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JonoW

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South African software developer living in London. Interested in .Net and Alt.Net dev, as well as tech-industry and startup news.

Blog: http://tech-journals.com/jonow Twitter: http://twitter.com/JonoW

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JonoW··on WebGL Water (2010)
Getting this error on a brand new Pixel 9 Pro, latest Chrome. Odd
JonoW··on The Case for C# and .NET
But Node.js doesn't ship with those features built-in either?
JonoW··on The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova”
I don't follow how this could be true, as normal Russian viewers would have seen a "we started a war" narrative that is essentially blocked everywhere else. I.e. there is a lot to lose, and also, everyone in the west knows there are lots of "good" Russians. They just need to see more of these sorts of messages, so if the Kremlin arranged this - win!
JonoW··on Twitter Banned in Russia
Any Russian users here - does the average person here not wonder why so many previously acceptable services are being blocked and/or silenced? Do they not wonder what it is that the authorities want to shield them from?
JonoW··on Ask HN: Working with large code base for the first time
For a UI app, I think it's critical to first know how the app works from a user point of view. Then pick a (small) feature, and try figure out how it's rendered to screen by: - Read high level documentation (hopefully it exists) on the overall architecture, not deep-dives in the beginning - Find text that is rendered and tracing to where it comes from - Use the debugger; set breakpoints on client + server code to see the flow of data, particularly into lower layers that get data from DBs/APIs - Hopefully it's a TypeScript project and you can use an IDE to find references and otherwise navigate from symbols to see where functions/class/fields are used
JonoW··on Australia’s PM suggests Bing adequate if Google blocks searches
Not sure if anyone's the same, but I find Google search the least sticky of their services, i.e. I could manage fine if forced to use Bing (probably not as good, but probably good enough), but I would really struggle if Gmail or Google photos access was axed in my region.
JonoW··on Sinovac's vaccine efficacy less than 60% in Brazil trial -report
Yeah not sure why this is downvoted, seems a fair question.
JonoW··on First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
I believe the vaccine has not been showed to reduce transmission, it's been shown to reduce impact, i.e. she's less likely to die if someone visits her, so great for her, and her families, well-being.
JonoW··on What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020)
There is quite a long tail of small/niche frameworks, but for most folks there aren't many major ones, really it's 3; React/Angular/Vue. There's probably another 5-10 in the next cohort, including Svelte
JonoW··on Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
I'm confused, why would a fraud bot click on ads that makes LinkedIn money? Normally ad-fraud is when a fraudulent publisher is set up, made to look legit, hosts ads, which a bot then clicks the hell out of. Where's the incentive here for a bad actor on LinkedIn?
JonoW··on 'Dogfight' looms as landlords start suing restaurants over unpaid rent
Whilst I'm sure landlords are in a tight spot too, what good actually comes from evicting any business right now? It's not like there are any new ones to take their place. Having an existing business with known revenue, waiting to restart once lock down ends seems better than hoping a new one will fare any better.
JonoW··on Conservatives changed twitter name to 'FactCheckUK' during the TV debate
It's really not. This seems such an obviously devious thing to have done, that I'm amazed they have been so brazen in it. They deserve all the outrage.
JonoW··on Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users
Wonder if this route would be perfect for an electric helicopter? It's a pretty short trip (8mins?), and it could charge while people load/unload? Not sure if the tech is mature just yet of course...
JonoW··on NY Times Blocking Incognito Browsers
I believe FileSystem API is one of them.
JonoW··on British Airways: Suspect code that hacked fliers ‘found’
This is a good advert for using sub-resource integrity https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
JonoW··on Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt?
>This all has to happen without any human intervention, so the central computer software has been programmed and extensively tested to make sure all corrections can be made on the fly.

I'd love to get some deeper insight into how NASA writes and tests software, I can only guess it's a million miles from how most of us work. Anyone know of any good talks, articles from engineers there?

JonoW··on UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds
It's not even rural areas that suck, I'm in zone 4 London, so pretty suburban, and I get about 7Mbps down/0.5Mbps up! The FTTC roll-out said it was planned for my cabinet, not just says it's not.
JonoW··on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
Does anyone know how they extract the molten fuel? Sounds like they will use more robots, but if it's taken this long just to get a robot to see the target, how on earth does a robot retrieve this stuff? Must be a career defining experience for these robotists, doing something that can really help an awful situation
JonoW··on Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?
I loved this book, a must read for any dev
JonoW··on Ask HN: Anyone know how to export raw data out of Google Analytics?
Look into Google BigQuery, it can suck up hit-level data from GA so you can query it how you want. I'd imagine you can export data how you want. Its not free though.
JonoW··on Introducing unlimited private repositories
Company I work at uses VSTS and we're happy with it. It's actually a much larger product than just code hosting, as it also includes loads of other things like Agile Planning tools, Build system (which is now much simpler than the crazy old TFS XAML based TeamBuild. Although you only get an allocation of build "minutes" every month) and Release Management (OctopusDeploy style system). You can do cool things around PRs, like enforcing that certain users, or groups of users must approve to be mergable, or that a certain build off that branch must succeed to be mergeable. All this stuff is possibe obviously in GitHub, it's just a bit more integrated. Worth checking out
JonoW··on Introducing docs.microsoft.com
They have a toggle for light/dark themes (dropdown in the right hand col) if it helps?
JonoW··on The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
The article mentions driverless trucks would drive slower, at 45mph, wouldn't this make a key difference in this scenario, eg a much shorter breaking distance. Also, a driverless vehicle has one option a manned vehicle doesn't - self destruction to save life, eg drive off the side of the road and crash (assuming it could determine that no one was there)
JonoW··on Hidden motors for road bikes
Why don't they just weigh the bikes? Website states the motor weigh's 1.8kg, that would be easy to detect surely? The component spec for the bikes of a race team are probably fairly fixed, so shouldn't be hard to figure out what a bike should weigh?
JonoW··on Apple TV Markup Language
No, he just means adding a default namespace, it's a one-liner and shouldn't make anything more complicated
JonoW··on The Debate Around “Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?”
It only got one short mention in the article, but doesn't lack of media query support for inline styles kill this approach for any site that needs to be responsive?
JonoW··on Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown
I reckon business + value customers are their best bet right now. To compete for high-end customers, they need to plug the app-gap. But yes it does seem odd, they seem to be reducing their work-force but they're being more ambitious.

I'm actually a high-end Windows Phone owner - I love it, but there are a few annoying gaps in apps, not so much the big apps, just the niche apps. Having Win10 universal apps could help if Win10 takes off; if you're going to make a Win10 app, you may as well make it work on mobile too...

JonoW··on Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown
"Microsoft will focus its phone efforts on three segments: Businesses, value-phone buyers and flagship phone customers, moving forward."

Doesn't that pretty much cover all potential customers?

JonoW··on Greeks Reject Bailout Terms
At a better interest rate, with a haircut to the original debt and saving you from defaulting on that original debt (by delaying payment deadlines). So yes, there is a benefit to you
JonoW··on Microsoft Office – OLE Packager allows code execution in all Office versions
It's 12 years old! Isn't it reasonable that support is phased out?
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