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by fifticon 5y ago
I miss the tooling for VRML. I did a lot of modeling in VRML back then, but gradually all the tools have stopped working. I particularly miss the cosmos editor and browser. It had a fantastic ui, but was lost in buyups by incompetent adob
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by fifticon 5y ago
I agree with most of the suggestions. Apart from doing something physical after work (even the commute), I try to leave a gap of 2-3 hours relaxing,before I pick up mental activities again. I.e. the interval between 16 and 19 I use to unwin
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by fifticon 5y ago
Lying on the internet is so ingrained, it is part of its fabric. There are several core memes based on it ("are you saying someone would post something untruthful on the internet??"). I'm not even lying (much) here. However,
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by fifticon 5y ago
You might take comfort in, that it also puts a dampener on interstellar wars (my assumption).
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by fifticon 5y ago
Not always true. Minecraft started out as a great game, and parts of it still is, but Microsoft bought it up and is busy stuffing it full of crap.
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by fifticon 5y ago
No, we just prefer games not structured to suck :-)
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by fifticon 5y ago
I tend to not wholly agree. While I have spent insane amounts of money on both computer games and movies, some of us pirate simply to get rid of obnoxious DRM crap. As an example, I find it infuriating that my multimedia setup involves two
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by fifticon 5y ago
I fail to see any relevant innovation happen in the current fragmentation of giant silos.
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by fifticon 5y ago
Actually, i like it for basic desktop apps, because it just works, and i stay clear of the last 12 years of front-end dumpster fires, where nothing that is over 18 months old, can build, compile or get support anymore. In my day job, I inhe
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by fifticon 5y ago
Software Engineer I think
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Ask HN: Configure Android phone to block YouTube?
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by fifticon 5y ago
I feel like I both understand and don't understand this analogy. In my experience, databases want your eternal soul, and not in a good way. At least they are 80% of our cloud costs.
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by fifticon 5y ago
I abandoned my attempts to make larger projects in pure javascript. I happily write larger projects in typescript. Typescript makes javascript feasible, usable for me.
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by fifticon 5y ago
Denmark functions similar to this, i believe (i am danish).
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by fifticon 5y ago
I see it differently. At work, we have several bothersome but sorely needed issues that needs doing, but no one is volunteering to do them, because they mostly consist of loads of thankless work, that may drag on, and will distract you from
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by fifticon 5y ago
In german, this is sometimes referred to as 'bessermachen', i.e. this must/should have 'better made', in some arbitrary way. It is all about 'which monkey is in charge here'.
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by fifticon 5y ago
There are 2-3 related aspects to this: One part is to which degree the person's own mental model corresponds to reality. If they are out of sync, it will lead to pain, no matter what Dunning-Kruger says - the inability to plan or execu
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by fifticon 5y ago
I have my own theory on this. Green-field projects are usually whipped up and rolled out by the experienced devs in the shop. Once the boat is in the water and floating, the senior devs are posted off to next new-dev initiative, and the fol
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by fifticon 5y ago
We saw another fun anecdote illustrating what happens here on HN recently. It was an unnamed MS engineer who explained the issue with post-Win7 design at microsoft was, that even though the actual programmer engineers _building_ it knew whi
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by fifticon 5y ago
It's probably already been written below, but the core problem appears, when the software is not being SELECTED by INFORMED receivers. In that case, no 'evolution'/survival-of-the-fittest is happening. E.g. when you are
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by fifticon 5y ago
There seems to be separate things at stake here, though they are not independent. (1) the amount of and 'pleasantness' of the work involved. (2) the basic social consequences. (3) the 'joneses' social consequences. (4) w
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by fifticon 5y ago
This exists: (I've got one) https://liliputing.com/2021/06/devterm-is-an-open-source-por...
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by fifticon 5y ago
I know I was just misunderstanding, but for 60 seconds I was skimming through the comments trying to grasp the gist of what software for 'living buildings' was all about, I thought it was some ecological concept. Anyway, I earned
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by fifticon 5y ago
For me as a roblox user/programmer, the most annoying part of this was, that their desktop development tools refused to run during this outage, because they insist on "phoning home" when you launch them. It is annoying, becau
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by fifticon 5y ago
I cannot agree regarding enums. I want enums exactly as they are. In particular, I insist on decoupling their names and their values. I want to rename/update their names, without affecting their representing value. I want them to work
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by fifticon 5y ago
Their IP and player base just got bought for 70b. They will make new 'blizzard' games, the way Disney makes StarWars movies. But I actually welcome it. Kotick has run blizzard into the ground, on the formula 'maximize profits
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by fifticon 5y ago
the wealth piled up with people like elon musk and jeff bezos indicate this is not what is being solved or handled here. The 188b$ of Bezos and 264b$ of Musk are clearly not dedicated to providing me with hamburgers and sleeping quarters. I
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by fifticon 5y ago
I wish more front-end stuff was oriented this way. This is how I want front-end coding to be: Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it will be styled and presented in a sensible way. Then later, if our company stylis
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by fifticon 5y ago
I believe it's always possible to do better, and I will try DO out. However, ironically, windows file explorer is one of those parts of ms-windows I normally appreciate, as being "more good than bad". In particular, I love
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by fifticon 5y ago
No great insight from me here, but you make it sound like you would much prefer to work on backend/server stuff. A gateway to that might be full-stack, if it's not possible to directly transition to back-end developer. Some peo

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