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AndrewSChapman
·2 lata temu·discuss
This. High level OKRs should be set by the company to steer the ship, and engineering OKRs should align with the company OKRs. Thus, the roadmap is defined by the OKRs - I believe that's the whole point.
AndrewSChapman
·2 lata temu·discuss
A better version of this article: https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/oldweb
AndrewSChapman
·2 lata temu·discuss
I could be wrong, but I think Vertx would be a better choice? https://vertx.io/

It's actively maintained with full time developers, performant, supports Kotlin out of the box, and has more features?
AndrewSChapman
·2 lata temu·discuss
Personally I think that anyone who believes that they're going to die before climate change kicks them in the nuts are in for an almighty shock (unless you're 80).

My prediction is that we have at best 10 years of anything resembling BAU before systematic failure.

https://medium.com/@smokingtyger/the-crisis-report-27-4e7e9f...

Happy reading.
AndrewSChapman
·3 lata temu·discuss
Really? You're looking at the graph, showing a clear and frankly ominous anomaly, especially in the context of the clear wording around "the oceans should be warmest in March, not August", and this is your response? Well done.
AndrewSChapman
·3 lata temu·discuss
Agree! I am in the UK and have an electric bike, but I only use it for trips where I know I can safely store the bike and where I know the roads intimately. The UK needs to solve this, in addition to improving the safety of roads. There's too many pot holes, poor visibility due to people being allow to park pretty much anywhere, and not enough dedicated bike lanes.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
IndexDb is not a relational data store. It's much closer to Mongo than it it to Sqlite.

If you want relational tables, joins, aggregations etc, you want something like this (or the original Web SQL that was deprecated).

There is definitely a use case for it.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
- The use of AI will become mainstream with your average person using it directly - it becomes the first truly revolutionary technology change since smart phones were invented. Serious social questions start being raised.

- The war in Ukraine will continue on but not conclude, with many more casualties on both sides. Consequentially, the stock price of principal US defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will continue their significant upward trend.

- Once again, CO2 emissions will continue increasing globally. There will likely be some significant food shortages in part of the world.

- The UK will continue its economic descent, with more significant energy price increases and continued inflation.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
Agree.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
This is great for when you have to send someone a link to something but you don't really want them to open it.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
The closest experience I've had to VB in a more modern context is B4J: https://www.b4x.com/b4j.html

Visual designer, integrated IDE and debugger, basic language, very similar philosophy, cross platform (thanks to using the JVM as the compile target).

Unfortunately however you do need Windows to author which is not me these days.

As tools for making little apps or rapid prototyping it's quite decent.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
"4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us."

I would much prefer that this simply read: We do not share your information with anyone.
AndrewSChapman
·4 lata temu·discuss
What I love about computing and programming is the ability to create something that really helps people, or that they find fun and enjoyable.

The problem is that over time, the opportunities to do this have become harder and harder to find. All the low hanging fruit has gone and more and more people are relying on social media instead of websites to communicate and run their businesses anyway.

Additionally, I'm just not interested in privacy violation, spyware, big data, ML etc.. so that frontier holds no appeal for me.

Ironically it seems like it was easier to innovate in the mobile space and find a market in the days of Palm PDAs than it is today.