ZinZirconium

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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
Cancel culture claims another victim. Social media and its consequences have been a disaster for nerds. Introverted nerds and intellectuals created the technology that enables social media to exist. That same technology is being used to exc
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
RMS achieved precisely because he is a bad people person. He did what he believed needed to be done to reform the software industry the way he wanted it and he succeeded without regard for what other people thought of him. Unfortunately cap
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
Yes. It's gatekeeping borne of jealousy. Keep introverted nerds in tech. Extroverted marketeers took our technology and perverted it into social media. Woz said of his time building blue boxes purely motivated by intellectual curiosity
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
Team players don't work alone. What has happened to all the introverts who work alone? They're not working in tech. Tech is for extroverts who get paid to copy from public GitHub repositories and paste into private GitHub reposito
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
> They stream themselves coding at the same time each week without fail. Nope. Anybody who streams themselves coding is not a real coder. Coding is not rapid fire typing memorized boilerplate code to techno background music. Real life is
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
I run a YouTube streaming server which theoretically will be blocked by Google after a burst of requests. I've found the very best way to avoid the problem is to have zero users. After submitting to Show HN and looking at my own server
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
As a techy person myself who doesn't care about design, where can I find techy people? Obviously not Hacker News. I'm extremely dissatisfied with Hacker News which is full of web design obsessed marketing people who aren't te
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Show HN: Scraping 2.5 million songs metadata from Jango Radio
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by ZinZirconium 6y ago
Fascinating! I wished I could do this years ago. Funny thing is I once had a dream exactly like this where I copied on one computer and pasted on a different computer. And now it's real. Wow. I might actually use this. Well maybe. The
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Show HN: Searching all 2.5 million songs on Jango Radio
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