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Re:Writing books is not really a good idea
on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:52AM (#27118777)
Reading books has always been a niche activity. Many (most?) people don't have any books, and haven't read any since they were forced to at school. Of course HN readers will skew towards readers but they are the minority.
Re:Ask HN: What's your keyboard and what you love and hate about it?
on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:18PM (#26996347)
I think you are right. I never think about my keyboard at all. None of my co-workers do either <shrug>.
Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:21AM (#26681291)
My kids just type the calculation into Google.
Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:40PM (#26535173)
- I'm not young
There's your answer.
Re:It Can Happen to You
on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:36PM (#26338666)
C string processing is the other "billion dollar mistake" we are all paying for decades later (in terms of slow programs, time wasted, power used etc).
Re:Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:36AM (#26153301)
"If you learn for Rails, start with 5.2.3, webpacker and the other black magic in Rails 6 will frustrate you and currently eliminates a lot of the ease of getting started and building relatively sophisticated web apps quickly."
Anyone else agree with this?
Re:Show HN: Shopify's Top 90 Most Successful Startups in 2021
on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:46AM (#26142201)
Exactly. Really odd to see them on this list.
Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued
on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:13PM (#26119679)
Gotta laugh at the HN definition of "failure". Plenty of "short and fat" jobs provide a good career. Not everyone wants or needs anything else.
Re:Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)
on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:38AM (#25940661)
Martin Campbell-Kelly was my lecturer for "History of Computing" at Warwick University in 1986. Nice guy, and one of the few CS courses I actually enjoyed :-)
Re:What If You Could Do It All Over?
on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:21AM (#25550836)
My 20s were spent living the single bachelor party life in London in the 90s. Noughties I had 3 kids and emigrated to Australia. Then I hit 40...then 50. Now I'm 52, still in good health. I have a job, a partner, family, a few savings. Sure I haven't written the next great novel or got a PHD, but I sure as hell don't worry about what might have been.
Re:What If You Could Do It All Over?
on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:15AM (#25550796)
52 here, beat that.
Re:Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui
on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:55AM (#24896167)
Gorillas.bas :-) Remember it well. Chucking bananas was fun!
Re:Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:53AM (#24604761)
It's not common at all.
Re:WSL Getting GUI Support
on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:38PM (#24603519)
Dual boot takes way too much time. WSL2 literally fires up instantly and then you have an actual Linux VM running actual Ubuntu or whatever. Just no GUI. You can then use Visual Studio Code (the Windows app) to develop for Linux or Windows. If you do Linux GUI work it's obviously not ideal.
Re:WSL Getting GUI Support
on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:31PM (#24603499)
True. It's unfortunate that most people don't seem to realize this, based on WSL1. MS really haven't marketed WSL2 that well.