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iamwil
20y ago
Hey, that's one way to flirt with the ladies...casting your spell.
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iamwil
20y ago
Quickie question: What's MSPW? The only thing I found on google was that it's "Midwestern state pro wrestling" By inference, I can only think of, "Make Shit, Prove Worth". On the topic of leveling, it's simply a game mechanism (as you men
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iamwil
20y ago
Huh, then maybe in 5 years, you can peddle 'vintage blogging' for that "blogging experience of the turn of the century that you crave" You still get vintage software here and there wrapped and ported to modern platforms, like MUDs over IM o
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iamwil
20y ago
That's kinda funny. I've always read that passage to mean, those are the types of armies you don't want to be fighting against, since the best victory is victory where you don't have to fight at all and the opposing side just gives up. I
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iamwil
20y ago
Like everything, it's a balance, right? All study and no practice is just as bad as all practice with no study. And sometimes, if you internalize something that you read, you won't often remember where you read it from, so you think you c
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iamwil
20y ago
While it might not be entirely true, it certainly gives you an attitude that affects your behavior for the better, especially at early stages. From my limited experience, talking about your ideas to both laypeople and technical people can
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20y ago
How about Chicago? Anyone interested in meeting up in the Chicagoland area? Talk tech, talk startup, over joes or en grosse bier.
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20y ago
Well, though I share the same sentiments in general (there are a few good strips), someone out there is reading all that rubbish. Either we're not like most people, and most people like rubbish, or good content is not how strips are being
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20y ago
I suppose there are correlations between his life and founders. He failed as a political cartoonist right out of college, and failed for a couple of years drawing C&H...not a lot of newspapers wanted to take his work. The most amazing th
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20y ago
I get that it's saying in order to be successful in the field of programming, there's a lot more to get good at other than programming. But can a person really not get better at programming with more practice? Or is it diminishing returns?