> Walmart is getting better, but still way behind on the web front. They'll show you things in stock, then tell you it's out of stock upon checkout. Go back to product page, shows in stock again.
2 weeks ago I added a Logitech mouse to my cart which Amazon claimed would arrive in 2 days per the product page. Upon checkout I was informed that it was unavailable to ship and I would get an e-mail when they knew it would ship. Going back to the product page and refreshing the 2 day promised arrival date was still there. It arrived 6 days later. Seems like Amazon has similar problems.
This can be depending on a delivery address - sometimes Amazon will have local delivery delays (some oregon areas had delivery partner issues a while back). Not sure if that might be part of it.
> The United States' belief that its laws apply to everyone in the world is one of the most insidious ideas of our modern world.
That's not a modern thing. Countries with power use that power to get what they want, whether through military force or though other forms of influence and/or coercion. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, etc.--pretty much every country with military or economic power over other countries.
While Git is not without it's complexities, but as a developer who must use it with teams anyways, I find there are very simple workflows with almost no cognitive load that I'm able to use for my personal projects. Not only does this give me snapshots of my projects from any point in time, but backups as well since I use a free GitLab account as well.
Yeah sure, but for someone who's workflow started 20 years ago without Git, it shouldn't be at all surprising that they kept not using Git for a long time.
There's really no reason to be surprised at all about this unless you're the kind of person who never did any programming before, like, 2010 and lack the imagination or knowledge to understand how programming could be done without it.
I can't disagree with that. We must all make wise decisions with endless competing "priorities" and limited time.
As someone who is on the other side and believes in the value of continuously growing one's skills, I want to convince people that Git has value in learning and using. More tools in our toolbelt makes us more effective craftsmen. Which the DF developer did get around to doing...
> Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades. When Coca-Cola runs a polar bear ad at Christmastime they don't do it to increase sales of Coke that week, nor should it be measured that way.
Curious... A year ago, an older lady gave our daughter a little Coca-cola polar bear stuffed animal. It seems their advertising dollars are still having an "influence".
I grew up on a Color Computer 2 (Coco 2) (Exact same specs as the Coco 1 but reduced number of chips, making it cheaper I understand). Learning to program on it as early as 7 years old got me hooked on software development. Later someone gave us a Coco 3, which was too little, too late be a market success. Still, there was something attractive about the simplicity of those old 8-bit computers.
At the end of the day, the majority of 8 bit home computers didn't have a path forward that included more powerful CPUs with advanced features and backwards compatibility and were always doomed for eventual obsoleting.
Learning to write 6809 Assembly language programs set me up quite nicely for the wave 32-bit 68000 machines.
But yes, I think microcomputers had to get more complicated to move forward. The original Macintosh team worked like mad to keep the hardware design as simple as possible, but virtually no computer manufacturer could afford a project like that.
(The first Mac hardware prototype was a 6809 board. Not a CoCo :-)
Yes, we had a CoCo2 as well. What I mostly remember was the cassette recorder disk drive, which was kind of like recorded modem sounds. There were a handful of games that plugged in via a cartridge on the side (like an NES, but usually with more boring games). But then there were some commercial games distributed on cassette tape as well, such as this one:
A pointer I've learned when dealing with suspended cards that I want to keep is to take the time to come up with a mnemonic and add it to the answer, even if it's a little hokey. It took me a little practice to get the hang of coming up with creative mnemonics, but even the poor ones have proven effective for me.
Depending on how you setup networking for a docker container, you may see a notable network performance hit. Also, I've seen frustrating issues with the default docker bridge network that didn't play well with other services on our network, forcing us to switch to the "host" networking. The extra complexity & problems added by using a container solution may not give a positive ROI, even if the container abstraction provides more flexibility.
I've always thought this statement from Martin Fowler was right on target.
> Boiled down this means that if the business process you are supporting is part of your competitive advantage you should build custom software, if not you should buy a package and adjust your business process to fit the way the package works.
There’s nothing I dread more than customizing software, and then having the supplier release a critical update that requires you to re-do the work and search for bugs. It’s so expensive and error prone, it really is just better sometimes to treat your version as a hard fork or else make your own system
> The “science” that politicians have claimed to follow rarely resembles the centuries-old process of making informed guesses, testing hypotheses, assembling data, and asking new questions in an effort to teeter toward the truth.
Speaking to this in the broadest context... Even with that I wish we would acknowledge that the science can only give us a certain amount of knowledge. It does not give us the wisdom to know how to make right decisions as that involves evaluating competing values that science cannot address. Ultimately, the values of those in leadership (and to some extent the values of the majority in democracies) dominate the values of other people and can discriminate against (or even oppress) those who are not in power.
I was in an organization of 50-100 engineers and we tried several similar systems, but they turned out to be little more than "FAQs" where half the questions were "fake" questions that were preemptively "asked" and answered by the same team. Only on a few rare occasions do I remember multiple people collaborating to address something using the systems. It was rare for an answer or question to get more than 1-2 up votes. There just were not enough people, and people were too busy "doing their job."
2 weeks ago I added a Logitech mouse to my cart which Amazon claimed would arrive in 2 days per the product page. Upon checkout I was informed that it was unavailable to ship and I would get an e-mail when they knew it would ship. Going back to the product page and refreshing the 2 day promised arrival date was still there. It arrived 6 days later. Seems like Amazon has similar problems.