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   by snarfy 5y ago

   We really just need the rules. The rest will grow organically. Why is our legal system so crappy that this cannot happen? Our legal system has everyone's hand in the pot and we end up with cities designed to extract maximum profit f
2. 512.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   We are all using git only because Linus wrote it. The cargo cult is real and very much alive in our industry, I think precisely because we are all here to write specialist software. Too busy in our domain to worry about version control nu
3. 513.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   My most used program was a 7 byte .COM I wrote with debug.exe. It made the machine reboot. It took about 15 seconds to write. A friend who worked at the college ended up using it in their scripts. They had a way to do it before but it w
4. 514.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   I don't like the perfumes so I use baby shampoo. I use it for everything. It's my shampoo, face wash, body wash, and shaving gel.
5. 515.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   Accountability is not punishment. It's a thirst for justice. With nobody accountable there is no justice.
6. 516.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   I don't blame them I blame the parents. If my dog murders you I'm to blame but not if my kid does.
7. 517.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   If they are considered a minor and not accountable, then parents need to be 100% held accountable.
8. 518.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   > Even Unix follows this pattern for process creation! That does not make it a good pattern.
9. 519.▲
   by snarfy 5y ago

   Here is my anecdata after being a regular user for 30+ years. >I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting&#x2F
10. 520.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    As a software guy I think of it as trying to understand the execution of a complex web app by examining the machine instructions. At that level, how things happen is very apparent but why they do is pretty much lost.
11. 521.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    > unfortunately people like that don't want to take the pay and lifestyle cut When we are already paying $30k for a $20 part, we can afford to pay them market rate.
12. 522.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    And I bet it still uses a linear rather than logarithmic scale. Can't even do audio right.
13. 523.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    There is a pic with Clippy - "It looks like the music is loud. Would you like me to turn it down?" If that is bad UI someone please tell the Android developers. Getting real tired of the volume control warning me it's too lo
14. 524.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    Just name your company 'null'.
15. 525.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    I was under the impression a large amount of medical R&D is paid for by taxes and done by university students. We pay for it and private industry benefits.
16. 526.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    > persevere through technical issues This insight is severely under appreciated. It may very well be the primary personality trait that separates engineers. It's not intelligence, reasoning, or problem solving skills. Those are c
17. 527.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    No source code. > I'm not ready for people to see (or to accept pull requests) things that are specific to bflat. If you think bflat is useful, you can leave me a tip in my tip jar and include your GitHub user name in a note so tha
18. 528.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    Exercise has helped me immensely. It's one of the few times a day that I'm focusing on self-improvement. If I don't do that then I focus on everything else and eventually burn out.
19. 529.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    You probably like making things. It's why we program. Find something you like making besides programs.
20. 530.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    Nope, nothing wrong with US news [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
21. 531.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    "It's so drag-and-drop and easy you won't even need programmers anymore" about various form builder apps. People still think this today.
22. 532.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    This article was on the front page for all of 30 minutes before being buried to oblivion.
23. 533.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    I've been functioning on ~3.5 hours sleep per night for about 5 years now. You get used to it.
24. 534.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    Oh no, is counting things bad? I'm always counting things and also counting how long they take.
25. 535.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    Calling ME a successor to 98 isn't quite fair either, considering the amount of NT that was shoehorned into ME's code base. It really was an amalgamation of both code bases.
26. 536.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    > I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we've come up to the ADHD talk Ditch your therapist.
27. 537.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    Makes me want to take screenshots and paste them as comments in the code, with circles and arrows and stuff.
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    by snarfy 5y ago

    All the real time guarantees would only ever happen in the libraries you are calling out to, not in the scripting language. That's just glue code. If the scripting language has the equivalent of eval() there is no way it can be made
29. 539.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    30 years on, still learning
30. 540.▲
    by snarfy 5y ago

    No way I'll use this. Why spend an afternoon learning Helix when I spent years learning Vim to accomplish the same things. I don't want to acknowledge that.