Viewing profile — drderidder

Including your future self.

An oldie but a goodie. The site has been around since 2011. What’s great about this site is the general idea that you don’t necessarily need a framework (ie React) for everything.

“Never rewrite” is a popular cargo-cult that sprang from a well known blog article that made the rounds some years ago. The urge to rewrite can be a naive impulse for sure, but the…

Sorry, but it’s not out of date. Based on very recent extensive travel and living there. But yes of course there are additional places to get cash (yubinkyoku etc) and various rail…

Basically no. But if your company has a Japanese branch and is willing to transfer you there, then maybe. But be aware that visiting Japan as a tourist vs living and working there …

SevenEleven ATMs generally take foreign interac debit cards if you need cash (yen). Most places accept credit cards. When given the option on the debit card machine to pay in yen o…

Of course. Foreign keys are elementary. Try recursive CTEs. You can get ridiculous performance gains by not having to marshal data into the application space. It’s all about using …

This may not be a popular comment, but if you have to ask, then no. In Canada at least, engineering is a regulated profession. No one can legally call themselves an engineer withou…

My first ever mobile app was an experimental bit of Android Malware. It got demo'd by my colleague at Blackhat [1]. I'm definitely not a hacker, but with a few basic tricks I was a…

Excellent post, if only for the fact that its a great way to share "what works for me" at a time when most of our local JS/Web meetup groups have been put on hold due to the pandem…

Nobody seems to be talking much about favipiravir, which seems a bit like not-invented-here syndrome. If it stood to make a lot of money for some US big pharma company I suspect we…

New motto: "Don't get caught being evil".

After using TypeScript for the past couple of years, I've come to see it as simply another "embrace and extend" maneuver by Microsoft carve off a chunk of JavaScript mindshare, pre…

It matters a bunch. All kinds of noise can get picked up over cables and bleed into your audio path on a digital rig. It happens all the time just with power cables which is why ev…

Lack of soil accumulation does not mean the soil evaporates into thin air; it is taken up by the watershed and redistributed downstream. The same carbon cycle is in effect; accumul…

From experience, and supported by the Sqlite docs, I can tell you that trying to run sqlite on files on an NFS mounted filesystem will not work. See section 2.1 of this document [1…

It doesn't get more than a passing mention, but section 2.1 is worth noting. Don't try to use sqlite files on an NFS mounted drive.

That's basically, well, not true. When trees break down they contribute to soil organic matter. Approx 58% of SOM is carbon (SOC) making soil one of the largest carbon sinks on the…

That's a fair and valid point. I should have expanded on the list of possible factors to include living in a "bad" environment in general, where "bad" can be defined by a huge numb…

All I can say is he must be a really good programmer if he needed to deliberately install logic bombs to make his software malfunction after a period of time. I've got my hands ful…

No doubt pollution will make you sick, but I'm inclined to think that depression has a lot to do with just living in an over-crowded, unattractive, big industrial city environment,…

Don't confuse a US-centric view of medical technology development, western medical journals, US trials etc with something developed in Japan. This is Toshiba, working with the (Jap…

They're slides intended for a live presentation. You can use space bar or arrow keys to flip through as well. We've found this format to work well for our 2000+ member meetup group…

This simple intro to machine learning with node.js has been one of the more popular talks I've given: http://73rhodes.github.io/talks/MachineLearning/#/

Somebody needs to tell this guy about a thing called a "database".