varunnrao

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by varunnrao 1y ago
> Was he very skilled back then when he did it? > I fear the current state of our industry eliminated the possibility for not-great, not-skilled juniors to embark in these journeys I think both sentiments are a product of their times.
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by varunnrao 1y ago
I think what ultimately led to Sun's downfall is a combination of what ESR [1] and joelonsoftware [2] have previously covered. 1. Sun didn't become the defacto desktop platform because they lost out to WinNT. So they lost out on t
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by varunnrao 1y ago
You're right. The hardware right now can't run useful models. But that's why I think they have a couple of years to sort out their software issues. When useful models can be run on their devices they have to be ready. The h
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by varunnrao 1y ago
I agree. The AppleScript/Apple Event Manager thing is an example of treating macOS like a second class citizen in the ongoing iOS-fication of the Apple Ecosystem. The point of macOS for me is that it's simple to use for most begin
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by varunnrao 1y ago
I would say it's more like the internal Xerox machines that were built in the mid-1970s at PARC. Most people have no idea how to work with those machines. By the time the 128K Mac came out, people understood what a GUI interface was an
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by varunnrao 1y ago
imo, Apple are actually ahead when it comes to the hardware side of the whole thing. Their vertical integration gives them an edge not many can match, when it comes to running ML models. It's a no-brainer for Apple to reduce the barrie
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by varunnrao 2y ago
It's really wild how Mister Rogers Neighborhood had this slow, thoughtful cadence with long pauses, quiet moments, no flashing graphics or over-the-top antics. It engaged the audience (mostly kids I guess) with something calm and since
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by varunnrao 2y ago
> In fact the whole British imperial project was largely glossed over. But lots of coverge of the Romans, Vikings, Normans, the black death and the two World Wars. I feel that this is a major source of why Britain (and Europe to a larger
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by varunnrao 2y ago
By and large, I kind of echo what OP says here. Go is at a weird place where the standard library is big that third party libraries aren't really required but not that big that it can do everything. So like OP says there is a huge thin
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by varunnrao 2y ago
This is not a technical point but does anyone know which font was used to typeset the logo? It looks really nice and clean.
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by varunnrao 2y ago
> It was to stress how the ludicrous track-record of Microsoft anticompetitive practices, establishing and sustaining a decades-long monopoly, barred non-expert and non-enthusiasts from experiencing (possibly favourable) alternatives. My
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by varunnrao 2y ago
This might be a contrarian view to the rest of this thread but I think this is a decisive move by Microsoft. AI-enabled OSes are a part of the future (for mainstream consumers at the very least). By sticking with Recall despite the initial
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by varunnrao 2y ago
> It should be forbidden to ship PCs with Windows preinstalled, unless the user made it a conscious purchase decision (and offered to choose between several options). I don't know where you're buying PCs but where I'm from
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by varunnrao 2y ago
What I find really interesting is that all these studios who ran TV channels for so many years fumbled the bag when it came to streaming.. It's like all these people who basically were in content distribution didn't really wise up
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by varunnrao 2y ago
I always find that whenever such topics come up for discussion Ted Gray had the best take - https://theodoregray.com/BrainRot/ . With AI and specifically LLMs, I feel many of the points raised here about 25 years ago st
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by varunnrao 2y ago
I hadn't come across the ScriptForge library before so I just looked it up. It looks pretty cool and definitely looks like how MSFT should have worked on including Python in Excel. From my quick look, it looks like ScriptForge is prima
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by varunnrao 2y ago
> What I expected was a VBA editor for Python and maybe a library for Windows to access Excel objects from a Python script in a cmd or powershell prompt. This is exactly it. The killer feature for including any modern scripting language
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by varunnrao 2y ago
The issue really rears its head when we consider that most are in the second category but "modern" frameworks like Next.JS don't really cater to that market. I used React for a long time to build frontends for my REST APIs. W
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by varunnrao 2y ago
Python on LibreOffice appears to be more concerned with moving GUI elements and not enough with manipulating cells. There doesn't appear to be a straightforward library/module which helps me access specific cells and get their val
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by varunnrao 2y ago
I was quite excited when I heard Python was coming to Excel but the execution pretty much guarantees that adoption is going to be horrible. If I as MSFT wanted to get people to write Python scripts that can take advantage of Excel's gr
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by varunnrao 3y ago
I agree with the essence of what you're saying. It's always been my opinion that the FSF screwed the pooch when it came to spreading their message. This starts right from their very name - the "Free" Software Foundation.