joeypickles

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by joeypickles 15d ago
Yeah, somehow I owe my entire software engineering career to that flower and garden program example. There was something about being able to add new words based on primitives, and new words based on custom words, that captured me for good.
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by joeypickles 15d ago
Very true, but I don’t see it as a cycle like that comic says. It is more of an unhealthy digestive tract.
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by joeypickles 15d ago
It’s frustrating that the site wrote that. I’d wager a taco that she never made that claim.
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by joeypickles 3mo ago
I know this is HN and we’re not supposed to laugh, but this gave me a smile.
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by joeypickles 4mo ago
I wish there was an article on the oral history of comic chat.
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by joeypickles 4mo ago
I agree, it’s dumb. I never call those things popovers (is that a regional term?) so the whole time the word was a bit jarring. Also, at first I thought this was a riff on combovers, and imagined some weird male Medusa creature with a thinn
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by joeypickles 7mo ago
It randomizes slices of the sample and begins to play the slices in the random order. Meanwhile it begins the bubble sort algorithm at a pace that matches the tempo, sorting the slices into their chronological order. Throughout, it only pla
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by joeypickles 11mo ago
Simpler in the short run, but creates tech debt I think.
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by joeypickles 11mo ago
Seems appropriate here: https://genius.com/Moondog-enough-about-human-rights-lyrics In other words, why do we have to make something a person in order to give it rights?
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by joeypickles 6y ago
Reminds me of the lawsuit brought against South Park by Brownmark Films over the recreation of their infamous video, also done in a faithful “side by side” manner. Interesting that the courts decided the opposite in that case.