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Lack of engineering talent + accessibility of the cloud + buzz words got us here. Looking forward to the end of this cycle. This is somewhat reminiscent of the abuse of higher leve…

It's funny to hear people, typically those with some stock involved, talk about how revolutionary 5G will be. Poor range and interference almost negate the benefits of increased sp…

Not sure pattern matching will age well. It seems to promote anti-OO design, may cause the switch statement to devolve into if/else, and creates another way to do the same thing.

Date is actually pretty good. * If you're reading UTC dates from the backend and displaying them in local time, new Date(year + 1900, month, day, hour, minute, second) works great.…

Rokenbok

I was looking for an apartment this weekend in NJ and found myself in an unfamiliar building with destination dispatch elevators. What would you personally press to exit?

Even babies? (To illustrate the extreme end of the spectrum.)

I'll go on... the 95/XP UI was meticulously crafted. It solved some real usability problems by drawing on metaphors to aid discovery. It was close to a language. I think what happe…

Bring back the classic start menu and UI and call it a day. The Windows UI is so inconsistent, tedious and un-metaphorical today.

My olde PHP sites are still running just fine.

I love the cool images they seem to always put together when they do this.

It's interesting that someone who is primarily using JavaScript in the backend is criticizing TypeScript's type system. There is a simple reason why TypeScript's type system is how…