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plastman··on Sudan woke up without Internet
Ah yes, the good ol' master internet killer switch. This happened before in Egypt during Jan. 2011.
plastman··on What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
almost excusively javascript frameworks
plastman··on Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler
I see some F# praising in here. any good learning resources one can recommend to me (Ik I can "google it" or whatever. I mean something you had experience with and would recommend)
plastman··on Git is too hard
git is hard? what are you talking about mate? >proceeds to use github desktop
plastman··on Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler
WOW. that's all I have got to say. I wish my country's universities had such educational quality, help guiding students properly and would encourage students to work on such projects.
plastman··on Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?
was 12 yo. installed Windows 7 on our shitbox PC with 2005 tier hardware. but internet would not work (ancient ethernet driver for that chip with no updates for the changes that oocured with windows vista). I never knew how drivers worked. I just press install and it works. so I spent the next few years reading stuff. Now I understand a bit how these things work. and how operating systems work to some level.

Later on I got into programming because I wanted to impress my teacher with my visual basic.NET skills. (I had no prior programming experience at all and that course was in VB.NET). and then I discovered C++, C# (and what .NET actually is) and python. now I am a year away from graduating with a computer engineering degree.

I was introduced to linux through a friend. and used it for a bit and had it on some machines. and wrote some shell scripts to automate stuff. but I never fully embraced it. as I would only install it on machines struggling with Windows. either due to aging or faulty hardware. I know about what makes linux "better" and how one customize it to the kernel level. but Windows is simply a better workstation OS regardless of the great amounts of bazinga we hear nowadays. linux on server/embedded systems is greatness however.

plastman··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
yes. too much bright hurts my eyes. dark is comfortable to look at