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by grabcocque 9y ago
You know there was that recent Stackoverflow analysis that concluded that Perl was the most disliked programming language? It got me to thinking about how Perl managed to become quite so profoundly disliked, and I remembered these papers an
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Silicon Valley, in particular, has always seemed to me to fetishise the pseudo-legendary brilliant young school leaver overachiever superstar. Anyone who hasn't burned out by the time they hit 40 is clearly either lazy or an underachie
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Classic innovator’s dilemma. Their first mover advantage has made them complacent.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new, they’ve been on the iPad for some time. The swipe up to app switch/go home is the only new gesture. Anyway my point stands: the home button was a massively overloaded bit of UI and no se
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Yes, the people of Earth could never grasp the awesome complexity of a new edge gesture. Of course the home button was such a simple UX though: * Press place your finger on it to use Touch ID * Press once to go the home screen * Press twice
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by grabcocque 9y ago
“The firefighters are all volunteers.” Yeah, okay. But why?
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Youtube are just really, really desperate to kill Youtube by any means necessary these days.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I mean, gosh. They’re using some interesting tech but they’re not gonna get anywhere using UNIX with Windows NT about to take off. Also books. I mean I like books but who reads books in the 90s? Really don’t bother. This company is going no
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by grabcocque 9y ago
IANAL, but won’t this violate the license terms Google provides for Play services?
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by grabcocque 9y ago
So, unikernels?
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by grabcocque 9y ago
According to reliable source, The Inquirer, citing reliable source TorrentFreak.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Gendry?
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Vagrant's documentation leaves something to be desired. It's perfectly possible to control many VMs from one Vagrantfile, but good luck figuring out how from the docs. I mean with a bit of ruby knowhow and some digging you can fig
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by grabcocque 9y ago
The Kremlin is nothing if not reliably vindictive to those that it believes has crossed it. Twitter better hope it has its story straight (and the paper shredders working overtime) because this looks to me like Putin's minions have bee
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Good to know private shareholders are getting even richer off all that taxpayer research money that's pumped into MIT.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Yes, I wasn't being sarcastic. More suffused with resigned horror.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Wait, the US allows widespread use of potentially catastrophic chemical substances without conducting independent research of its safety or efficacy? America circa 2018 everyone.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I'm glad to see Kotlin making its proper debut. Android has been crying out for something a little more expressive and less verbose than Java, and Kotlin fits the bill perfectly.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Bloomberg are normally described as a reliably joyless organisation, so it's nice that employees are allowed to have SOME fun.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
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by grabcocque 9y ago
There was a, um, Molyneux effect to consider there too.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Hence why I said "I'd say Rust is pushing in the same direction of travel as modern C++"
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by grabcocque 9y ago
If you need to ask... you definitely can’t afford it.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
One of the things the HGP revealed is that we have way fewer genes than anyone expected. Given that the amount of data encoded in genes appears to be far too small to account for the sophistication and variability in humans, it strongly imp
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by grabcocque 9y ago
In my experience people with large amounts of obsolete technical knowledge are usually the ones making vast amounts of money being a contractor in a bank. I know at least two RPG and COBOL on Big Iron developers whose daily rate is upwards
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by grabcocque 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, isn't this whole process made a lot simpler just by using STS? It also works incredibly well with Vault's STS backend.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
I mean, it has a different name, but surely every nation in the world has similar classes with similar content? In the UK the GCSE Design and Technology syllabus covers all of the bases mentioned in the article as a standard part of the Nat
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by grabcocque 9y ago
It looks fairly similar to EDN used by Clojure too. Similar, but not, of course, the same. https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/
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by grabcocque 9y ago
One of the worst things about rich people is their incredibly damaging refusal to admit the primary cause of their wealth is blind luck.
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by grabcocque 9y ago
My worry, and I suspect I'm not alone, is I'm cut out to be neither an employee nor self-employed. Such is the lot of the anxiety-ridden terminal malcontent trapped in late-era corporatism.

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