Viewing profile — KiwiCoder

I've built a tool that analyses UK company accounts data to highlight various forms of unfair treatment of workers, such as serious wage decline in spite of soaring profits. All da…

I started programming on Zilog z80 when I was 11 years old, at school in NZ. I'm now 55, and I've been a programmer for all that time. I've worked as contractor, consultant, tech a…

Voluntarily playing Kd7 on move 5 instead of castling is maybe a human move (like a bong cloud) but at the time it seemed more like a move a stochastic parrot would make. https://l…

Never touched Haskell before, but found that path separators were needed to get this working (on WSL with Ubuntu if it matters) For example - capsPath coerce videoName ".en.vtt")) …

They way this report is framed made me angry. Stripe, first of all, your report misrepresents software development reality. You present software maintenance as a massive waste of t…

I will join the chorus - wkhtmltopdf has been working fine in production for many months, reliably producing thousands of 10+ page PDFs with cover pages, headers, footers, page num…

Suppose a simulated intelligence was indistinguishable from real intelligence. In what sense would it matter that it was a simulation and not real?

Doesn't the focus on data simply shift the problems you describe to telemetry decisions?

Taking large amounts (more than 1,000mg per day) of vitamin C can cause stomach pain, diarrhoea, flatulence. Source: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vitamins-minerals/Pages/Vitamin...…

I expect drones are now more relevant than satellites for localised imaging. For example http://www.cropcopter.co/uav-imagery-vs-satellite/

I'm easy to find. Finding someone local to you, well, you'll have to ask around. But how do you know if the recruiter is qualified to assess coding skills? >> Pretend you're a team…

I do a lot of recruiting, for both paid and volunteer coding roles. I've been hiring for about 13 years, and I've been coding professionally for about 25 years. Before that I coded…

In the past six months I've seen an uptick in the number of politically motivated software projects appearing on SocialCoder.org Examples; - CollAction [ http://socialcoder.org/9dy…

This article frames the question rhetorically. Of course we should not disadvantage gifted children by depriving them of tailored learning strategies etc. Why on earth would we eve…

I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend. Of course I'm speaking only from personal experience, but as both candidate and hiring…

Impressive that this is pure JS, however trying an image cut from the page itself gave this result > Dropan Enghsh Wage on (Ms page to OCR m Should be > Drop an English image on th…

Siri seems dumb because we are shown demos that suggest the tech is far more advanced than it actually is.

> after contacting Microsoft and AT&T to get my IP removed from their block lists Yikes. Isn't this exactly the problem with running your own email setup? And have you not found th…