scrame
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Comment · 18 days ago
Because your clients used IE by default, relied on ActiveX controls, or were forced to by corporate IT policies.
Comment · 20 days ago
Working man? You can replace them with agents!
Comment · 22 days ago
Yes, lets turn everywhere into the shitty place we grew up in.
Comment · 26 days ago
Oh god, that reminded me of my linear algebra teacher in college. Doing matrix multiplication by hand and ending up with 9x6 = 45, and then having to direct him to the cell with the wrong number. Loved the topic, hated the class.
Comment · 2 months ago
Torturous metaphor that doesn't actually explain macros.
Comment · 2 months ago
> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev
"claude, run 'npm install' for me"
Comment · 3 months ago
> The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years than that on vanity projects
The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years _daily_ in meetings discussing if scrum standups are effective.
Comment · 3 months ago
find -print0...|xargs -0...
works for me, and i don't always want to execute something and xargs can run parallel processes. i feel like this guy never bothered to read the man page.
Comment · 3 months ago
Your podcast episode on the history of commodities trading[1] was awesome! I, sadly, don't visit your site as much as I used to, because, well, honestly I can't really keep track of the stuff I do visit regularly, but I'm glad you're still at it. I'll see if i can support your efforts in some way.
[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/death-by-derivatives/ (the audio is somewhere around there, i'm sure)
Comment · 3 months ago
Wow, i recognized the 68000 before i even saw the caption. That little chip sure powered a lot of different things back then.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's a web 1.0 thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
this was a popular one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_my_balls
Webrings kinda went away when "blogging" became the new thing, and then there were blogrolls and pingbacks and delicio.us and whathaveyou. That got supplanted by the larger glurge into social media with friendster, then myspaces top 8, and now everyone is just on facebook saying "what's the point?".
Indeed. As mentioned, its for personal sites as a lightweight way to share a link to a friends site that may or may not be related, rather than a list of affiliates or sponsors or whatever.
Comment · 3 months ago
True, because lying is the currency that HR and Recruiting traffics in.
Comment · 3 months ago
an email harvester.
Comment · 3 months ago
> not affiliated with y combinator. obviously. please don't sue us. we're single, not stupid.
Comment · 3 months ago
I have a friend who's dad is a good carpenter, put a whole second story on his house, did the flooring and made a lot of furniture. He said it was about 4th grade before he found out that there were stores where people went and bought furniture instead of just making their own.