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I'm wary rather than skeptical I think. There's clearly value here. Whether we're paying the true costs or not, however, won't be clear until all the VC fumes have cleared. Much li…

Yeah, RCS was what, early 80s? Devs I knew were mostly on CVS by mid 90s and around the time Subversion became common (late 90s) things like PVCS and Visual Source Safe were starting to be required …

Sigh, enforced is always top down, sure, if you want to be pedantic. But normally the process starts with enthusiastic devs, propagates out through other devs until a consensus is reached (e.g. sour…

It's a very odd take. Not sure on what basis the author's blaming Trump for it either (and I'm no fan of the orange guy).

Nope, all of those things were dev driven until they'd diffused out as far as management and only then did they start getting enforced top-down. Often in awful enterprise software ways actually.

It's an excellent point - but a lot of the pressure to use AI in orgs is top-down and I've never seen that with useful tech tools before; they always percolated outward from the more adventu…

Well, OPERA was 700ish km, but had Cern at one end. If one has this as the sole goal and wanted to do it real-time over 12,000km is it "engineering-possible" vs "theoretically-possible&…

> and that is an upper bound I've often wondered if for HFT or similar it might be worth pointing a particle accelerator at the floor and going for direct-line transit times. I'm fairly s…

The Hero-1 in Whiz Kids made me desperately want one back when I was about 11. I'm not sure why I wanted it, but I was very sure. As a hat tip to my.past self I picked up a Hero Jr when it popp…

That would be fun. I think a lot of non-tech people didn't realise that the old Nokia default text message notification was the morse for S.M.S. (short message service). That was a worryingly lon…

This is a bit like the "my grandad smoked a pack a day and it never hurt him" anecdotes where, yes, they're remarkable because it killed all the others who tried it !

> I have had an inkling to use some Machine learning system to gather the drinks options from each In Our Time. This is a thought of whimsical genius. I do hope you go for it...

Python, not Java.

I've never understood the enthusiasm for gradle over maven. My best guess is that some people just hate XML that much

I've long enjoyed the blooper from Richard Lederer's collection that asserted "The sun never sets on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the east and the sun sets in the…

Exactly; a very occasionally flakey test may be tolerable but is almost by definition not well written . The commonest type I see is one where instead of waiting until expected behaviour is exhib…

How about you fix the flakey tests? The tests I'd delete are the ones that just test that the code is written in a particular way instead of testing the expected behaviour of thr code.

I emailed the site to see what the policy is. Generally I agree with you, but in rare cases like the article that this one is meta-commentary to it might perhaps have been justifiable to allow it? I s…

I might have to watch the London one - my mind was blown a few years ago to learn that in the Fleet River sewer (storm drain really) you can still see the barge mooring rings from before the river was…

This seems to be the spec in question: https://picture.iczhiku.com/resource/eetop/wYKESjuFHlDHkbcM.... …

I don't think I agree; some of what's recommended here is what stops dysfunctional orgs from getting their shit together. Plus every developer believes they're a special and insightful …

> has not bothered > This is not a judgement "did not" is not judgemental but "did not bother" strongly implies judgement. I do think it's true, however, that had Linus …

Yeah, I'm vaguely aware of this - jsut because of the "S" in SD standing for "Secure" as a euphemism for DRM stuff. From your link it seems likely that most cards probably don…

Related discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35610243 I didn't see that the first time around so this re-post was interesting, thanks! There's a bit of…

I was rather expecting it to be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJnejHhjtI

Kafka does not use Spring.

Typically the website displays a QR code which you scan with the BankID app - the app prompts you to authenticate and you use a fingerprint or a 6 digit pin code to confirm. The app has a certificate …

Not always that simple - for example if you want to automatically load /foo/index.html when the browser requests /foo/ you'll need to either use the web serving feature of S3 …