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Vizarddesky

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Vizarddesky··on Clojure for the Erlang VM
I'm curious to see a detailed list of language constructs and features that are and aren't supported.
Vizarddesky··on Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
> I repeat the above recursively on transitive dependencies as many times as necessary. I also repeat the cursory code review any time I upgrade a dependency.

If this guy has to work on a "modern" frontend project, he's gonna review dependencies until the heat death of the universe.

Vizarddesky··on Ripper: Story of the Egregiously Bad Videogame
Oh man, I remember watching a Let's Play of both this game and Phantasmagoria 2. Awful games but great for a laugh
Vizarddesky··on Japanese Settlement Found in Forests of British Columbia
I live on this mountain. These are not settlements. These are logging camps or seasonal work camps. My grandfather worked up there and he was jealous of the Japanese for their beautiful shacks when the Norwegians were in canvas tents. Of course, he admitted that the Japanese just worked harder to make their own quarters.

There were orchards, livestock, farms of potatoes, onions and legumes, but most of the activity was in hauling out doug fir to tidewater with oxen or steam donkeys or building miles-long flumes to shoot WRC shinglebolts down to the river or Burrard Inlet.

Vizarddesky··on Popcount CPU instruction
Popcount is not at all unusual in ordinary bit-twiddling.
Vizarddesky··on A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses
Are we supposed to be sympathetic to the “problems” these people are facing selling their overpriced real estate? My only regret is that they’re not getting screwed over harder.
Vizarddesky··on Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo
Doesn’t matter, nobody will use it. Taxi service in japan is good enough to where this won’t be a big factor. Ride hailing services are much more expensive than taxi’s.
Vizarddesky··on Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
I have not read this book but based on the article, I feel the concepts in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers > This book. Relationships do not prove causality, but David tries to with the stories of Van Gogh and Tiger Woods and Federer? The examples in the article leave me frustrated because professional artists and sports icons are not a repeatable success. Using those people as examples of success is bad data. I don't comment, this article bugged me for some reason. My takeaways are: Specialization matters, how you find 'your thing' is up to you. And figure it out well before you turn 40, unless you are Van Gogh.
Vizarddesky··on Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (2011)
Ahh, I am young. I started with Netscape 2. But I do remember some older machines with Mosaic... by 1996 Mosaic was already useless.
Vizarddesky··on iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
App companies claim that the "data it collects for clients is kept private and not sold" If you believe that, I can get you a great price for the scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower.