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by Udo 9y ago
I'm in my fourties now, started programming when I my parents finally relented and bought me a Commodore at age 10. My point is, when I was 14, things were quite different - mainly because information was hard to come by and it all dep
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by Udo 10y ago
> The best we can hope for, I think, is to find a common ethic (no lying, no stealing, no verbal abuse, etc.) and agree to part ways respectfully to the degree we can't. Indeed, that's why I used the word ethics instead of mo
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by Udo 10y ago
> I honestly don't care about that even, as long as people can discuss their ideas and leave the group if they're done tolerating each other. Personally I'd agree with that, but analogous to being the employee of a compa
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by Udo 10y ago
Expanding on one of the comments that might clear up what we're actually talking about (which wasn't made especially clear otherwise): >> "The Gorean philosophy promoted by Larry is based on the principle that women ar
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by Udo 10y ago
The response to this cannot in good conscience be "oh well, that's how it's supposed to work and there isn't any other way". It's only a matter of time before people get killed this way, and if you're one
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by Udo 10y ago
> 1. A smarter advertising-based model. That would be the wrong lesson to take away here. By and large, ads are a scam on many levels, and it's not at all clear how that could change. Individual deals between content producers and
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by Udo 10y ago
It's appropriate to call Chrome an OS-like platform, and it's quite convenient to ship apps with, but it's not "Flash for the desktop". As someone who is opposed to bloat but sometimes appreciates convenience, I thi
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by Udo 10y ago
> suffer from NIH and DIY because you are so butthurt that someone makes money with you in a symbiotic relationship It's regrettable that this inflammatory and one-sided language is one of the top-voted comments on this thread rig
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by Udo 10y ago
> Also, community and open source is all about contributions and public discussions, not _just_ code dumps. Personally, I think software should be the central point, not populism. Ideally, an open source project would surround itself w
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by Udo 10y ago
> Nobody is destroying anything. But people can refuse to adopt or support your project/program There is a difference between ignoring a piece of software you don't like and actively campaigning against it.
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> You can't expect the community to welcome you when you blindly follow your ideas and you can't even produce anything in quality. So you'd rather destroy a promising program just because you weren't asked about yo
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by Udo 10y ago
> That seems hyperbolic. I disagree. While it's probably impossible to come to an objective consensus about any matter of public discussion, at least the vocal people all fall over themselves celebrating the death of Mir and Uni
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by Udo 10y ago
Among all the desktop distros, Ubuntu/Unity came closest to making me switch away from macOS. While I'm a programmer, my interests in the desktop are that of a simple user: I want stuff to work without me having to spend time acti
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by Udo 10y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote / based in Germany I'm a passionate generalist developer looking for Unity3D projects. I'm focusing on: • games, minigames, and interactive experiences • Unity3D customization and gameplay pr
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by Udo 10y ago
It's interesting how you get downvoted with "I don't" while the comment saying "I do" gets upvoted. It seems this crowd doesn't just see this as a matter of opinion but would rather silence one view - name
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> You kept it going for so long and shut it down. Sometimes it's just time to move on. In the early days things were different, everybody had a blog, and you had no trouble making mutual connections. I met interesting people, had
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by Udo 10y ago
I closed my blog last year, after more than ten years of creating admittedly uneven quality content. The impetus for me was that I was getting relatively good traffic but engagement was non-existent. I came to the conclusion I wasn't r
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by Udo 10y ago
There is an overwhelming chance that a drug based on this will never see the light of day, and not just because medical professionals by and large hate the very idea of life extension, although they do. It's an unspecified peptide that
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by Udo 10y ago
The article with all its inaccuracies and misleading language felt like it was written in pursuit of a somewhat manipulative agenda. When I got to the end and read the book it's excerpted from it, it made sense: " Never Out of Sea
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by Udo 10y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. I'm a 40+ years old life-long programmer with some academic science background, and it's not possible for me to actually get a job. A few years back I thought I'd try to get a full
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by Udo 10y ago
I'm in the process of making a user-facing scripting language for my hobby project Rolz.org ( https://rolz.org ), that's going to be a very simple affair. My only attempt at making a "serious" language was np-l
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by Udo 10y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote / based in Germany I'm a passionate generalist developer looking for Unity3D projects. I'm focusing on: • games, minigames, and interactive experiences • Unity3D customization and gameplay pr
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by Udo 10y ago
I was talking about Hackintosh actually, but it's true: I have the same reservations about the Linux desktop.
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by Udo 10y ago
I'm repeating what the repair guys told me. I'll look into it, but from what I've been told, I managed to break the whole assembly.
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by Udo 10y ago
I can live with the fact that they are fragile. Although I think part of that fragility has been designed right in on purpose by Apple, it's still my fault for dropping the thing on the asphalt. My problem, and the reason why I want to
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I've been thinking about making a Hackintosh, yes, but in the end I don't want to have a setup that I constantly have to spend time on just to keep it alive. I'm not sure if things have gotten better since I last looked into
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by Udo 10y ago
Turns out I'll be the contrarian voice in an overwhelmingly Apple-positive thread about switching away from the Mac: OS X has been my primary productivity OS for more than ten years now, but I'm in the process of switching. I&#x27
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by Udo 10y ago
> if planets revolving our sun can somehow collide with eachother It's not "somehow", it's only a matter of time until something happens in most star systems. They are only stable over human-relevant time spans, the
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by Udo 10y ago
I would say it's "clear" in exactly the same way the privacy slider within the Tor browser is clear. Why not set everything to its max value always? Because there will be limitations arising from it. In the CF interface it&#x

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