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joeypickles

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joeypickles··on Logo Programming Language
Yeah, somehow I owe my entire software engineering career to that flower and garden program example. There was something about being able to add new words based on primitives, and new words based on custom words, that captured me for good.
joeypickles··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
Very true, but I don’t see it as a cycle like that comic says. It is more of an unhealthy digestive tract.
joeypickles··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
It’s frustrating that the site wrote that. I’d wager a taco that she never made that claim.
joeypickles··on Ask HN: What is the job market like?
I know this is HN and we’re not supposed to laugh, but this gave me a smile.
joeypickles··on Leaving Mozilla
I wish there was an article on the oral history of comic chat.
joeypickles··on What Is a Dickover?
I agree, it’s dumb. I never call those things popovers (is that a regional term?) so the whole time the word was a bit jarring. Also, at first I thought this was a riff on combovers, and imagined some weird male Medusa creature with a thinning head of dicks, and it was so disappointing when that turned out to be wrong.
joeypickles··on Bubble Sorted Amen Break
It randomizes slices of the sample and begins to play the slices in the random order. Meanwhile it begins the bubble sort algorithm at a pace that matches the tempo, sorting the slices into their chronological order. Throughout, it only plays the unsorted slices. (I was kinda hoping it would play the sorted sample at the end.)
joeypickles··on Unexpected things that are people
Simpler in the short run, but creates tech debt I think.
joeypickles··on Unexpected things that are people
Seems appropriate here: https://genius.com/Moondog-enough-about-human-rights-lyrics

In other words, why do we have to make something a person in order to give it rights?

joeypickles··on Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit
Reminds me of the lawsuit brought against South Park by Brownmark Films over the recreation of their infamous video, also done in a faithful “side by side” manner. Interesting that the courts decided the opposite in that case.