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And today he's a Marjorie Taylor Green-retweeting bankrupt conspiracy theorist. Funnily enough his personal website <title> is "Billionaire Cheat Codes"

Really? Seems like a terrible name to me. Where I'm from, if you "post hog", you're getting blocked.

QuakeWorld had perfect TCP/IP, actually still one of the best netcodes in a game IMO. Reminds me of trying to get coax LANs set up correctly though, and how everyone's ping would spike when someone was leeching files during games.

Do you realize how dystopian that is?

Teachers do more work outside of their standard hours than most other professions. I dated a teacher for a long time and she worked much harder for her public school salary (waking up at 6am, prepping, lesson planning, grading, chasing up kids who aren't making it to school, dealing with social workers, etc.), than I do for my cushy six-figure tech job salary.

Besides, why shouldn't teachers make six-figures? Why are teachers treated like this in the US?

It's such a great font. I've been through them all, and even hacked together my own custom version of Office Code Pro, and while I switch every now and then, the iA Writer fonts are my favourites. I pair them with the Quatro version for code comments.

I really dislike this quote. It always comes across like it's designed to ease greedy people of their guilt for moving to the right as they earn more money. To me, being sound of mind is wanting everyone to have what you have, or at least an equal shot of getting there from wherever they had the roll of the dice of being born.

100%. At my peak of competitiveness I played CS and QuakeWorld 640x480 on a 170hz CRT with my Intellimouse overclocked to 1000hz. Movements in game felt like an extension of my arms/hands and getting into a flow state was so easy. I have a 144Hz LED now and it's nice, but not the same.

Yeah, the NY times article[1] actually says it was the US embassy in France that requested it was banned "on the grounds it might assist Communist propaganda efforts".

The last paragraph says:

"The Russians managed to obtain a print of "Grapes of Wrath" and displayed it widely behind the Iron Curtain hoping to convey a harsh impression of the US. But the main reaction, reported by our embassies, was: "In America even the tramps have cars."

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1955/04/13/archives/foreign-affairs-...

Is Twitter going to remove all screenshots/leaks of any company's internal comms? If not, this is not a good look.

Yeah it really feels like the NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in, politically, socially, culturally. I saw the same thing at every protest I attended — when there were no cops around, it was extremely peaceful. I only ever saw it get ugly when cops were harassing people, pushing people around, or trying to basically shut down protests by blocking off surrounding streets and trying to close in on protesters.

Never thought I'd read about Patagonia clothing on HN of all places. /s

I don't think anyone is arguing that WFH is "_obviously_ superior" for everyone, but there are clearly companies who are angling to push all of their employees back into the office (and back to the Bay Area specifically), and this isn't going to work for all of their employees, especially given the new competitiveness with other larger tech companies offering much more flexibility.

From what I've seen, people aren't advocating for strict fully-remote work, but rather flexibility for teams within larger companies to decide what works for them and what remote hiring policies makes sense within those teams, rather than having strict guidelines passed down from executives indiscriminately.

I love this advice. I started working remotely in my 20s and negotiated to work 4 days a week, while traveling the world and deciding where I wanted to call home. I'd never trade that time spent growing up and finding myself, learning about other cultures and places, for any level of start-up monetary success.

Everyone is different and obviously has different priorities, ambitions, ideas of success, but that time spent not working my ass off has made me a more well-rounded person and I believe has contributed to a different kind of success and confidence now in my 30s.

Yeah, not strictly zero intervention of course (a socialist won a democratic election and the US wasn't going to have it), but compared to other countries it was shorter-lived and longer ago.

This has to be a huge part and it's sad but not surprising that you're being downvoted here. Almost every other country in Latin America has either been invaded by the US, or has gone through US-backed coups, economic sanctions during the cold war, etc.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Love this. There are high-res textures for Quake which would have made this look even better. The Quake Revitalization Project[0] has created new textures "without changing the mood, theme, or atmosphere", and I believe they're packaged by default with projects like nQuake.

[0]: http://qrp.quakeone.com/retexture/

No langserver? SourceKit LSP has been around for a while now: https://github.com/apple/sourcekit-lsp

What a great excuse to give to those ignored Tinder matches.

Probably the same way you are generally productive but currently spending time on HN? Very unlikely anyone's productivity is "capped" by their typing speed. 99% of my productive time is thinking about solutions, not the physical act of typing them out.

I don't use it professionally, but I built a side-project in Elixir a few years ago and was amazed at how much I was able to get done with such a little amount of code. The service is still running today with basically no maintenance. For me it was a great choice and I would totally build my next project with Elixir on the backend.

It's ridiculous in the first place that BioNTech received almost half a billion in public funding specifically to develop the vaccine and yet own 100% of the rights privately.

Just makes sense. The benefits far outweigh the risks at six cases of blood clots out of over 6.8 million doses, especially when there's a high risk of blood clots following COVID-19 hospitalization. Not to mention rates of blood clots caused by the pill are more like 1 in 3000.

Hopefully if anything the pause has shown anti-vax folks that the safety of these vaccines is being taken seriously.

Ideal in what sense? NYC has more than double the GDP of the entire country of Switzerland and approximately the same population.

I thought the pretzels at Prater Biergarten in Prenzlauer Berg were pretty good. There's also a Hofpfisterei in Mitte although I don't know their reputation.

The ship's operators blamed a sandstorm and high winds.

Not interested in editor wars, but regarding the OP, Emacs has a fundamentally different architecture to vim and always has, lending it to the sort of customizability the article focuses on. It's essentially just a lisp interpreter that you can customize completely.

This is a terrible idea in the current state of the tech industry, where plenty of highly skilled tech specialists are “promoted” to positions managing people, without the training or emotional intelligence to handle what an HR department can handle.

So which utopian country do you live in where racism is not an issue?

Part of the messaging (the title and buttons) is built-in, but in all of these sorts of dialogs apps provide their own strings to explain why they're asking for permission. The screenshot in the original article shows where Facebook can explain to end-users why they need to track them across other apps and websites.