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I've been using your site daily during the MLB season, the design is perfect. If you displayed a plain text advertisement I wouldn't even mind.
Re:Dice Baseball – A Tabletop Tradition on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:31PM (#33665694)
I even played Strat-o-Matic baseball by mail when I was a kid! We'd fill out our rosters and managerial instructions then mail them off to our opposing team's manager. A week later I'd get the results back in the mail. Hard to believe such a relaxed pace.
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The entire 1968 Yellow Submarine movie from The Beatles is a good example, particularly the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds scene.
Great example! It was 1968 actually, I saw it at the theater when I was 7 years old.
Clicking the OP link I get a warning page from my ESET AV:

"Potential phishing attempt. This web page tries to trick visitors to submit sensitive personal information such as login data or credit card numbers."

Is this somehow related to the Google situation?

I started coding at 22 years old out of college and am now 58. I've resisted the pressures of becoming a manager my entire career and have had no regrets. Recently I turned down yet another manager role for all the reasons you gave and couldn't have been happier. Management at my place understands my career plans and have been accommodating. I plan on retiring in 10 years but know a lot can change between now and then so if my current job becomes unbearable, I'll leave and take on freelance coding projects. I will never become a manager.
Re:Ask HN: Why are the titles 80 chars? on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:43PM (#22540059)
It's the number of columns on an IBM type punch card.
Have you looked at https://commento.io/ as a replacement for Disqus?
Re:The Decline of Stack Overflow on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:22PM (#21316870)
I can't stand when someone answers a question on SO by first admitting they know nothing about the subject then take a guess with an answer. Why bother answering if you don't know the subject?
Re:Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:04PM (#17135794)
This looks cool but the first one I listened to (Music Genres\Rock\Wallula) is almost identical to Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols (https://youtu.be/CU3mc0yvRNk?t=15s).
Re:How to Improve a Legacy Codebase on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:18AM (#14445534)
Great advice. Writing integration tests or unit tests around existing functionality is extremely important but unfortunately might not always be feasible given the time, budget, or complexity of the code base. I just completed a new feature for an existing and complex code base but was given the time to write an extensive set of end-to-end integration tests covering most scenarios before starting my coding. This proved invaluable once I started adding my features to give me confidence I wasn't breaking anything and helped find a few existing bugs no one had caught before!
Nice. It would be great though to be able to see any recent date.
My wife has been diagnosed with Meniere's so I know first hand the problems that go along with it. I hope they can make some advance with these treatments.

One thing I would suggest because it's something we have control over, is to avoid prolonged loud noise as much as you can, e.g., concerts in a small setting. I'm 53 years old and have been listening to loud music my entire life, mostly through headphones, and it's starting to show recently. I certainly didn't help matters by going to an extremely loud concert last year in a small club without earplugs - this surely damaged my hearing even more.

Re:Ask HN: What do you use to manage your tasks? on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:10PM (#7978142)
I use MyLifeOrganized for Windows. I'm a big fan of creating hierarchical lists of projects and tasks and this tool allows me to do that.

My organization uses FogBugz to manage our releases, projects, and tasks and I can't say enough great things about that software.

Re:Paint.Net 4.0 is now available on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @03:08PM (#7946125)
The lite vs. pro version is a great suggestion and I would have purchased a pro version for my daughter immediately to avoid the malware hassles it caused us. Instead she purchased an academic version of Photoshop which was $100 USD or in that ballpark. This is a shame because Paint.net is a great product and I'd like to see it succeed but their business side is poorly executed. I'll need to head over to the PDN forums and express my frustration.

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