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by hvs 4y ago
This blog post is from 18 years ago so I'd be curious if any game developers can speak to the current state of affairs in the industry. It's always been notorious for overworking employees, but I'm not sure if it's to th
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by hvs 4y ago
Nice. A Motif-style DOS shell. Looks good.
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by hvs 4y ago
In Minnesota there is a vibrant history of adult baseball leagues, but the problem is that if you didn't play in college (or at least high school or American Legion ball) you will probably not be able to compete. Unlike softball league
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by hvs 4y ago
One of the inventors of Scheme literally wrote the book on Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_the_Language
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by hvs 4y ago
I was a professional developer starting about 1996, so this doesn't apply to earlier timeframes, but there were a lot of people TALKING about software engineering be a craft. In the trenches, there were a lot of people just trying to g
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by hvs 4y ago
Yeah, maybe it's because I grew up with sisters, but "girls not wanting to do secret writing" (if the actual reason) is boneheaded beyond belief. "Keeping secrets in a hidden diary" is literally a standard trope in
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by hvs 4y ago
Ultimately, the military is like any organization made up of people with the usual politics, interdepartmental turf battles, fiefdoms, etc. Sharing information means giving up "power" and, unfortunately, government employees are n
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by hvs 4y ago
I'm most assuredly not a coffee snob (Folger's? Bring it on), but I just don't like the taste of instant. I will say that an AeroPress is one of my best investments for a quick, good tasting cup of coffee (faster and cleaner
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by hvs 4y ago
It becomes corruption when government regulators do things favorable to an industry and then shortly after take cushy positions in said industry. Regulatory capture is a very real thing and, IMO, a much bigger reason for modern problems of
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by hvs 4y ago
That was by necessity more than choice. The internet wasn't really a viable option at the time.
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by hvs 4y ago
If there is that much of a demand for that type of entertainment, more of it will be created due to the increased revenue.
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by hvs 4y ago
In the mid-90's Heineken and Becks were considered "fancy" beers. By the late 90's , microbreweries were starting to appear (at least in the Chicago-area where I was living).
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by hvs 4y ago
Luxury. We used less senior employees as desks.
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by hvs 4y ago
So, your suggestion if you can't afford a Mac is to... buy a Mac?
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by hvs 4y ago
I admit that I'm a terrible (descriptive) code commenter and that is after 25+ years as a professional programmer, BUT I always try to add a comment when I add some weird code to fix an odd bug or add some special case. And I can confi
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by hvs 4y ago
Good for him. The callous disregard for _pre-stated_ wishes and then trying to claim that "akstually HE was the real risk to OUR employees" shows that any sense of "friendly workspace" they are trying to encourage by hav
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by hvs 4y ago
I don't think Van Gogh is a good example. There are certain artists whose work outlives them by centuries, not many, but we still talk about Michelangelo, da Vinci, Monet, etc. The rest of your post is accurate, though.
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by hvs 4y ago
I think he pretty clearly already didn't agree with the USA since he ignored the fact that they told him he couldn't go and violated sanctions. I'm pretty sure they aren't worried about him "holding a grudge".
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by hvs 5y ago
We've only had any luck with Elgato Thunderbolt (not just USB-C) hubs with Macs. Everything else has had issues.
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by hvs 5y ago
TBF, that guy isn't doing it for the fun of it (OK, partly for the fun of it) but because Mr. Chickadee is a content creator. Sure, it's a lifestyle choice, but he also makes his living do it. I love his channel, but his lifestyle
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by hvs 5y ago
Another post from an account created 12 days ago for the express purpose of promoting his blog without engaging the community in any way.
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by hvs 5y ago
Hacker News isn't an activist group, it's a tech website. Individuals on this site may or may not be "doing" something about Ukraine but there is no reason to associate this with HN being "good" or "bad&qu
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by hvs 5y ago
If we wipe ourselves out within 100,000 years, I'm not sure "intelligence" is a particularly advantageous trait, evolutionarily-speaking.
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by hvs 5y ago
You haven't heard it because it's not spin, it's from an engineer's point of view. That's not the view you hear in the news when it comes to these things.
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by hvs 5y ago
Or if you took that class back in the mid-90's it might be interesting. ;)
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by hvs 5y ago
Ahem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
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by hvs 5y ago
Yes, I did it at the beginning of the pandemic. I'm not implying that they would be working from home simultaneously with caring for children. Just that their schedules could be more flexible to deal with the various things that come u
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by hvs 5y ago
I wonder how the wide-scale move to work-from-home will change this. Having more flexible work environments while also making caregiving more possible (because, let's be honest, women still do the vast majority of caregiving, even if t
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by hvs 5y ago
People retiring aren't exactly in the primes of their lives. Suddenly becoming more sedentary at 65 years old could put enormous stress on your body.
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by hvs 5y ago
Performance Improvement Plan. Basically, a fancy way for a company to say they tried to help you improve before firing you.

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