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glwtta··on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]
Apparently I am also stuck in 2012 - are we not doing cloud and machine learning anymore?
glwtta··on The most confusing emojis in every US state in 2024
there are definitely a few missing from the "not used as intended" list

also, are they really counting "rebirth" as an incorrect interpretation of the phoenix emoji? what is even the purpose of a phoenix emoji outside of that context.

and those head-shaking ones are just objectively terribly designed

glwtta··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
I would've fucking rioted if they picked permanent "standard" time.

I don't care about kids or their bus stops. Also, just put some lights on them, then (the bus stops, or the kids, doesn't really matter).

glwtta··on Is This Legal?
The posting seems to be requiring 7-10 years of work experience, not specific to graph databases or any other technology.
glwtta··on Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
Why would they? Code from 1987 is of exactly zero interest to someone developing a game in 2013.
glwtta··on Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
Where does he claim to care about digital preservation? And I'm pretty sure GitHub would have to remove code posted without permission, anonymous or not.
glwtta··on A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system
Hm, I've been looking for a lightweight, language-neutral job queue. RDBMS-backed is my preference since I don't need massive scalability, but do want persistence that's easy to reason about (so not Redis), transparency (so not beanstalkd) and a long-lived history (so not most of the other ones).

But, RDMBS only makes sense if you can use your existing installation, so MySQL-only is a nonstarter.

glwtta··on Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding
It was faster than everything, and by a huge margin: https://github.com/costajob/app-servers#results

It does seem that immature languages tend to win a lot of benchmarks, likely because they're still cutting a lot of corners. Still, though.

I only wish they picked a more "Enterprise-friendly" name...

glwtta··on Museum of Soviet arcade machines
Морской бой was the shit!
glwtta··on Blockbuster Movies with Male Leads Earn More Than Those with Female Leads
Is this analysis really looking at revenue, without considering the movie budget? That's just a round-about way of saying "most high-budget movies have male leads".
glwtta··on Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visualization platform
seconded. videos are not useful as documentation.
glwtta··on Everything you learned about the shape of DNA is wrong
"We each have about 20,000 genes, all of which sit together on a molecule of DNA."

Not a great start there...