mhomde

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by mhomde 8y ago
Christ I almost forgot about Three Investigators, but I really liked them at the time. "The green backs" as I thought of them (Nancy Drew was red) Probably one of those things you should never re-read though. Using Alfred Hitchcoc
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by mhomde 8y ago
Are you sure? I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure they won't argue that applies links without summaries as well. And what about thumbnails? I mean the "fair use" laws weren't exactly clear cut either but
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by mhomde 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hacker News would technically be affected by the same Link tax. It would probably not be enforced but still. It's such a stupid idea and I really lose hope about the future of a free internet when I se
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by mhomde 8y ago
But, but, that's just how Blogs work man :) They clearly attribute it to them (though I find it a tad lame they don't have a specific attribution area), and you could argue that being featured on a popular blog helps people discov
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by mhomde 8y ago
Yeah, he has a point :) It's always struck me as weird that we "allow" political leaders that can put personal gain and career in front of what's good for everyone else. Also as you touch upon the world is rapidly becomi
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by mhomde 8y ago
I kinda want to see a black mirror episode of AI overlords shepherding humans for their own good :)
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by mhomde 8y ago
Yeah, but a huge problem with finding accommodation for it's recruits. In contrast to Berlin it's impossible to get a first hand rent contract. A second hand is going to be super expensive and buying somewhere somewhat central is
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by mhomde 8y ago
Sorry, I think I meant transatlantic airport, or a "large" airport. Not sure, it used to lack something I heard but not sure exactly what and if it's still true. They're struggling with building a new one so something :)
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by mhomde 8y ago
Maybe Leipzig is the new Berlin :)
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by mhomde 8y ago
Yeah I guess that's what stemming the tide :) Also a lot of German companies seem to require that you speak German. I know awesome programmers/designers living in Berlin but if they work for Berlin companies they seem to earn a p
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by mhomde 8y ago
I think Berlins "Poor but happy" times are fast coming to an end. Rents have been rising quickly the last few years and tech companies and startups becoming more prevalent. Heck, Neukölln went from being a cheap alternative to be
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by mhomde 8y ago
I think this is great news and something I've been pushing for for a long time. Sure adoption of Windows Store apps are pretty low now and it's incredibly hard to earn any money on them, but at least it's not impossible now l
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by mhomde 8y ago
There are tons of articles and books on design. In the same way you build your toolbox with programming with algorithms, concepts design patterns, best practices, you need to build one for design. Ergonomics, color theory, typography, ergon
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by mhomde 8y ago
Each to their own but my experience has been the opposite. I just purchased an Oculus Rift with touch controllers, being carefully optimistic but a bit skeptical, thinking it was going to be as you said "Gimmicky", somewhere on pa
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by mhomde 8y ago
I'm not super familiar with how it works in the US. But here you loan against the value of your property. If the value plunges you no longer have coverage for your loan and the bank may ask you to cover the difference. This happened in
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by mhomde 8y ago
People often fail to take into account that risk has a value. I did some quantitative analysis (most of that is BS but that's another story) for a gig and it was big eye opener. People talk like: "Well property praises will always
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by mhomde 8y ago
Speaking of red... In Sweden we have a color called "Falu red" that's the icon red that long has been put on many cottages and houses. The pigment is based on the copper in the copper mines of Falun. The metal helps against f
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by mhomde 8y ago
Aww, no Chang? :) Someone has been hanging out in Hubud too much :)
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by mhomde 8y ago
I think one of the main problems is that we still describe too much of "How" we want to do something, rather than "What we want to do", ie too many implementation details are specified. Programming languages over time ha
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by mhomde 9y ago
I always wanted a language that was built upon the concept on just passing things forward in a pipe, and was like an hybrid between functional and c style languages, like: someobject => doThis() => doThat() => dontForgotToFinis
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by mhomde 9y ago
I didn't mean to trivialize it, it's an extremely impressive accomplishment for sure. The documentary was very interesting as well, recommended
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by mhomde 9y ago
I'm still intrigued by the possibility of a more "elegant" solution to Fermat being out there. Wiles approach seems like brute forcing it by stitching together different proofs. It seems very implausible that Fermat actuall
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by mhomde 9y ago
Unfortunately IMO that kind of thinking seldom works. It's very managerial to assign specific time and percentages to things but in practice I've never known development to be managed that way. Also you underestimate their weaseln
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by mhomde 9y ago
yeah, that's what's often is being done. But it prevents the methodology to have some useful best practices built into it, and a methodology could be a force in improving code quality and keeping it intact over time, which is from
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by mhomde 9y ago
Some developers think that, and unfortunately a lot of methodology enforces that thinking. Cleaning up code as you go should be a habit I agree. It's slightly trickier when code reaches a "boiling frog" point and you need to
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by mhomde 9y ago
I don't know, when it comes to code quality and things like that I'd rather prefer a methodology that insulates it against bureaucracy rather than involves it. Keep the Dilbertian forces at bay. Product owners should prioritize fe
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by mhomde 9y ago
Yeah totally, but if was intrinsic to a trendy methodology you might be able to shield it better in the same way you do stuff in the name of being ISO-whatever compliant :)
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by mhomde 9y ago
Nice article! I'd like to a software methodology more supportive of what I'd call "Continuous refactoring" or a more "kaizen"-like mindset. "Agile" isn't always as agile as I'd like, but bec
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by mhomde 9y ago
It's just a general thought I've been having. We're using text and files because it's the way things always have been. But it seems there should be benefits to perhaps move beyond that. Things like with more canonical re
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by mhomde 9y ago
That's actually a good idea, thanks! I'm not sure it would be feasible but it would be neat if methods was automatically versioned (in all but syntaxtic changes) and you could automagically compare results of the different versio

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