20thCB

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by 20thCB 5y ago
Reading books has always been a niche activity. Many (most?) people don't have any books, and haven't read any since they were forced to at school. Of course HN readers will skew towards readers but they are the minority.
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by 20thCB 5y ago
I think you are right. I never think about my keyboard at all. None of my co-workers do either <shrug>.
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by 20thCB 5y ago
My kids just type the calculation into Google.
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by 20thCB 5y ago
- I'm not young There's your answer.
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by 20thCB 6y ago
C string processing is the other "billion dollar mistake" we are all paying for decades later (in terms of slow programs, time wasted, power used etc).
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by 20thCB 6y ago
"If you learn for Rails, start with 5.2.3, webpacker and the other black magic in Rails 6 will frustrate you and currently eliminates a lot of the ease of getting started and building relatively sophisticated web apps quickly." An
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by 20thCB 6y ago
Exactly. Really odd to see them on this list.
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by 20thCB 6y ago
Gotta laugh at the HN definition of "failure". Plenty of "short and fat" jobs provide a good career. Not everyone wants or needs anything else.
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by 20thCB 6y ago
Martin Campbell-Kelly was my lecturer for "History of Computing" at Warwick University in 1986. Nice guy, and one of the few CS courses I actually enjoyed :-)
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by 20thCB 6y ago
My 20s were spent living the single bachelor party life in London in the 90s. Noughties I had 3 kids and emigrated to Australia. Then I hit 40...then 50. Now I'm 52, still in good health. I have a job, a partner, family, a few savings.
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by 20thCB 6y ago
52 here, beat that.
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by 20thCB 6y ago
Gorillas.bas :-) Remember it well. Chucking bananas was fun!
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by 20thCB 6y ago
It's not common at all.
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by 20thCB 6y ago
Dual boot takes way too much time. WSL2 literally fires up instantly and then you have an actual Linux VM running actual Ubuntu or whatever. Just no GUI. You can then use Visual Studio Code (the Windows app) to develop for Linux or Window
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by 20thCB 6y ago
True. It's unfortunate that most people don't seem to realize this, based on WSL1. MS really haven't marketed WSL2 that well.