Great White Snark

@pbashton (87)

South Africa • Age 36

Joined myLot 3 years ago

Freelance software and full-stack Web Developer (C#, Java, PHP, Python and Nim) disillusioned by/with cryptocurrency and the law. This bio has no user.

www.halbard-digital-softwr.co.za/

Discussions (8)

Great White Snark's Discussions

Do we really need yet another file format?

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 16 Jan 24

I really don't get the point of TOML and YAML. Surely, between *.INI, Java *.properties, JSON and XML, there's something elegant, expressive and versatile enough to describe whatever configuration one desires (although...

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The ID10T Problem: If you're an idiot on the Internet, who knows? Do you?

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 29 Oct 23

This may be in the domain of Dunning-Kruger (and Smart Asian Theory), but I had some thoughts about this: If you happen to be a massive idiot online (as many people do, not just Flatards and conspiracists), then I suspect that...

smart asian theory

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WTF is Wrong with You People?

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 28 Oct 23

It disgusts me that people can complain about how expensive everything is (which it arguably is) and how financially constrained/poor they are, on the one hand, then a few minutes to days later, throw away perfectly edible food or...

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What's the Difference?

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 27 Oct 23

Yesterday's shower thought was this: What's the difference between a secret Asian man and a secret agent man? Despite the similarity in pronunciation (especially if you drop the T), there must be at least one, surely. What about...

shower thoughts

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Why would you let someone else reap the fruits of your labour?

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 1 Mar 22

I realise that I might be asking the wrong crowd here, since this is a for-pay Q&A/writing site, but anyway ... I see an alarming number of people (including on for-pay/earning sites like Beer Money) asking about the best...

antisocial media

fruits of your labour

wtf is wrong with you

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Those Who Can't Do, Teach

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 13 Feb 22

I've seen a number of students complain that their lecturers and professors are very hands-off and lazy when it comes to taking a hands-on approach to properly and thoroughly teaching software development courses. Judging by how...

buy me a coffee

market research

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Human State Machines

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 7 Feb 22

If I state that certain things are a certain way, I assume that people will go forward with that being the fixed way of things until such time as I state that they have changed. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, since...

social interaction

finite state machines

human fallibility

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Are The Bitcoin-Linked/Following Cryptocurrencies Going to Recover Soon?

Great White Snark @pbashton (87) • South Africa 2 Feb 22

Following the brutal and huge corrections in Bitcoin (and all the altcoins that follow it, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash) other the past three months, it has certainly been a rough week or two for the markets. They're...

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10 people