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X220 was so good for this. Almost like having a FDD

...or notepad

How?

"It's like always eating fast food". That right there

BBC Horizon, thinks the microchip is going to be a big deal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down

My thoughts exactly!

I can never look at Mario the same

"Amazon knows exactly when you have an outbreak of aphids because you buy things to kill the nasty little beasties, and it probably also knows when you’ve had a nasty breakup because nobody listens to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours on repeat at 3am when they’re in a good place."

Just great writing, this.

We must have played this for years on the Atari before discovering market "collusion" quite by accident when pressing both player buttons simultaneously mid-auction. It was features like this, and much around the auction implementation that was so novel and utterly playable. Brilliant game.

When I was a high school kids in the 90s, the dairy across the road from the school would sell individual cigarettes to the kids for 10c each. Utter scumbags. How many addictions began with that thin end of the wedge.

Absolutely this!

Absolutely this! Communication of design is an enormous gap that has emerged in the last could of decades.

When programmers are designing it is more likely to be in the early stages when the program is still small. Often once the program gets bigger, the effort devolves to simply building. They might feel like the design is wrong, but the inertia by then is against the design evolving.

What we need is a practical way to keep the design and implementation synchronized and yet decoupled

Can I say this really is great news for mice

Care to qualify this at all?

Same here with regards to preferring the old Thinkpads for daily use. The trouble as I it is that the great ones are getting really old now, and the newer ones don't seem to be of the same ilk.

I think it is often more helpful to ask the question "To what extent is XDD useful in context Y?". This firstly shifts the discussion away from whether something is universally good or bad (the space of bandwagon riders and hype curve surfers), and secondly avoids trying to comment on what one believes to be the popular opinion at some particular point in time.

Perhaps the difficulty tho is that DDD in particular is a collection of ideas that I would opine might have quite different profiles in terms of both their applicability, and range of design scope. Ubiquitous Naming seems like its pretty widely applicable, and by its very nature is about building consensus within teams, whereas Repository, Factory, Service, Aggregate feel like they could be the dishes served up at some Object Oriented dinner party where the guests could quite justifiably argue long into the night about what the best model design should be.

Recently I gave up on my latest attempt to read Augustine's Confession. The recommended translation that I have is still so otherworldly wordy that I feel I need something else to help me understand what he is getting at.

I recently read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin which was I think was from this collection. Particularly as a non American (so lacking his featuring highly in my primary education), I found this really intriguing insight into a brilliant entrapreneurial operator and public figure.

+1 for the i7 x220. I paid £150 for mine a couple of years ago for what I thought would be a throwaway bit of kit at end of life for an experimental Linux build. But what I found was the sheer utility of the thing has been unmatched by any more recent hardware purchase.

-> In some years you'll be 40 ...noting value for "some" may not necessarily be positive

And then the lockdown happened, my kids are suddenly being home schooled in our tiny London flat. Thankfully my fleet of fun to refurb ancient ThinkPads find their reason for being, getting pressed into heavy everyday use. Overnight I've become a sys admin and in the months since migrated everybody to Arch Linux for ease of maintenance. Pretty happy with the setup. Icing on the cake my 9 year old brags to his friends about his kick ass Linux setup and the advantages of a tiling window manager. For the record the kids are running an X220, a T420 whilst I'm developing on a T440p. But sometimes I borrow one of the kids machines just because the keyboards are sooooo good to type on.

In my humble opinion, a lot of projects go quietly bad when they experience some sort of new requirement that gets underestimated in terms of its architectural impact by project management. At such time senior Devs have either already moved on, or have their eye off the ball such that new features get incorporated without the necessary architectural support. These inflection points can themselves introduce complexity but often become the gateway for all sorts of subsequent small things that explode in size. In short, don't miss architecture moments

Out of the tarpit anyone?

Even better, think how much quicker you can achieve a sufficiently large application if you can source some really unwise developers?

Does this framework speak to the mismatch in idiomatics? https://github.com/zero-one-group/geni Not asking from any point of expertise mind you, having only stumbled across this literally this morning

This sounds like a good place to learn. Might I ask the company?

Yep, I guess that is pretty ironic. If your roles are open to London/remote, I would be happy to take a look

Maybe if you make it known that you have some Clojure projects and that it might have even a possibility of a future with you, you might be able to attract and hire some good devs

I had this realization about 10 years ago when I had to do a shop in an unfamiliar London supermarket on a Saturday. In that circumstance I'm basically doing their warehousing for them with no knowledge of their layout at the same time as 100s of other people all moving in their own inefficient patterns around the space. This is pretty stupid.