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WhatsApp doesn't entirely brick itself. You can send and receive messages, but can't assign names to anyone or start group chats. I agree it should be prevented. It seems so absurd…

Yeah, didn't even verify emails. I got a surprise discord account back in 2015 because someone else used my email. I guess this xkcd[1] applies to younger people too. 1: https://xk…

I think that's very regional? Salary surveys usually list Europeans much lower after currency conversion. A half decade before you, I also started at a big studio writing C++ (but …

> many tools that tried to solve that problem back in the day (Flash, Spline, etc.) don't suffice these days. If you can emulate the look and feel of a hand drawn animation without…

If you want to compete with AAA games then you may need AAA graphics, but the market is larger than that. Look at Re-Logic (Terraria), Supergiant (Hades), Megacrit (Slay the Spire)…

It's not $10k/year: > A “middle game” should only take 1 to 9 months to create and can be profitable (or at least not a money sink) because it is expected to earn in the range of $…

Autohotkey is amazing, but I wish it used a saner language. I struggled to write a reliable golden ratio version of aero snap [1]. Dealing with different monitors, sizes, etc doesn…

> imgproxy server that needs to run somewhere publicly available, be kept alive and secure Why make this runtime instead of a prepublish script (even a git commit hook or CI action…

diffconflicts [dc] lets you resolve diffs as a two way diff between what's in the conflict markers instead of including the resolved parts in the diff. It opens the diff in vim but…

Are exams all written online now? Were they okay with students googling answers and sharing them with each other, but getting customized answers from a robot is where they draw the…

Vim's addition of .vimrc and .vim allowing you to store editor programs to further accelerate your editing makes stand vim far beyond vi. Credit Bill Joy for the modal editing para…

> Your keybinding to go to the next quickfix item doesn't work in a location list because it uses :cn^M, but the location list wants :ln^M or whatever. Navigating quickfix and loca…

Is that because they're parsing porcelain output? Or is git's plumbing machine-readable but not well specified? But git users are more familiar with porcelain so I wouldn't be surp…

I'm not so sure. Neovim migrated to a more modern style of C and more tightly integrated Lua as its scripting language (instead of conscript). Those are two large potential stumbli…

Appreciation for that id code means you may appreciate "John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12120752

What's the financial imperative to having a high score on SO? Better job offers because you have high rep?

Looks nice, but too bad you can't run different pathfinders on the same maze. Running on an empty grid is default but it's less interesting to me.

> Also it is technical and not user-friendly for windows users, because luarocks (package manager) is unusable there unless you’re skilled in C build systems and are ready to fix t…

Seatbelts don't impede my ability to drive (having to constantly manage the car keeps me in the seat). Types _do_ impede my ability to write code: I have to write more of it. Types…

I've also found narrower columns of text generally easier to read. My browser is usually a half screen so many websites display their mobile mode. I assumed it was this shorter lin…

The update isn't forced, you have automatic updates enabled on your ps4. Disable (Uncheck) automatic updates from [Settings] > [System] > [Automatic Downloads] You'll have to unins…

I use a similar technique to the Ian knot except I pinch the shoelace instead so only the forefinger and pinky are involved and my middle finger is free to hold the slip knot. The …

Why do you think in-person code walkthroughs are effective but tool-mediated reviews are not? Most of my code review comments are along the lines of "what does this do" -- the prim…

Unfortunately, those goals are rarely communicated and accepted by the people they're imposed on. My first full-time job had an unexplained email expiry policy. After being frustra…

That was a fun diversion. I managed to hit 268!