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by mkramlich 11y ago
agreed: differences and variety are good
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by mkramlich 11y ago
Great nuance and insight! That feels like part of it. When I'm wearing the Software Engineer hat, yes, the entire world can fail if a single nit is imperfect. But when we wear the Human Conversing or Persuading hat I expect and indeed
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by mkramlich 11y ago
well said I basically stopped commenting (well, except now -- doh) here on HN because of how frequently I saw toxic responses and punishment down-voting. There are a noisy subset of users here who either (a) can't understand or respect
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by mkramlich 11y ago
> Tesla has the power to lead the way into eliminating these middlemen monsters and I hope they see more support in that regard. arguably... Craiglist has led the way, and earlier. do you want to see ads from dealers? or from private own
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by mkramlich 11y ago
> How many programmers are out there that are "lame"? from a few decades of observation in the wild, I'm sad to say that it is a surprisingly large percentage. the market demand for programmers seems to exceed the supply o
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by mkramlich 11y ago
I do think the "killer app" use case for the modalities you're talking about are data entry kinds of use cases. Where a non-expert user, perhaps one who has to deal with a variety of formats, very randomly, is required to typ
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by mkramlich 11y ago
again... I hear you. been there, done that, have the T-shirt, over 35 years of coding in multiple domains, including GUIs, graphics, games, code-driven visual layouts, etc. and I'm saying with a low-overhead deterministic-optimized edi
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by mkramlich 11y ago
I hear what you're saying. But I've been programming for 35 years. I've found that getting syntax right is at worst a tiny percentage of my time/energy/brain cost when doing programming. Once out of the newb phase.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
take that notion to the limit: be able to "work" wherever you are; or wherever you have an Internet connection. trust me, its a better thing.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
life's too short for bureaucrats and games-players
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by mkramlich 11y ago
fair considerations
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by mkramlich 11y ago
> Sadly, my very first ever project as a programmer was porting an Ada codebase to C for the 787 (off by one errors for days...). that's a terrifying statement. to those of us who know what a person's first programming projects
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by mkramlich 11y ago
a free cross-platform code editor by Microsoft, you say? vi kids-get-off-my-lawn
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by mkramlich 11y ago
great comment I'm also of the school that different words or terms should have different tangible meanings. So for example a programmer is a distinct concept from a software engineer. One can be one without the other, or both. I like t
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by mkramlich 11y ago
> Does one discover one's inner burglar? "If you find yourself in the right adventure," replied Bilbo.
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by mkramlich 11y ago
I made a web browser playable Rogue-like about 7 years ago. It was the first incarnation of my Dead By Zombie game. Python and a completely homegrown engine. I later decided the hack novelty of it didn't outweigh the negatives of the i
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by mkramlich 11y ago
do you have FU money in the bank? financially can you retire now? if not, I think its wiser to say no. Caveat if this is a case of something truly evil that was done. If its more of a protocol/regulatory/victimless kind of law, th
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I have no doubt that Google has great folks on staff. However I concluded that despite that with respect to their hiring process they still suffer from being Too Big and Too Famous. Therefore they treat people too much like cattle, like a c
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I'm not aware of anyone who can replace him perfectly. There are a set of people who overlap a bit and remind me of Sagan in different ways. Neil DG Tyson. Bill Nye. Richard Dawkins. Elon Musk.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
well deserved. congratulations to Mr. Stonebraker (among other things I was part of one of the first early adopter teams that used his Streambase product, while at Orbitz.)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
Reddit. esp certain subs. its not perfect, and its hard to find the same density of tech-smart folks as HN. however, its more relaxed and friendly, doesn't punish creativity, and doesn't have the same "that opinion or stateme
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I think when I was very young and new to programming I sometimes did coding via superstition. But it was a long time ago, in say my first year or two, when I didn't yet have a good mental model of how the computer worked and how the la
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by mkramlich 12y ago
agree. same experience. so I rarely comment on HN anymore. dominated by very very narrow-minded assholes. my time better spent elsewhere.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
JS is in every web browser. thats why. number one. period. because there are plenty of other language syntaxes compatible with non-blocking mono-threaded EDA.
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by mkramlich 12y ago
I love how due to the nature of the Internet that huhtenberg may be the owner of that botnet. ;-) (note: not saying he is, obviously. just making a point we should all be aware or when communicating with strangers online.)
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by mkramlich 12y ago
interesting I didn't know there was ever a real thing named De-Mail. I named a fictional email-like service De-Mail, in my book The Dread Space Pirate Richard. it's closer to Reddit than email, however. My take on De-Mail was that
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by mkramlich 12y ago
related to this, I was the engine architect and programmer of a Leisure Suit Larry game homage named The Adventures of Khaki Pants Pete. it was an iOS app done to indirectly promote the Klondike Bar. bonus: I also worked for Cendant! later
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by mkramlich 12y ago
books on UNIX and shells
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by mkramlich 12y ago
Bitcoin
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by mkramlich 12y ago
Spock has always been an idol of mine in my sort of personal pantheon of ficional characters. Especially in childhood the line blurs between fiction, myth and reality. And that can be a powerful thing in healthy ways. Especially when helpin

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