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obligatory reference: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/a_case_of_the_mumps

A while ago I made an interactive demonstration of how encoding with factoradic works https://ilcavero.github.io/ seems like I found someone else who thought it was a fun thing to …

I made this recently to demo the concepts of Lehmer codes and factoradic number system. Built using scalajs and laminar.

full economic collapse happened in Venezuela and it didn't loosen the authoritarian grip

In my organization AppDynamics' reputation couldn't be worse, they could never deliver on their promises even after months of consultancy, never ending back and forth with support …

akka/erlang actors are not equivalent to go routines, a closer concurrency mechanism would be futures/tasks

Count me in as somebody with taste that knows something about film and finds this movie a waste of talent. The real Kubrick underrated masterworks are paths of glory and the killin…

looks like oh-my-zsh

I was looking on doing the same but ended up doing some hackish bash script, as in: byobu new-session -d; byobu split-window -d; byobu split-window -dh; byobu Getting it to run a c…

this one of the many examples of the anti-intellectualism that is so pervasive in the software development scene. Are the inflexible, detail-prescripting methodologies he describes…

specially when used as a synonym of "defrauding", as in most "growth hacks"

+1 on MusicBee, can't praise it enough

what about functions passed as arguments? quite a basic technique and I don't think it passes this test.

I have been working in the past few months with angular and have nothing but good things to say other than complaints about the docs and the complexity of directives/transclusion. …

For those of us waiting for the continuation course, Odersky seems to be planning one for the fall. https://twitter.com/odersky/status/315048673069379585

I wonder if car technicians go around making weak analogies with software development to justify their industry practices. Something like: "Why do software developers have compiler…

you say you are lead developer then you should be able to get heard then, write a letter to your boss with all the improvement you can help produce in the company (write only 3-4 i…

no it isn't, check this out http://nocookielaw.com/

good to know, was breaking my head to figure out why the auto-dj feature from musicBee was not working (it shuffles your mp3s and adds some recommended streams from last.fm). it wi…

this is simply awesome, not only cause of the great visualization of data but because the interactions to model your scenarios blew me away. Really need to learn this D3 stuff ASAP…

don't like this at all, it looks like a step backwards, let the windows manager handle windows instead of doing it inside your webapp, next thing you know they are going to add a t…

so, how do I protect myself against this?

great conextualization philbarr, also I would add that CS is just one of the foundations of software engineering but certainly not the only one and many would think not even the mo…

agreed, Irish times interprets it as tongue in cheek http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0920/break...