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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Then I guess my question is less about the author and more along the lines of the demographics of HN. This is stupid, why was it on the front page?
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
IDK about anyone else's experience but workspaces are not cheap on seemingly any system. Gnome on Linux, MacOS, Windows, all seem to have unacceptable performance degradation the more workspaces you open. I assume that this is because
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Only among the terminally unserious
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
wow that was a huge waste of time, why write this or post it?
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
this now mind-numbingly-rote style of hn comment is going to be really funny to look back on in the future when this technology is as common as intellisense (e.g. almost a year ago now)
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
See also the hard-to-separate growing cohort of people who never leave their parents homes long after becoming adults, not because there are no opportunities to pursue, but because they only know how to do things they are given express perm
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
This is very very cool! I went right to the month and year of my birth; kind of the same vibe as finding a newspaper published on the day you were born but all over the world. Thanks for sharing!
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Unless they've recently changed it, Photoshop will actually refuse to open or edit images of at least US banknotes.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I've mostly repeated the same perspective to people on this thread who would rather virtue signal than read what I've already written, and what I'm saying is not hard to wrap your head around unless you're the type of pe
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
> would need I would say this easily goes either direction, that someone capable of this level of introspection and empathy would be very good at accomplishing the various evil aims he seems to have been capable of. This is often what pe
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Probably, I don't make a habit of reading this kind of thing. In any case I'm not sure what this has to do with the rest of the thread.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
If you project the other things you know about this guy to color everything he did, sure. Reading it made the tone obvious, well before I got to his defense in the wiki article. The memo on its own is painfully obviously a joke but I'm
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I appreciate that I'm not the only person here seeing this and I think the last part of your comment is what some people are missing here. He can be a misogynist pedophile and still make funny jokes sometimes and it's weirdly redu
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
The whole thing is the punchline . If you're missing something, read strken's response elsewhere in this thread, because he put it in a better way than I have anywhere else here - none of it is serious, and if you read it serious
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
See elsewhere where I've quoted parts of it in this thread but if you read "Actually, I don't think Africa is polluted enough!" and take the person saying it seriously instead of reading it as a joke, then you might need
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
And instead this will go unappreciated for how gruesome it is if we're meant to take any of the above accusations seriously, but hey - he's been here for at least 11 years, one of ours, right?
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I know it's boring but I always want sources to go with stuff like this. What did he do?
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
You're covered in the "cartoon-villain-tears-down-orphanage-to-build-mall view of how people work" part of my comment. If this memo were published verbatim under an Onion header maybe it would read clearer to more people.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I mean this is presumably why it wasn't a publicly published memo or policy recommendation. If structural adjustment and economy management is part your job, you might have some steam to let off about it in private, and plenty of draft
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Sure but in the most polite way, that's almost saying nothing at all. I just think it kneecaps any real criticism and real issues associated with this guy to go "okay that might be a joke, but it probably isn't because <le
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
> Does often seem to be serious Kind of what I mean. I hadn't heard of this guy before today, and this memo openly laments that it's challenging to bring Africa into the world pollution economy because moving solid waste there
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I don't think it requires being charitable to acknowledge nuance.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Evil people can make jokes too, and mimicking the formal tone of an official document is a bit as old as time.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I've never seen this before but I'm surprised anyone ever thought in good faith it wasn't tongue-in-cheek. I think one would have to have a cartoon-villain-tears-down-orphanage-to-build-mall view of how people work to not rea
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Salespeople do provide a service - selling.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Code is only useful if it's used. I could write a ton of code and be buried with it, or publish it for people (or AI software, or dolphins or aliens) to use. Who has the energy to have Anubis measure whether my code, or yours, is ethic
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
I keep seeing this attitude and I don't really understand it at all; there's no upside to publishing open source work because it might be utilized by more people, is that correct? Or is it the attribution? There are many many libr
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Why aren't those tiny header file libraries just part of the standard C library? Wait sorry, I don't mean that. I read too many bog-standard HN comments about NPM above.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Upvoting because it's a salient point and downvoters are mad. HN has a complex lately.
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by llbbdd 11mo ago
Hardly worth responding to, from other comments they're defending Java. They're not used to updates.

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