In the last couple years I've been more and more interested in this world of "big enterprise software that seems to be a complex mess but has seemingly unstoppable momentum and makes billions". That whole world seems to be hidden to many of us developers who often see a few lines of code we don't like and assume a whole product will die because of it. Meanwhile there are these giants out there dragging along this weight that companies still spend billions to implement. I see some of this in my day to day but it's not often I find an article that frames it the way this one did. Good stuff!
That is _exactly_ my life. Wake up early, kids, run out of the house, busy office day, get home and it's all kids until everyone is settled in bed and asleep by around 9:00pm (sometimes later). Then I clean up the disaster that was made in the house during the day. Now it's 10:30pm and I spend 1.5 hours trying to do something I want/need to do. Wash up at midnight and start getting to bed. Might be asleep by 1:00am. Rinse and repeat.
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There are older indigenous people on Vancouver Island who basically say that growing up there was definitely a bigfoot of sorts. Their parents would see them even more often. They don't seem to doubt it at all. I do recall a CBC video of an elder saying that they were around but that even he's beginning to think that might have been the last of them. If you think about how much North America has changed in only 150 years it sure seems plausible. Maybe it was just a particular group of extra large bears or something but I believe they're not making things up and did encounter some type of special animals at some point.
The one argument I've heard to that is: how many dead bears or cougars are often stumbled upon? Turns out not a lot. Animals tend to find hidden placed to die and then nature can dispose and disperse of them pretty quickly. You will find dead deer but there are so many of them and they are heavily hunted. They're also kind of dumb and will die by running into a tree and things like that. The other thing that gives me pause to believe it's possible they're out there is that there have been times in recent history where we've apparently discovered entire large(ish) populations of gorillas when we had believed their numbers were lower.
I don't know. Not arguing bigfoot exists but I like the idea that even in modern times there's still stuff we can miss even though it feels like it would be impossible.
Well imagine nobody had kids and then we managed to turn climate change around. Now we've got a bunch of old folks being cared for by clean energy powered robots, living a utopian dream but thinking, "wait a minute... Did we just win or lose here?"
This is just for the MVP. The next phase is to take all those functions, package them up in a monolithic framework so they can work together and then deploy to a machine in the office's server closet.
I've heard this before from people but I can help but think, "companies are paying GitHub to store code which in itself is often very valuable IP that needs to be protected". Are we sure GitHub doesn't have any promises to the protection of private repos? Obviously anything could happen and it's best to encrypt secrets and such... but if it's true that GitHub is not very serious about protecting the contents of private repos seems off to me. Any links to anything regarding their stance on this?
I've had it make me around 3 if those already for my 2.5 year old. It's the same video but they just keep adding a few more months into it. I always save them. It's amazing, creepy and well done. I had a Premiere project where I was painstakingly trying to compile a similar thing and now I just gave up on that.
I can't wait until our internal email or chat flags me as depressed and I'm forced to go on leave. Can you imagine? And then I call the bank and their phone system decides I'm depressed and locks my accounts to protect me. And then the men in the white coats come. There could be a Black Mirror episode in this (if there isn't already).
Yeah, I was thinking that too but I look at Hacker News daily and at least once a week a coworker bugs me about using Fish. So it's not like the idea or thought is new to me. In particular this one was weird because I was not only thinking about Fish but checking specifically for an upgrade which I've never cared much about before.
So weird. Last night I ran a bunch of updates and spent some time cleaning up and configuring my laptop. Preparing for the New Year. I tried to upgrade Fish and saw that it hadn't had an update since this time last year. I ended up looking through the release logs and just reading the Fish docs a bit. I never do this. Now, this morning, this is on Hacker News.
This was the only good option at the time. One alternative was for people to pass .exe files around. That was a great way to spread viruses. Another alternative was Java applets which was a great way to lock up a browser. JavaScript didn't do shit in the the Netscape and IE 4/5 days. So was everyone supposed to make Windows games or just give up? Would that have been better?
I've always assumed this will get better with time naturally. There is actually quite a decent expectation on business tools. If GitHub, Jira or our Wifi goes down our whole company knows about it right away and is often crippled by it. That being said, it doesn't happen that often. I grew up having more "snow days" on a regular basis than "all of our tech is down" days today. If anything I find it's more frustrating that software keeps changing on me when I don't expect it. I have old, solid appliances at home and I never expect my fridge or dishwasher will suddenly work differently than it did yesterday. For me, the constant evolution of software gets in my way more than simply bad quality.
It means all of that. We find something we've never seen before. There's something about it that seems "alive". It's an instinctual feeling. We have to decide how "alive" that is. Is it alive like a human, a tree, bacteria, AI? I'm being general on purpose here. It's just neat that this conversation is still so relevant here on Earth. It's kind of like how alien the deep ocean still is to us.
That was a really fun read. Reminded me a bit of when I used to read Bukowski and friends back in college. I should start reading more non-technical stuff again.
Thanks for posting! The crowd can get harsh and maybe not everyone realizes that making it onto the HN front page briefly != "This is proven research and you should all listen to me right now". Blogging can be about learning and brain dumping and, IMO, you should carry on doing so.
I would love to see Crystal take off but it seems like some decent funding/backing and then some time to settle from there will be needed. I seriously hope that can happen; but, who knows.