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I was wondering this as well because...pokemon came along...when? After my time, anyway, like late 90s.

And then kind of died down, I think, or at least wasn't a monstrous craze at least.

And now in 2016, does it mean that everyone who was super into them 15 years ago is all for it?

If I think about what I was super into at 10, the nostalgia doesn't go that far today.

I mean I see I'm late to the party here and everyone's already said it's real, but I was just surprised.

Around 2007, for some months there, the world was saturated with articles about Second Life. Eventually I saw an article about how it had come about as a result of hiring a new PR firm.

(Or has nostalgia changed? At least if I imagine giving 1940s kids something connected to that in 1965, it seems like they'd be like "Um, I'm a grown wo/man." But today hollyworld is all superhero movies.)

Bonus question: How long before we grow really sick of hearing about it?

I wonder how common the use of "ain't" is today. I grew up in the rural US in the 1980s, and it was common. And today I don't hear it, but I live in a more... well, educted area. It throws me off when I see it in writing now.

My take on it is that puzzles and games are doing things by hand, and the point of programming in general is to do things once and for all and save humanity the trouble of doing things by hand.

Not that there's anything wrong with doing whatever you enjoy doing by hand.

Or perhaps it's that if we apply our ingenuity to a computer program, we have something and the rest of humanity can have it as well. If we apply our ingenuity to a puzzle, we don't have anything in the end.

Here I start wondering why different people react differently to gamification, but I don't know. I did see earlier where people were going on about getting stars from github...

I feel it's a good development that we no longer hear about Linus so much--unlike in the 90s, when it seemed he was taken excessively seriously.

I don't follow PUA stuff and had to look up sigma. For anyone else: It's a term for the cool outsider/loner who gets the chicks.

The only band that mattered.

You know, I felt really troubled to have been using something for 20 years and realize things had changed and it was no longer right and no longer good for me. I felt like a fool for having stuck with it for quite so long.

I realize that sounds like someone talking about a bad marriage, and I suppose we can generalize usefully on relationships of whatever type.

I think we must end up with longer-lasting bad feelings about anything we used to value.

I've certainly wondered why they weren't interested in being more transparent.

I used to run it, and I'm not sure there's value in it anymore. They often don't stay on top of security updates, and compiling anything just got worse and worse.

The last straw was the fanboys at the linuxquestions forum. It was cultish and creeped me out.

I used it until a couple of years ago, but it often wasn't getting security updates and compiling anything for it was becoming more and more trouble. So I left and I don't miss it.

This is certainly a big issue. In the comments, I see of course how it's so vital for all of us, and yet our problems and our advice...varies because we're all different and it's hard to express what we are and what we love in two paragraphs. We can't help but talk past each other somewhat with strangers.

Maybe what is best to take away from advice is less the specifics and more to take heart that others want to communicate and share and help.

For my part, I'll say that "work" as such is not the place to seek meaning unless...unless it's right there for you, isn't hurting anything or anyone, etc.

Do you have insight into why you want to corner the market on money?

It became more interesting to me in the middle with

'Perhaps full independence is unlikely – but what about greater devolution for London?'

and

'Localism has been a big part of David Cameron and George Osborne’s agenda, with the latter striking a number of “city deals” to devolve more powers. The new Mayor of Manchester, whether Andy Burnham or not, will have control over more policy areas than the Mayor of London, such as over health and housing.'

but I'm not British and don't have much context and don't know whether the Telegraph is still the Torygraph.

I wonder what the author's reasoning was in being quite so self-congratulatory.

No, I know about that one. There something else with an extra -at- syllable that I encounter often enough that I'm surprised I haven't just run into it again since I made that comment.

I don't like deletion very much either in general, although I've seen librarians defend themselves with 1. that they totally don't have room for stuff 2. for kids' stuff, at least, if it's science, our knowledge has grown so much that it's a disservice for them to read the old book without context. Or if it's fiction, it can be full of social norms and beliefs that we've grown beyond, where...we'd also want them to have context if they were going to read it.

But it sucks when you hear how they often don't have a good sense of the value (intellectual or otherwise) of what they cull. And it sucks if everyone makes the same judgment and all throw away our ephemera that we wish to look back, evoke memories, reveal something of our time.

I believe Bret Victor said in a talk that we don't see civil rights violations and think, "Oh good, an opportunity"

I partly feel embarrassed to have been wrong after all, and partly feel relieved that everyone hasn't just been losing their minds in recent years.

There's another one that everyone's been sticking an extra syllable in that I would check...if I could think of it.

Lakoff and framing seemed to be in the air around 2003 or 2004, and it was a very good development.

And then everyone forgot it, or maybe were encouraged to forget it.

Orientated?

I wonder whether implementated will be a word one day.

On some sites, I have a tendency to click on the scrollbar and drag it instead of scrolling with the keyboard -- and then when the infinite scrolling kicks in, I find myself suddenly way down the page off in the weeds somewhere. So then I exclaim "shit!" and think about not returning to that site.

Glad they gave up, but calling it collaboration and speaking of thanking is silly bullshit.

I like how he touches concisely on what brought this all about, what caused it to go as it did, and assorted effects it will have.

I mean, as opposed to when we get links to articles from the atlantic or the new yorker where we fairly consistently have to wade through endless verbiage to get anything.

I tried to make a database of sorts as a kid.

Reading about relative files and such in the commodore 1541 manual: Went very well. Writing a program out on paper: Went very well. Getting it to work at all on the computer: Total failure.

I just couldn't think clearly enough about how to go about debugging a program.

Ah, the bullshit american dream.

Now I have to look up who it was with the "They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" line. A good line. Internet, at least, believes it's from George Carlin.

Possibly it depends upon the audience.

Another possibility is that someone makes an error and then claims it was intentional testing.

I haven't observed that myself, but I suppose we all have different experiences in different environments.

Can we quantitatively measure how in love with itself a given field is? Design seems to be way up there.

I page through, knowing already that there's a problem, to see what he's thinking in terms of solutions.

At the bottom I catch a reference to ProjectVRM. I follow the link and what I find is all bloggy and vague. If there's anything concrete in there, it's not brought together in front of the new visitor.

I don't have deep knowledge of what it's like in literary land, literature degree programs, etc., but oh goodness can they blather on, Painting Pictures longer than my interest holds.

"on MUNI, at bars, in bed in my apartment in Haight-Ashbury" sounds like someone who came from somewhere regarded as lame and is hoping that coolness is now on them.

"it’s a document of a time when consumer technology was still clumsy and undefined" -- I'm not sure consumer technology has reached its pinnacle of perfection.

And that's as far as I got. I'd actually been hoping we were going to hear something like "Here is the nonsense of 1994, which lets us think more clearly about what's probably nonsense in 2016", and maybe it's in there somewhere, buried.