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> unfulfilled by indulging my whims

You see, that's what I don't get. There are _so_ many things to do that interest me. I will never have enough time to do them.

Assumption of good will is a trap that naive people fall into. If someone can take advantage of something, it will happen.

Why do people link this dude here when you get redirected to that picture every time...

I disagree. It does, just not at the rate that it could.

inttypes was pretty big, right? I know it's just one header, but it's an important thing to have in the standard for a systems language.

Send someone an anecdote from my life every month. Not that my life is interesting, but it would be worth the effort from my end.

The only difference between this and Overwatch going by those criteria is that OW is not as easy for first time players. You've hit it on the head, the key difference is that somehow Fortnite crossed the boundary to mainstream.

Along the lines of show, don't tell, the best one I've found is http://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/

It helped me grok monads after I had a hazy understanding of them for a while.

I did CS and it was bad enough for me, can't imagine Physics...

Just in case you didn't see since they commented after you, smilliken describes the nix process at their company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714102

Always neat to see real world stories about using TLA+. Putting the talk on my to watch list.

I thought that resizing was really neat as well, and the videos are such a pleasure to watch. Lamport may be my favorite lecturer I never had...

I think people are missing that he seems to be aware this is a poor way of doing things...

> self worth or identity

Wow, that's rich. Is it really beyond your comprehension that someone might be deeply hurt by losing the capability to engage in sexual relations with their significant other? I know you say you 'can imagine other people having enough of a problem' but I'm not sure you really do when you word it that way. I agree that it's more expensive and more risky than gender reassignment but I don't understand why someone trying to return to a fully functioning body is considered "elective".

Free speech is one example, through probably not for all european countries. See Germany's defamation laws as one example.

How much cpu/ram does this take up on a pi? I imagine it's a nice interface to have.

I got a chuckle out of that

100% this. If people want to push diversity initiatives, go for it, but I think there's no way that leads to real change without starting from the ground up i.e. cultivating childhood interest. Teaching about important women in CS helps break down the cultural expectation of programming as a male thing. In addition, although this is just speculation, I imagine workshops where the participants work to build something practical rather than purely "fun" would appeal to girls. A note-taking or organization or journal or instant messaging application would be great. Something you could use instead of pandering to stereotypes. Maybe I'm wrong about the workshop thing, but I stand by the childhood interest part.

That is amazing. My family had one when I was a kid and I loved it, but what they did there is insane. Way more than I would have thought possible, and I hold that console in high regard.

After reading a lot of writing by both Hintjens and Sústrik I came to the same conclusion. It's such a shame they fell out, I feel like with a little compromise on both sides they could have come to a workable place. There would have been heads butting and voices being raised (figuratively) but a lot of great work can be done in a place like that. The problem is that it's tiring to fight those battles on a daily basis, and it gets old really fast.

Had a fun read on those links, thanks for sharing.

I'd like to second the important of staffing. If we were in a perfect universe we could use domain oriented languages for every project because devs would be familiar and competent with them. Obviously that is not the case.

Would you rather be xXTheRealMrGuyoramaXx or mrguyorama_123 instead? I really don't see how it's that different. It solves the problem of first come first serve, without forcing people to come up with the random meaningless bits themselves.

If you're referring to the tagging on Steam, it's in addition to the regularly displayed username. If you're not, I guess I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Glad to hear it, had no idea

The former battle.net (now Blizzard App) does what many games do and has the form "Username #XXXX", where the xs are digits. So you can be Frank #0001 and I can be Frank #0002. Steam allows you to tag people on your list with user created descriptions. There are definitely applications out there that make this kind of user experience a priority, I feel like the gaming world is ahead of the curve on this point.

Depends, I assume. The original Destiny had color palettes for every type of color blindness iirc, you could select whichever one you wanted. That was a really nice feature for a FPS, where you need to be able to determine allies/enemies at a glance.

If you didn't want to do separate palettes, which I imagine could be a lot of work, you could create your own. I imagine if you varied the tint/shade/tone enough you could (probably?) get a set of colors (with different hues) that would be differentiable across all forms of colorblindness.

Disclaimer: I'm not a designer _at all_. Somewhat on topic, my favorite quick tool for colors is colorhexa dot com. At the bottom of each color page they have a color blindness simulator.

They could, they just probably wouldn't be 16 by the time they finished learning how to do it.

In order to maximize my pool, should I choose 123... variants? Would I be lowering my chances of success by reducing the median quality of members?

I'd agree particularly with domain modelling and being able to explain your decisions. Working on those helps both technical and interpersonal aspects of your work.