cognivore

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by cognivore 9mo ago
That's because AI allows poor programmers to appear as good programmers, which is actually a good thing as otherwise they'd be writing crap you'd have to code-review, but their understanding of what is good code is poor, so y
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by cognivore 1y ago
"Why didn't the semantic web happen?" I have literally been doing we development since their was a web, and the companies I developed for are openly hostile to the idea of putting their valuable, or perceived valuable, inform
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by cognivore 3y ago
I'd be willing to bet that the problem is the work isn't getting done. I've seen this many times now. No one is going to care how much you time you spend walking your dog if you're getting your work done - you only dra
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by cognivore 3y ago
I see this too, and not just post-COVID. 10+ years ago we used to have "Let's Learn This Now!" where the developers would agree on particular subject and then learn and discuss it on our own time, and occasionally it would l
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by cognivore 8y ago
Tomte, thanks, not particularly for the original reference to the article about smell, but for directing us to the person in question and all the great stuff she has written. I got lost for an hour an 45 minutes. Thank you!
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by cognivore 8y ago
Ah, I see you've learned quite well from them!
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by cognivore 10y ago
Makes me want to go code...
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by cognivore 10y ago
But it hasn't really dropped off since earlier today.
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by cognivore 10y ago
Kind of makes me wonder - why let up? Can it be mitigated at all? Wouldn't they have done so by now. Be interesting if they just kept piling it on until they've got the whole internet on it's knees.
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by cognivore 10y ago
ARPANET is nothing like the monstrosity we have today.
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by cognivore 10y ago
Quarter of a million?! Maybe in 2009. Now, 1/2 a million.
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by cognivore 10y ago
Until you've had to kill people yourself, seen the results, and lived with yourself afterwards, I don't think you have anything to say about what someone else has been in that situation and decided not to kill that day.
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by cognivore 10y ago
>> I don't get why this was deemed an accident. << Reading the story, there is this little voice saying in the back of my head, "They don't want to treat it as a crime because they know who has it and they're
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by cognivore 10y ago
I have mixed feelings about this, but I cannot disagree with it. a. I haven't written a program in C in over 10 years. I wrote software 5 days a week for those 10 years. b. I wouldn't want to write a program in C now. c. The f
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by cognivore 10y ago
That has to be a joke. By pursuing this Oracle just makes themselves look like idiots to anyone who actually has an technical knowledge. So, they're idiots.
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by cognivore 10y ago
Well, to be honest, that's why there are no iOS apps worth a god-damn. We got a bunch of junk as apps (programs now). So much wasted effort and time.
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by cognivore 10y ago
Uhhh, apparently Spencer Gundert is too young to remember all the other times there have been election fraud (Bush-Florida) and the brew-ha-ha over the crappy voting machines we've had for way too long. Drop in the bucket, buddy.
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by cognivore 10y ago
I have nothing to add but what a great post.
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by cognivore 10y ago
I'm going to be a contrarian here and say that if unit tests, in most cases, made economic sense they'd be a given in almost all software development. But they're not. Do we assume business owners are dumb? Do we assume man
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by cognivore 11y ago
"...but let's have a productive conversation." Okay, I'll bite. With a web browser, a DOM, and Javascript, where do you see this all heading that's full of truth and beauty? Where does the churn end if it's not
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by cognivore 11y ago
What isn't being said, and is painfully obvious to me, is that almost everything the article talks about wouldn't be happening if a. Browsers had a decent UI capability, and b. Javascript wasn't a piece. And to what end? Wha
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by cognivore 11y ago
Some payment gateways offer "gateway recurring billing" where the credit card data is stored at the gateway not on your most likely less secure servers. Ashley Madison could have done that and avoided some of the damage from the
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by cognivore 11y ago
I can't think of two many companies that are more irrelevant to the future of computing. What does IBM actually do anymore? Seems to me they just need legions of consultants and cheap developers to bleed their customers under the gui
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by cognivore 11y ago
It's no longer a business issue, and if it is, then Apple is just posing. Apple's positive affect on our economy, our technology, and even our nation, would make such a line that our government would have to think long and hard ab
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by cognivore 11y ago
Thank you, and I'm proud of Lavabit. They're at the top of my Balls list now.
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by cognivore 11y ago
I originally learned about the Enigma from Len Deighton's "Blood, Tears, and Folly" ( http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Tears-Folly-Objective-World/dp/0... ). In it he doesn't even mention Turning, an
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by cognivore 11y ago
If I were Cook, I'd draw a line in the sand. If we are force to comply, we exit the phone business, because we won't make phones that compromise our customer's security. But that would take more balls than anyone left here i
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by cognivore 11y ago
Email has the advantage of white lists. Until phones have the same you'll always be looking at a ringing phone trying to decide if it's a call you want to take - in of itself annoying and time-wasting.
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by cognivore 11y ago
Ah, but you didn't mention the most egregious aspect of a smart phone - a device that they could put in their pocket that would let nearly anyone on the planet instantly communicate with them. That is one Hell of a lot of people I hav
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by cognivore 11y ago
Um, work from your local cache for a few hours? It's that the one of the main reasons for git?

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