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I get a letter every month from the licencing people, it just goes in the bin. I've had 1 visit, he asked to come in, I said no. That was basically the end of it.

(For the record, I have a TV but I currently have no way to watch live TV on it, so why should I have a licence! I don't use their service)

His reply was that 10% was nothing, that means you've got 90% chance to survive. Then said you've probably got a 10% chance of being hit by a bus every time you cross the road. Just absolutely no idea what probabilities are at all or ability to extrapolate probabilities from real world lived experience.

I don't play games, but it still chugs along perfectly fine and for what I use it for I rarely think that it's too slow.

Since when has it not ?

We never shared the link to the uploader publicly, yet within a couple of weeks the URL was out there somehow and he was getting all manners of horrific stuff uploaded to it, he had to close it down just to protect himself.

You've posted this to HN.

I wouldn't take this risk.

If I want some new syntax in a LISP, I just write a macro.

e.g. the following threading macro in clojure

(->> x foo bar)

Takes x and passes it as the last argument to foo, then the result of foo is passed as the last argument to bar. Alternative you have -> for passing it as the first argument. These are from the standard library, but if they weren't they would be trivial to write yourself.

And no strings involved when you write macros in lisp either. It's just lists, your macro is just building a list. Because the syntax is just lists and there's no difference between lists and the syntax.

All my experience in trying to hire developers has been wading through an endless stream of people who were just useless.

Me: I want to represent a 2d grid, what data structure should we use? Them: A string?

This was someone applying for senior engineer. Others I've had filled their CV with SQL related acronyms. But couldn't explain what a foreign key was and then stubbornly insisted that at their current corp they would never ever use foreign keys in their SQL database!

I've had senior engineer when asked how to check if we had a 2d array with an item at x,y tell me if anything is on the same column or row, they couldn't do it, couldn't even verbalise how to approach it.

"Web Developers" who didn't know the difference between GET and POST. Web Developers that have never heard of PUT or what it would be used for.

> Why do it? It's so impractical!

Because you can and it's fun is always a perfectly valid answer here!

Card got blocked as they thought it was fraud. Annoying! And not something inebriated me wanted to deal with at 2am.

Ok. Maybe they protected me from myself, but still!

A lot of people on their own have earbuds in too,and clearly don't want to be spoken to.

I had one time where I asked someone for some help, he then went and did the route and shrugged and said it's easy in a really condescending manner.

I never knew this!!

Man, pre big-internet was so hard to find information on games. I remember for the original tomb raider a friend needed a guide, so I wrote and printed out them a guide for the full game, since I played it pretty obsessively.

Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.

Ignorance was bliss.

Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.

An example of me solving an Advent of Code with clojure and repl. You can see i never interact with the repl directly, I just send code to it via my editor and get results inline.

Some are just flat out refused as they are just too stupid and will cripple the system in some way.

The question is framed to you as a way for you to show you know x, y and z and talk about x, y and z.

Even if a valid solution is just do a, that's great. But the interviewer has no idea if you actually know about x ,y and z do they ?

I'm currently running Ubuntu on this ancient thing (which I love actually), but I absolutely don't want Windows.

https://excalidraw.com/

That's literally my entire use case for using firefox.