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Re:Sudan woke up without Internet on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:26AM (#28999523)
Ah yes, the good ol' master internet killer switch. This happened before in Egypt during Jan. 2011.
Re:What will programming look like in 2020? (2012) on Sunday September 26, 2021 @07:20AM (#28659966)
almost excusively javascript frameworks
Re:Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:19PM (#25310661)
I see some F# praising in here. any good learning resources one can recommend to me (Ik I can "google it" or whatever. I mean something you had experience with and would recommend)
Re:Git is too hard on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:31PM (#25128497)
git is hard? what are you talking about mate? >proceeds to use github desktop
WOW. that's all I have got to say. I wish my country's universities had such educational quality, help guiding students properly and would encourage students to work on such projects.
Re:Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux? on Sunday October 04, 2020 @07:20AM (#24678105)
was 12 yo. installed Windows 7 on our shitbox PC with 2005 tier hardware. but internet would not work (ancient ethernet driver for that chip with no updates for the changes that oocured with windows vista). I never knew how drivers worked. I just press install and it works. so I spent the next few years reading stuff. Now I understand a bit how these things work. and how operating systems work to some level.

Later on I got into programming because I wanted to impress my teacher with my visual basic.NET skills. (I had no prior programming experience at all and that course was in VB.NET). and then I discovered C++, C# (and what .NET actually is) and python. now I am a year away from graduating with a computer engineering degree.

I was introduced to linux through a friend. and used it for a bit and had it on some machines. and wrote some shell scripts to automate stuff. but I never fully embraced it. as I would only install it on machines struggling with Windows. either due to aging or faulty hardware. I know about what makes linux "better" and how one customize it to the kernel level. but Windows is simply a better workstation OS regardless of the great amounts of bazinga we hear nowadays. linux on server/embedded systems is greatness however.

Re:Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea? on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:18AM (#23497766)
yes. too much bright hurts my eyes. dark is comfortable to look at