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You know there was that recent Stackoverflow analysis that concluded that Perl was the most disliked programming language?

It got me to thinking about how Perl managed to become quite so profoundly disliked, and I remembered these papers and thought that maybe things like this are the reason.

Silicon Valley, in particular, has always seemed to me to fetishise the pseudo-legendary brilliant young school leaver overachiever superstar. Anyone who hasn't burned out by the time they hit 40 is clearly either lazy or an underachiever, and therefore not the sort of person we would want to hire.

The Valley's most cherished myths are amongst some of the most societally detrimental.

(Disclosure: I'm 40 and work in tech. This sort of thing gives me waking nightmares.)

Classic innovator’s dilemma. Their first mover advantage has made them complacent.

The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new, they’ve been on the iPad for some time. The swipe up to app switch/go home is the only new gesture. Anyway my point stands: the home button was a massively overloaded bit of UI and no serious UX person would defend that.

Yes, the people of Earth could never grasp the awesome complexity of a new edge gesture.

Of course the home button was such a simple UX though:

* Press place your finger on it to use Touch ID

* Press once to go the home screen

* Press twice when unlocked to bring up task switching

* Press lock button then press twice to initiate Apple Pay

* Press and hold to talk to Siri

* Press at the same time as the lock button and then release to take a screenshot

Yeah, it was such a SIMPLE bit of UX. If you’re a UX expert arguing for the supremacy of a verb with at least six overloaded meanings, imho you’re UX charlatan.

“The firefighters are all volunteers.”

Yeah, okay. But why?

Youtube are just really, really desperate to kill Youtube by any means necessary these days.

I mean, gosh. They’re using some interesting tech but they’re not gonna get anywhere using UNIX with Windows NT about to take off.

Also books. I mean I like books but who reads books in the 90s?

Really don’t bother. This company is going nowhere.

IANAL, but won’t this violate the license terms Google provides for Play services?

So, unikernels?

According to reliable source, The Inquirer, citing reliable source TorrentFreak.

Gendry?

Vagrant's documentation leaves something to be desired. It's perfectly possible to control many VMs from one Vagrantfile, but good luck figuring out how from the docs.

I mean with a bit of ruby knowhow and some digging you can figure most stuff out, but Vagrant's documentation still lags behind Hashicorp's other stuff which is usually very well documented.

The Kremlin is nothing if not reliably vindictive to those that it believes has crossed it.

Twitter better hope it has its story straight (and the paper shredders working overtime) because this looks to me like Putin's minions have been ordered to go right for Twitter's jugular.

I do hate to say this too, but maybe the Kremlin mouthpiece has a point here: many media organisations use ad spending to try to crowbar themselves into election narratives. The difference in the US is the sheer scale of it compared to most western nations that have strict limits on election spending, both domestic and especially foreign.

The US has limits of a sort but they're so huge and so porous this sort of thing was practically inevitable.

Good to know private shareholders are getting even richer off all that taxpayer research money that's pumped into MIT.

Yes, I wasn't being sarcastic. More suffused with resigned horror.

Wait, the US allows widespread use of potentially catastrophic chemical substances without conducting independent research of its safety or efficacy?

America circa 2018 everyone.

I'm glad to see Kotlin making its proper debut. Android has been crying out for something a little more expressive and less verbose than Java, and Kotlin fits the bill perfectly.

Bloomberg are normally described as a reliably joyless organisation, so it's nice that employees are allowed to have SOME fun.

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There was a, um, Molyneux effect to consider there too.

Hence why I said "I'd say Rust is pushing in the same direction of travel as modern C++"

If you need to ask... you definitely can’t afford it.

One of the things the HGP revealed is that we have way fewer genes than anyone expected. Given that the amount of data encoded in genes appears to be far too small to account for the sophistication and variability in humans, it strongly implied that large areas of DNA that were previously considered marker/filler DNA were of great epigenetic importance.

In my experience people with large amounts of obsolete technical knowledge are usually the ones making vast amounts of money being a contractor in a bank.

I know at least two RPG and COBOL on Big Iron developers whose daily rate is upwards of $2000.

Unless I'm missing something, isn't this whole process made a lot simpler just by using STS?

It also works incredibly well with Vault's STS backend.

I mean, it has a different name, but surely every nation in the world has similar classes with similar content?

In the UK the GCSE Design and Technology syllabus covers all of the bases mentioned in the article as a standard part of the National Curriculum for every child.

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/design-and-technology/gcse/de...

The article is written as if there’s something special about it unique to Scandinavia, beyond its name.

It looks fairly similar to EDN used by Clojure too. Similar, but not, of course, the same.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/

One of the worst things about rich people is their incredibly damaging refusal to admit the primary cause of their wealth is blind luck.

My worry, and I suspect I'm not alone, is I'm cut out to be neither an employee nor self-employed.

Such is the lot of the anxiety-ridden terminal malcontent trapped in late-era corporatism.