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haven't had to install an anti-virus or deal with a virus in like forever. windows 10 kept nagging me about scanning, and often doesn't find much. i may not know what new tricks malwares and viruses are using right now.

curious, have you tried product hunt or similar? it is looking to me that playing the online popularity game has become a key factor for succeeding. if something is popular on product hunt, it is more likely to succeed.

> Self-Censorship

this one is interesting.

lmao, that's number 4 in the ten crack commandments haha

wait what? i seldom hear about instagram. to be honest i am surprised every time it gets mentioned (same thing for snapchat). i thinking you have to be doing particular things or be part of certain spheres to occasionally run into instagram stories.

now, not the same about twitter. twitter is in the news, articles and everywhere. if anything instagram isn't as pervasive as twitter or facebook imo.

funny, i was listening to the go time podcast during my commute this morning and they had the author on...

the author seems to suggest that one should start with an interpreter, then move to a compiler. (read the interpreter book, then read the compiler book...)

i think it really depends on what you are doing. in fact, python is a good example. it compiles to bytecode that is interpreted. it has the both compiling thing going on and then the whole VM thing. i believe java is similar. what i am trying to say is that the line is very blurry nowadays.

nit: these updates often break working software if you ask me. the productivity loss here is not negligible.

i thought part of it were also consultancy fees for him to be a consultant for the company many years to come?

i mean, why downvote the GP? there is a good discussion to have here. and i am in fact learning new things. i am all for using one word (less typing) but i am not sure i am ready to see shutdowning...

great job! only a couple of seconds with the game and i felt calmed down somehow lol we need more slow paced, calming things like this

> Their touchpad is excellent...

exception: the 2017 macbook pro trackpad. it's not great. i don't know how many times i had to plug a mouse in to get drag and drop to work...

why atlassian is so successful with management but not with people who actually use their product is a great unsolved mystery.

it's not just you. i am, i think, "that" generation and i have no idea what this is all about. the word "cringe" is overused, we should "cancel" it.

google+ did not fail for me. and many others i know. i enjoyed being part of communities around specific topics.

spamming was the only problem i saw. and i just couldn't comprehend that the same company that defeated spams in email couldn't do the same on their social network.

someone made a comment earlier about twitter killed vine and now tiktok is being a better vine. maybe someday we will see a social network where the emphasis is on communities and not the self. that's what google+ did better than anything that was out there.

is it? i mean there were online boards and forums that had this comments/replies structure, joel on software anyone?. well minus the points. but those were never called social networks...

me too! you know, that "flow" thing they talk about, nothing puts me quicker in the flow zone than washing the dishes. must have something to do with the sound of running water maybe...

the one thing i am nostalgic about are buttons. someone please bring buttons back! so i can once again dial a number without looking at my phone or letting the whole world know...

funny i wanted to make the same comment last night but was too lazy.

wasn't the first time John did what he did. and it's not the usual kind of learning either. he was learning by first principles. i truly love this idea of replaying in your own mind what went on when something was discovered (or at least come close to it).

contrast that with how ML & AI are taught nowadays: thrown into a Jupyter notebook with all FAANG libraries loaded for you...

> npm sucks and all, but at least it just works and doesn't get in my way as much.

used many package managers: pip, gem, go, npm, composer, etc... npm is the only one i have recent memories of having to kill & the only one that makes the fan go off (well okay most c/c++ do that too...)

quite frankly surprised by what i am seeing about python here. i have never been into the new stuff, pipenv, poetry, pipx, etc... maybe that's where the bad experience is coming from? i even don't know when and why it got so complex...

was going to make a similar comment but mention that i can see this as an advantage over google and amazon clouds. they can just offer a solid editor with their offering now, making it easier to develop on their cloud.

that's interesting. what example problems incremental refinement isn't able to solve?

something definitely went wrong, imo.

when that pizzahut website link was posted a few days ago, i felt nostalgic about old web pages. most of them were about favorite topics, shows, hobbies and links! friends (the show) had thousands of fan made websites. websites linked to other websites with similar interest.

now it's all about "us" and "me". we don't even link to other websites anymore. blog rolls and guestbooks have gone extinct.

back when we all dressed more formal lol :)

wow, just realized some of us have been using shortcuts for so long that we don't know when things get moved.

also the "windows" key argument was kinda moot because most keyboard have a key that isn't a "windows" key but works similar...

surprised by this as well! was it always the case? it is also very interesting to know that names i won't repeat here have chosen not to show their article to a wider audience. good luck with that!

medium is a very strange model, imo, because it feels backwards and honestly against what the internet stood for when it started.

well, the $150 chromebook is not going to help you with figma either way

the GP solution puzzles me too. i don't want this to be the solution. i wear glasses and my eyes are already damaged and now i need to filter out the color blue? what about we start making better monitors and screens instead?

thanks for sharing and sorry it happened to you. sad to say but, i would be suspicious with if any interaction with a bank is going this easy and is this convenient...

google made the term popular. there is a book on it that kinda expands on what it entails.

oh wow, well this is a very silence of the lambs like scenario. thanks for sharing. i, too, have witnessed other animals being extra aware of death in the past.