bluesmoon

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by bluesmoon 10mo ago
Go with S-corp.
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by bluesmoon 11mo ago
Exactly! For a web dev in 2025 to still not know security best practices that have been around for 20+ years is a failure on the part of the dev.
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by bluesmoon 11mo ago
Github discovered the same thing a long long time ago which is why you now have the github.io domain.
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
I did a talk on Cognitive Biases in performance measurement and included Anscombe's Quartet (among other things) in the section on developer bias: https://speakerdeck.com/bluesmoon/we-love-speed-understandin...
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
yeah, that's about the time I quit couchsurfing and limited my interactions to community meets. Then it pretty much died out. I couldn't tell if this is the same folks trying to do it right or different folks who believed in the
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
Wait, is this a rebrand of couchsurfing.org?
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It's more correct to say that traffic drops off for 3-4 hours rather than everyone goes offline for 3-4 hours. It's likely to be staggered based on the slope of the curve at that point.
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
That's a fair criticism. The data suggests that there are different breaks spread out over that 3-4 hour period, not one break of 3-4 hours. I've reworded it accordingly.
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
Thank you for your personal story about this. It helps to put things in perspective.
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by bluesmoon 1y ago
I have it on my TODO list to look a little more into that. It caught me by surprise when I pulled up the data for Germany.
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by bluesmoon 2y ago
It's like the author has never heard of balance bikes, but they're very common, and have been for over a decade. FWIW, I taught my kid to ride when he was 3 by putting him at the top of a wheelchair ramp and letting him go. Took h
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by bluesmoon 2y ago
Not specifically game related, but adjacent. Sonic Pi ( https://sonic-pi.net/ ) is designed for making music specifically with kids in mind, and they might accidentally learn a whole bunch of programming concepts as a side-ef
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by bluesmoon 2y ago
I came here thinking there was a new recommendation for making toast, or at least a recommended type of bread to use, but I found nothing edible.
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by bluesmoon 2y ago
Nice. Reminds me of the PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia from back in the 90s/early 2000s: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/index.php
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by bluesmoon 2y ago
Julia supports Complex numbers as a built-in type.
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by bluesmoon 3y ago
Reminds me of the time back in 2010 when a piece of CSS on the Yahoo Search page would cause a complete desktop crash on Red Hat Linux: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/04/can-website-crash-your-r... To the author
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by bluesmoon 3y ago
Reminds me of the 500 mile email (2002): https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by bluesmoon 3y ago
I can't say that I specifically learnt COBOL for fun because I did it in 1997 or so in India when the entire Indian IT industry was bidding on a host Y2K migration projects. I only graduated college in May 2000, so I never actually use
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by bluesmoon 3y ago
Hangul is phonetic, but doesn't have the capability to represent all phonetic sounds of a language. For example, Hindi has 4 distinct letters and consequently sounds for the each of D and T (D: ड ढ द ध, T: ट ठ त थ), which all correspon
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
Perl counts from 1900, so the year 2000 was actually stored as 100. You'd get 2 digit years in the 1990s and suddenly 3 digit years after 2000. The solution was to arithmetically add 1900 to the year before rendering. Newer perl functi
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
COBOL programs will be fine. They use 4 characters just for the year since it's stored as the decimal characters. I was trained in COBOL in the late 90s to work on Y2K migrations. It's done this way so that COBOL programs stored o
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
Already happening. Client Hints are the way forward.
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
Nope, this is already happened in Chrome. Client Hints are the way forward.
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
In 1999, I was an intern at a company in India. We wanted to put a machine in a datacenter, and the datacenter admin asked us to set the Administrator password to "password". Turns out that all the other companies that put their
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that "Akamai is whining" about this. It's an informational blog post about what's happening and what's changing. User Agent strings aren't used for feature detec
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by bluesmoon 4y ago
> I don't know whether this is a trend I posted this 11 years ago: https://tech.bluesmoon.info/2011/01/device-width-and-how-not... It's not a trend, it's been around as long as it's been pos
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
As Jacques Pepin once said... your recipe is just a guideline because you have to adapt it to the ambient humidity when and where you cook.
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
Back in the 90s the Microsoft version was "Embrace and Extend" which really meant, adopt a standard and then change it so that the original implementation no longer works.
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
Fun times. I remember back in the year 2000, during the dot com craze, there was a company in India that built a clone of "Who wants to be a millionaire". It was in beta and there was no real cash or prize involved. They had all t
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by bluesmoon 5y ago
+1 for using chthonic in a coherent sentence.

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