cecida's comments

There are few things more depressing than having to deal with companies like Accenture, EY, KPMG etc. It's a world of FUD, upsell, more consultants, nothing getting done, lots of slides, new "junior senior Global Consultant for Microservices" type stuff. They are literally a cancer on innovation and just getting things done.

They destroy the ethos of a company through deliberate intransigence.

I do love a good pint of Guinness. There's something very satisfying about how it looks; the more pronounced flavor than other globally available macro beers, and how it seems easier to have a few more than it would be with other beers.

Yes, it's very interesting that a concept that is now so widely used in general statistics was first used in a brewery. It helps that Guinness is still the best globally available macro beer (imo).

One of those quirky little intersections between mathematics and practical business outcomes.

If it had the ability to block videos that have that stupid mouth open and shocked expression of the presenter in the preview tile then I’d be sold.

I haven't been to Boston in 15 years, but I remember it having two very distinct accents when I was there.

There was the very Bostonian Irish accent with rolling R and very soft H. My mother always said Kennedy had it, but I can't pick that up in recordings apart from the use of lots of adverbs and a general flair for speaking.

The other is distinctly WASPish. It's the New England received pronunciation style. It's more Yankee.

Pascal was still the language being taught to first year students in the university I attended in the late 90's.

Our "multimedia" professor was very in to Javascript, but assured us that it would be replaced by something more efficient. Neither happened.

I hate to be such an immediate Buzz Killington, but this is not a good business idea.

It's just not a very enjoyable experience these days.

With the same skepticism you should treat any technology that has lots of VC investment, sounds cool, has concepts that people initially don't understand, and will attract every sort of vulture that has finished picking off the blockchain/ICO/NFT/defi carcass.

Did your 2017 ICO not work out? Were you a little late to the NFT party? Now is your opportunity to get involved in the extremely profitable world of AI!

Early 2000s message boards were so much fun.

vBulletin, hilariously awful moderation, arguments over signature sizes, cliques, random outages, people who had just got DSL posting images that ruined the experience for posters still on dial-up.

Great times. The internet feels so banal these days.

That's a good question, and I cannot really give you a coherent answer tbh. I just find Windows to feel more modern. I suppose a few examples are:

Snap/Windows Management in macOS is a pain.

Using Brew as a package manager isn't exactly a wonderful experience.

The taskbar feels pretty ugly and dated - that little dot, and then having both the top and bottom bar in play just feels outdated.

Even having to use Parallels is a bit of a pain - build a hypervisor into the OS.

I'm the furthest thing from a designer, and I understand that Apple went with a different UI paradigm. It's just starting to feel a bit left behind. It's still my daily driver though.

I'd like that. I'm a big fan of the whole design and build of the Macbook Pro, but macOS is starting to feel very dated.

Social media is dead. It was never social. If I had ads to sell, then I wouldn't be looking to spend the budget on deserts like Facebook and Twitter.

I'm always enormously impressed with efforts to move the dial when it comes to RTE, but slightly depressed when you see that it involves Facebook/Meta.

I'm based in Ireland, and travel regularly to both Britain and California with work. I've always been shocked with the poverty and sense of systemic decline I witness in San Fran. Visiting London and being part of the tech industry can insulate you from just how grim things are in large parts of Britain as well though.

Not saying Ireland is some sort of utopia by any means, and we have our own enormous challenges with regards to things like housing and healthcare, but life is noticeable better here for the average citizen than it is in Britain. Which is such a turnaround from the 80's and 90's.

Brain power on a ledger? I've heard it all now.

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien: “Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

I doubt it. HODL is a mantra used by crypto grifters to ensure they can liquidate into filthy dollars or euros without having bagholders panic and depress the price.

A crypto grifter getting rich and leaving a load of retail "investors" holding the bag when it all collapses?

This surely hasn't happened before?

Just when you think that NFTs represent the worst of late-stage capitalism; you are reminded that defi is still a thing.