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bondolo

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aka Mike Duigou. Software is where the magic happens. Enigmatic tooting almost certainly does not refer to anybody who you might know.
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bondolo, to random
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Looks like he needs a coffee

bondolo,
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@stuartmarks It was only 730AM, about an hour after sunrise.

bondolo, to random
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When you spend 30 minutes debugging something because someone elseโ€™s boolean method parameter naming is a double negative.

Cmastication, to random
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After watching AWS consultants give training on using Glue to our engineers twice over a span of 3 years, I have a new question I will ask at the beginning of every training: "what is your target user persona and what assumptions are you making about their tasks?"

Because I'm fatigued by the cargo cult behavior around cloud services. I'm watching smart people do dumb shit because they are LARPing a training class or doc that didn't state its assumptions.

bondolo,
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When struggling with a product I sometimes try to imagine the target customer in hopes that by adopting that persona I might be better able to understand the product.

Maybe it is ignorance or lack of imagination but often I can't decide who they were building for and become suspicious that they didn't know themselves.

Training examples are often telling. If your reaction to each example isn't "Wow, this is great, I can imagine how to use this." then one wonders why they bothered building it.

seanjmullan, to random
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We are looking to hire a developer experienced in crypto and security to work on Java Security! We have an opening in USA or Dublin, Ireland. We have a lot of exciting work so please check it out and let your friends and colleagues know.

https://eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/jobsearch/job/228172?utm_medium=jobshare

bondolo,
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@seanjmullan This is a great opportunity to work with an excellent team! Any mid-career Java developer currently working in cryptography should jump on this!

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I guess my domains moved away from Google Domains, where are we migrating to?

bondolo,
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@Migueldeicaza I have been satisfied with joker.com for more than twenty years.

dabeaz, to random
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Does anyone actually write graphics libraries anymore? I mean, for fun or just for learning?

bondolo,
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@dabeaz I know that @laurent_bourges has been doing work on the production-quality Marlin renderer https://github.com/bourgesl/marlin-renderer for years

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I went to the orange site. Figured โ€œmaybe they have some good observations about Appleโ€™s announcement todayโ€.

I broke my cardinal rule: only feed your mind good information. Donโ€™t pollute it with garbage.

And friends, I scrolled for 15 minutes, and it is a waste-yard of incoherence.

I think I became significantly dumber from reading it.

Never again.

bondolo,
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@Migueldeicaza Orange site is always entitlement and bad takes on parade with a festoon of wannabe founders practising their bootlicking.

parismarx, to random
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๐Ÿ’ฅ FINAL FOUR ๐Ÿ’ฅ

Weโ€™ve reached the semi-finals. Itโ€™s time to choose who will head to the final round!

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ VOTE NOW: https://forms.gle/CP7XV9q3oS54qKWJ8

bondolo,
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@stuartmarks @igb @parismarx I prefer double or triple elimination because it reduces matchup issues and also means that they also end up not just being losers but two or three time losers.

bondolo, to random
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I have been reading a lot more lately and a lot of social and period novels. They have opened my eyes a bit.
As bad as we might believe that things are these days the world is a better place than it was 50 or 100 years ago. It is far from perfect and very uneven but MLK was right, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." and it has done so in significant ways even in the span of our lifetimes. Don't give up hope.

arstechnica, to random
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The race between Intel, Samsung, and TSMC to ship the first 2 nm chip

Samsung and Intel believe this is their best chance to close the game with TSMC.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/the-race-between-intel-samsung-and-tsmc-to-ship-the-first-2nm-chip/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

bondolo,
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@arstechnica even if Intel were to win they would pair it with a companion motherboard chipset that is absolute shit as they have done repeatedly for the last forty years. Theyโ€™d insist that you install their warp drive into a Ford Pinto

igb, to acab
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Rise and grind!

Just kidding.

@jay and I set our clocks back a couple hours and did a 9AM show. Well-rested and over-caffeinated we talked about corporate conference room naming conventions, jury duty (), 's joke of a GenAI ("Grok"), Keith 's case of brainworms, and the sad demise of . We also ran out of disk space in the middle of the show so there's a rather abrupt cut about halfway through.

Follow @live for more

https://archive.org/embed/ian-and-jay-space-out-2023-12-09

bondolo,
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@stuartmarks @igb @jay @live As I recall there were also a couple of mistakes with rooms being on the wrong floor for their names. Also "The Firewall" conference room and the executive demo room on the third floor (fully stocked bar!)

bondolo, to random
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bondolo, to random
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Did something just now I havenโ€™t had to do since 1986. I got off a bus mid-route because of motion sickness. I then skipped the next two heading my direction waiting for urge to puke to subside. At least it wasnโ€™t -20C or raining.

igb, to random
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Me and @jay^H^H^H Dark-Wing give thanks for all the dumb stuff on the Internet: OpenAI, "Q*", Bret Taylor, Vernor Vinge, computers...there's a lot of stupid things in the world right now.

https://archive.org/embed/ian-and-jay-spaceout-2023-11-25

bondolo,
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@stuartmarks @igb @regehr @TheDon @jay I can't believe that you haven't read "Deepness" yet. There's a part where they talk about the 9000 year old C Standard Library time functions and maintenance engineeringโ€ฆand I am not even the least bit kidding. "Children of the Sky" has a bit about problems with prompt engineering for LLMs written in 2011. Amazing stuff.

Cmastication, to random
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Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame totally changed my opinion of LV. Now I want to retire there and spend my golden years wrenching on old Gottlieb machines.

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bondolo,
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@Cmastication I love that place. It is a "must visit" for every trip to Vegas for me.

bondolo, to Java
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I was wishing again for annotations on generic type arguments again. Of course it was because someone put a null into a List<String>.

bondolo,
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@gohlisch If we could go back in time it seems that the extent to which nulls were accommodated by the Java Collections Framework in 1.2 was the juncture that made null use much more prevalent today than it would have been if the null-hostility that earlier collection classes (Hashtable, etc.) had had been continued. JCF got some things right about nulls (Collections.emptyList()) but nulls in collections wasn't one of them.

bondolo, to random
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Please don't share news or article links wrapped in Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. aggregation links. The original source needs the advertising revenue more than the parasite aggregators.

bondolo, to random
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For the second time in my life a hummingbird has considered that my face might be edible. It is a weird experience to be licked by a tiny hovering bird. The sound of their wings is amazing!

bondolo,
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@stuartmarks The previous hummingbird, more than a decade ago, stayed about 20 cm away from my head. The one this morning got up close really fast. Seeing it come at me out of the corner of my eye I was about to swipe at my face when I hesitated and it hovered right next to my cheek. I saw his tongue shoot out a couple of times before feeling a tiny tickle on my cheek. The buzzing of the wings was amazing but I felt no "wind" from them.

Cmastication, to random
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Every time I touch Power BI I walk away flabbergasted that this is an enterprise tool that actual adults use in the real world. It is absolutely unintelligible to me. The most trivial things like โ€œgroup this date/time field by day before plottingโ€ seem impossible. Googling is horrible because of the false positives and vague language. Iโ€™m going to end up coding a Voila notebook instead, I guess.

bondolo,
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@Cmastication I feel the same about QuickSight. I honestly wonder what planet the people who designed it are from or who they thought they were building it for.

igb, to random
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Up until 2AM re-reading this wonderful book.

bondolo,
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@igb One of those books that regularly comes to mind for decades after reading.

bondolo, to random
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You do a far greater thing by avoiding adding complexity to a system than by promising to remove it later.

bondolo, to random
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Does every modern software stack feel like living in a crumbling tower made of turd bricks?

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