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mikaellundin

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Maker of Software and gamer at heart. Author of the book Testing with F#

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thomasfuchs, to random
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The Microsoft Recall thing is just a stepping stone to send literally everything you see or write on your computer to Microsoft.

They desperately need more data to feed to their LLM moloch to show modest improvements and keep the lie that it “will reach human-level intelligence in 1-2 years” going for a few more years to milk the investors.

mikaellundin,
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@thomasfuchs I believe they mentioned in the presentation that all the recall data was local and processed locally as well? but I might be mistaken.

nixCraft, to random
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Why do so many people treat Excel as a database? 🤔

mikaellundin,
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@nixCraft because the UI of databases usually sucks, so you try to avoid them until you can’t.

mikaellundin, to Spotify
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Maybe you shouldn’t complain in media about how hard it is to hire people, just after you’ve laid off 1500 people.

mikaellundin, to random
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I would love the world to go back to 1993, and use the technology we had back then for the rest of our lives.

Before AOL. Before the iPhone. Before social media. Before cloud. Just computers doing computery things.

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mcc, to random
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Pictured: An advertisement for a Banksy exhibition has been defaced to add a political statement

mikaellundin,
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@mcc I did see that exhibition in Malmö like a year ago. Totally worth it. Would very much recommend.

mikaellundin, to random
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If Amazon, a book retailer, can be a cloud provider, then so can IKEA.

Remember, you heard it here first.

mikaellundin, to random
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I don’t use Tiktok, but I believe banning it is wrong.

Banning advertisers from invading your privacy, yes.

Banning foreign propaganda from indoctrinating citizens, yes.

Banning foreign spyware from being used as information warfare, yes.

But banning the application itself? No.

JenMsft, to random
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My superpower is that I'm able to fall asleep within seconds of lying down in bed every night

mikaellundin,
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@JenMsft me too! Yeah! 👊🏻 Also like you commented, I’m always exhausted. It’s awesome!

exchgr, to random
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it’s finally good friday, unlike all those other fridays 😒

mikaellundin,
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@exchgr all friday are good if they’re borderline weekends.

mikaellundin, to random
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Imagine you’re writing a book and on page 345 you make a grammar error. The paragraph becomes completely ineligible, and the whole plotline you had going falls apart. Now the ink smears and whole pages turns black, and actually the book catches fire and you cannot touch it without it bursting into flames.

This is what programming is like.

lauren, to random
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Slogan for the day: "So dumb it takes them three tries to properly insert a USB-C plug."

mikaellundin,
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@lauren outch. It usually takes me two tries. I plug it in, my monitors don’t wake up. I pull it out, turn it around and plug it into the other port. Monitors light up.

I don’t know why but this is the routine that seems to work.

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I just wanted to open Xcode… that was my first mistake. One does not simply open Xcode.

mikaellundin,
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@khalidabuhakmeh for me it’s always, ”I just want to open this xml file, oh no not like that!”

mcc, to random
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People who design APIs. I am begging you. It doesn't matter how "simple" or "intuitive" or "elegant" your API is. You need to include sample code.

mikaellundin,
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@mcc it’s hard to make good documentation. I’m including curl samples with example responses but not sure it’s good enough.
The feedback I’ve got was they couldn’t understand the API, but when questioned, they hadn’t read the documentation either.

256, to random
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PC Mag - May 1994
https://books.google.com/books?id=MfbDrFwiARgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA74#v=twopage&q&f=false

mikaellundin,
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@256 not wrong. I would love to get my hands on one of these today.

mikaellundin, to random
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Can we please go back to Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, Eudora and Netscape Gold?

Write HTML with notepad.exe, with frameset and table layout. Upload to FTP with a CGI guestbook written in Perl.

Delphi, or just plain Borland Pascal. Looking up programming concepts in books. Typing in some assembler code from a magazine that you’ve no idea how it works, but it makes a cool plasma pattern.

Those were easier times.

mikaellundin,
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@bread80 @mikej Amos for the Amiga was like that. https://retrogamecoders.com/amos-basic-screens-images/

georgetakei, to random

OK, this is delusional even for him. https://www.comicsands.com/donald-trump-popular-taylor-swift-2667138753.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

mikaellundin,
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@georgetakei Taylor Swift for president!

afilina, to random
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  • Hey, your security policy blocks every single blog, so it hurts my ability to research issues effectively.
  • You can open a ticket on a case-by-case basis.

Are you kidding me?! I am forced to work with PHP 4.4 and 5.3, SAP and IBMi garbage, deprecated JS, plus some of the worst architecture I've seen since 1997.

I visit a gazillion blogs every day when researching this stuff. Babysitting every ticket would become my new job.

Some companies secure and red-tape themselves out of productivity.

mikaellundin,
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@afilina I call it getting a complementary productivity laptop to my corporate laptop.

maxrudberg, to random
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My first Mac was a Performa 630 which my dad brought home when we were kids. We used to race down the stairs to be the first to use it. Seemingly around 1994-1995.

mikaellundin,
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@maxrudberg computers were so much cooler back in the days.

mikaellundin, to random
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I’m a strong opponent to refactoring sprints. I know that developers will blame everything on low code quality, but the greatest value lies in running code, no matter if it’s hard to change or not.

Making a large refactoring is an investment you’re unlikely to return in value, and the risk is high of disrupting the system that is bringing in value.

There is a value in nursing devs to avoid them moving on, but apart from that, large refactorings do not return your investment.

mikaellundin,
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The alternative is small refactorings, or gardening as I call it. Pull out the weed as you’re moving through the code.

This has little cost and little risk to the running code.

Design your system into interchangeable parts so when the quality comes to a critical boundrary you can replace the whole module with ease. This will also make you less worried about micro managing the quality of the whole system, as you become less worried about quality and more focused on value.

timrichards, to random
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Have to say this... "lay" has a different meaning from "lie". You don't "lay around" on the sofa, you "lie around".

"Lay" is transitive, ie it is connected to an object. So you lay a coat on a chair, or you lay a towel on the sand. Then you lie on it.

This has been a public service broadcast from Vocab Pedants United. :)

mikaellundin,
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@timrichards English is my second language and I had no idea about this. Thanks!

thomasfuchs, to random
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I’m surprised by how many people think VR isn’t a hype technology after tech industry having tried for 40 years* to make it mainstream (and it really isn’t).

VPL was founded in 1984

mikaellundin,
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@thomasfuchs it’s still a fun toy. My son has been playing with my PSVR2 every day the past week.

JenMsft, to gaming
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Trying to figure out the way the game wants me to go, so I can investigate every other path first

Legolas looking around, scoping out the area

mikaellundin,
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@JenMsft and then you stumble over the critical path

Lord Of The Rings Fire GIF by Amazon Prime Video

nixCraft, to random
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Job interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?

Me: No. I signed an NDA.

Job interviewer: 😮

mikaellundin,
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@nixCraft I have a gap like that. ”You are not allowed to disclose that you’ve been working with us or what you’ve been working on.”

It’s about 9 mo when I apparently was doing nothing.

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