Fix your crappy ads and I'll stop blocking them
Ad-block users are finding an increasing number of sites blocking access. I wonder if any of them asked themselves why we block ads? Do they suppose we're anti-capitalist scum fundamentally opposed to the idea of marketing? It sometimes feels that way. Bu...Calculating pleasant stepping values for a chart
I needed pleasant range values for the charting API in Fuse. These are the values written by the ticks on the plot, typically on the Y-axis. In the interest of simplicity it should just work by default; provide the plot with raw data and let it work out g...What is orthogonality?
The flexibility and usefulness of an API relate directly to its orthogonality. But what does "orthogonal" mean? It's a term that's tossed around a lot in programming, with varying degrees of clarity. Angles of independence The dictionaries I checked at le...Programming won't be automated, or it already has been
I'm afraid of a robot taking my job. I don't care about the job part much, I'm afraid of the actual robot. To replace my job it'd to exhibit human level intelligence. That's scary. Before that happens though, maybe some of its infantile, and less scary, b...Just a programmer
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