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New comment by omnimus in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell"

omnimus — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:53:08 +0000

Exactly! Spomenik! The choices are great. Probably people who like raw concrete are not exactly Rihanna fans.

New comment by toppy in "Show HN: Names"

toppy — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:38:17 +0000

Recursion helped a lot ;) It took me like 15 minutes to make it. Reminds me of L-systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system.

New comment by to11mtm in "Game that promised no paid DLC ever, getting paid DLC 'to fund the development'"

to11mtm — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:54:25 +0000

It is sad in it's own right, as it causes class divides to broach into video games [1]. Loot boxes should probably be outright illegal for children [2]

[1] - Try being the kid who has everything second-hand in a school of 80s-90s Automaker employed children.

[2] - Can we also just talk about how MGM has an advert for their gambling app where people are gambling at a wedding reception? The first time I saw it I thought it was going to be about gambling addiction.

New comment by Panzer04 in "The Quest for a Dumber Phone"

Panzer04 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:14:45 +0000

Would have appreciated it at the start to be honest - but I guess it's better than nothing at all.

New comment by yadoomerta in "The Quest for a Dumber Phone"

yadoomerta — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:17:46 +0000

idk why you're being downvoted, it did read like an insidious content marketing piece. At least there was a disclosure.

With that said, I've been trying to lock down my smartphone to offline-only apps + text + calls, totally agree with the mission, I've felt so much more distractable of late

New comment by grahar64 in "Names should be cute, not descriptive"

grahar64 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:16:49 +0000

Yes, and we should change an entire companies culture to make a new hire onboard slightly faster /s

New comment by tabreu in "Names should be cute, not descriptive"

tabreu — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:00:58 +0000

This. Balance is key imo.

New comment by rjtavares in "Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend"

rjtavares — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:06:55 +0000

It's not the typical HR pattern, but there are some genuine oblivious people that amuse me greatly.

Like you said, the best ones are masters of poker face: polite and toned-down.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "The Linux Command Line"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:00:12 +0000

Need to migrate your IDE project to a CI system? How do you do that if you only know how to click through a wizard? Everything has to be spoon fed and if it isn't they are paralyzed.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "The Linux Command Line"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:37:29 +0000

Those polished tools hide a lot of the underpinnings so that nothing is understood. We get header-only C libraries (not C++) because people don't understand build tooling and want something that works on easy mode.

New comment by mkesper in "The Linux Command Line"

mkesper — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:28:58 +0000

I was astonished last week again how bad GUIs for git are. Take VSCode: It encourages you to enter just the title of the commit message. That's the boring part for people used to describe WHY that change was made in the long message.