Todd

Joined 19 years ago

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Software engineer living near Seattle. C#, C/C++, JS, TS, Rust, Go, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Lisp, etc. PostgreSQL and Redis.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Love the idea Hari. On my iPhone, when I tap a dot, it takes me straight to the camera page. I would expect a popover with a title, etc. and a second tap to go to the camera page.
Comment · 4 months ago
Don't forget Costco
Comment · 6 months ago
This would sever the connection to the ancient language, which is central to Greek identity. We would have a better chance of an English spelling reform—arguably more essential given its lingua franca status and absurd spelling. But we know that’s not going to happen.

Regardless, a fun exercise. I’ve thought a lot about the sound drift, case merging, loss of the infinitive and such. Good to see someone else’s ideas on the topic.

Comment · 8 months ago
Multiple desktops in Windows can help with this. Ctrl+Win Right/Left cursor keys to switch.
Comment · 9 months ago
An early form of domain squatting
Comment · 9 months ago
The two things I find unacceptable are no local accounts and non consensual reboots. The latter may need legislation. They don’t even notify you that it happened. They try to restart apps and put things back the way they were but you can still tell that your house was broken into by the missing data that wasn’t saved.
Comment · 11 months ago
Yep. Perl 6 was a wall that Perl 5 would never move beyond. It’s still Perl 5 25 years later.
Comment · 11 months ago
An alternative is graduated capital gains rates based on total assets owned (ideally skewed higher, like 10, 50, 100MM, …). Exemptions like QSBS could still be applied. This would allow shareholder control issues to remain unaffected, which wealth taxes never seem to address.

Not sure how to apply it on the corporate side. There are also multi entity workarounds to consider.

Just an idea.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is called cognitive offloading. Anyone who’s spent enough time working with coding assistants will recognize it.
Comment · 2 years ago
I see that was with Eric. I worked on his phone. It had two keys and the PM developed their own encoding. I strongly advocated for Morse. I wasn’t aware of this patent. Cheers
Comment · 2 years ago
LF, MF, and so on are bands, or frequency ranges. AM is a modulation technique. It, like FM and others, can be used on any band (although regulations can limit this).

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