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This still happens, it just happens on Slack. Perhaps not the same but it's not gone.

I was a health science major in college spending a lot of my free time programming an LP-MUD (this was mid-90s). I think it was my sister who said that I seemed much more interested in programming than health science. I switched into CS about a year later. If I had been smarter and ambitious enough I would have double-majored in CS and Health Science.

Fwiw, I had zero to little real programming experience prior to enrolling in CS. It was a hard road but well worth it.

We used to play a game in summer camp where one had two sticks and could hand them to the next person 'crossed' or 'uncrossed' declaring as such. The key was it was the persons legs, not the sticks, which determined if one was passing the sticks 'crossed' or 'uncrossed'.

Independence, proficiency, and good judgement.

> "youre too dumb to be in the room with me"

Had a coworker say to a client, "I could explain it you but you're not smart enough to understand it."

Absolutly ridiculous and toxic individual.

I thought they were waiting for the city to cancel it for insurance reasons.

Yes, have to relentlessly drive down complexity. Starting with simple, pure functions that work and composing them together to build up more complex functionality goes a long way.

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."

They ascend to become Gods which is somehow not contradicting the monotheistic aspect of Christianity.

He-man always came with a lesson at the end, iirc.

> a stick shift (so he can’t text and drive)

This is genius, thank you. I have been very nervous of my kids texting while driving.

Writing simple functions which take an A and return B in any context. Then, composing those simple functions together to build up more complex functionality.

I could not agree more strongly. Also recommend this book for anyone who hasn't read it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

In hindsight, it was naive, but it wasn't just branding. It really was a strong sentiment at the time long before the Internet consolidated around a few extremely powerful companies.

Appreciate the help!

That may very well be it, thanks! I watched a video and the battle scene looks very familiar.

My memory is pretty fuzzy unfortunately. I recall that one would choose their fighter, which would have different abilities (magic or fighting etc). Then both would enter the screen from opposite sides to battle. The graphics were not the best. That's about all I remember. Not much to go on!

Does anyone remember a MS-DOS game where one could select different characters to battle (there were a lot of them). They all had strange names (strange to me at 10 years old), maybe Greek-like? I played this a friends house late 1980s, have been looking to find it again without much luck.

> It’s understandable it’s a touchy subject. Why piss off China if you don’t have to? Only something to lose and nothing to gain.

I know right? I mean, it's not my liver that's being harvested...

Meeky Moose is my pick.

The bullies aren't living healthy, productive lives either. More than likely, their home life is awful if not horrific.

I did this for years and years and developed a blister on my retina from the never ending stress. Permanent vision problems. It's not worth it!

I was in CS seeing friends gets 10-12 job offers in the late 90s. Graduated in May of '02 and it took me a year to find an entry level software job and the pay was shit.

You have to find better work.

I've been enjoying reading KnowhereNews.com which attempts to provide bias-free news.

> I will gladly work for 2 - 3 months on hyper mode, giving away my mental and physical health for a feature that will actually provide business value and for which the business can make a good case for why it's needed yesterday.

I felt the same way until I caused permanent damage to my eyesight from stress. It isn't worth it.

It's banned in our home. It's awful.

This isn't true at all, Perot actually succeeded at business.

"intense academics stole my childhood and didn't have the value that the adults believe they have"

Exactly right. We put people on the moon and we did it without grinding 8 year olds with hours and hours of homework.

These parents are absolutely relentless on their kids. It's a really sad expression of 'keep up with Joneses'.