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lloydjatkinson

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lloydjatkinson··on Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
Hollywood is resorting to shitty tactics
lloydjatkinson··on Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)
I have no experience in this area but $100k a month seems like an insane amount of money.
lloydjatkinson··on Chelsea Manning released from prison
I corrected someone that described someone with male chromosones as "she"
lloydjatkinson··on Ask HN: Is Digital Ocean safe enough for production?
I'm 100% sure OP was looking for a yes no answer relating to uptime, how reliable they are, SLA's, policies, security. Not an explanation of hosting companies.

"Is this new make of car being manufactured safe to drive? How reliable is it?"

"Yes of course cars are safe, cars have existed for over a century. Many cars have been used since the beginning of cars being invented. You could make a car too if you had the money".

See how ridiculous and unhelpful your comment was?

lloydjatkinson··on Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real, Science Is Broken
I fully agree, be careful though I recently found out the "SJW I hate whites" types are among the mods here.
lloydjatkinson··on Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare Earth Magnets (2014)
> spinning hard drives, and those aren't used that much anymore.

Not sure if serious or not. Just because SSD's are popular, does not mean HDD's are unused.

lloydjatkinson··on Chelsea Manning released from prison
Of course, because having an opinion that isn't internet SJW hivemind is illegal.
lloydjatkinson··on Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security
I wonder why people get off on writing articles and hinting at the reader about the original article or PDF and then never linking it? Are they that desperate to keep people on their site just for the ads?
lloydjatkinson··on Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1
> without needing BCLs.

Nope, that doesn't even make sense. The BCL is where all the base classes live.

> Significantly, it doesn't support Web Forms, which is great for developers but a hard sell for managers.

I can't tell if you're trolling or are serious, if you are serious that's pretty sad. WebForms is an abomination. Just because you can use drag and drop controls and "magically" get AJAX working in the background does not mean it's a good thing. I don't even know where the "great for developers but a hard sell for managers" comes from. If by your own admission it's so great, why is it not the other way around with developers hating it and managers pushing for it?

Either way, that scenario doesn't happen. WebForms has for literally years been as dead as the dodo, with only 1) legacy applications using it or 2) developers who don't have a clue and haven't bothered trying to learn anything modern.

ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET Web API with a TS/JS frontend are the only 2 options you have.

lloydjatkinson··on REST Anti-Patterns (2008)
Anti-pattern #1: Using REST. It's just cargo cult along with everyone describing it and then implementing it differently. The only good part it has is how to layout the URL, and even then it's just common sense.
lloydjatkinson··on 600 Watt, 3d-printed, Halbach Array, Brushless DC Electric Motor [video]
I hate the trend that's been going on for a few years now where they try to imply that all of a given product is 3D printed.

For example this motor is easily 80% metal and copper wire for the poles. The remaining 20% is the plastic case. That is the 3D printed part. Not exactly very impressive.

lloydjatkinson··on Ask HN: What programming feature can't you live without?
Composition (Interfaces) / Dependency injection / mocking.

Each one is invaluable on their own, but combined they make for very clean, maintainable, and easily testable software.

I find it hard to take any modern language that isn't capable of these seriously. For example, Rust (from talking to some Rust devs on /r/rust) does not have interfaces only "traits" and this prevents you from from being able to use DI thus limiting your ability to mock in the process.

And by dependency injection, I don't mean the XML bullshit that I see Java developers complaining about a lot.

lloydjatkinson··on LoadJS – A tiny async loader for modern browsers (710 bytes)
back in the day you just did script src... none of this bullshit
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