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Guido's Personal Home Page

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> Pronunciation: in Dutch, the "G" in Guido is a hard G, pronounced roughly like the "ch" in Scottish "loch". (Listen to the sound clip.)

It was kind of him to offer these types of hints for me, a speaker of American English. But honestly after listening to the audio clip, I still have no idea how "Guido" is pronounced in Dutch :)

Hint: He's saying "Mijn naam is Guido van Rossum en ik doe Woody Woodpecker na [woody woodpecker impression]"

You can just use a soft 'g' if you want. Some accents in Dutch use the soft 'g' almost exclusively, including for the name Guido. Case in point: I was born & raised in an area with soft 'g' and live in an area with hard 'g'. I can use both, but prefer my natural accent (where I was raised). People understand me here, despite them using the hard 'g', and I understand them as well. I wouldn't worry about it.

I don't think English speakers know what the soft g is, I wouldn't know how to explain what it sounds like in writing, like, between a g and h sound? I believe further south in West-vlaanderen the g is pronounced as an h, and the h isn't pronounced at al :-). Incidentally I'm also from an area with a soft g, and live in an area with a hard g. I never bothered with the hard g, so people always ask, 'oh, you're from Brabant?'. Yes, yes indeed

Its pretty easy to explain with two examples, like good or gift (soft g) and choreography or chorizo (hard g). Then, with these examples, imagine that a soft g speaker (almost) exclusively uses the soft g, and imagine a hard g speaker (almost) exclusively uses the hard g. You can recognize a soft g or hard g speaker after one or two sentences (also given the fact there's other characteristics of these two distinct groups such as slang, sound of r, ...).

Increasingly a fan of these dead simple, almost shoddy html pages. Haphazard but minimal.

These are like the old internet except I don’t see a user counter at the bottom. Back in the day pages like this had the info you needed without fluff and shitty tile backgrounds.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Although I'm partial to the better version: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

I don't see the 2nd one as much better tbh.

There are quite a few studies on optimal line length for reading comprehension and the second is much closer to that length to the first.

it’s a lot better on my phone (iPhone 13 Pro Max) since the font is at a legible size by default

It's "better" not "much better" tbh

Wish the font was a bit bigger on mobile though.

For years I wasted so much effort trying to make the most amazing personal website with the hope of impressing potential employers.

I'm now at the most successful state of my career so far, and my site looks like this: https://danielvaughn.github.io/info/

The content of your website reminded me this service: https://linkkle.com/ demo page: https://linkkle.com/paul

FYI the HN link on your page redirects to a dead user page, tenaciousDaniel.

Haha yeah, I just changed my HN username a couple weeks ago. Thanks for the reminder.

If you not familiar with Guido van Rossum :

    1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation.
    He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers,
    and announces to the world that "There Is Only One Way to Do It." 
    Poland becomes nervous.[0]

[0]: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

Haha this is awesome. The Java and C# are hilarious. Actually they all are. Thank you.

I once opened an issue on the vscode repo and this legend replied to it.

Still makes me giddy just thinking about it.

Same! I opened an issue on mypy only to receive a patient explanation why it's happening and to close it as a duplicate. Had quite a shock to see "Guido van Rossum" in my inbox it took me quite a while to realize that it's Github who mailed me; I didn't really receive it directly from the BDFL.

Still pretty cool so, like any normal person would do, I decided to tweet about it. I opened Twitter and the first tweet on my feed was also from GvR. It simply read, "What a waste of time".

This happened around the time of the first debate for last year's US Presidential Elections. Make what you will of the fact. :)

A lot of "tech headliners" have really spartan Web sites. It seems to almost be a badge of authenticity. Maybe they say "I'm way too busy doing important stuff, to waste time on this site." I dunno.

I was actually surprised to see that Vint Cerf had (before he moved to Google) a pretty modern site, but it was explained to me that it was a standard headliner page for his company (I can't remember which -it was a while ago. Maybe MCI?).

I made mine sparse, though not as sparse as this.

I’m a backend developer, so I don’t have anything to prove about my ability to do cool frontend tricks, and I want the content to stand on its own with minimal fiddling required.

Curious to know what programming languages he has under his belt / regularly uses.

Not sure. Doesn’t look like he know programming very well.

Yes, back to the drawing board Mr van Rossum. Inventing Python is not enough, you must also learn to make a nice homepage.

Apparently "html and css programming" is a thing in 2021. We must be getting old.

My experience of CSS is that it's incredibly complicated and often arcane for something that just supposed to be declarative styling. I'm definitely getting old.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is for.

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What I find most interesting is the license plate. From a personal perspective I also have a pretty cool license plate (2 in fact). But I'm hesitant to post any photos or videos with my license plate for privacy reasons. I've heard in the US there are all sorts of pros and cons to keeping your plate off the web.

Not retired though - currently at Microsoft.

Maybe Microsoft is not aware ;-)

Does anybody know why reader mode does not work on this page? It is pretty much unreadable otherwise.

anyone else think he looks a bit like jeff goldblume in his headshots?

This is a flex.

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