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I guess I don't really have an opinion about that. Certainly an exact representation of decimal numbers was essential, and was something we needed to implement at the time, but goi…

I seem to remember that we were aware that fractional commodities were going away, but exact rational values would still be important to be able to represent historical holdings an…

I committed to the GnuCash codebase pretty regularly in the 1999-2002 era... I think maybe I actually implemented the fractional representation that the article discusses? Not sure…

One thing I think is missing is an understanding of why there is such a top-down push for timelines: because saying "we aren't sure when this feature will be delivered" makes sales…

As it turns out, the magic sauce that makes everything taste better is just ketchup. It's good (maybe even indispensable) for some things. Please don't go "ketchup native" on my ic…

How else are you going to liquidity-stalk that company you left with some options or even shares? I take my first cup of coffee with a little tea-leaf reading based on the activity…

I feel some genuine grief about what GTK has become. It started out as a toolkit for application development and leaned heavily into the needs of the C developer who was writing an…

I am still skeptical about the value of LLM as coding helper in 2025. I have not dedicated myself to an "AI first" workflow so maybe I am just doing it wrong. The most positive met…

I don't know that the hardware is dead yet. They got a cash infusion last year and there are occasional hardware updates in their Discord. It's just a slow process with 1-2 enginee…

There's no hurt feelings like the hurt feelings of a junior engineer, who has spent the last year kvetching about how much they hate working on legacy junk, hearing someone else re…

I ran face-first into this effect at a successful startup where I started as employee number 9. When everyone can sit around one big table, you don't have to consciously polish you…

You can still buy bikes like that. There are plenty of people still making frame sets that will work with standard drive train components, standard sized stems, and plain ol handle…

I worked for an Intel spinoff whose CEO was a former high-level Intel exec from the 1990-2010 era. Internal goss attributed much of Intel's decision to stay out of the iPhone to hi…

I love the developer experience of Dear ImGUI, even though I use it through Python wrappers that confuse things sometimes. It just slices like a sword through several layers of oft…

I was tech lead on a team with a guy like this. We sat down and had a long discussion and whiteboard sesh about a piece of code that could/should have been about 500 lines of code …

For medical procedures, I think it makes sense to check ID - just for the potential testimonial "audit trail" in case of actual or purported malpractice. "Are you CERTAIN that the …

If you are working on a large collaborative project, switching between branches can mean needing to rebuild your container images. It's not something I do every day, but it happens…

> But it's a bit disappointing to see that it's still pretty much a one-man project. I don't know much about this project and I have never used it. But in my experience as a develo…

You can't really have a GOAT in a creative field -- I would never ever want to diminish Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan -- but really Ella is the GOAT. She just makes pe…

Marathons have been my tire for about 15 years of city and road riding, and I have only flatted once -- direct hit on a nail IIRC. I am always amazed at their longevity and reliabi…

I have used unstable as my daily driver since they named it "unstable", which I don't even remember what that was but at least 20 years ago. I have never (yet!) gotten myself into …

I feel a lot of sympathy for the GNOME developers. They are 15 years past the "let's build something cool!" stage and into the long, long grind of support and compatibility and bei…

I don't think the meaning is anything terribly sophisticated. I read it simply to mean that if you invest money in the company, that's money that is at risk of going poof if the co…

The graphical dataflow languages that are popular for music and audio programming (thinking Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor etc) do this in a way that makes the value of "namelessness"…

I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined variable, assumes someth…