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by CM30 4y ago
vBulletin got kinda killed by the Internet Brands buyout and vB4 and the vB5 upgrades. It still exists and you can still use it, but very few new sites do anymore.
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by CM30 4y ago
vBulletin got bought by Internet Brands in 2007. While vBulletin 4 was pretty good (after a lot of upgrades), vBulletin 5 is a buggy and somewhat disastrously unpopular piece of software, with most of its users having gone to either XenForo
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by CM30 4y ago
I've had... a few breakdowns over the last few years or so. Was suicidally depressed for a few months in 2021 or so, and have been in a similar situation earlier this year too. Also experienced a lot of burn out, with a complete lack o
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by CM30 4y ago
I think this is the key point: > But still, people who read have always been in the minority. And I think that’s what most people who think that “video is the future” don’t get. Sure, people are getting lazier and they want you to feed t
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by CM30 4y ago
Yeah, this makes sense. You should always think about how any system you make can be abused to hurt others, or make the world a worse place. But it's not just limited to technology. The same is true of any changes to the legal system,
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by CM30 4y ago
I've seen a lot of people saying that tipping is uncommon outside the US, and that it's only a thing there because of the wage structure for servers. But that's never been my experience. Over here in the UK, I almost always l
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by CM30 4y ago
To be fair, 90% of NPCs in most games aren't directly related to any main storyline, and their dialogue is often background flavour at best. So replacing their one or two lines of non descript dialogue with a possible conversation woul
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by CM30 4y ago
This pattern is why community run, open source and federated platforms are probably better to support than corporate run ones; it's a lot less likely the platform will make the experience worse for users to please shareholders/inv
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Ask HN: What's Going to Replace Twitter?
18 points by CM30 4y ago|22 comments
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by CM30 4y ago
> Having nothing to do at work is its own form of torture. If you have to be available and connected, or much worse - physically in the office, for the full normal work day, it is torture. Once you've gone through the ceremony of g
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by CM30 4y ago
It probably depends on the company and project. If it's a hugely ambitious one with tons of challenging tasks to work on, then everyone being '10x times better' would mean it'd speed along and get done in about a quarter
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by CM30 4y ago
Is money really a good indication of someone's skill as a writer? That's its own question, and I guess it depends on what you consider good or not. There are plenty of authors who become millionaires/billionaires because they
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by CM30 4y ago
> My advice to 10x-ers is: don't work for corporations. If you can be very productive you are selling yourself short. I understand the reasoning here, but I think it's worth adding a the caveats that: 1. Running a business and
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by CM30 4y ago
As for the whole 10x programmer debacle... well it all depends really. Are there people who are better at programming in general? Sure. But there are also plenty of people who just seem like that because the company they work for demands le
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by CM30 4y ago
This is one of the best pieces of advice in the article: > You learn so much as you’re building a system that you will end up iterating into a much better system than you ever could have designed in the first place. This is surprisingly
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by CM30 4y ago
Honestly, that would be incredible for so many purposes! vTubers and amateur media creators would love to be able to just speak and have it translated into their voice of their characters in a more natural way! Would also be an interesting
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by CM30 4y ago
This would be incredible, especially with the thousands of unique characters games often have nowadays. Imagine every NPC having a unique voice, and the ability to dynamically respond to the players? Damn that would do a ton for immersion!
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by CM30 4y ago
But at the same time, there are tons of positive uses for things like this too. Imagine being a creator who wants to share their interests with the world, but hates their own voice or doesn't have the confidence to speak on camera. You
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by CM30 4y ago
Marketing is the ideal field for BS, especially SEO. Few people know what you do, ever fewer can tell if it's working or not, and it's easy to find (or fake) stats to fit any story you want to give. Journalism and media is a prett
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by CM30 4y ago
You can probably also extrapolate this advice to most jobs that involve building or manufacturing something. The way you make it, the techniques you use, the practices you put into play... are all secondary to whether what you're build
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by CM30 4y ago
> Facebook's use of Cassandra and CI lint-checks and blue-green deployments is just like military cargo planes' use of radio towers — they didn't build those first; they scaled the thing they were doing to the point that t
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Ask HN: Why Are Programmer Design Tastes So Utilitarian?
37 points by CM30 4y ago|81 comments
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by CM30 4y ago
I have quite a few different resolutions, namely: 1. Find somewhere else to live. I'm getting tired the area I'm living in, and feel a change would be most welcome in 2023. 2. Eat more healthily and get in better shape. I have to
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by CM30 4y ago
Is it genuinely bad code, or code written under limitations? Plenty of great developers and engineers code things poorly when either under a time crunch/stretched for time, with a limited budget, with dozens of other things on their pl
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by CM30 4y ago
Not sure if Wii U is modern, but since it's on Switch too... Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze? That's 100% a triple A 2D platformer, with incredible graphics, some damn impressive level design that takes advantage of multiple f
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by CM30 4y ago
Hmm it seems like they're associated, the A List Apart site links to this in the footer as part of the same network. That said, I do wonder what happened over at A List Apart. Not sure if I'm missing something, but it feels like i
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by CM30 4y ago
It has to do with multiple things, and that's definitely one of them. As is their attempt to try and understand poorly formatted written questions rather than traditional queries, which theoretically helps casual users at the expense o
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by CM30 4y ago
Is that purely a Google thing? I thought the bullshit added to recipes pages was also a copyright thing, in an attempt to stop aggregation services using them.
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Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?
148 points by CM30 4y ago|204 comments
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by CM30 4y ago
There are definitely some good examples here. The fact that this: > Animate to Auto Still isn't possible with vanilla CSS in 2022 just boggles the mind, especially given jQuery managed to get it working decades earlier. Similarly, w

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