Case81

Re:Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy ... on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:04PM (#40564024)

Looks like he goofed twice...

Re:Ask HN: Something brainy to do that breaks the monotony? on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:29AM (#39300372)

I dunno, I feel programming stuff feels a bit more intuitive and fun than something like chess or learning spanish

Ask HN: Something brainy to do that breaks the monotony?

Posted by Case81 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @05:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a mid-level developer with about 4 YOE, and, well my job is fine and all, but it doesn't make me really, really use my brain and skills to solve some cool problem.Other than sleep and work, it's all just TV/games/reading or going out with my SO and friends. It's all nice and dandy, but dammit I need to use my brain.I would like something to do in my spare time to just have that sort of...

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:07PM (#30210350)

And you’re saying the supporters almost all share this particular characteristic that makes them incapable of filling those blanks. Well…it makes sense.

Re:Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:11PM (#30015064)

Not sure about Apple Music but I simply don’t use YouTube Music because it’s actually missing a LOT of stuff for me. Off the top of my head, some Beatles remasters and obscure synth artists

Re:Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:27AM (#29792642)

it's the opposite for me. If they were actually interesting, it'd be way worse for me.

Re:'I make a fortune buying up abandoned shipping containers' on Friday December 31, 2021 @05:56PM (#29753388)

But just because you had a bad education and childhood doesn’t mean your life is over.

I had the worst of everything, the poorest work ethic of all time and I succeeded.

And I kinda give it all to my adrenaline junkie personality which finds coding the biggest possible thrill…well, excluding my gf

Re:Ask HN: Nerds of HN, did you overcome loneliness? on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:03AM (#29749255)

most cliche answer by far...but, love and romance. I feel really lonely without my girlfriend, like...just nothing else fills that gap.

Re:Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012) on Monday December 27, 2021 @10:42AM (#29703353)

think Set in Java does this

EDIT: Other than the obvious

Re:Pop OS – System76 on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:08AM (#28903534)

gnome is literally macOS with a few changes though

Re:Which version of JDK should I use? on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:20AM (#28826707)

yeah, you got it. My city has very little job listings requiring .NET for actual back-ends. Whereas, there are like a thousand Java jobs and almost half mentioning Spring

Re:Kairos on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:51AM (#28818878)

Exact same word in Romanian, huh

Re:What if I were 1% charged? (2013) on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:56AM (#28471101)

I’m curious how people are getting it. Is it some sort of HN mindset or is just the HN crowd* 24/7 on about programming

Re:“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004) on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:09AM (#27948579)

I don’t get it though. WSL2 has been perfect for me this far. I can’t think of something I need Linux for anymore.

Re:Pop_OS 21.04 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:44AM (#27685316)

Vanilla GNOME doesn’t have icons, I think. I’m not on the latest GNOME 40 to verify

Re:Pop_OS 21.04 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:41AM (#27685298)

It’s actually because they had a pretty darn annoying bug with their desktop icons

Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:58AM (#27469818)

“UX MITM” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week