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Comment · 4 years ago
Same for me. As a sound engineer turned programmer I can not listen to any music as background. My mind instantly jumps into analyzing every sound.

Regarding playing games - I think it’s a completely different experience from working. Music + visuals (videos, psychedelic trips, etc) or music + exploration (games, hiking, etc) is a great combination because the elements enhance each other to make the total experience even more rich and absorbing. Which is, perhaps, not the right state for programming.

Comment · 4 years ago
That’s an unusual way to summarize Sunny’s life in the context of this ruling. Judging his personal choices as wins/fails while he is being sentenced for a massive financial and medical fraud.

Who cares if he divorced and never remarried?

Did CEO of Enron fail in life because he divorced his first wife?

Comment · 4 years ago
This definitely does not mean what you think it means. Owning a large car for work doesn’t mean it’s utilized as such. I know people who own trucks and large SUVs for work - but it’s “just in case” not because they need additional space on a daily or even weekly basis.
Comment · 4 years ago
> if A made B and B made C, who made A?

All right. So if god made A, who made god?

Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed. This take is really shallow. Calling Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris Islamophobes is an attempt to shut down the conversation about the shortcomings of Islam, or any other religion in general.

So-called New Atheists are well-known for publicly debating representatives of all major religions, yet for some reason they are not branded as Christianity-phobes.

Comment · 4 years ago
According to Wikipedia, Meta started exploring crypto as early as 2017. So ending the effort in 2022 after several rebrandings and a huge legal pushback is fairly expected.
Comment · 4 years ago
I am not sure there is a void in the crypto space that otherwise would have been filled by Novi. Even a more centralized (federated?) coin like that would still inherit major shortcomings of blockchain-based digital currencies.

Also looks like even Meta eventually decided to pivot to a more traditional digital offering “Zuck Bucks”.

Comment · 4 years ago
Which category? Adobe is not even close to being the leader in the CMS category. WP, Wix, Squarespace, Joomla!, Shopify… how does Adobe fit here?
Comment · 4 years ago
I contested the cancellation fee in PayPal and Adobe didn’t bother to respond, so the case was auto-resolved in my favor.

Since then I switched to PixelmatorPro and it works for all my needs.

Comment · 4 years ago
According to that graph 2020 usage is almost identical to 2003. So the only significant drop happened between 2002 and 2003. Not to nitpick, just to emphasize that the missing data from 1970 to 2002 could contain numerous large changes too.
Comment · 4 years ago
What is the dish in this analogy? Plant Earth or Mitt Romney?
Comment · 4 years ago
I find this very hard to believe. Do you have any links to official state data?
Comment · 4 years ago
> Residential water use has plummeted in the west. Some areas, like vegas, use less water than the 70s, not accounting for population changes.

What's the point of this argument? Vegas population has increased more than 10x since the 70s, why would we not account for population growth when discussing the usage of a limited resource?

Comment · 4 years ago
Just google “front-end tools” and look at the few top results. There are many tools for front-end development that are not build tools or have to run on the server.

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