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New comment by Nerdfest in "The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t"

Nerdfest — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 21:59:51 +0000

I seem to remember Tesla opening up a bunch of patents. As a guess, that should be near the top of the list

New comment by Nerdfest in "Resignation Letter"

Nerdfest — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:49:44 +0000

I've seen some pretty right-wing stuff on WSJ in the last few months.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Spleeter – Music Source-Separation Engine"

Nerdfest — Tue, 19 May 2020 18:50:54 +0000

Hey, don't knock him. I'd never thought about it before. Being taught or corrected is great as long as people aren't dicks about it. Even then it has some value :)

I shall use this knowledge and endeavour to share it where possible.

New comment by Nerdfest in "France rules Google must pay news firms for content"

Nerdfest — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:48:05 +0000

Damn, did we ever get that one wrong.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Gavin Newsom Declares California a ‘Nation-State’"

Nerdfest — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:07:08 +0000

This is not power. This is aid, planning, money, and ideally to show some semblance of leadership.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Exercise by club swinging in the 19th century"

Nerdfest — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:51:27 +0000

Excitedly read title of article. Disappointed upon discovering it's not that type of club, nor that type of swinging.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Germany and US wrestle over coronavirus vaccine: report"

Nerdfest — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:43:43 +0000

Unfortunately, the businessman involved is a moron.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Electrons can travel in groups of 2 or more at a time in 1D conducting systems"

Nerdfest — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 04:10:45 +0000

1D is a line or vector, I believe. A waveguide for atoms would probably still be considered 1D I guess.

New comment by Nerdfest in "'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (2016)"

Nerdfest — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:04:28 +0000

I should also add that I remember seeing some poll of Americans and this sort of "political correctness" or whatever you wish to call it, was the primary reason people said they voted for Donald Trump. Nothing official, some news station or something, but still. It's not harmless.

New comment by Nerdfest in "'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (2016)"

Nerdfest — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:02:33 +0000

As with so many things these days, the internet gives people the ability to speak to millions of other people. The idiots and extremists seem to garner more attention, and therefore, generate ad revenue; so they have an even louder voice. I don't think there are actually more idiots and extremists, but merely that the few that exist can get together and try to indoctrinate others into whatever bent world-view they have. He says while typing in the comment section ...

(commented in the wrong place earlier)

New comment by Nerdfest in "'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (2016)"

Nerdfest — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:53:44 +0000

As with so many things these days, the internet gives people the ability to speak to millions of other people. The idiots and extremists seem to garner more attention, and therefore, generate ad revenue; so they have an even louder voice. I don't think there are actually more idiots and extremists, but merely that the few that exist can get together and try to indoctrinate others into whatever bent world-view they have.

He says while typing in the comment section ...

New comment by Nerdfest in "U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years"

Nerdfest — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:15:22 +0000

Why? That seems like it would cause a lot of very oor people to suffer even more.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?"

Nerdfest — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:52:50 +0000

What's best for you and what will give more financial reward are not always the same thing.

New comment by Nerdfest in "I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future"

Nerdfest — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:22:02 +0000

Google does tend to be at the leading edge of stuff, both good and bad. This one, as a 'nobody user' sucks.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Lessons from the Cuckoo's Egg"

Nerdfest — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:18:43 +0000

An awesome book that does still teach a lot of valuable lessons. Sadly, pretty much the same lessons it taught back when it was written. Maybe more people should actually read it.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)"

Nerdfest — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:50:09 +0000

I'm guessing the justification was intentional maliciousness.

New comment by Nerdfest in "Please Don’t Abbreviate the Year ‘2020’ on Checks and Legal Documents"

Nerdfest — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:48:03 +0000

Why the hell shouldn't they worry about practicality?

New comment by Nerdfest in "Please Don’t Abbreviate the Year ‘2020’ on Checks and Legal Documents"

Nerdfest — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:46:53 +0000

I've had my rant at someone already this year. A lawyer posting about legal documents saying "make sure you put all four digits in to avoid confusion" and the giving an example like 03/01/2020.

Sigh.

New comment by Nerdfest in "EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V"

Nerdfest — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:31:15 +0000

The game client would be unmodified, with it running on an API layer that maps windows system calls to to their Linux equivalents. Their ant-cheat software finds this "suspicious" and boots the players.

New comment by Nerdfest in "What Happened to Software Development?"

Nerdfest — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:46:27 +0000

In my (probably worthless) opinion, the two big problems affecting software industry are:

- Organizations, especially large ones, now trust their process over their people. In the "old" days, when a production problem was identified and the prime developer knew what the problem was, it would be fixed, as directly and immediately as possible if there was high confidence. With less than high confidence, maybe a quick test in a test environment is done. In many places, this is now a multi-day, or even multi-week process now.

- Developers are not all doing it because they love it anymore. It's a high-ish paying job with lots of hiring being done. Many of the people writing code these days are awful programmers that in the long run cause a lot of damage. Many take away more than they add. In the earlier days, people coded because they wanted to.

The second problem is actually a big part of the cause of the first.

Perhaps I'm just bitter, but given the abundance of technologies, frameworks, libraries, services, etc, small teams of good coders can put together amazing pieces of work in a very short time. This almost never happens. It seems like complexity of large software projects has exceeded the ability of the current level of general expertise to maintain. It sure seems like we're close to that point.

I should add that I don't have the same opinions on most modern techniques. Agile can work very well. Code reviews and unit tests are a must. These are all tools that boost the quality and in the end, save time as well.