55 yrs programming. Graphical Interactive software, packet analysis. designer of Beads prog language. Beads intro vid: piped.video/Lq-FwHpz3cs
Oakland, CA
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having programmed for 56 years, my career is one pile of abandoned knowledge after another
A dozen languages have been dominant, and i had to shift operating systems at least 8 times
UI principles don't change much though, humans didn't change
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ai tools are good at De compiling code and it's going to mean a lot of legacy software that is put back to source and thus pirated
Huawei had already stolen all of Cisco's iOS, and then gone onto improve it, we will see many more Companies steal the IP of another
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There are a whole bunch of people touting quickly coded supposed replacements for Adobe Photoshop like Artcraft, and gleefully reporting that Adobe is soon to be dead
Artcraft is a mostly worthless product that has low function, poor ergonomics, and will help Adobe
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Every product sold should have printed in the instruction sheet an email link so that you can send a suggestion directly to the design & engineering team
so many products have obvious flaws, and often a letter to the company is ignored in the customer svc dept
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Non-profits have become the main vector of fraud at the city, state and national level
time to end use of non-profits for services and projects
just make all companies operate the same way and be eligible for projects
it was a well-intentioned idea but has become corrupted
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The integrity of the people and leaders of a country determine its eventual wealth
No amount of resources can compensate for crooked people
Honesty creates wealth
Dishonest creates poverty
USA integrity is dropping, inevitable that std of living will also drop.
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what pisses me off about the Warner Brothers merger is that Zaslav gets $600 million, and he didn't create Warner brothers, he's only worked there for four years
Why are you giving this ridiculous pay amount to some bureaucrat who never built anything?
He had some meetings, wow
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The California high-speed rail project is coming in more expensive than the Artemis project which will return to the moon
The California rail project is the biggest waste of money in the history of the Usa
A Shocking lapse of judgment to continue that boondoggle
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Most music fans know that Kind of Blue from 1959 is the best selling jazz record of all time, and one of the greatest records ever made
Few however realize that Something Else by Cannonball Adderley, also 1959, is a record of similar quality (and some of the same people)
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CA is voting on a proposition to tax wealth, which is impractical and doomed to failure
What they should have done is tax borrowing against stock, cap capital gains tax treatment, and cap the other accounting tricks employed regularly by the 1%
So destructive to CA, chasing ppl
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The web browser which dominates so much of modern computer usage is a horrible mess, a sandwich of 3 incompatible languages, HTML, CSS, JS, plus a motley collection of frameworks, preprocessors, and other crud
Needs to be redone from scratch
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Restaurants are being obliterated in California
Was just in Portland where there is no sales tax on hot food or restaurants
A huge blessing for the common man
We must help people without trying to extract from others which creates more avoidance behavior and corruption
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there is a Portland announcer who just got fired on his first day because people dug up tweets from when he was 15 years old
We seal criminal records at 18 so that dumb juvenile stuff doesn't haunt you later
it's time to put an expiration date on things teenagers post
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The people in power are crushing the bottom 10%
We need to remove sales tax from all food and restaurants so that people can live
Restaurants are capable of providing many jobs and we need to stimulate that industry as a societal Good
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if California had spent money on storing water instead of the doomed boondoggle railroad they would be so much better off
Governor Newsom has shown that he is completely incapable of managing things in a practical way
Under no circumstances, should he be even considered 4 prez
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since AI is going to flood the market with intellectual power, the natural reaction will be for real estate to become monumentally expensive as it cannot be fabricated by even the most omnipotent AI
You can see in Egypt where real estate is skyrocketing
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Robinhood was a big hit in the beginning
It appealed to young people with zero commissions, and a pure black interface with only lime green glowing text
too bad the UI is uninformative (graphs with no scales), confusing, basically garbage
they won early but fell apart
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If California doesn't make some drastic changes, it is going to see half the restaurants go out of business
They keep encouraging mobile trucks, but offer a terrible employee work situation with no bathrooms
Their insatiable appetite for taxes and fees is destroying an industry
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