It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that multiple methods and tools might work. It's easier to market a simple cure.
Also, the point to "stop making shitty software" is not the same as "stop making mistakes". You can ship high quality software even while being human, it's just slower and more costly.
And while I agree with the article in general, I do believe the current balance has shifted towards too fast iteration and shoddy quality. Just look at the recent iOS/OSX releases. But even that might make business sense, because of the even shittier alternatives.
> It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that multiple methods and tools might work. It's easier to market a simple cure.
The thing about these middlebrow dismissals is that they work the other way around:
"It's hard to build your consultant image by telling people that they need self-discipline and rules. It's easier to just sell them on tools that will fix the problem."
I just don't think it's likely that the real reason most software is crappy, is because nobody thought of extending unit test coverage yet.
Selling tools here is not "the other way", it's the same problem.
What if the problem is bad management? Or low experience/expertise in general? All of these methods and tools are only optimizing locally, and cannot help the root causes.
They certainly are going above and beyond. It's basically impossible to find a good VPN that works with Netflix, and they also block pretty much every IP range where you can get a VPS. They are just much more effective than any other geoblock I'm aware of.
I think in this case they have worse odds though, Freedom or Lucky Patcher or some Xposed module will be up to the task if there is enough interest.
No, the article states the method will correctly remove the mentioned whitespace characters even from UTF-8 text, because they are part of the 7 bit subset this method works on.
Doesn't surprise me. I always wondered how much support overhead it caused. I worked at the computer pool help desk of another university for a few semesters and it really opens your eyes to how alien some concepts techies find obvious can be for normal humans.
Not a lot of mention of AI for CS, even in 2002. What about (2080+, P/=NP, proof techniques completely opaque to humans).
And by that I don't mean mechanical exclusion of special cases like for map-coloring. As mentioned already, there's like a handful of people that understand the FLT proof, that situation is unlikely to improve.
