak of. There are maybe half a dozen museums in the world whose palaeontology departments are not in a permanent budget crunch. There is no money to fund digs, to find new fossils
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Every Dependency Is a Vulnerability(reprog.wordpress.com)
11 points by MikeTaylor 2y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 3y ago
And yet, it's what a lot of old-timey software engineers consistently did. Yes, we work in a more complex ecosystem than they did, but I can't shake my sense that 90% of the reason is that they held themselves to a higher standard
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by MikeTaylor 3y ago
I did wonder how much to soften this message, because yes, of course, there really ARE times when a breaking change is necessary. But I think those account for maybe 1% of the major releases we see these days. The rest are down to laziness,
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Semantic Versioning is a terrible mistake(reprog.wordpress.com)
4 points by MikeTaylor 3y ago|4 comments
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Three completely different ways to be an excellent programmer(reprog.wordpress.com)
1 points by MikeTaylor 4y ago|0 comments
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Why there no Git WSAPI?
1 points by MikeTaylor 4y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 4y ago
Usually the best solution is not to ask for date of birth. I guess about one in ten of websites that ask me that actually have a legitimate reason for needing to know. (In the present case, a UK Government website might well have a legitima
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by MikeTaylor 4y ago
Consistent for someone who uses the same site on lots of different devices and browsers. I wonder how many of those there are? Not consistent for someone who uses lots of different sites on one device. There are about seven billion of tho
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by MikeTaylor 4y ago
Gee, it's a real head-scratcher, isn't it?
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by MikeTaylor 4y ago
I love Wikipedia to pieces, but I have given up trying to contribute to it, because only about a third of what I contribute survives the Reversion Police. I assume these are many of the same people as the Deletion Police. A pox on all their
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by MikeTaylor 4y ago
I wonder what he would make of _I Am The Walrus_, which uses every note-named major chord (A, B, C, D, E, F and G major).
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
Striking that there were more shoemakers than tailors.
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
This is the subject of Blue Öyster Cult's song _Magna of Illusion_.
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
SIDE-ISSUE ALERT! The article ends with the statement "The author declares no competing interests". I think this is very poor phrasing, as it's ambiguous: does it mean "The author has not declared any competing interests
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
I would trade all these things, in a heartbeat, for the ability to keep other tabs/windows working when one tab is in a hard loop. That one facility is the thing that means I can't let go of Chrome, even though Firefox is preferea
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
> When peaceful Occupie Wall Street protestors were brutalized at scale, I think the whole world noticed, and this kind of peaceful mass protest is probably what the world elites fear the most. Yes, it was great how that incident ushered
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
Strange that this paper doesn't even _mention_ GraphQL.
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
> In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent ... writes a man who was evidently not paying attention to the US presidential election of 2016 o
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
I have to say this kind of announcement sticks in the craw. I get that Mikael Cho and colleagues created Unsplash and it's theirs to do with as they please: they don't owe us anything. But really, couldn't they just come righ
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by MikeTaylor 5y ago
Has anyone made a complete archive of Unsplash, so that at least when Getty shut it down ("in order to serve customers metter by focusing on our core business") the images that have already been uploaded there will remain availabl
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
Richard Stallman's got your back: see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html and skip down to the "Challenges in our future" heading. I understand why people find Stallman irritating, but my word,
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
The classic answer is that commenters on a blog become a community, and that much of the value of a blog-post is in the discussion. No doubt that if often not true; but on both of my own main blogs it absolutely is. I'll point you at o
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
This site seems overwhelmed with traffic. If you can't get through, luckily the Internet Archive made a copy this morning: https://web.archive.org/web/20200924101441/https://wagingnon...
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Things you need to know to stop a coup(wagingnonviolence.org)
5 points by MikeTaylor 6y ago|1 comments
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
Who else saw the title of this and immediately thought Hackers and Painters ?
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by MikeTaylor 6y ago
Side issue, but I have cause to mention Chesterton's Fence so often that it's become a real frustration that there is no Wikipedia article about it — only this essay about why Wikipedia contributors should honour it. I wish there

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