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ChristianGeek··on Ask HN: Have you picked up any new skill from scratch in your 40s or later?
Geocaching is an easy hobby to learn (and much cheaper than it used to be for anyone with a smartphone) and gets you outside with the kids, who consider it a treasure hunt. It might be a little challenging during quarantine, but it’s a great way to get some exercise and explore the area around you.
ChristianGeek··on Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
Perl 4 was a beautiful language that I loved to use. The release of Perl 5 was when Perl and I parted ways.
ChristianGeek··on Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]
So now he’s violating the songwriter’s copyright instead of the artist’s.
ChristianGeek··on Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]
But in this case he’s not writing his own song that just happens to sound exactly like another song (which is an entirely new can of legal worms); he’s stating that his intention is to create a print representation of an existing song. So your argument falls apart on those grounds.
ChristianGeek··on Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
The lowercase “m”, for one, looks terrible though. It’s a cool demo but I’d never use it.
ChristianGeek··on Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?
That’s weird; I’ve been using it with Scala for the past year without any major issues.
ChristianGeek··on Show HN: Ulysses–a writing tool I built to refocus when my mind is too loud
Is this related to the iOS writing app by the same name?
ChristianGeek··on Italy’s coronavirus death toll is far higher than reported
Can you provide a source (other than the president) that backs that up?
ChristianGeek··on P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017)
Read “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston. Great book about the origins of Ebola that culminates in an outbreak in Reston, VA that was primarily handled by the military. (The only reason you haven’t heard more about his particular outbreak is that it turned out to be a strain that only affected monkeys (450 at a scientific research holding facility in this case).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385479565

ChristianGeek··on Ask HN: Courses, case studies, or books for system design interviews?
Experience?
ChristianGeek··on Einstein Refrigerator
From the order page:

“To ensure that your future self is enjoying this book as we speak, simply click on one or more of the following links:”

Love it!

ChristianGeek··on Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?
IMO it’s a lot clearer if it’s not in Perl

What isn’t?

ChristianGeek··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years?
The best movie on this topic is “Idiocracy,” a fantastic documentary.
ChristianGeek··on Collapse OS
How was this not built to be waterproof?!
ChristianGeek··on Westworld (1973): the first film with CGI, and its source code (2017) [video]
The article omits 1984’s The Last Starfighter, which I believe was the first film to use CGI to render “ real life” objects.
ChristianGeek··on Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests
Except from zombie hordes.
ChristianGeek··on Holes in T. rex's skull now thought to have regulated body temperature
I wish I had an air conditioner in my head right now.
ChristianGeek··on The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room
So you want to be Zach or Cody.
ChristianGeek··on Intermittent Fasting (Alternate Day Fasting) in Healthy, Non-Obese Adults
If you were literally stunned you wouldn’t be able to type.
ChristianGeek··on The Most Dangerous Writing App
I’ve coded for hours early on in a project without compiling/running/testing. But I’m old enough and wise enough to constantly save.
ChristianGeek··on Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)
https://youtu.be/jqG1fX3ZaLQ
ChristianGeek··on Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
There’s activity, but no new releases in a year and a pull request that’s been sitting for a year.
ChristianGeek··on [dead]
That link is dead.
ChristianGeek··on New Hampshire installs historical marker to honor the creation of BASIC
I have to agree. My brother-in-law, a retired tech guy, and two geek friends just opened a brewery in Nashua (you know it’s owned by geeks with beer names like State Machine and Double Helix). Anyway, definitely not right-wingers and their customers don’t seem to be either.
ChristianGeek··on What Went Down at WWDC 2019
So many things missing from this (multi-user support in tvOS, Apple Arcade, new text editing features and mouse support in iPadOS , etc.) and what’s there reads like a PR piece.
ChristianGeek··on Lessons learned from rewriting code
And yet you did.
ChristianGeek··on Woman Grows a Nose on Her Spine After Stem Cell Experiment
> The growth wasn't cancerous, but it was secreting a "thick copious mucus-like material"

So she was actually growing a runny nose on her spine.

ChristianGeek··on What is a coder's worst nightmare?
Time to change jobs. Worked for me.

P.S. If you love programming, management will destroy your soul.

ChristianGeek··on Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’
Tim Cook’s Apple has definitely failed me.
ChristianGeek··on Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
Nope. I develop in Python, Java, and Kotlin on Windows and never touch WSL. Make is available natively through Chocolatey (a Windows package installer), but I prefer Gradle.

(I also write code to run on Linux, but still prefer Gradle.)

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