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doubletgl | 6 years ago | on: The Sunset HTTP Header Field

Terribly vague naming. As a non-native speaker I would've never guessed the purpose, and I've been in the English speaking tech sphere for many years. Does anybody actually say "this website will sunset in 5 years"?

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: Why is the wedding industry so hard to disrupt?

I think it's up to the customer to decide how the use the purchased product or service, since when do you owe an explanation to a vendor where or how their product will be used? If they add wedding-markup for no other reason (like increased quality control or something) nobody should feel bad about lying to them.

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work

The supply chain management use case from the article might not really work in the sense that the oracles/involved parties can tamper with the their input sensors, but it still offers other parties plausible deniability.

Let's say you get meat delivered by cooling trucks and this is mirrored in a public block chain. You publicly claim that all your meat is sufficiently cooled and every single delivery is tracked. If this data is in a public block chain, there is no doubt that you didn't input this data, it was in fact the delivery company, and if they cheated with their cooling sensors, the liability is on them. With a privately hosted database under control of the corporation (you), there would be suspicion that you manipulated it.

So it doesn't actually solve the problem, but you can legitimately claim that you did as much as you could (as far as using technology goes at least) to ensure the quality of the delivered meat.

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: WireGuard for MacOS

How does it compare to Tunnelblick and Viscosity? Any reason to switch if I'm using a paid subscription to a mainstream VPN provider?

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

Doesn't that particular Captcha also work in an incognito browser? I don't see where all this complexity comes in. You simulate the mouse movement and the click. Your browser pretends to not be able to run webgl, so no ghost image. Forcing the user to have a history with google services would lock everyone out who's new. The user agent and other browser metadata is easy to fake.

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people

I didn't quite get why the article described these surveys as problematic. I skimmed the linked article in that section but this didn't provide any answers either. Assuming the participants fully understand the question, and the survey is designed well, what cultural aspect is stopping people from answering?

I grant that with a questions like "Do you often do X?", examples are necessary to specify what "often" means.

From the article:

> Some people may refuse to answer. Others prefer to answer simply yes or no. Sometimes they respond with no difficulty.

That just sounds like some people boycott the Likert questions, but we don't know why.

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: Front End Development Topics to Learn in 2019

Played around with it. I do see the appeal and advantage if you need to save requests and fetch lots of nested data. Haven't had an actual use case yet (as in paid work). My fear would be that companies who'd be better off with rest (because their data and entities are relatively flat and simple) adopt it anyway. But that's my fear about a lot of libraries :D

doubletgl | 7 years ago | on: NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015)

I agree that returning the same type, if possible, is better, since you can model it so that one specific value (zero, empty string, etc.) expresses the "nothing" accordingly. But I have found that several other developers don't share this view and prefer functions to return false, null, etc. instead of a value in the same space as the normal return type.
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