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luckyorlameon How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked

Doesn’t it still work that way?

luckyorlameon I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

Define expert?

luckyorlameon Apple’s Mistake (2009)

Yawn

luckyorlameon Panwriter – Distraction-free Markdown editor with pandoc integration

oh well

Uncaught Exception: Error: write EPIPE at WriteWrap.onWriteComplete [as oncomplete] (node:internal/stream_base_commons:98:16)

luckyorlameon We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled

Cool, talk about value add!

luckyorlameon Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

bye bye google; thanks for all the fishes

luckyorlameon Write shitty code

Why not just post an article on how to generate flame bait?

luckyorlameon My Many Girlfriends

completely disagree. This manager did the world a service.

luckyorlameon GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

can it do my cs homework?

luckyorlameon What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share

Bah;

luckyorlameon Pacaso is turning houses into corporations

poor rich people

luckyorlameon There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse

Why does the scanning code have to run on the device?

Why can't it run in cloud only when a device tries to upload something.

Then users can just turn off using the cloud services and retain their naive notion that what's on their phone is really private.

When are we doing to see a cloud service provider that matches iCould and other service providers but promises total anonimty

luckyorlameon Life Improvements Since the 1990s

huh? Nothing compelling here.

luckyorlameon macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)

" I don't do heresy." please explain.

luckyorlameon Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

what could possibly go wrong.

luckyorlameon A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (1993)

but we have cookies

luckyorlameon The Elephant at WWDC

Writing code and writing documentation are completely linked, if you can’t do one, you probably can’t do the other.

luckyorlameon A Pattern Language (1977) [pdf]

Uncle Phil?

luckyorlameon Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon

hmm, thanks, I think. ....

luckyorlameon Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths

Good point

luckyorlameon How We Got the Favicon (2017)

More Microsoft Suck

luckyorlameon The Rule of Three (2017)

this post is toxin of the mind. why has it been reposted?

luckyorlameon Don't write documentation in Markdown

Please don't write "Please don't write your documentation in Markdown"

luckyorlameon Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity

severity is set by devs priority is set by business this is software 101 stuff.

luckyorlameon Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity

really? I mean really

luckyorlameon Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

it is a complete overreaction, unless everything you do an an overation.

luckyorlameon Serverless: slower and more expensive

> I'm across a pretty broad slice of industry and can only draw on anecdotes from colleagues,

Wow. Sounds like you should not be so certain.

luckyorlameon If you have something important to say, don't say it in a paywalled publication

Ha, that's fake news right there.

luckyorlameon If you have something important to say, don't say it in a paywalled publication

there is nothing wrong with paying for information. there is nothing wrong with paying for the requests of someone else's labors / effort.

luckyorlameon If you have something important to say, don't say it in a paywalled publication

Ha, Twitter is a paywall publication! You're privacy is the payment!!!