dialupmodem

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by dialupmodem 9y ago
The glory days of programming are over, mate. When the masses discovered programming to be profitable ~5 years ago, it became "cool" and was quickly gamed into the ground from both ends. Look at what "cool" does to art a
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
So tired of seeing blockchain, machine learning, and JS in hte news. Things like Ethereum and even Bitcoin are 100% hype, "what if", and are nothing more than dreams. Last century gave us things like the personal computer, the int
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
Realizing that I don't have to be (or even want to be) a talking head in the industry. Realizing that I don't have to build a following to be extremely happy, and that contrary to popular opinion, living a small life is much more
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
After being a windows jerk for 20 years I fully switched over about a year ago. My only remaining attachment to Microsoft is an old version of office I have running in CrossOver. I think what did it for me was the hardware, but the forced u
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
I would pay good money for a study on this. Ex: Choose a hundred random subjects and assign them irrelevant, obscure keywords to speak loudly into their phones while the messenger app is open. Report back with resulting ads displayed over t
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
- Underground bunker construction - Space exploration - Anything valuable in end of the world scenarios It's only a matter of time before someone harnesses AGI to enslave the planet and declare totalitarian rule. Perhaps even by accide
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
I should have just upvoted this. Oh well.
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by dialupmodem 9y ago
There's been plenty of startups that launched with bad domain names but wound up hits. thefacebook.com, getdropbox.com to name a couple. Going the appname+app.com route you are quite literally signing up to work for the guy that owns a
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Ask HN: Why can't I get dev jobs anymore?
13 points by dialupmodem 9y ago|8 comments