OOPMan

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by OOPMan 5y ago
The difference between baseball cards and NFTs is that if I'm cold I can make a bonfire from baseball cards, whereas I certainly can't do the same with NFTs. At this point, of you say crypto is involved with some new fad it's
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I guess I must be the odd one out, I don't find adding more screens does a ton to help my productivity, it just means more context switching. Maybe if I needed to more stuff where I compared things side-by-side...
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I can't wait for the n-gate take on this...
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I have never ever encountered anyone that took it as anything other than a joke. Congratulations on your award.
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I prefer Vanced YouTube
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I feel like people in the US have a warped viewpoint on this because Apple hardware is so common there. Outside of the US, especially in poorer countries, Apple hardware is vastly less prevalent, both at universities and in general. You fol
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Modern games is a bit of a blanket statement. There are tons of modern games (arguably the majority when you consider the size of the market) that are not skinner boxes. If all you're looking at is AAA games and mobile crap, then sure.
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by OOPMan 5y ago
You're comparing a person's side project to years of work on this in Chromium. Seems rather like comparing someone's homemade bottle rocket to a Saturn V...
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by OOPMan 5y ago
And here I thought the most popular way to use SQL on the web was with a backend API. Shows what I know... On a similar note, have this nagging feeling that we used to have this ability to use SQL in client-side applications. I just can&#x2
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Indeed. And, amusingly enough, most of the open standards stuff still exists too.
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by OOPMan 5y ago
My profile on LinkedIn for the longest time stated "No PHP jobs please" as a way to weed out recruiters that would send me job offers for PHP roles on the basis that I once did some PHP. I've updated the profile to include &q
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Oh hey, another BBOM fan :-)
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I like to recommend the Big Ball Of Mud paper. By and large most software projects still seem to fall into the pits described in this paper.
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Second that
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by OOPMan 5y ago
I struggle to understand why some random individuals realisation he's not that into movies any more is worthy of any attention at all? Interests and tastes come and go with age. Truly we live in the most narcissistic of times that peop
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Brave seems strictly worse than Vivaldi to me...
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Expecting HN commenters not to behave like the vapid nuts they're they're mocked as on n-gate is a big ask ;-)
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Are you being intentionally daft? Or do you genuinely fail to realise thay there is a difference between you and small number of other people relative to the global population using cryptocurrency as money as compared to everyone on the pla
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by OOPMan 5y ago
There is a good reason n-gate exists and endlessly mocks the HN comments
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by OOPMan 5y ago
It's quite hilarious seeing the term "skilled and intelligent hacker" being used to describe HN users
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Let's not talk about the thing Java calls pattern matching
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by OOPMan 5y ago
That's an interesting take, as someone that's used Scala for a while I feel like there actually isn't that much syntax. I guess my perception is warped :-)
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Why the engine internals exposed using Python 2.7 rather than Python 3? Regardless of how you feel about Python 2 vs Python 3...one is officially EOL and the other isn't...
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by OOPMan 5y ago
People will say anything to feel like they're not doing a dirty job...
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by OOPMan 5y ago
Since it's a static database and the queries against it are most likely going to be static, just pre-run the queries and store the results statically in a more space-efficient format. When you're on a dogshit internet connection i
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by OOPMan 5y ago
It's impressive on one hand. On the other it's still a lot of overhead.
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by OOPMan 6y ago
An actual decent piece of content posted on HN for once, what is the world coming to?!
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by OOPMan 6y ago
Tarring
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by OOPMan 6y ago
Sounds like the usual post-modern rubbish to me...
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by OOPMan 6y ago
Most things people say that try to conflate atheism with theism are insulting, intellectually dishonest and useless

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