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I think they're overlooking a very big issue which is trying to do any sort of business logic in a markup language is terrible. HTML is good for presentation, trying to embed logic…

Yeah he's so close to getting the idea that the World Bank and the neoliberal monetary policy caused this inequality.

On demand music as well. It's ironically lead to a bit of a monoculture with music that's concerning. Streaming arguably caused the whole kerfuffle with this year's Billboard list:…

You start to see "idioms" in the code. Common ways of doing things. You learn that taking the first element of a reverse of a list is the last element, per se. Like any language, w…

Yeah and if you no long use JIRA it's not useful. Whatever bug tracking software you use should allow for commits to be attached to bugs. But that should stay in the bug tracking s…

I really like Google's guidelines for commit messages because they enforce a style like this. It really makes dealing with legacy code much easier when you can look at past commits…

The crank is really interesting. It's such an off the wall choice for a user interface. It will be cool to see how developers take advantage of it.

The web was also a bit of a different place back then. I think there were people who were "power users" who used Firefox and Chrome and others who used IE because it was bundled wi…

I mean if you mean ARPAnet then yeah. The web was always a place for creative people to meet and talk about the eccentric stuff they were into.

I remember a few years back a common hackathon project was to use lex and yacc to make emoji languages. It was always cool to see what people do with that. Maybe there will be an A…

The Interface is a newsletter, that's why it seems all over the place.

I sort of wonder if using a heat gun in the area they thought was broken would have worked better. Then it would have been more localized and easier to control temperature-wise.

Yeah it would be more apt to say the list is "open source, environmentally conscious software".

I think part of it was the tone set by Linus. He had an attitude that on the surface seemed to be perfectionism but was really just abusive. It's good that he stepped back and reth…

That's fair. It was mainly the constraints of the medium that lead to ideas such as rock operas. Now that the constraints of physical storage are lifted we've seen new concepts.

They bring up something interesting which is how streaming has changed how music is made. Albums are now shorter with more songs, that nets more plays and more money. They also foc…

I think it's more that in a device that's so locked down this is a bad precedent. Cowtowing to governments is detrimental for everyone.

This is why I think debuggers are necessary. Without being able to see a full stack frame of information about variables it can be extremely difficult to debug when using other peo…

As a development platform this seems pretty awesome. Abstracting away compute from game development is going to open up a lot of opportunities.

The cost will change per game, so it could be that game's cost is associated with how much compute they need. I think it will probably be a monthly subscription based on the gym me…

Yeah Time Machine is great. I'm not sure that was the issue. I think it's that SSD's are more expensive.

This is also how filtering works, you map a function that returns 0 or 1 over the list. Then you can call where (&) and it will give you the indices where the function evaluates tr…

K is interesting in that unlike something like Java the hard part is not remembering the standard library. You start to learn idioms for how to do certain things as you use it more…

A concept in K that I wish more languages had is indexing with a list of indices. It always blows peoples' minds when I tell them how sorting works in K. You use grade (<) to retur…

There is an open source port of K called Kona: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona