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m0ck··on Knuth versus Email (1999)
I always found it hilarious that this guy was fed up with email 5 fucking years before the first machine was connected to Internet in my Central European country.
m0ck··on Is renaming Git master branches for inclusive language reasons going overboard?
As with many these pseudoproblems, it is initiative by white people to signal virtue to other white people and show "moral superiority". I can't imagine someone actually feeling uncomfortable over it, this isn't even case of master/slave, "master" means just "primary" in this context. But I get it is easier to solve than real problems the marginalized groups face (such as police reform) and earn brownie points on Twitter (like with rainbow logos coming and going away every year).

What I am afraid of the most is that eventually GitHub etc. will force everyone to change names, including existing repositories, breaking CI pipelines and other things in the process. Sounds absurd, but unfortunately very possible in today's climate.

m0ck··on Ask HN: Please suggest some good books you have read recently
The Witcher Saga by Sapkowski. For the first time in years I felt like I got really "lost" in a book again and it was fantastic. I could do that easily when I was kid/teenager, now it's much harder to achieve for me.
m0ck··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
>if the people writing the code are being murdered

Source?

m0ck··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
I just wish they shift their focus again to technical solutions, instead of political/social issues. I don't know why software company has need to act like NGO/activist group (doesn't matter if I agree with their stances or not).
m0ck··on Ask HN: Server/Client Validation Syncing
The backend is Java (Spring Boot), so common validation module is unfortunately not an option.

The #2 looks most promising to me as well, but I didn't find this solution anywhere, so I wanted to check if anyone actually used this approach sucessfully.

m0ck··on Logify: Log out of all your online accounts with one click
The headline is a clickbait. It may log me out from some of the "most popular" sites, but certainly not all.
m0ck··on Ask HN: Developers, what is the last significant thing you learned?
When writing unit/integration tests and they fail, consider possibility the test is wrong.

Yesterday I spent two hours researching UUID mappings in H2 and PostgreSQL and trying various combinations of annotations just to find out that I accidentally deleted last character of the hardcoded "expected" result.

m0ck··on Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls
Love this idea! Just few weeks ago we had a little scandal in my country, when password to top-level government coronavirus-related Zoom meeting was leaked by one of the politicians accidentally on Facebook and random people started hijacking it and it was hilarious (part of it was uploaded to YT, skip to 3:12 for their reactions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub82Xb1C8os)
m0ck··on Ask HN: What topics are a must have for a JR server side Java dev?
>Spring used to be big but today JavaEE is probably better Could you elaborate on that? I am seeing Spring (Boot) used everywhere, only JavaEE projects I came across were legacy N>8 years old.
m0ck··on Tell HN: Airbnb now opts in your name and photo to data sharing
Great, now the corporations found a way to virtue signal AND steal your privacy at the same time!

/s

m0ck··on JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
As a backend developer getting his foot into frontend I feel you. Configuring TSLint with Prettier and all the plugins was tiresome only to learn few months later it's getting deprecated and you should move to ESlint. This article helped me bit, it explains "what is what" in modern JS ecosystem https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...
m0ck··on JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
Thank you, this is just what I needed! I started reading Eloquent Javascript recently, but since I already know Java and Python it was too slow paced for me (I don't need to read 5 pages on if/else statement)
m0ck··on Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
Cracked (non-steam) CS 1.6 clients are available for years and I don't think Valve ever cared.
m0ck··on Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
There is a disclaimer that first loading is always a lot slower, since it is downloading and caching all the files
m0ck··on An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?
If you have thick skin, anonymous imageboards have been here forever, altough the quality of discussion varies.
m0ck··on Generating a Java program with 90% less code
Have you tried Spring Boot? It reduces lots of the "complicated" stuff to declarative annotations and will provide you with very reasonable defaults for most use cases.
m0ck··on Generating a Java program with 90% less code
The title should be tagged with [AD]
m0ck··on Which website can I reverse engineer for you?
news.ycombinator.com :)
m0ck··on Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2019?
I will add his other books, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for 21st century (reading now)
m0ck··on Ask HN: Favorite YouTube channels under a million subscribers
I will plug in PPPeter - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHEz9DZ6EAof1-DaQGD_Xw

This dude got really good sense of humour and puts insane effort into his comedy videos and also travel vlogs from the most exotic countries you can imagine.

He made parody of Casey Neistat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlDdzXI-KTg) which was so good, that even he had only 100k subs back then, Casey shared it himself and even made cameo in the sequel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8uinZqNWg). Currently he is doing quite popular series called Best (and Worst) Reviewed in Eastern Europe, where he goes to various restaurants, hotels, bars and try to be as annoying customer as possible, which often results in hilarious situations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkF99oaioI)

m0ck··on 8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
This is a way more complicated topic than it sounds. If there was a board dedicated to planning and carrying out mass shootings, or other violent acts, I'm sure it would get deleted rather quickly. But when the topic of a board is "discussion of politics", it isn't illegal in nature.

It's the same reason why Reddit administrators hasn't deleted /r/the_donald yet, despite many of it's users breaking Reddit rules. It's hard to draw the line where it's acceptable to ban a whole community with "safe topic", because majority of posters are breaking the rules / law.

m0ck··on 8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
You need to make a distinction between 8chan as a website and /pol/ board. Imageboards are just places for unmoderated and free discussions, the topics are up to users (especially on 8chan, where they can even create their own boards, which is not possible on 4chan). Most of the discussions there are innocent in nature, it's always the same few boards which create shit like this.
m0ck··on Ask HN: CLI – Java or Python or Go?
You ask if you should use Java, Python or Go and the first three replies recommend you Java, Python and Go in that order, I love it.
m0ck··on Ask HN: What is your failure story?
Can confirm, I'm subscribed to Software Clown for almost a year now and still have fun reading it every week (and I like to think I've learnt something from it as well). I love how you keep the articles short and dense so is no problem to read them even standing in crowded bus :)
m0ck··on Ask HN: What's the best antivirus tools for win10?
Common Sense (tm)

It's free!

m0ck··on Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years
I don't deny that, but I believe the best way to stop it, is to stop giving so much attention to gender/race of people. That's why so-called "diversity" reports of companies make me sick. If you believe that all races/genders are equally capable to achieve greatness (as I do), then you should hire the best, give awards to the best and never spend a second thinking about their biological background. If we stop making big deal of these things, it won't matter anymore.
m0ck··on AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer
This issue was already solved with invention of booze and soft drugs.
m0ck··on Ask HN: What made you learn Python?
When was this? I graduated highschool only 2 years ago and all through it they forced us to use Delphi, because the old teachers didn't know anything else. At least I learnt Java in my spare time back then.
m0ck··on Ask HN: Different size nuts?
I was expecting quite different question based on the title and first paragraph.
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