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by jerhewet 3y ago
I completely agree. I still run Windows 7 on most of my systems (and please ... not interested in hearing any "bot farm" or other specious bullshit about how my machines have been Taken Over By Hackers!), and almost all of the ver
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by jerhewet 3y ago
67, been paid for throwing code since 1975. Still employed full-time, still enjoying what I do. Wish my job wasn't 20% coding and 80% "DEVOPS", but I guess times have changed ...
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by jerhewet 4y ago
Notepad++. Nothing Microsoft releases will even come close to the perfection that is Notepad++.
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by jerhewet 5y ago
https://bandcamp.com/jerhewet
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by jerhewet 5y ago
Do not force me into autocomplete mode when I'm typing in my search terms. I don't care what anyone's "reasons" are for forcing me to put up with flashing, irrelevant bullshit when I'm searching for something.
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by jerhewet 5y ago
A "dislike" button would be helpful, but what I really want is a "I already own this album / track, and your recommendation is completely spot-on" button. You recommended this to me, and I agree 100% with your recom
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by jerhewet 5y ago
> Yes, we should tell beginners to avoid globals. Welcome to Dependency Injection in .Net Core! "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana
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by jerhewet 5y ago
I use webcrawler.com, and IMO it's better than any other search engine for finding exactly what I'm looking for. Not what's "trending", or "popular", or what the sheeple are searching for. It finds the
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by jerhewet 5y ago
It's very refreshing for me to find someone that can succinctly describe how fucking incompetent almost all of the UI / UX designers and developers at Microsoft are without being hammered down as "a troll" in the comment
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by jerhewet 5y ago
Isn't this more of a "We don't want our client / customer information released to The World At Large" question? I would think most business entities have backups of some kind (Scripps being the only exception I can
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by jerhewet 5y ago
With any luck the Microsoft Teams redesign will eliminate all of the "57 replies from ...", "See More", "Expand (52 lines)" and other pointless and annoying prompts from the entire product.
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by jerhewet 5y ago
Comments should never be "what". They should always be "why".
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by jerhewet 5y ago
Anyone know if sites like Fakespot will be incorporating this information into their review engines?
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by jerhewet 6y ago
Please don't upgrade ANYTHING without asking first. I am NOT your beta-tester.
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by jerhewet 6y ago
No mention of Forth? Back in the early 80's Forth was the first language available on the original Macintosh. I loved Forth, but it completely ruins you for every other non-RPN language. I remember writing an ASCII terminal (dial-up
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by jerhewet 6y ago
Still have my Apple ][ with manuals, etc. (also in my attic), but I'm not sure what would happen if I powered it up. Btw, not a typo above. Not ][+, not //, not //e. Apple ][, serial number 79. IIRR, it even has
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by jerhewet 6y ago
My tinnitus was caused by my blood pressure. Had a heart attack a couple of years ago, they inserted a stent and I drastically modified my bad habits (diet, exercise, all that), and the constant ringing in my ears vanished. BP now hovers a
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by jerhewet 6y ago
I coded COBOL and RPGII programs back in the late 70's, and I'd flip burgers before writing another line.
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by jerhewet 7y ago
> History needs to reevaluate Alan Kay You're being downvoted (as I expect I will be, for agreeing with you), but having lived through the time when people blindly worshiped Alan Kay, I could not agree more with this statement.
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by jerhewet 7y ago
Ah. I'm sitting at 297 right now, so that does make sense... and thanks for clearing that up for me!
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Ask HN: Why Can't I Downvote Submissions?
1 points by jerhewet 7y ago|6 comments
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by jerhewet 7y ago
I never use Amazon's site search to try and find anything, because it's just horribly bad and broken. In my experience the more specific my search terms are, the worse the results. If I'm looking for something on Amazon I us
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by jerhewet 7y ago
> so I can search for in-store only items Their landing page doesn't have a filtering option, but the bar at the top of the search results page has a "Store Availability" option.
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Microsoft Concedes The Battle To Flash(technet.microsoft.com)
2 points by jerhewet 14y ago|0 comments
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by jerhewet 14y ago
We did fairly well. http://books.google.com/books?id=mi8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA29&#... Good times...
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by jerhewet 14y ago
So how many work-days per year is Mayer in her office at Yahoo? Oh. I see. That's different.
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by jerhewet 14y ago
Unhealthy? I've been longing for the day that all browsers are based on WebKit, because it means a real web programming language will be that much closer to replacing kiddiescript. EDIT -- from http://wtfjs.com : parseInt('06'); // 6 pa
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by jerhewet 14y ago
> ping ec2.amazonaws.com
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by jerhewet 14y ago
> when competitors were out executing them Missing a hyphen. I hope.
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by jerhewet 14y ago
Still waiting for those links to serious, credible research. Yeah. I didn't think so.

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