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cumwolf··on JSR: The JavaScript Registry
i think this could function in a small project scenario and i like the idea. Don't think that would be super maintainable in larger enterprise applications. You'd essentially be on the hook for maintaining more code as well.
cumwolf··on Scala isn't fun anymore
i have similar dependency complaints about flutter. I revisited a flutter project that was <1 yr stale and it took me days to resolve all dependencies, i ended up giving up and removing many dependencies and refactoring around it.
cumwolf··on Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Experience
joe rogan says awful things, and contributed to a lot of misinformation about a wide range of topics including neo nazi protests/transgender people/vaccines/pandemic... the list goes on and on. In general he gives a platform to a lot of people that say offensive/harmful/incorrect things and he does not challenge their actions or words but encourages it.
cumwolf··on Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union
UPS workers are unionized and they never seem to have a shortage of seasonal employees
cumwolf··on You Don't Need UUID
I definitely share your sentiment. it's a different form of click bait.
cumwolf··on FTP is 50 years old
under 30 and yes ive heard of FTP. I used them at school to submit assignments for some classes and I use FTPs (albeit sparingly) at my current place of work.
cumwolf··on Stop Spotify Surveillance
There are definitely elements of racism rooted in Classical music. Classical music is not something that was historically accessible to the masses. Minorities have not always been allowed to participate in it the same way White people were allowed to. with a quick internet search you can find out more from more legitimate sources.
cumwolf··on Hipster offended after mistaking himself for hipster (2019)
I think of that as the 2010 hipster
cumwolf··on Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
sounds like visitors aren't the problem it's visitors who come and force an area to change to their liking, being disruptive to existing culture.
cumwolf··on I Really Blew It (2020)
computer are already a form of artistic expression. this is a strange article where I feel the author is too deep into his own head and too into his own work. I admire the passion he has, wish it wasn't about some game.
cumwolf··on Lego won't make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces
> 'the military is not evil' that's very debatable. The military is definitely not the best influence on children either. Doesn't take too much critical thinking to see how normalizing war and deadly machines in childrens toys could be potentially not healthy for everyone.
cumwolf··on Vue Native (2018)
this is super neat that this works but also if someone actually wants to build an app I'd never recommend this. but yeah super cool
cumwolf··on Back to the '70s with Serverless
I've been working with serverless projects for about 2 years now and I'd agree a lot of these gripes are valid. The slow feedback loop is the most painful. Building new features in serverless apps is going to almost always require multiple pushes in order to get what you want. It's very challenging to get it "right" the first time.
cumwolf··on Elon Musk moves to Texas
Yeah I think this is just a ruse for attention but what do i know
cumwolf··on Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams
As a Chicago resident who has been involved in multiple protests, Chicago police are very lax with their body cams. During protests this past summer many officers had no badge, nameplate, or body cam present. This results in absolutely no accountability of this individual and their actions. The police have much to benefit with civil unrest and crime in the city. Chicago police receive 40% of the city's budget. We invest so heavily in policing yet we are known for our murder rate. Police do not prevent the violence in Chicago they only respond to it. This is because the police profit off of the crime in Chicago. The city continues to refuse to divest from policing and invest in the communities which are struggling the most.
cumwolf··on Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams
I think there's so many signs they can't be trusted but I personally often find people don't believe it to be systemic or institutional and therefore it doesn't impact their overall opinion. Homan Square is a well known police black site but it still exists today despite so many protests
cumwolf··on Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams
Police are totally unaccountable. Chicago police receives over 40% of the city's budget. The police profit off of crime in the city. As crime rises there are often calls to fund the police more to combat it rather than invest in the communities where crime is the highest.
cumwolf··on Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams
Unfortunately filing complaints in Chicago doesn't result in discipline towards on officer. If a complaint is sustained by COPA (the agency responsible for accepting and investigating complaints) then COPA gets to make a "recommendation" to the Chicago Police Department with how to discipline the officer involved. It is then up to CPD whether they want to actually follow that recommendation or not. A separate but related issues is that officers also don't always oblige to requests for their identification in the event of an altercation.

Source: Chicago resident who has filed complaints

cumwolf··on A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
I suspect it's more of an issue of code review. Hypothetically both fields are in the same object and the coder used the wrong field. A unit test could totally be in place doing it's job but you just have bad business logic, that no one caught.... who knows though :)
cumwolf··on Learning hardware programming as a software engineer
it's toxic but "(that's non disclosure agreement) " made me actually LOL
cumwolf··on Open-Source Spotify App
looks like you're using the web api instead of the IOS sdk? any reason for that? is the ios sdk not in swift yet ? It was a pain to setup the last time i looked at it.
cumwolf··on Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
TikTok is a great example of people being willing to join new social media but it's a niche social media app compared to fb/twitter... and in a lot of ways fills a void that Vine left, so i agree but think it's kind of an exception right now
cumwolf··on Most first-time visitors to Japan are struck by how clean the country is
that's very fascinating, as someone who has only experienced Tokyo, I was amazed with how clean it was compared to other Eastern Asian cities (I lived in Shanghai). Wouldn't have guessed it was a bit of smoke and mirrors.
cumwolf··on How Apple Kills Indie Developers
The AppStore experience is miserable. It sucks the life out of you as an independent developer when they reject your app for vague reasons and you know the turn around to get your app reviewed again is going to be another 1-3 days. The quality control is highly variant, sometimes my application goes through intense scrutiny, sometimes it gets rejected purely for user error on their reviewing end and other times it gets accepted without a peep. When they do have complaints and reject your app, you can submit comments or an appeal but they are never responded to or acknowledged. The whole process doesn't make me excited to create another app. I've made two different apps, avaialable on both platforms and the Google Play experience is way overall way easier to deal with, probably because there's less human review & scrutiny involved.
cumwolf··on How to learn D3.js
there's already react/D3 libraries. there's also ReCharts, and ChartJS which are wrappers on d3
cumwolf··on How to Build Minesweeper with JavaScript
cool tutorial, love all of the code examples. Some of that code is brutally unreadable with all of the nested statements and loops. I guess it works for the tutorial but ooof!
cumwolf··on Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (1999)
I think about this all the time. Thank god somebody has an interest in building programming languages, and other lower level nitty gritty work. Lord knows i wouldn't be able to do it