syngrog66

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by syngrog66 5y ago
one of the most Orwellian gaslighting replies I've seen on HN to date. wow
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by syngrog66 5y ago
Great. I have massive respect for any Russian who has stood up. Hopefully they set an example and embolden more. There are several ways Putin can exit office, or exit the world. In the best scenario for everyone, the Russian people should m
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by syngrog66 5y ago
Putin has been in power there for 20 years. Been attacking neighbor nations for at least 14 years, offhand. He has a clear track record. Info has been out there, and for a looooong time ordinary Russians were able to get facts, if they wish
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by syngrog66 5y ago
Their country is killing thousands of innocent men, women, children, grandparents, babies etc. The West needs to prioritize on worrying about whats best for Ukraine, and saving their lives. Have more sympathy for them. Once Russia lays down
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by syngrog66 5y ago
yep. I try to gauge early whether an potential employer wants the best programmer, or cheapest. because they pay wildly different. one gives me a better personal ROI than other. The new trend of shops being coy about telling you a job'
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by syngrog66 5y ago
software engineers in awfully high demand so we'll see how that works out for them
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by syngrog66 5y ago
@js2 please check your inbox: you have been recalled
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by syngrog66 5y ago
The whole Facebook to Meta thing reminds me of Blackwater renaming itself to Xe etc. Juvenile attempt at trying to shed taint and boost morale.
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by syngrog66 5y ago
brilliant. now someone do this for Bitcoin/Ethereum address private keys (asking for a friend. cough )
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by syngrog66 5y ago
I'll add 2 things here in the spirit of the discussion. One, I dabble in amateur fiction writing as a hobby. And I'm a man, but a big percentage of my readers are female. One thing I've been hit on the head with repeatedly, w
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by syngrog66 5y ago
in color? luxury! we had black and white and we were grateful for it! kids: get off my lawn the grenade explosion was the most satisfying ever. "Take that Nazi scum!" the 1st Rogue-like I ever made was something I called WolfenH
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by syngrog66 5y ago
heresy! cough Castle Wolfenstein, by Silas Warner for MUSE kids: get off my lawn
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by syngrog66 5y ago
thanks for reminding us: Carmack was a MACHINE in those years. and churning out one impressive/hit game after another
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by syngrog66 5y ago
and hard-to-press keys. uppercase letters only. and you are ONLY allowed to backup manually, and to 1.4Mb (or worse) floppies This is The Way kids: off my lawn
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by syngrog66 5y ago
I'm a programmer at heart, and by day career, and yet... I'm now trying to help fight what I believe are the world's top two biggest threats or future risks: democracy collapse, and climate collapse. They are strongly inter-c
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by syngrog66 5y ago
Location: Colorado, USA Remote: Yes or onsite Willing to relocate: Yes (USA) Technologies: Python, Java, Go (newest daily), web dev, SQL, Linux, Docker, k8s (newb), cloud, C/C++ (once strong/daily but retired/avoided), git, d
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by syngrog66 5y ago
The worst thing about this case, if its true, is that this kind of thing will poison the pool for others. for legit people. its already getting a little nauseating with the number of shops who insist on coding tests -- for people with tons
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by syngrog66 5y ago
not sure what this buys me I cant already do with say vim + Chrome
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by syngrog66 5y ago
beware of copycats, folks. this post can be a trap for the gullible
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by syngrog66 5y ago
powerful and chilling. it is as if he knew. he knew his fate. and he sensed it coming soon. and yet he continued his work anyway. exemplar of American heroism
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by syngrog66 5y ago
in summary: after E.O. Wilson died this December 2021 SciAm published a piece which was a reality-detached "PC/Wokeness scold" hit piece on the man shame on SciAm. I subscribed decades ago -- but never again
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by syngrog66 5y ago
agreed. and in vim's case I love having one tool I can use on a local machine, or over ssh to a remote server. one tool for coding, tech docs, notes, book writing etc. and its free and its open etc
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by syngrog66 5y ago
I do. They serve me, not master me. Ad hoc. Some last a long time, some are transient. Often helpful if I momentarily accumulate a lot of TODOs, or brainstorming some, and the act of typing them out, and seeing on screen, helps me remember
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by syngrog66 5y ago
to save the more "mature" folks time: the OA does not mean wargames. (not things like Panzer Blitz or ASL or Empire of the Sun)
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by syngrog66 5y ago
agreed. heh. thankfully though at least 3 of them can be expressed with a normal keyboard: ab a * b a X b
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by syngrog66 5y ago
I love math but prefer programming type syntax to express math ideas, rather than much of traditional math notation. Much of it feels too alien and non-intuitive. Too irregular and random, and not predictable. Various styles duct taped toge
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by syngrog66 5y ago
IPFS is one of those things that shows up on my radar every year or so recently, I drool over it from afar, then I download it and install it and try to use it for a real use case and... it doesnt work. I've went thru what I thought we
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by syngrog66 5y ago
well said, agreed. same camp. because when recruiters want to do that it feels like they're just fishing for how little they can pay you, or perhaps just collecting PII for <reasons>. software companies are becoming much too coy
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by syngrog66 5y ago
understood. but I didnt say or imply that what I was saying is that if you as a recruiter demonstrate that you disrespect my time -- important upfront when one is bombarded with hundreds of recruiters a month/week -- then that is jerky
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by syngrog66 5y ago
> When I was a recruiter, mostly I wanted to make sure you could speak English well enough to hold a conversation, make sure you were interested enough to go through the process, and make sure you weren’t an asshole that makes sense and

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