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New comment by woolybully in "ASCII by Jason Scott"

woolybully — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:52:36 +0000

Where can I read about his stalker and a different person trying to unalive his family. He alludes to these in passing on the linked blogpost, but I can’t find more.

New comment by woolybully in "Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)"

woolybully — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:41:53 +0000

Also nitpicking: “bespoke” means made for a particular customer. I think here you need to”proprietary”.

New comment by woolybully in "An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf]"

woolybully — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 23:23:54 +0000

Taivalsaari’s Kevo is a marvelous language.

New comment by woolybully in "The Verse Calculus: A Core Calculus for Functional Logic Programming [pdf]"

woolybully — Sun, 25 May 2025 03:58:30 +0000

Tim Sweeney & Epic are creating the language Verse whose logic functional underpinnings will make concurrency & correctness easier in Fortnite. https://youtu.be/ub-dls31Pyw

New comment by woolybully in "Tiny Glade: How Could They Do This? [video]"

woolybully — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:31:54 +0000

How could they do what? I watched for a few minutes, and they mentioned that people might lose a lot of stuff they worked on, but didn't indicate what that was. What did they do?

New comment by woolybully in "Ask HN: Intro to Game Development path for a 12 year old?"

woolybully — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 06:12:34 +0000

nand2Tetris https://www.nand2tetris.org/

30 Days Lost in Space https://inventr.io/products/adventure-kit-30-days-lost-in-sp...

CodinGame https://www.codingame.com/start/

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (book)

Soma Cube (there are lots of versions, both licensed and unlicensed, but be sure to get the booklet that shows 30 or more figures that can be built). https://fam-bundgaard.dk/SOMA/NEWS/N160817.HTM#PARKER

New comment by woolybully in "Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica"

woolybully — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:37:06 +0000

Thank you so much for this link. This article is so much more informative than the article of the title of this thread, which does, in my opinion, more harm than good to the pro-climate change crowd with its misleading catastrophizing.

New comment by woolybully in "Pain is not the unit of effort"

woolybully — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:17:55 +0000

Why? Have you been burned before?

New comment by woolybully in "A collection of quant riddles with answers"

woolybully — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:43:48 +0000

These are not riddles.

New comment by woolybully in "Ask HN: How to navigate negative thoughts about starting a career late?"

woolybully — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:30:23 +0000

Luckily, your interests are very, very inexpensive.

One of the worst things school systems teach us, incorrectly, is that life is a linear progression. Every person on a career ladder is missing out on other career ladders that may be better for them.

Apply to every job that looks interesting, network, get in the habit of checking the careers section of websites you visit.

Locate a job advert you’re not qualified for, spend a week watching YouTubes on the topic, and apply.

Walk 3 miles across your town and count how many “hiring” signs you see. Apply for 10 of those.

Readjust your expectations every day (that’s right, no hyphen) for three weeks and then re-assess (yes, hyphen here). You’ll get a crappy job, but lots of fodder for your writing.

Your next job will be better.

New comment by woolybully in "Which CPU is best for long time use Intel or AMD?"

woolybully — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:13:46 +0000

No.

ARM or RISC-V.

Apple makes some very nice ARM machines. If you’re running Windows, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-arm-base...

Read Hennessy & Patterson and get back to us.

New comment by woolybully in "Elements of a great markup language"

woolybully — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:55:06 +0000

With apologies to Dr. Knuth…

The most important thing in a markup language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name, and now I am looking for a suitable language.

New comment by woolybully in "Elements of a great markup language"

woolybully — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:48:42 +0000

Jeffrey Kingston’s Lout is pretty good, though it’s only lightweight if LateX is. https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/lout/user-guide...

New comment by woolybully in "A Scott Kim Ambigram for George Hart"

woolybully — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:09:34 +0000

You shouldn't; some people find them fun... a celebration of human creativity, which sometimes turns out to be useful.

New comment by woolybully in "Ask HN: What benefits can I provide to improve employee’s sleeping habits?"

woolybully — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 06:33:57 +0000

Good on you for considering this. I had one job where the company owner loved his naps, so napping was tolerated at the company. Half the people would have a 30 minute nap after lunch. Heaven! Made the afternoons so much more pleasant, and more productive. I'd just set my watch alarm and put my head on my desk (with proper drool precautions).

New comment by woolybully in "Ask HN: What challenging hobbies do you have?"

woolybully — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 15:57:12 +0000

learn a musical instrument

New comment by woolybully in "Tony Brooker, creator of Mark 1 Autocode, has died"

woolybully — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:43:57 +0000

tech is anything made, invented, not natural. So, the stirrup, eyeglasses, agriculture, our control of fire.

New comment by woolybully in "Ask HN: Hardware to Teach CCNA Skills?"

woolybully — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:45:27 +0000

Can you recommend a simulator or two? And a curriculum?

New comment by woolybully in "Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology"

woolybully — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:23:11 +0000

Well, another term for a locomotive is an engine, a train engine. So a person who works on those is an engine-eer.

New comment by woolybully in "Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code"

woolybully — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:05:34 +0000

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...