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by augustk 1mo ago
Bill Hicks on Marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
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by augustk 1mo ago
After Pascal Niklaus Wirth designed Modula-2 and then Oberon which is even tidier. Oberon is both smaller and more capable than both of its predecessors. https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
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by augustk 2mo ago
"Accept everything"
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by augustk 4mo ago
Turning off Javascript made the dot go away.
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by augustk 5mo ago
That sounds like shoulder pain.
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by augustk 5mo ago
The hospital information system Millenium from Oracle was bought by two regions in south of Sweden for around 400 million USD. It turned out to be unusable for Swedish healthcare and had to be shut down after just three days. Actual users o
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by augustk 5mo ago
And knowing how to get the version of an application (which used to be in Help -> About).
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by augustk 5mo ago
For group chats in Microsoft Teams with more than seven participants, if you click on "View and add participants" (an icon with two people and a plus sign) you see a list of seven participants. At first I didn't know that you
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by augustk 5mo ago
Then it turns out that the book was written by an LLM.
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by augustk 5mo ago
Why don't we instead focus our energies on the user . For some very important software applications the customer is not the user. Let the sales department focus on the customer.
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by augustk 5mo ago
Isn't the manufacturer to blame if I get neck problems then?
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by augustk 5mo ago
Something that would be useful in my case is a monitor stand stand. Does anyone know why almost no current monitor can be raised so that the upper edge is at eye level? Is it due to incompetence among the current breed of designers? Quite a
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by augustk 6mo ago
Postconditions are in conflict with programmers' love of early returns.
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by augustk 7mo ago
The argument in the article was that the for loop is (potentially) "lying" and that is still true in my example. Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 had a LOOP statement in which an EXIT statement could occur anywhere. That statement wa
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by augustk 7mo ago
It's also worth noting that statements like for (i = 1; i <= 100; i++) { S; if (P) { break; } } are just as bad since `break' (and `continue' and early `return') are a just gotos in disguise
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by augustk 7mo ago
"universal access to a large universe of documents" It's a sad fact that a large part of the web doesn't work without Javascript, a technology which enables privacy-invasive practices (and surveillance capitalism). It wa
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by augustk 7mo ago
With so many ready meals to choose from I don't understand why anyone nowadays would cook anything from scratch.
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by augustk 8mo ago
Should be easy to correct the default behavior for the next release if the issue is reported.
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by augustk 9mo ago
It's also worth noting that a customer is not necessarily a user. As a developer I don't care so much about the customer but I care wholeheartedly about the users.
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by augustk 9mo ago
In the best scenario the developers are also active users of the software they produce. Then a design flaw or an error that affects the users will also affect the developers and will (hopefully) motivate the latter to correct it.
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by augustk 9mo ago
Progressive enhancement is the way to go if you care about technical excellence. For some reason it fell out of fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
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by augustk 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
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by augustk 9mo ago
And also bring back progressive enhancement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
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by augustk 9mo ago
Or create the family
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by augustk 11mo ago
If the input parameters are invalid there is an error in the program so it makes more sense to use the assert function. Why would you need to undo something due to the restriction of a single point of exit?
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by augustk 11mo ago
Better stick to a single point of exit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311080
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by augustk 1y ago
Then there is the joy of making the program source code as easy as possible to comprehend. This motivation seems to be rather unusual among programmers unfortunately.
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by augustk 1y ago
> Now just UTF-16 and non '\n' newline types remaining to go Also ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) should be the default date format.
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by augustk 1y ago
Just tech bros being tech bros. https://blog.mitchjlee.com/2020/your-writing-style-is-costly
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by augustk 1y ago
After installation you need to enable it in Settings -> Apps -> Safari -> Extensions -> uBlock Origin Lite. I also uninstalled my previous advertising blocker AdBlock Pro by selecting "Delete App" in Settings -> Gen

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