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You're absolutely right! This is the smoking gun.

I work for a consultancy that does vessel tracking as one of its main products, and yeah it's expensive! afaik they have remote teams with sensors at key points and a bunch of peop…

Yes, this is well put. I was heavily influenced by Casey back in 2014 and the advice I give juniors now is always that first point about "getting the clowns out of the car". There'…

Interesting take, and there is some truth to the "practical vs ideological" split, but I feel like it's a bit mixed up here. The actual division I see is between programmers arguin…

I moved from startup to enterprise a couple of years ago. I never realised a job could be simultaneously so easy, while also being so frustrating. It feels like there's very little…

Probably my single favourite programming article.

> Builder hired 300 internal engineers and kicked off building internal tools, all of which could have simply been purchased Tempted to say there was a bit of corruption here, craz…

Oh I totally understand that. Public sector IT is littered with failed projects, massive overspends and lasting functional problems. There are numerous examples from the last few y…

Interesting, though I have no idea why the government is using AWS in the first place. This isn't a startup hacking away trying to find PMF, or dealing with unpredictable marketing…

I don't really agree with this. There may not be a mathematically perfect solution to the problem of paying artists, but that doesn't preclude criticism. Apart from anything else, …

I agree that 2000 was a cleaner overall design. Adding realism for the sake of it is a dead end. That said, there are a lot of games where the details of the simulation compound on…

Completely agree. I'm frustrated that Oculus and VR tech in general has been lumped in, via the "metaverse", with a bunch of less useful and less interesting crypto/NFT stuff. All …

I'm living in the UK (Edinburgh) and I definitely feel like everything has gotten worse. The facts - on waiting times, strike days, inflation, wage stagnation, inequality etc. - sp…

Haha yeah, I made something similar for my own use. I bet thousands of people saw the ChatGPT interface and instinctively wanted to pipe stuff / save it easily without fussing with…

Agreed. I think the (now obviously justified) cynicism over blockchain hype has led a lot of left-leaning people to see AI as the next bubble. It doesn't help that major non-techni…

People will complain about political correctness, but this is just the market and intellectual property law in action. In my experience, the ‘left’ doesn’t want the public sphere t…

I always wondered if it was a mistake for Facebook to try to rapidly casualise VR after acquiring Oculus. If they spent even a small fraction of their metaverse billions developing…

This practice led to a big defamation case involving a Scottish politician. Seems like the company involved was basically a tax avoidance scheme. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot…

The original Pokémon games were deep and interesting RPGs that could nevertheless be played by children. They were hugely successful because they were genuinely well crafted games.…

I think it's a better way of getting VR off the ground than the "social" mass market stuff that Facebook is pursuing. The industry should focus on building high quality niche stuff…

This is a really great game, if you can get past the ancient interface. Has a surprisingly tight core loop and a nice, pared down approach to 'grand strategy'. Despite all the butt…

This is very interesting and, as someone currently working in political reporting/summarising, also terrifying! Good thing I can code.