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Re:Musk’s First Email to Twitter Staff Ends Remote Work on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:01PM (#33552337)
I know most studies show remote work improves productivity. I have the opposite experience even though I need to take one hour to commute one way. Our office is 80% empty on average. I think this has greatly hurt the interaction between people, increased friction and slowed down project progress. I am sure some people are more efficient at home, but there might be a silent majority, who enjoy doing less work remotely and never voice themselves (or even say the opposite).
Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:04PM (#33497127)
In my view, its basic idea is wrong. Mastodon reduces the connection between communities and will have worse "free speech" problems when it reaches the twitter scale. If money could solve everything, google+ would still be a thing today.
Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:43AM (#33450128)
MathML is not really for human to type, just as you rarely type long XML by hand. I don’t see the point of MathML at all.
Re:Uthash – C macros for hash tables and more on Saturday March 26, 2022 @12:47AM (#30809304)
This is probably the slowest commonly used hash table library.

Ask HN: Transition from Scratch programming to mainstream programming

My 12-year-old's project [1] is featured on the Scratch website, which is a great surprise to me. I saw her hanging on Scratch but didn't realize she could go this far without any help from her parents. I actually tried to teach her coding a couple of years ago but she showed little interest. In retrospect, I guess what I taught was too boring. She is clearly more into making animations and...

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