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s3m4jon JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of our industry (2017)

It's also the same logic you can observe everywhere in business : pushing down responsabilities, outsource resources, leave a paper trail etc.

s3m4jon Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?

To my eyes just having generics and hiding away pointers and vtables make them very high level, but I think my argument was more about what is coming with the language (aka their standard libraries) and I've definitely seen people ignore the available libraries, even in python.

s3m4jon Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?

I've seen people write Java or C# like I would write plain C. Those first two are insanely high level with large standard libraries.

s3m4jon Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS

Generally you could do something like `select(identifier).parentNode` ? pseudo language because I'm tired

s3m4jon Dotfile madness

So you're running everything under `/home/Epskampie/Epskampie` ?

s3m4jon Dotfile madness

It's often worse on Windows, since dotfiles aren't hidden and meny dev tools assume they'll be running on *nix even when they support Windows. https://imgur.com/a/Im6G20B capture from my windows box of my $HOME.

s3m4jon Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science

Is it falsifiable ? Is it testable even ?

s3m4jon Show HN: Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL

>MIT/BSD, on the other hand, are about developers.

Also, as a developer without much legalese, MIT/BSD are easier to read and understand.

s3m4jon Ethereum is Doomed (2016)

And grey areas are useful to society, they allow some imprecisions.

s3m4jon A hundred million cars run curl

aria2 https://aria2.github.io/

But maybe keep to what's installed by default in your image ?

s3m4jon Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months

1. You search info about "this" in your browser

2. You install "this" with your package manager

3. Even if the "this" installed wasn't the "this" you read about in your browser, it still came from your package manager repos, which you could consider safe, and you'll be able to uninstall it cleanly.

Then I look at the Windows Store and weep.

s3m4jon Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

Well. That's a mess, I should have read more.

s3m4jon Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

But it isn't actually using that in the app, it's using the https://github.com/przemyslawpluta/node-youtube-dl npm package.

s3m4jon Ytdl-webserver: Webserver for downloading YouTube videos

It's not been my experience, but it is changed often enough that if you don't use it often, then yes it might give that impression.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commits/master/youtube_dl/...

s3m4jon Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless

$2B represents the tiniest fraction of Bezos worth. (1.1%)

As another said, "color me unimpressed". He could double that and still be the richest man alive. He could triple that. He could quadruple that...

s3m4jon Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless

$2B divided by 600k employees would be more than $3000, which is actually huge for many people.

s3m4jon EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due to FIFA's loot boxes

Actually I think that's a common salesman trick ? Put the product in the hand of the customer, so that they feel they already have it, then they have to pay.

s3m4jon Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support

[Twitter account] being proven by [Twitter account] kinda defeats the point. You'd want, at a glance, to be able to tell that this account has been linked and proven to belong to all of these other accounts, on these other independent websites.

s3m4jon x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu

Not necessarily "write" assembler, but understand it, and, as always we are not at the end of history. New dominant CPU architecture could arise, people understanding and writing assembler will always be needed.

s3m4jon On Software Tooling

It's the same as "resume driven development" but at enterprise scale ?

s3m4jon CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (2015)

It's a documented bug that every system seeking to replace the original should have to reimplement, else other systems depending on it would break.

s3m4jon Why the Future of Data Storage Is Still Magnetic Tape

Last year I took a subscription to Backblaze, (incidentally) I have around 8TB of data, I have a gigabit upload (a real one), but Backblaze servers are on the other side of the planet for me. It took around 3 or 4 months to upload it all.

That's to say, there's more to it than upload speed, if Backlaze had servers in Europe I'd recommend it much more than I do.

s3m4jon LiteTree: SQLite with Branches

https://www.sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=tip

In the generated makefile there should be the tests targets, I guess. In the Makefile.in I see the targets : tcltest, quicktest, test, valgrindtest, smoketest and many others

s3m4jon The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined

Every piece of historic evidence tends to prove that higher education for an ever growing part of the population seem to correlate with better living standards.

s3m4jon What makes Paris look like Paris? (2012)

Having lived there my whole life (26 years), have you walked ? Paris (stricto sensu) is small. You can walk the longest distance east-west in an afternoon, and buildings do change. Like comparing the 20th district with the 15th, have you not seen buildings change ? Montmartre and Montsouris ? There's not 2 hours of walking between these places.

For the best contrast start at Nation and taking either the subway line 2 (north) or 6 (south), get off every two stations. Between Monceau, La Chappelle and Nation if you don't see a difference...

s3m4jon Advocates say paper ballots are safest

It seems Spain and France have the exact same system.

s3m4jon Advocates say paper ballots are safest

That is also a solved problem. Polling places are only opened where representatives of all* candidates can be present plus sworn officials.

And if you think about it, you actually don't want to check that _your_ vote has been counted.

*reasonable exceptions exists

s3m4jon Advocates say paper ballots are safest

For example at the last presidential election last year there were 11 candidates, so there was a table with (simplifying) a pile of envelopes, 11 piles of papers (one for each candidate). Generally people don't take the whole 12 items with them. You would pick randomly between 2 or 11 papers (depending on your sense of theatrics) and the papers you're left with after the voting booth, in my case I crumble them and throw them in a bin. Crumbled paper can't be counted. Some people keep them in their pockets until they get home.

s3m4jon Advocates say paper ballots are safest

"Congratulations, you have invented the most expansive pencil"

In France we don't actually write anything. When we enter the room we're given one paper per candidate with the name and logo printed clearly. Once in the voting booth we put one or none in the enveloppe. That's it. Problem solved.