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Distribution of art (particularly digital) is a recent phenomenon. Prior to that, art in human history was one-off. Are we just going back to that time? Similarly with music, prior…

Yep. They forget there are all sorts of "families" and some are very dysfunctional.

I'm working on a Tournament Manager for Pickleball at http://pickleballtourneypro.pages.dev because the current incumbent is very difficult for non-technical people (aka volunteers…

I did Kyokushin karate to Shodan. The board we broke were solid pine boards. They are definitely not "cut". My technique was a little off, and I wrecked my knuckles for months. The…

My only advice is (to quote Arnold Schwarzenegger) is to be useful. To yourself, your wife, family, pets, friends, job (people), hobby groups, community. Produce things/knowledge u…

"Having kids is the greatest thing you will ever do" is a binary "True" in a probabilistic world, so almost guaranteed to be wrong for a large number of cases. Having kids is not f…

This is my experience too. I hadn't been rejected from a job since starting work in the late 90s. Significant experience from coding (which I still do) to startup exec level. Multi…

I just got "Slay the Spire", a deck-building, casual, rogue-like and it's awesome. Can play a little or a lot at a sitting :-)

Nick Bostrom proposed the "Vulnerable World Hypothesis" which (amongst other things) says that a technology as powerful and accessible as AI requires mass surveillance to stop bad …

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I love Siri with Apple Maps in New Zealand /s Me: "Siri, give me directions to vaguely ethnic sounding café" where café is about 2km away. Siri: "Getting directions to other cafe i…

"Let’s go to bed and try again tomorrow" sounds like the epitome of being human to me. My new mantra.

In New Zealand, Apple Maps is the worst kind of useless, especially when paired with Siri. The Dumb and Dumber of the tech world. If I ask directions for a cafe within a 5km radius…

Long time laptop user. 2012 macbooks were solid. Just worked, never thought about them much. The 2017-18 macbook pros (touchbar) were complete rubbish. Everything was rubbish. Keyb…

I found microservices had the benefit of increasing release cadence and decreasing merge conflicts. Are there complications? Sure. Are they manageable? Relatively easily with corre…

re: finances. Stick 79% into index funds, 10% in bonds/bank deposits and 1% in cash . Donate a little to buskers et al, things that make you feel good. Then forget about it. You do…

This statement assumes the only bad outcome from COVID is death.

Thanks for the article. Curious how you ensure dev outputs match up with other (external) deadlines, for example, the sales/marketing teams firing up a promotion of your new functi…

Thanks for that. I'm talking about the difference between hitting the deadline on Monday versus Friday. How to incentivise that? ie, do half an hour more work for a week, or skip t…

How to make developers want to hit their deadlines with quality? Startup land. There was no feedback loop that rewarded developers to meet the estimates. Stock options weren't an o…