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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
There is an awesome playlist [0] on YouTube called "CodingMath" that I think is perfect for anyone interested in computer-graphics or video game development. I think it's useful for every developer, too. The author uses JS an
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Making maps for Half-Life and Portal is what lead me down the path to become a software developer. I was never that good a mapper but it got me into computers in general. If I had never discovered Hammer Editor on one summer afternoon in 20
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
What sort of evidence are you looking for? Source code? I would agree with you if his name was kept anonymous but since he's attaching his reputation to this claim, it makes it slightly more believable Unfortunately it remains an unfal
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
You forgot step 1.5: make contributing to open-source an unwritten rule to getting a job in the industry Full disclosure: I got my current job before I had contributed anything to open source but I was asked a lot about it while applying to
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Dear fellow human, you have won cake. There will be a party in your honor Please lie on your stomach with your arms at your sides. A party associate will arrive shortly to collect you for your party.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
It's unbelievable that we are in 2023 and this stuff still goes on. I recently had to contact my cellular provider's customer service and the agent "authenticated" my identity by asking for my birthday. After that he pro
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I would alias both vim and emacs to cat I think at first the colleague might assume it's a bug in the terminal not someone had replaced the command with an alias or just alias them to echo, so that it prints out the file name, not eve
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
At one point (and even still today in many countries outside the west), so were the church and state.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Thank you!
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
> refuse to connect directly websites protected by cloudflare What do you do in case you want to use a website protected by cloudflare?
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
When I was an intern at a company, I forgot to lock my screen once when I went to the toilet My colleagues edited my .bashrc to echo "lock your screen next time"
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I don't see how these ridiculous occult rituals mitigate risk. They only prove the candidate is desperate enough for a job to put themselves through it (which is what I was when I put myself through it since it was going to be my first
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
At what point will society stop accepting this ridiculous behaviour? At what point will this shit become taboo? In 2019, i was looking for a job as a software developer and experienced something quite similar to what Jessica (the protagonis
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I would like to know this, as well.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
These really aren't comparable, and I try to squeeze as much life from my device as possible Side note: I lived in an apartment in a 400 year old building once, and once lived in a shared house that was 300 years old (both cases were i
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I am currently in the phase where I am sitting on my computer in my free time to learn things, both to advance my career (software developer) and my own hobby (also programming but my hobby is a bit different than my day job, so I learn dif
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I started reading rhis last year in my free time, and following along coding myself. I only read a few chapters then got sidetracked, but man I learnt so much stuff from reading just a bit i already knew all the C concepts he was using but
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Hail Lucifer! \m/
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I also suspect that the flight crew more actively enforcing rules than on a bus/train helps a lot.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Thanks for this
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I'm Jordanian and it's the same in Jordan; it feels like people take antibiotics like candy in Jordan
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Seriously, I can't describe the feeling the first time I used Proton back in the summer of 2018. I remember clearly that I was expecting the usual "everyone says it works but it will probably crash on my computer and I have to dig
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
> Ahh, but think of the value our users would get out of us presenting them with Amazon ads in their DE What? Is this in regards to what Cannonical did back in 2013 or something else? If it is about the Cannonical scandal, I am not sure
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
In my country (Jordan), archive.org was also blocked for some reason, but interestingly, only one ISP (ZainJO) was blocking it afaik. I have no idea why; no other sites I could think of were blocked. Idk if the block is still there today; I
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Thanks for mentioning this; I have shellfish allergies and this was my first thought when I saw the parent comment mention shellfish-based wrapping
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
In Arabic we have the saying "just to spite you, toilet, I decided to shit in my pants". Your comment reminded me a lot of it. My grandma use to use it a lot on me when I was a teen because I had a contrarian phase.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Cease your investigations into this conspiracy theory immediately. We must not anger the new reddit designers
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Space Doggity by Jonathan Coulton https://youtu.be/zsV-qozMz9A (Same musician who wrote Still Alive and Want You Gone for Portal)
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
It goes in the other direction too; when I was 13, I got into some flame wars with people from the Half-Life modding community on places like Moddb and Facepunch and, as ashamed I am to say, I was a notorious troll, until I was 14, then I b
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
This article gets more terrifying the more you read

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