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I've known Rick since 2001 and was around when he & Todd kicked this off. We've both since moved and it's been a pleasure watching this take off (inter)nationally. In parens b/c I …

It's leetspeak It spells "leet" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet You're too young to have used BBSes :)

"old-person tiktok" is what my kids call instagram

Oh to remember mid-90s humor How many Intel engineers does it take to change a light bulb? 0.99999999

Didn't read the whole comment did you?

It's about TCO and time to market. Depending on what you're building, it's all YMMV. This article just quotes some individual costs As somebody who worked at a mid-tier company try…

This is not the way you're supposed to be using pyenv You're supposed to install a specific version of python in a specific place, with a specific name. Say, /usr/local/python-3.10…

I was talking to somebody who worked HR at a multi-disciplinary shop, and she said you could always identify the emails coming from programmers It was a complaint, definitely not a…

Why is this downvoted? I consider it and its replies interesting and relevant If there's an HN policy violation in this post, I'm legit curious what it is

The linked article explains exactly this

You keep referring to that comic. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Compiler was definitely somewhat to blame. I was on the C/C++ team at the time, and C++ was definitely an afterthought on the existing C frontend, of a big 3-stage compiler I was o…

DEC's relationship with MS was fascinating DEC sued MS due to Cutler's contribution to NT. DEC thought they could sue themselves into MS's good graces. They had embroidered polo sh…

Maybe

This isn't specific to Linux Raymond Chen has a tangentially amusing story that I just found while trying to google the win95 screen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/201…

And in 92, EECS280 made you do your first program in Pascal and then it was C for the rest of the curriculum. Lots of people were pissed they learned Pascal for one program.

Putting the "15" in italics isn't doing yourself any favors when asking aita

OP said exactly "I've twice encrypted my file with password like `cd tmp`" Not sure how you get "irrevocably bricked your system" from "encrypted my file", but you do you, I guess …

Key words being "I take to be..." You're outright admitting you can't understand the post, or the point of the post, as you want to steadfastly hold to the original premise If the …

Fold a piece of paper in half perfectly. Easy Fold a piece of paper into 10 equal parts perfectly. Easy?

e.g. VMS would not echo back keystrokes until it was truly ready to accept input No typeahead while a previous command is running, like you can do in UNIX et al

+1 for proper use of "literally"