splodge's comments

splodge | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What news sources do you trust?

Most MSM publications simply repeat AP and Reuters press releases without further thought

splodge | 6 years ago | on: Technology That Could End Humanity–and How to Stop It

Judging by the state of the Amazon and other forests, fire is a technology that most likely to kill us all at the moment.

splodge | 6 years ago | on: BMW shows off an X6 in Vantablack, the blackest of blacks

The indicators would be very noticable.

Oh. Wait...

splodge | 6 years ago | on: An example of the best resignation letter I ever received

Not long after having to use a Windows desktop instead of Linux, I accidentally typed ":q!" into a skype conversation with my boss, instead of into the terminal session on a Linux VM that was running vim.

My boss replied with "That's the best resignation letter ever!"

splodge | 6 years ago | on: Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy

Wouldn't a enterprise developer store pricing information in a database, rather than hardcoding it, whether it is hardcoded into functional or OO software?

splodge | 6 years ago | on: Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces

It's always fun pasting tab-indented code into the MySQL client...

splodge | 6 years ago | on: How do you pronounce the name of the command line tool “xargs”?

ex-args

splodge | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why do more and more websites have light grey text on white backgrounds?

Is it because less people care about accessibility these day?

splodge | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any production grade systems that have been open sourced?

Erm, Linux?

splodge | 7 years ago | on: English

They are related but different. Something may or may not be interesting, and somebody may or may not be interested in it.

Hope that helps

splodge | 7 years ago | on: Tech developer quits UK saying Brexit has ‘killed’ his business