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by tomcam 5mo ago
Did GP edit the post? Please explain to me where they stated that developers should act like monks who’ve taken a vow of poverty? I completely agree with the sentiment of your reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48
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by tomcam 5mo ago
I can top that (he said bitterly). My wife is still gorgeous after 30+ years of marriage and is a 10x programmer. But she was happy when given the choice not to work when we married, and hasn’t touched a compiler in decades. I did well in b
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by tomcam 5mo ago
Delightful! Thank you.
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Graphite open source hybrid image editor(graphite.art)
3 points by tomcam 6mo ago|0 comments
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Stop being honest in job interviews(old.reddit.com)
2 points by tomcam 6mo ago|0 comments
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by tomcam 6mo ago
I remember it well and now I can’t get that stinger out of my head
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by tomcam 6mo ago
Who doesn’t miss the days when a Milliarden was worth something?
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by tomcam 6mo ago
But with the batwings I hope
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by tomcam 6mo ago
I totally want a batwinged attack dog now
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by tomcam 6mo ago
Now I’m dying to know what kind of herding you do that requires this separation of powers
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by tomcam 6mo ago
That 8088 MPH demo is a tour de force. Which tells you that the millions of Apple laptops being bricked right now instead of being recycled could have some amazing use if it were possible to wipe them clean and reuse. Sigh.
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by tomcam 6mo ago
So good to see Oberon this accessible! Mad props!
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by tomcam 6mo ago
This answer blew my mind. It's making me think in a very different way.
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by tomcam 6mo ago
Well-balanced, well-written article. It linked to a site called demozoo that used Cloudflare bot detection to block me at least 6 times from my home IP that CF had heretofore permitted, which is damn nice of them considering nothing nefario
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by tomcam 6mo ago
Thanks. Same to you! I treasure such exchanges. Sorry for the tardy reply. Had a couple of surgeries.
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by tomcam 6mo ago
Amen. I couldn’t have said it better. In general for the 40+ years I’ve been a programmer I have detested the practice of not surfacing diagnostic information to users when technology makes it possible to do so in a clear and unambiguous wa
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by tomcam 7mo ago
What’s the story for accessibility and non-LTR text boxes?
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by tomcam 7mo ago
> it was quite reassuring to find that - outside of the folks who really did hold chauvinist and/or racist views - most people in China cared no more about how I ate than how anyone else ate OK I agree completely. You will see atroc
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by tomcam 7mo ago
lol describing me as an Orientalist will amuse my family to no end but you made some cogent observations. All I can say is: face is a big thing in China. I respect my in-laws hugely. I did not want them to lose face nor to be made to feel u
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by tomcam 7mo ago
I married an Asian woman I met at work. Our boss called me in to ask if I was serious about marrying her and I said yes. He asked if I wanted any advice and I sincerely answered that I did. Our marriage was necessarily disruptive because it
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by tomcam 7mo ago
Fine. You get to miss the novel pleasures of filthy floors, constant use of bright cell phones, and vigorous conversations during the movie
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by tomcam 7mo ago
First off, it's just hard. Sorry you have to go through it. What's worked unfailingly for me for the 40+ years since I became an adult was always having long term habits that moved my life forward. I had no guidance on the big stu
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by tomcam 7mo ago
LiveCode is its spiritual successor IMHO. Cross platform too. https://livecode.com/
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by tomcam 7mo ago
Same. I've been programming in Go on an M1 for years and perf is spectacular.
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by tomcam 7mo ago
> I've been absolutely mindblown at how fast my 3 8GB M1 Macbook Airs I just bought for ~$350 brand new Wait what? How did you manage that?
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by tomcam 7mo ago
> I'm typing this on an 8 GB MacBook Air and it works just fine. Most cool. Is it an M1?
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by tomcam 7mo ago
Fantastic post, thank you. Answered pretty much every question i had. This is why I love hacker news.
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by tomcam 7mo ago
> during the endless toil I dreamed up a gun that could shoot out six nuts at a time. So glad my ex didn’t have one of these
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by tomcam 7mo ago
But hasn’t that always been true at Google? They’ve been military contractors for decades.
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by tomcam 7mo ago
Please take this question at face value. I tend to be slightly pro defense department in this context, but it is not a strongly held belief. What I have known is that since its very inception, Google has been doing massive amounts of busine

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