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grammarnazzzion Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?

Why do so many carpenters still use screwdrivers when they could be using a drill?

grammarnazzzion People’s feelings during Coronavirus pandemic

How so?

grammarnazzzion CSVs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

> I personally try to always generate my data as SSVs

That's great. I generate my data using either ZSVs or sometimes ΩSVs

grammarnazzzion Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks

> At this point bringing up the flu in discussions of COVID-19 is basically a form of "what-aboutism".

Taking into consideration of that which has gone before is the basis of progress and research.

> The way this novel coronavirus infects the body is different from influenza, and the symptoms of COVID-19 are different.

Everything is different from everything else.

> We really need to stop comparing it to the flu.

In other words, everybody needs to stop thinking in ways that don't support your viewpoint. People that try to solve this problem by looking at related problems should stop because 'reasons'.

grammarnazzzion Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat

I feel like a friend just died.

I had no idea they were folding. They just rolled out a new currency feature (blocks) 12 days ago.

I've been on the site for so many years. 1936 badges level 73. I'm grieving and in denial this is even happening!

I subscribed NewGrounds because I don't want them to disappear too

:sad:

grammarnazzzion A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly

That's great. Really awesome. Thanks for sharing

grammarnazzzion Why Founders Fail To Market Their Products

It surprises me to see so many comments about this article. I couldn't get past the grammar problems in the first paragraph. The most compelling thing at the beginning of this article is the stock photograph of a pretty girl seemingly praying in a coffee shop.

"Founders predictably underestimate the importance of hiring marketers."

They do? Who are these founders? Founders of what? And who are these people predicting the estimations of these founders? How did you learn of these predictions? Are the predictors publishing their founder predictions somewhere?

"As a result, many startups don’t get round to marketing their product until it’s too late."

I realize I'm being pedantic now, but "get round" threw me for a moment. It's another break in the flow of reading his message. I wondered what's "get round" mean? Is that like getting fat? Like getting "round about the middle"? Oh. he means "get around to". Googling "get round" returns 400k results. Googling "get around": 55M. I guess some people do say "get round." 1 out of 137 people. Word choice matters.

"This happened to me and I’ve thought long and hard about why this happens."

What's he referring to? What is "this" that happened? I had to stop and reread the previous sentence to figure out what "this" and "happened" refers to: "startups don’t get round to marketing their product until it’s too late." So a start up didn't get round to marketing a product. Okay, so I guess that implies that a startup was lazy and irresponsible by not getting around to marketing a product. In short, the problem is that something bad was done to a product. That's what happened to you? Inflicted upon you? David Bailey is a product and a startup didn't market him responsibly.

I stopped reading at this point. He put so little care into editing and proofreading his article, I figured he probably put just as little effort into crafting a meaningful message and formulating logical conclusions.

I guess I'll never find out what the pretty girl is praying for.