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cachvico··on PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma
An attack vector, or a vector attack?
cachvico··on Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
You do a dry run first
cachvico··on Dire warnings about Libya dams went unheeded
Beirut, Lebanon
cachvico··on The Top Programming Languages 2023
> our general “Spectrum” ranking—which is weighted to reflect the interests of the typical IEEE member

I guess this is because the typical IEEE member is a scientist, not a web developer.

cachvico··on Transactions in a Microservice World
Do you have zero downtime upgrades and automated rollback on deployment failure?
cachvico··on The boiling frog of digital freedom
Interesting - thanks! Seems odd to imagine a userspace app could take down a carrier network.
cachvico··on Black Art of 3D Game Programming (1995)
Tricks of the 2D and 3D Game Programming Gurus (two of André's books) got me thinking for the first time about working as a game dev, launched me into my career and two decades later I've got that to thank him for.

Tangential, but love and remember the inside cover quote about integrity being a lonely path to follow. Thought about that one time to time over the years.

cachvico··on The boiling frog of digital freedom
> Rather, it was justified in terms of protecting the cell phone carriers

I don't remember that at all. I do remember Jobs resisting the app store because he wanted everything to be a web app though (despite resisting the move to responsive web design).

Can you provide a source for your claim?

cachvico··on Tickets for Fyre Festival 2 are on sale
Did you sleep?
cachvico··on Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently
This is an extremely insightful and profound comment. Thank you
cachvico··on Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)
Note: "sprints" in this context means "crunch".

From the tweetstorm the article quotes:

> The Internet Explorer team was the hardest-working team I’ve ever been on. And I’ve worked at multiple start-ups. It was a sprint, not a marathon. We ate every meal at the office. We often held foosball tournaments at 2 am, just to get the team energy back up to continue working!

cachvico··on Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (2020)
It's not scraping, you're just consuming an API.

Scraping is when you're parsing human-readable content (HTML) and extracting data, as the parent comment correctly points out.

cachvico··on Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (2016)
That's why the Secretary of State (very important person) gets to make the call.
cachvico··on Mixing Swift and C++
Writing modular code is good but that's a ridiculous reason to need to do so.

Xcode also trips on simple type errors and sometimes fails to even provide a line number where the error lies. As someone who just wrote a Swift app after no prior exposure, it's oddly immature in some basic ways after nearly a decade from launch.

cachvico··on Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night
https://www.ioverlander.com/
cachvico··on Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
Curious if this will impact AWS pricing, as I believe Gandi is one of the main providers behind Route 53.
cachvico··on Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro
Interesting - where did you read/see this?
cachvico··on Paint Drip People
That is very interesting - found your older post pointing to https://web.archive.org/web/20110210194715/http://forge38.co...

So actually a full-stack developer, according to the person who coined the term, is not just someone who can do backend and front-end, but you need to have the design (and business) chops too.

cachvico··on Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go
A language should be considered with its ecosystem, which is why the author started delegating parts to Python by the end.

Therefore the title was actually on point.

cachvico··on Microsoft opens MIDI 2.0 repo
What are the major features of MIDI 2 over MIDI 1?

Does MIDI 2 have broad vendor buy-in? We all know about Microsoft's history here.

Is MIDI 2 a good thing overall?

cachvico··on Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google Cloud Platform
Beta can also just mean "there might be bugs".
cachvico··on Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering
Do you _know_ they had spare controllers?
cachvico··on The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)
Saved this great article from a couple of years ago, https://medium.com/swlh/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020...
cachvico··on Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Thanks!
cachvico··on Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
Who's Jacobson? Google doesn't turn anything up.

Neither does "Ericsson Approach" for that matter..

cachvico··on Reddit's Recently Announced API Changes, and the future of /r/blind
It's on product, because it's an ask from the customer (and requires planning into the roadmap - it doesn't come for free).
cachvico··on “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (2002)
That's a damn good point!
cachvico··on Pixel Tablet
Yes, like in the thing that they practically give away (Home Mini for $50)
cachvico··on The UK will spend £100M to develop its own 'sovereign' AI
Well spotted, that's actually hilarious and what I thought of as soon as I saw the HN headline.
cachvico··on ChatGPT4 writes Stan code so I don’t have to
He lives here, https://mc-stan.org/
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