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steelbird··on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming
Not everyone wants to become a JavaScript developer.
steelbird··on Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech
He worked on it after, no?
steelbird··on An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
Kim jong un is so fat he jumped and got stuck.
steelbird··on LuaRT: Lua programming environment for console, desktop applications for Windows
Think Python but smaller and simpler, less batteries included
steelbird··on Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them
They could lower their prices...
steelbird··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
That is nice. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk
steelbird··on Linux 5.6
"So we'll play it by ear and see what happens. It's not like the merge window is more important than your health, or the health of people around you."

Very nice.

steelbird··on Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits
Which country?
steelbird··on James Lovelock: 'I Would Not Waste My Fortune on Colonizing Mars'
Interesting idea... can you elaborate or list some references where one can read more about this?
steelbird··on Why are diapers so expensive?
Our routine: Warm wash with Oxi-clean, Hot wash with detergent, air dry the covers, tumble dry high the inserts. Baby is 8 months and so far no smell and very little stains on the inserts.
steelbird··on Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]
It's gotta have its niche else it wouldn't still exist, right? Medical records? I think...
steelbird··on Datomic Cloud
Is $1 a day a good price?
steelbird··on ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI
Quick start to get the GUI going (not so obvious from the README):

$ clone https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp.git ChrysaLisp

$ cd ChrysaLisp

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-ttf-dev

$ make -j

$ ./run.sh

To quit:

$ ./stop.sh

steelbird··on On St. Augustine's Confessions
Nice. The version I first read had "Thou"s, "art"s, and "wherefore"s all over the place. It made the denser chapters less accessible. I'll probably look at this one in a year or two, once the price has gone down a bit ;)
steelbird··on Diminishing returns of static typing
Which IDE?
steelbird··on Django 2.0 alpha
ty, a list is better than nothing :)
steelbird··on Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners
There's a subscription link at the bottom of https://buildmyvocab.com/
steelbird··on Ask HN: What's your working day like?
You are a good father.
steelbird··on Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray
Similar to http://gnomepomodoro.org/

Been using it on xfce alright.

steelbird··on How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
0_0
steelbird··on A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France
The context suggests they like it in France. Could be clearer though.
steelbird··on In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news
That line was quoted in one of the more recent Batman movies. Takeaway: be more like Batman.
steelbird··on More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
Fine print: "Check Point will not collect, store, or use your email address for any other purpose."
steelbird··on Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Sir, you have spoken well. What OS/distro should I be looking at?
steelbird··on Linux debugging tools you'll love
ss -anp | grep LISTEN
steelbird··on World 1-1 “The Pioneers”
light orange font on dark orange background, hmm....