The privatisation of the commons will endure as our generations' greatest folly.
I look at the Australian NBN as a great example of a project that is not economical for a private business to entertain - it requires "The Government" to build. How do we reason with this in the capitalist system?
Respectfully, I don't think that piece adds anything of material substance. It's a list of hollow platitudes (vapid writing listing inactionable truisms).
A better resource is likely Michael Nygard's book, "Release It!". It has practical advice about many issues in this outage. For example, it appears the circuit breaker and bulkhead patterns were underused here.
I reflect on university, and one of the most interesting projects I did was an 'essay on the history of <operating system of your choice>' as part of an OS course. I chose OS X (Snow Leopard) and digging into the history gave me fantastic insights into software development, Unix, and software commercialisation. Echo your Mr Kay's sentiments entirely.
I had an old colleague who had a favourite lunch room trick - if challenged to Scissors, Paper, Rock then he would win every single time. I presumed it was some kind of behavioural psychology trick, but it didn't occur to me it's just a pattern recognition. Or maybe it was both. I should get in touch again...
That split second before a throw resolves is a slice of time where you can observe what your opponent is throwing, and change yours at the very last moment.
I remember telling a friend I’d always beat him at the game, and I always did. I had no more skill than telling him I’d win each time and I pretty much always did especially if it was best of three
For a time, we did not have an “R” rating for video games and this sort of content called for this rating, which legislation said could not be given. Fortunately saner heads prevailed and they created an “R” rating for video games and this oddity went away.
I feel like far too much attention is given to `[[]] * n`. In the grand scheme of things, no serious python programmer is using multiply on a sequence outside of the string construction convenience.
It's also remarkebly easy to diagnose once you see the unexpected behaviour, so anyone asking for help is going to be instantly told not to do it and use a comprehension instead.
I'm sure there are plenty of other pitfalls in other languages, though I concede this one is especially unintuitive to a new person.
