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As I'm not really a Weezer fan, I didn't recognize the name, but just looking at his profile tells you right away who he his. His employer is literally listed as Weezer.
Yes, and who is Weezer? This says nothing.
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> sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was certainly an adult 18 year old girl, according to the first line of the song. I still think the song has a creepy/desperate tone, but not because she's legally a child. > "When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf." For what it's worth, No One Else and The World Has Turned (the following song on the album) are usually taken to be related songs, including by Cuomo himse…
Sorry I'm not really interested in psychoanalyzing this guy. There are a enough talented(?) songwriters around so that I don't have to put up with these sorts of things.... you know, abject misogyny. I feel like HN community has a very low tolerance for this sort of thing, why is this guy immune? Because he's relatable? Gross. Look, if you're still an adult listening to this stuff and it's not just a "once a year bec…
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> sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was certainly an adult 18 year old girl, according to the first line of the song. I still think the song has a creepy/desperate tone, but not because she's legally a child. > "When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf." For what it's worth, No One Else and The World Has Turned (the following song on the album) are usually taken to be related songs, including by Cuomo himse…
Sorry I'm not really interested in psychoanalyzing this guy. There are a enough talented(?) songwriters around so that I don't have to put up with these sorts of things.... you know, abject misogyny. I feel like HN community has a very low tolerance for this sort of thing, why is this guy immune? Because he's relatable? Gross. Look, if you're still an adult listening to this stuff and it's not just a "once a year bec…
Just to be clear, the point I was making was the opposite. He seems to struggle relating to other people, and other people struggle to relate to him.
Personally, my take is that it's worth developing empathy in general and I think that responding to people with disgust is an anti-pattern. As the cliche goes, be hard on the problem, soft on the person.
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> sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was certainly an adult 18 year old girl, according to the first line of the song. I still think the song has a creepy/desperate tone, but not because she's legally a child. > "When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf." For what it's worth, No One Else and The World Has Turned (the following song on the album) are usually taken to be related songs, including by Cuomo himse…
Sorry I'm not really interested in psychoanalyzing this guy. There are a enough talented(?) songwriters around so that I don't have to put up with these sorts of things.... you know, abject misogyny. I feel like HN community has a very low tolerance for this sort of thing, why is this guy immune? Because he's relatable? Gross. Look, if you're still an adult listening to this stuff and it's not just a "once a year bec…
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This was me - made websites for my band, friends bands, made ticketing website for promoter friend, made websites for custom gear companies, ended up in a events startup then to the moon. Yes CS degree happened in the middle of all that too.
To think that (relatively?) small things like that could jumpstart a career... I'll be honest, I'm still young and I wonder what kind of journey is ahead of me
But through it all, you're learning and building skills. Hell you're having fun.
Maximize for "f**ing around and finding out"
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Definitely agree—Discord bots got me into JavaScript! (For better or worse, lol.) To anyone who wants to build and host a hobby bot, I've had a good experience with using fly.io to host mine. They don't charge you for any monthly billing periods whose total cost would be less than five dollars (USD), so for small projects that would never get close to meeting that threshold, it's free ninety nine. Hard to beat that!
I didn't realize they had a (effectively) scale-to-zero option! Is it possible to store a bit of state, or is the bot entirely for ephemeral responses? I wasn't clear on what storage would be available from their pricing page.
(And even if you do exceed the $5 threshold, it's still waaaaaay cheaper than other options I've seen. RIP to Heroku's free hobby tier.)
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I teach software engineering to grad students. Discord bots specifically have been fantastic: 1) auth/identity is built in 2) the UX is highly constrained (having students lose a month to CSS issues is perhaps good prep for the real world but feels awful) 3) all of the tooling is free* *With the restrictions on free Heroku and the removal of free orgs on fly (it seems) I’ve had to retool a bit but codespaces cover a…
How is that different from writing command-line apps?
Discord also supports some simple UI elements - images, buttons, form fields, and dropdowns - so it’s a nice step above a CLI for teaching UX, which is part of the course.