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by bg4 6y ago
This still happens, it just happens on Slack. Perhaps not the same but it's not gone.
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by bg4 6y ago
I was a health science major in college spending a lot of my free time programming an LP-MUD (this was mid-90s). I think it was my sister who said that I seemed much more interested in programming than health science. I switched into CS abo
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by bg4 6y ago
We used to play a game in summer camp where one had two sticks and could hand them to the next person 'crossed' or 'uncrossed' declaring as such. The key was it was the persons legs, not the sticks, which determined if o
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by bg4 6y ago
Independence, proficiency, and good judgement.
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by bg4 6y ago
> "youre too dumb to be in the room with me" Had a coworker say to a client, "I could explain it you but you're not smart enough to understand it." Absolutly ridiculous and toxic individual.
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by bg4 7y ago
I thought they were waiting for the city to cancel it for insurance reasons.
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by bg4 7y ago
Yes, have to relentlessly drive down complexity. Starting with simple, pure functions that work and composing them together to build up more complex functionality goes a long way.
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by bg4 7y ago
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have
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by bg4 7y ago
They ascend to become Gods which is somehow not contradicting the monotheistic aspect of Christianity.
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by bg4 7y ago
He-man always came with a lesson at the end, iirc.
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by bg4 7y ago
> a stick shift (so he can’t text and drive) This is genius, thank you. I have been very nervous of my kids texting while driving.
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by bg4 7y ago
Writing simple functions which take an A and return B in any context. Then, composing those simple functions together to build up more complex functionality.
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by bg4 7y ago
I could not agree more strongly. Also recommend this book for anyone who hasn't read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
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by bg4 7y ago
In hindsight, it was naive, but it wasn't just branding. It really was a strong sentiment at the time long before the Internet consolidated around a few extremely powerful companies.
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by bg4 7y ago
Appreciate the help!
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by bg4 7y ago
That may very well be it, thanks! I watched a video and the battle scene looks very familiar.
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by bg4 7y ago
My memory is pretty fuzzy unfortunately. I recall that one would choose their fighter, which would have different abilities (magic or fighting etc). Then both would enter the screen from opposite sides to battle. The graphics were not the b
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by bg4 7y ago
Does anyone remember a MS-DOS game where one could select different characters to battle (there were a lot of them). They all had strange names (strange to me at 10 years old), maybe Greek-like? I played this a friends house late 1980s, hav
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by bg4 7y ago
> It’s understandable it’s a touchy subject. Why piss off China if you don’t have to? Only something to lose and nothing to gain. I know right? I mean, it's not my liver that's being harvested...
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by bg4 7y ago
Meeky Moose is my pick.
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by bg4 7y ago
The bullies aren't living healthy, productive lives either. More than likely, their home life is awful if not horrific.
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by bg4 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_serous_retinopathy
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by bg4 7y ago
I did this for years and years and developed a blister on my retina from the never ending stress. Permanent vision problems. It's not worth it!
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by bg4 7y ago
I was in CS seeing friends gets 10-12 job offers in the late 90s. Graduated in May of '02 and it took me a year to find an entry level software job and the pay was shit.
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by bg4 7y ago
You have to find better work.
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by bg4 7y ago
I've been enjoying reading KnowhereNews.com which attempts to provide bias-free news.
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by bg4 7y ago
> I will gladly work for 2 - 3 months on hyper mode, giving away my mental and physical health for a feature that will actually provide business value and for which the business can make a good case for why it's needed yesterday. I
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by bg4 7y ago
It's banned in our home. It's awful.
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by bg4 7y ago
This isn't true at all, Perot actually succeeded at business.
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by bg4 7y ago
"intense academics stole my childhood and didn't have the value that the adults believe they have" Exactly right. We put people on the moon and we did it without grinding 8 year olds with hours and hours of homework. These pa

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