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Re:Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC? on Friday February 14, 2020 @04:37PM (#22330654)
I miss the feeling you had using it and the fun bots people made in some channels. I do not miss the difficulty of getting less technical users onto it and it's lack of portability with out some work. New tools these days make the portability aspect easy and barrier to entry low for less technical users which expands the user base of a lot of platforms today.
Re:To become a good C programmer (2011) on Friday February 14, 2020 @04:34PM (#22330625)
I think it's important to push forward with getting people out of bad habits. In a lot of cases, the only way to do that is to force it. I don't often agree with things Apple does, but their forcing people to use x64 is similar to this I think.