Posts by JpChen

China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

Re: "Chinese netizens couldn’t reach most websites hosted outside China, which is inconvenient"

Do some travelling. It broadens the mind. It’s not hard to find a proficient English speaker among the populations of the larger cities, particularly the younger generations. Estimates vary, but there’s over 10 million people in China who are classed as fluent, and some 300 million who are classed as learning. It’s much more difficult in Japan by comparison.

Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users

See also Jira. Stop messing with stuff and moving the effin buttons around. Absolute dog’s dinner.

Devs are frustrated with AI coding tools that deliver nearly-right solutions

“ The problem is, no-one has shown us how to use AI effectively,”

This is what I see at my place. Loads of people playing with it, but no real idea how to properly drive it - and no consistency on how people use it. FWIW, I’ve had some training, done my research, and put the hours in to figure out how to get the best out of it. Context is key - with good instructions files, decent prompts, and choosing the right model for the job, I’ve found the output to be quite impressive and a massive timesaver. Personally I just see it as yet a higher level programming language.

I’ll caveat all that with the fact that I’ve spent nearly 30 years in the game so have the ability to properly assess and evaluate its output. I do worry about the next generation of devs who won’t even be able to read the code AI produces, let alone understand it. Perhaps the paradigm will shift so we stop caring about the actual code and treat it more as a black box, the emphasis shifting more towards specification and verification.

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

At least Starbucks coffee is tax free in the UK, at least for the shareholders if not the customers.

There are 10,000 reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud's security breach denial

The irony here is that Oracle didn’t see this coming,

We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry

Poor Vennels. “Devastated” she is. She should perhaps look up the meaning of the word:

Verb. Past tense: “having your life completely ruined by a bunch of incompetent arse covering bastards, just so that they can collect their substantial bonuses”

Big brands urged to pause Twitter ads until Elon's learned how this all works

Hopefully Musk will do for Twitter what Murdoch did for MySpace

Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b

I’ll stick with my Henry thank you very much.

Cloudflare, Akamai: Why we're not pulling out of Russia

Good money in DDOS protection at the moment. Would be interesting to see a list of customers that are being served

Jeff Bezos adds some more overheads to his $485m yacht by taking down historic bridge

Why would you build a boat that you can’t get out of the boatyard?

£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit

I’m in the 6 figure camp - and I’ve bloody we’ll earned it too. Getting LinkedIn messages from uni recruiters for 35k to train the next generation is laughable. No wonder we have such a shortage that, well, helps me get 6 figures.

When product names go bad: Microsoft's Raymond Chen on the cringe behind WinCE

I’m sure the vixen thing was about the commodore VIC-20, not a game.

Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home

Re: Didn't receive anything

On virgin too and my text arrived just now. Wish I'd known, been banging on the pub door all day

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

Re: Actually, its probably for any HTTPS site

Actually, these days it's more common for proxies to sniff the domain of the cert and block accordingly (Google peek and splice). This negates the need to man in the middle with intermediate certs.