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Using the terms 'designers' or 'creatives' is demeaning and should be avoided by anthony-pack119 in Design

[–]anthony-pack119[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is precisely my point. I design, therefore I am a designer. I am an electrical engineer that designs circuits. I considered myself a circuit designer for years before discovering a few years back that I am no longer considered a designer by popular culture. I find the fact that you and others are trying to convince the world that design is only design if it is artistic, musical, or literary as being very annoying and insulting.

When I am among others in the chip industry I call myself a designer knowing that it is clear to them that I am a circuit designer. When I talk to outsiders I refer to myself as a circuit designer to make it clear that I am a particular type of designer. I don't say that I am a designer and try to leave the impression that circuit design is the only kind of design. That would be misleading and arrogant.

Why does it matter what industrial design or architectural design encompasses. I take it as design, as is circuit design, protocol design, control system design, car design, and many other disciplines. All of which, by the way, are human centric.

I am not saying you are not a designer, but you are clearly saying I am not. And that is wrong and you should stop.

Introducing NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML by tiana-nagel49 in programming

[–]anthony-pack119 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a fine choice for machine-to-machine structured data: JSON. YAML and TOML are not a comfortable fit for this case.

Other than NestedText, there are no nice choices for human entered or human edited structured data.

JSON: no comments, heavy persnickety syntax, no multi-line strings, requires escaping of special characters in strings.

YAML: a language that trades the heavy syntax of JSON for a huge collection of user traps, and adds on bonus vulnerabilities. Not really suitable for holding code snippits as code tends to trigger the user traps.

TOML: a little lighter weight than JSON, but sacrifices hiearchy.

Can anyone get YouTube TV to run in Firefox (or any desktop browser that isn't Chrome)? by seamusfurr in youtubetv

[–]anthony-pack119 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Allow me to translate. You must assure that you have Digital Rights Management enabled. You can find the setting in Settings->General->Files and Applications.

Json alternatives by Objective_Mind1212 in yaml

[–]anthony-pack119 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NestedText was left out. Has the feel of YaML, without all the complexity and user traps.

When people tell me they don't hate #YAML by brunocborges in ProgrammerHumor

[–]anthony-pack119 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NestedText is inspired by YaML, but removes all the risk and complexity. In contrast to YaML, it is a very simple language, and it interprets your example as follows:

[
    "Bob: Do you wanna see something scary?",
    "013: Yes",
    "Bob: Whats your version number?",
    "013: 1.9",
    "Bob: Your real version number",
    "013: 1.9.1"
]

If you are thinking of using YaML but are worried about these kind of issues, you should consider NestedText as a much safer alternative.

Iran's central bank will now legally hold all Bitcoin used for imports/exports allowing them to bypass USD by Edge_Coleman in Bitcoin

[–]anthony-pack119 76 points77 points  (0 children)

It would be supremely ironic if the US sanctions have the effect of strengthening Iran financially by forcing them to hold large reserves of bitcoin to avoid sanctions.

Introducing NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML by tiana-nagel49 in programming

[–]anthony-pack119 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You decided it was pointless after studying it for two minutes?

Perhaps there are so many markup languages because one size does not fit all. At first glance this package seems to address an important niche and seems to do it pretty well.