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by Rotundo 7mo ago
Sometimes something is a standard, not because it is the best, but because it is the thing that everybody expects and can trust to be there. If you'd like to use another editor you can easily install it.
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
Great, I'll make sure to avoid them.
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
I've blocked some sites in /etc/hosts in the past. That gives just enough friction that opening the site isn't an automatic reflex anymore. It would be trivial to automate this: block HN in the hostfile and only unblock
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
If work on a house was specified like a typical software project, no builder would even return your call. "I'd like to have my roof reshingled, but with glass tiles and it should be in the basement, and once you are half way I&#x2
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
Of course vi/Vim is used for programming ('coding'). I've been doing that since the early nineties. First vi, later Vim. I like it better than Visual Studio, better than Eclipse and way better than VScode.
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
Why use C++ when you can use BASIC? The learning curve can be steep but once you learn vi/Vim you can never go back to an IDE like VScode because it is so unbelievably limited. When you get comfortable with vi it really begins to feel
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
Tip number one in marketing: make it easy for the customer. I'm not going through the hassle of installing something if I don't already know I want or need it. No screenshots -> "Next!" It's the same effect of al
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
The current trend is to get off social media. A social media app based on music has a narrow audience anyway, in my opinion: young people that still find music important enough to make it a thing. For me (old), music is something to listen
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by Rotundo 8mo ago
The "Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide" got me hooked on computers. Without that book I my life surely would be very different.
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
Focus on health. Take a step back from work related drama. Try to be online less.
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
I remember. It was very expensive for not a lot of extra bandwidth. You also needed a special ISDN phone or a, again expensive, box to convert the signal to normal POTS. Not long after the cable company started offering 'broadband&#x27
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
It's currently September 11804 1993, the September that never ended.
43.
by Rotundo 9mo ago
I'm sorry the author never learned how to cook. Or had anyone near that could. Homemade pancakes a way better than what a diner concocts out of pre-mixed mystery batter. At least in my home.
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
I decided to not work on the bleeding edge of technology. Mostly I work on "legacy systems" written in languages that don't have much churn. There is a lot of work to do in this area and most younger developers are not intere
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
They will continue as long as people keep buying their printers. We don't need smarter printers, we need smarter people.
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
If you want to play: https://royalur.net/
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
Snaps were the final straw that pushed me from Ubuntu to Debian. From a ~/snap directory that can't be hidden by design (and the developers are rather vocal about that) to the snap experience of every application seeing their own
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by Rotundo 9mo ago
Protip: check the trademark register before deploying anything on this domain. Could be very costly otherwise.
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by Rotundo 10mo ago
Buy a Pi-hole or other firewall and block all social media. Cheap and life improves greatly. First week (detox) is hard. Then bliss.
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by Rotundo 10mo ago
The tedious Scrum/Agile events where nothing new is ever said and no problems are ever solved.
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by Rotundo 10mo ago
S03E20 "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" Reverend Will Dexter: "You know before I got married Emily he used to come by sometime to help me clean out my apartment well I asked her how come here so he could help clean u
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by Rotundo 10mo ago
Anything and everything you do on a work computer can (and often will be) monitored. Only use it for things that you would be comfortable doing with your boss looking over your shoulder. Give them no reason to dig up dirt if they eventually
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by Rotundo 10mo ago
Organizing files is a difficult problem. For me, grouping by extension would not help. That only serves to bundle my shopping lists with my project plans and tax forms (all .doc), or the cool online picture I saved to get mixed in with my h
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by Rotundo 11mo ago
Progress OpenEdge ABL
55.
by Rotundo 1y ago
They are not, if you consider all the instances of the bloatware running. How many users does Spotify have? Multiply that by the 79GB mentioned above. Is it still cheaper?
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by Rotundo 1y ago
Don't tax income at all, but tax wealth progressively. That way it doesn't make sense to hoard all the money. Spending the money keeps it in circulation.
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by Rotundo 1y ago
Somehow I hope it will. Since iOS 26 I've used my iPhone a lot less. It is so ugly and un-intuitive. I can't find half the options I need anymore. In fact I started reading books again. I consider it a win.
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by Rotundo 1y ago
I did read them. In the eighties.
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by Rotundo 1y ago
I'm not tired of AI itself. What does get old is the barrage of hyped-up projects that are a veneer-thin layer over an existing AI of one of the big players. Everybody is rushing to get something, anything out there. Nothing of value
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by Rotundo 1y ago
After reading enough to get started, I realized I wasn't comfortable to invest this way. Too volatile for me, I have a nervous disposition.

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