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huuu··on Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools
Somehow I think the foreword of Christopher Alexander is very emotional. I cannot express why.

To me the key is joy. The joy of writing, maintaining and using software.

huuu··on Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
What you call privacy might be called fraud in some countries. That's what my question is about.
huuu··on Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
Doesn't this create a risk of committing fraud and identity theft in some countries?

I can understand it wouldn't be a crime to create a random email address but creating a fake house address and using this for payments sounds a little tricky.

huuu··on Introducing the HP Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution
In the mean time Carbon (http://carbon3d.com/) has also 'reinvented' 3D printing but can show a working model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2thSsQrZUM

I think Carbon will change 3D printing because they provide better chemical / structural (layer less) properties and better speed so it is more suitable for production models.

huuu··on Reason: A new interface to OCaml
Edit: the page now works in FF.
huuu··on Reason: A new interface to OCaml
It's not the gifs it's the scroll event listener causing a redraw every time.
huuu··on Hackers Claim They Can Read Encrypted WhatsApp and Snapchat Messages
End to end encryption means from the moment you press send to the moment the receiver views the message.

So they could listen to the keyboard and the screen to 'read' the message before it is sent.

Nothing new here.

huuu··on Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable
A lot of cultures are telling stories of people over 200 years old.

It's remarkable that those stories have some things in common. For example live span decreases after a 'big flood' or another big event.

So some people think that climate also might account for how long we live.

And even today some people claim to be very old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_claims

huuu··on A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years
They installed an airlock to keep changes to a minimum.

Edit: a double airlock

huuu··on My name still causes SQL errors
I had to think about the database design of ProcessWire (PHP CMS).

It uses one table for identifiers and field tables for all data connected to the identifier. To store a user with a username, a password and an email address it uses 3 tables. One for the username (identifier), one for the password and one for the email address.

The only safe way to insert a user is by using transactions.

huuu··on My name still causes SQL errors
I understand what you are saying but this has nothing to do with names but with SQL injections, escaping and prepared statements (the lack of).
huuu··on Finding Similar Music Using Matrix Factorization
Agreed. I think suggestions should be based on mood and emotion.

For example if I like 'dark' music I might as well like a song from a techno artist and a classical orchestra.

But this can be very complex. What some people find aggressive music others find a little too soft.

EDIT: by the way: because of the above I also think a recommendation for a song is better than for a band.

huuu··on Why most mobile development projects fail
Interactive first has the same problem as design first.

I believe both design, interaction and logic could be done agile.

Simplified: The use must login. So we need a screen with a login method. What fields are needed? What should happen on interaction with the form elements? How should the form elements look?

The whole team of graphic, interaction and logic designers work together with the client to make this happen.

huuu··on Why most mobile development projects fail
You are assuming that vector design can't be 3D-ish.

The parent is refering to the fact that it's much easier to make a design work on more resolutions with vectors.

huuu··on We asked 15,000 people how they're learning to program
I have to agree.

My wife stopped working because she want's to be a full time mother (which is hard work by the way).

I also try to work at home as much as possible because kids grow up so fast it's easy to miss the first baby steps.

Yes we have less money to save and have to skip some things once in a while but it's worth it.

huuu··on Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
No. A private key must be kept private.
huuu··on Craig Wright's signature is worthless
What if Gavin choose to play with Wright to keep the real identity of Sathosi hidden?
huuu··on Does the Database Community Have an Identity Crisis?
Do you know what tables in your DB need indexes and why? Do you know how to optimally set up your partitions? Do you know why your one query runs fast for a week and then suddenly runs slow, and what you can do about it?

Yes. And I'm absolutely not an expert.

But I think you are missing an important goal of RDBs: data integrity. This is why people like to use this storage method over a NoSQL method.

Need to store subscriptions or news items? Then NoSQL might be fine. But when you need to store data relations, well thats why it's called Relational Data Base.

I advice you never to stop learning even when stuff seems difficult.

huuu··on Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
I'm sorry but I want to point out you are not middle class. There is only one class: humans.
huuu··on FOUT is back in Chrome 50
'Fout' is also Dutch for 'error / mistake' ;)
huuu··on Hidden motors in cycling: Van den Dreissche banned for 6 years, titles stripped
No it's not.

The quote and your command are all based on feelings and assumptions.

huuu··on Email Isn’t the Thing We’re Bad At
Real friends don't care if you are on Facebook or not.
huuu··on Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, windows won’t close
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_door
huuu··on Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, windows won’t close
This was already happening 15 years ago.

I drove a Fiat Stilo on the highway when it suddenly decided to shift to 2nd gear because a gearbox failure occurred. It was a known software error.

huuu··on Why Thieves Steal Soap
Looked up some stats for you:

  ~40% is stolen by professionals
  ~28% is stolen by junks
That's why I used the words "I'm not sure this is always true." ;)

By the way, bike owners:

  US: ~18%
  NL: ~84%
huuu··on Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers
I heard from some architects that's the exact reason they stopped using photorealistic 3D renders. A lot of customers started to complain that the building looked totally different when finished.
huuu··on Why Thieves Steal Soap
I'm not sure this is always true.

In The Netherlands a lot of bikes are stolen because people are too lazy to walk.

Most of the time your stolen bike can be found again next to a bus stop or train station.

huuu··on Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers
A related article from 2013: http://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-stop-drawing-t...

"There are plenty of scientific reasons why skyscrapers don’t—and probably won’t—have trees, at least not to the heights which many architects propose. Life sucks up there. For you, for me, for trees, and just about everything else except peregrine falcons. It’s hot, cold, windy, the rain lashes at you, and the snow and sleet pelt you at high velocity."

Edit: it makes me wonder: what about grass. A lot of grass can live up to 2km.

huuu··on The anomaly of Barbarism: the brutality of Islamic terrorism has many precedents
"Perhaps what our culture lacks, in the end, is the ability to understand itself."

Unfortunately I think this is very true.

I'm not sure but I think our liberal thinking became money thinking. And when a lot of decisions are based on money the human factor is lost. Then it becomes hard to understand what our culture is about.

A small example is the way we build. A lot of buildings are made cheap, for status, and so on. This alienates us because we as humans don't fit in. But it can be hard to tell why we got the feeling we don't fit in. The ability to understand is lost.

huuu··on Kite – Programming Copilot
You might like ReSharper from JetBrains. I think it's the best I ever used.
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