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by nocman 6y ago
I guess that depends on how many other people like me have the same reaction, and how many readers he wants to actually have. Could go either way. I'm not saying he should change the way he does things just to please me, and I might n
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by nocman 6y ago
Perhaps he should write (or contract someone else to write) an application to allow him to create a private twitter-like feed, then reformat it into a normal blog post. If it were not in such an awful format, I might have read further. I w
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by nocman 6y ago
Your opinion of "what works" is not universally shared by everyone. You don't know the details of saagarjha's work developing on Android (unless, perhaps, you actually know them in real life, which seems unlikely given t
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by nocman 6y ago
> real work means there is force involved and energy consumed See my reply earlier in the thread. I think the primary source of contention here is that you assume everyone should only think of the definition you give for the phrase &quo
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by nocman 6y ago
> Real work referred to computers means heavy load I think this is perhaps the source of your problem. You are assuming that others interpret the phrase "real work" to mean exactly what you think of when you hear the phrase. F
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by nocman 6y ago
> We don't have SSH keys because it's not the 90's and we don't have servers. This seems unnecessarily snarky. There are lots of businesses in 2020 that still maintain their own servers, use ssh keys, and are staffe
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by nocman 6y ago
Well, actually, the fact that it wasn't in C kinda makes it work even better, from one point of view. :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
Well, I followed the URL and was amused. So it wasn't a complete loss (even if I never did see the code). Thanks for sharing!
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by nocman 6y ago
LOL - thanks for sharing this. Especially "$ more cowbell". I am SO gonna steal that. :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
I suspect that for some of these people, the reason they don't care is that they know it is fairly likely that their code won't last long, regardless of how awesome it might be. They will move on to other projects, possibly other
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by nocman 6y ago
That really sucks -- assuming that person really is the smartest person in the room. You said "their words", which kind of makes me think you don't agree, but I'm not sure. But for the sake of discussion, let's a
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by nocman 6y ago
> Everything is temporary. Therefore, at some point, some thing(s) will be permanent, because otherwise, the axiom "Everything is temporary" would be permanent. Oh crap. :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
> Also, be prepared to deal with the cultish obsession of the community. They have very strong opinions but will never elaborate. I'm curious to know what "cultish obsession" you are referring to. Also, what strong opinio
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by nocman 6y ago
I think there are a lot of variables in the decision on what point in the quality spectrum you chose when purchasing a tool. Some cheap tools actually do well beyond a "good enough" job, and if you end up only ever needing to do t
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by nocman 6y ago
Yeah. It's supposed to be a joke. It's poking fun at how many early "dotcom"-ish type companies promised the world on their landing pages, but in the end they failed to deliver anything of value.
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by nocman 6y ago
I'd guess it's on the HN front page because people were curious about someone who could afford to spend 6 million dollars on ads in a single year. My first thought was not "I was in charge of spending my employer's mon
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by nocman 6y ago
Well, don't feel bad. I did the exact same thing, except I had the benefit of your post and its anscestor replies, so I wasted less time. You don't have to be old -- we still use FTP all the time at my job. Of course, whenever w
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by nocman 6y ago
I was going to say I missed http://zombo.com/ (because at some point I had checked, and it no longer worked). But I just tried it, and it's working again. Hurray! -- "you can do anything at zombo com!" :-D
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by nocman 6y ago
Well, I went a different way at first. I was trying to figure out if it used git somehow to manage creation/rendering/storing of guitar tabs or something. I kept looking for any images of guitars or screenshots of standard music n
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by nocman 6y ago
It's completely relevant. People run more than one application on their desktop computers. Regardless of what many people say, RAM usage still matters. If every app takes a giant chunk of RAM just to get started ( which many do ) e
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by nocman 7y ago
LOL. Sorry about that. Not sure where I got my wires crossed there. Must have gotten distracted somewhere in the middle while looking it up. I also didn't realize that Feinstein was that old.
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by nocman 7y ago
I know this is a day old now, but Pelosi was born March 26, 1940, so she is 80 (not 86). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
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by nocman 7y ago
> What term will you use when something truly bad comes up? So you are saying it would be OK to call some feature of a piece of software "an abomination" if it were "something truly bad", then? Well, then why should m
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by nocman 7y ago
Did you think the GP meant that Firefox "has to die"? Because that's not how I took it. I think he means just this new feature needs to die. And yeah, it's a bit over the top (I haven't looked at the new feature
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by nocman 7y ago
I see what you did there. :-D Naturally, you mean you'll SAVE that page, right? LOL.
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by nocman 7y ago
On Firefox, if you have the bookmarks toolbar shown, and your window size is short enough, the scrollbar on the right does not allow you to scroll down far enought to see some of the tools on the bottom (Color goes first, then Style, etc, d
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by nocman 7y ago
Kudos to you first for recognizing your own error and second for openly admitting it. I think there many things to consider here. For new developers, I'd encourage you to look for those "old guys" who really know their stuff
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by nocman 7y ago
I have an idea. Why don't you set up a video conference between you, each bring your own beer, and share a toast to the fair-minded way in which this was resolved? The world needs more endings like this.
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by nocman 7y ago
He was awesome in that role, eh! (refering to Strange Brew)
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by nocman 7y ago
Sorry, been busy last couple of days, and just got back to this. Yeah, I quoted your "contender" line in my previous response, but I was seeing that as basically equivalent to what you said earlier: "is very revisionist to ca

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