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Ironically, I had to locate the X and close two video ad overlays in order to calm the screen enough to enjoy the article. And even then, the right part of my screen was flashing a…

When I was a young kid in the early 1980s, my grandpa had a large book about Darwin's voyages and the Theory of Evolution. The book probably dated from the 1950s or 1960s and conta…

Tried it out on some REST response from a local test server. And, well, as much as I applaud the effort, I also think that I'll stick to my text editor for browsing JSON data and t…

> Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things Yeah, well, Communism was meant to put an end to poverty and class injustice. Brexit was meant to restore glory to Britai…

Did a my first paid software development pretty much exactly 30 years ago, specifically I was hired to port a word processor from the Amiga to the Commodore 64. So my experience is…

In all fairness, I don’t think “crypto” should be banned as such. Partly because it’s a loose and descriptive term, unlike asbestos, which is well defined and tangible. So a blanke…

I brought it up because it’s close to Buenos Aires and because I’m under the impression that Uruguay is a pretty well run place. I’m assuming there to already be a lot of connectio…

Asbestos solved an actual problem, as did freon. Both also created larger problems and were eventually banned. We could have given them some more time, I guess. Maybe, if given ano…

If you need to cross a border to fetch your hard currency (or equivalent amount of goods) then what is the value add of using crypto compared to, say, opening a bank account in Mon…

Tired: Fyre Festival Wired: Coinbros on Fire Festival

A lot of "mights" in that article. Sure, index funds are freeloading a bit in the sense that they don't allocate any resources to scrutinizing the prospecta of each individual comp…

Skimmed most of it but still learned some useful stuff. Will keep it in my bookmarks. Also, would suggest mentioning gitbash in the Windows section. You get it for free with git so…

I'm currently experimenting with migrating a side project to now 2.0. It has been a learning experience, for sure. But so far I think that it has been time well spent. My overarchi…

At one time I was contracting at a place where every process was broken, from IT to management to testing. It wasn't really a place that attracted talented developers. There were a…

In my experience, not having German as my first language, you can get pretty far with guesses and rules of thumb as far as the genders are concerned. With experience your guesses w…

This. A spaghetti monster which solves a real business problem can be improved, chunked into pieces, gradually rewritten, whatever improves maintenance. If need be, there will be f…

Here in .dk-land we have several Blue Apron style businesses. The most prominent one started out more than two decades ago by as a kind of subscription service -- every week you'd …

My 5 cents on this: - Usually, for large chunks of work, you want to bring in more people. Both because they tend to involve several modules or several layers of the stack, and ver…

> it makes them easily replaceable I don't think a developer is ever "easily replacable" (discounting obviously incompetent people which shouldn't have been hired in the first plac…

> If the market price of gold increases, the production of it will increase (though to a lesser degree of other commodities). Yet the total amount of gold on this planet is finite,…

Well, the whole thing is computer data, stored on media. Already these days it's hard to find hardware to read the 5.25" floppy disks that I stored my code on in the late 1980s, an…

Further advantages of gold over bitcoin: 1) Has been used for millennia. Bitcoin was invented ten years ago. 2) Accepted as valuable by most of human population. Bitcoin mostly as …

Bingo. Just like a casino doesn't "believe" in blackjack, craps or poker. They'll just set up the tables to match what people want to play. In the Goldman Sachs case it's even easi…

Absolutely agree. A PUT method carrying an open/closed flag would seem like a natural choice. Calling it any number of consecutive times with the same payload would be idempotent. …

Attila the Pun gave them a bad name