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by namuol 2y ago
Life expectancy of leaders (especially autocrats) is below average for obvious reasons.
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by namuol 2y ago
The only inevitability listed is that Putin can’t live forever. There’s legitimate hope if Russia has a leadership change.
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by namuol 2y ago
So… Where are we marching?
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by namuol 2y ago
I’m struggling to see how option 1 is somehow worse than option 4…
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by namuol 2y ago
There’s no question in my mind that this went exactly as planned.
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by namuol 2y ago
> In fact I can't think of any better way to change flat earther minds. You have a ruinously optimistic outlook for the average human, let alone a flat-earther.
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by namuol 2y ago
Good lord that Steam page and the trailer have a ton of appeal. It’s no wonder you’ve got a hit on your hands! Reviews are very good too. Congratulations!
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by namuol 2y ago
It’s interesting that we just assume a newer language produces “better code”
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by namuol 2y ago
So you think code that is ugly is bad code? Or is it that it uses janky/outdated features? What makes it good if not its lifetime value? Surely you don’t just presume the quality of code based on the person who wrote the code, right?
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by namuol 2y ago
Forget about the code itself and focus on the results. What I mean by that: Good code is code that has proven itself by surviving quietly in a long-living project that has changed a lot over many cycles of new engineers (experienced or othe
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by namuol 2y ago
I’ve come full-circle back to my junior engineer attitude with respect to coding “best practices”: Avoid anything resembling dogma.
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by namuol 2y ago
Cute, but it might be time to ditch your smartphone if you really want to change.
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by namuol 2y ago
It’s not misuse. It’s misunderstanding.
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by namuol 2y ago
I get that this is satire but I’m struggling to find anything about it funny or helpful.
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by namuol 2y ago
Does your company operate the same way? I.e. is most, or at least a large chunk of engineering done as pair-programming?
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by namuol 2y ago
In case there’s any doubt this is relevant to HN: > The cuts have focused on people who were not only combating false content online but also working on broader safeguards to protect elections from cyberattacks or other attempts to disru
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by namuol 2y ago
> the same access to various components of the US Govt that Obama’s US Digital Services …but also much more. It is intellectually dishonest to equate these two. Cutting through red tape can technically be done by nuking the red tape, but
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by namuol 2y ago
> But if you really want to see the “immune system” shine, mention web3 and smart contracts, and watch the downvotes pour in. Yeah that sounds like a feature, not a bug.
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by namuol 2y ago
> twitter is still running and still top dog in the message-post space He just hasn’t finished the job.
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by namuol 2y ago
Can you point out the parts which aren’t a shit-show?
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by namuol 2y ago
It can take time to get to know any city, but SF has the advantage of being relatively dense and walkable. I moved here in 2015, and I was about the same age when I arrived. It was an adjustment for me back then too. The problems don’t real
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by namuol 2y ago
Oh wow, it’s exciting to see the same idea catching on for other platforms. And thank you so much for sharing your hard work - I’m loving the huge new influx of GB(C) games thanks to the community that sprung up around your project!
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by namuol 2y ago
I often wonder what sort of tools like this must have existed in-house at the many small game development studios of the era. This one reminds me of another modern compiler for the Intellivision console called INTYBasic, which has an extrem
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by namuol 2y ago
The neon signage of our time
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by namuol 2y ago
Any advice to reform things? As individuals or as a collective?
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by namuol 2y ago
Serious question: What good does that do?
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by namuol 2y ago
Don’t generalize like this. I have a very close friend who works for VA. Her patients are veterans, many far poorer and with no higher-education. She cares about them deeply. She has a husband, kids, and two parents that depend on her paych
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by namuol 2y ago
> If not for the political implications, I doubt that anyone would be interested in the teenage antics of a script kiddie. You said it. There are political implications of granting major federal security clearances to someone who the evi
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by namuol 2y ago
Sounds awful. Which city?
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by namuol 2y ago
Who is “we”? The forces eroding software quality are disproportionately caused by short-sighted VCs.

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