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pointeon Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008)

You should not expose any internal identifier (numeric or otherwise) because it then becomes public & part of your API (even if undocumented).

pointeon 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

Title should have [2012]

pointeon Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

Roughly 800MB for me at the moment. 95MB main process, 2 helpers at 50MB and 1 helper at 600MB.

pointeon Kkrieger – A 96KB first person shooter

My friends and I used this for benchmarking new PCs. Hardly anyone got over 20fps consistently back then.

pointeon Ask HN: Windows laptops for devs

A clean Windows install is a must, as others mentionted.

As for hardware - there are really two options. Either a ThinkPad (whichever flavour suits you) or a MacBook Pro with Windows (yes, it works better than most). Hint: the MBP will probably be cheaper, based on your configuration.

pointeon Ask HN: Why learn non-JS languages/framework?

Right tool for the job. If you think JS solves everything I would propose you take a few introductory CS courses ;)