pcblues

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by pcblues 9y ago
I have not found enough evidence to change from being a strong wall of no to my children. They know I’ll keep talking with them through their big emotions and that I love them but I don’t negotiate with terrorists. 5 and 8, they are thrivi
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by pcblues 9y ago
Beware of False Hope Syndrome - if you don't break down your hopes/goals into realistic steps you won't know if they are achievable.
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by pcblues 9y ago
Someone to love, something to do, something to hope for. I keep lists that I add to when I have inspiration because I know my memory is faulty. I meditate on the knowledge that most success is hereditary, the rest is luck, luck favours the
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by pcblues 9y ago
I spent some time playing this. Loved the manual and the old school aspect. Suddenly, I thought that every hour I spent in this I could be learning real assembler or another language that I could use IRL - solve real git-hub bugs for fun, e
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by pcblues 9y ago
Ex-Delphi developer (10 years) - still do some maintenance... The verbosity is an indicator that it does not require a huge cliff of learning to understand the syntax. (It also means the compiler can absolutely fly, which Delphi did.) I lik
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by pcblues 9y ago
Yep. We had a 250k line codebase ten years ago that took 20secs for a full rebuild in Delphi. You could code like a demon. Even 17 years ago it had awesome reflection that let you do some really efficient (lines of code) stuff with generati
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by pcblues 9y ago
I would test them with smoke just to see how each behaved. Try with smoke from a candle just put out, a piece of paper just put out, and a plastic wire just put out.
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by pcblues 9y ago
Why would the downtrodden benefit from a true meritocracy?