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tickthokk··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
I've always wanted a sequel (or spiritual successor, or rip-off) of "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King". It was just a WiiWare game, but I really remember enjoying the building and simulation aspect of controlling RPG characters.
tickthokk··on Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)
> We need this to fit on a single floppy.

Giving this a go on my next argument XD

tickthokk··on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
Someone got 31 lines on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwI52xwyuU

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tickthokk··on Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
Yes! If I'd just been fired, the last thing I would care about are their feelings, and how my firing is part of the "strategic goal" I am no longer involved in.

He also mentioned taking full responsibility. That line should have been followed by how he did that. Pay reduction for himself? Upper management?

tickthokk··on Clean code won't save the planet
I feel personally attacked, haha

Some pretty cool data in there :)

tickthokk··on How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Cloud Storage Service
Thanks for sharing! While the victims were being scorned by the internet for not having proper backups, nobody was sharing how to achieve that.
tickthokk··on Ask HN: How do you handle code ownership?
You can use `git blame` for who touched a line last, but you should tread lightly with it. If you fix a typo in a comment, move some whitespace, etc, you're now to "blame".
tickthokk··on Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cybersecurity flaws
I was suspended in high school for "hacking"; this was in 2000. I added two (crudely named) folders to an old DOS style typing teaching software.

My presentation would have just been "I pressed F10, and typed in bad words", but it would have been preferable to a three day suspension, haha. I hope this is the outcome!

tickthokk··on The World's Longest URL “Shortener”
I'd bet money it's just binary represented in uppercase and lowercase.

AAaAAaAAaaaaaaaaaaAaAAaaAAAaAAaAAAaa = 110110110000000000101100111011011100 = [Some ID in the database]

tickthokk··on How to pass a programming interview (2016)
> These are concepts that are far more common in interviews than they are in production web programming

So of course let's talk about a dozen different types of them!

Welcome to Ford! To be considered for this position, please list every GM Model from 1983 to 1987.

tickthokk··on Ask HN: Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?
Not me, but my father in law, located in the midwest, is a sql dev. He's about to retire in a few years, switched jobs a few years back. From what he tells me, they didn't care that he was going to retire soon, they needed his skillset.

Location probably matters. My (also midwest) company was foaming at the mouth for a competent Java/SAP developer (which, forgive me for being catty, seems like a technology only a 40+ yr old would fill) a few years ago, never found anybody, position was never filled.

tickthokk··on Naked Mole Rats May Communicate by Eating Feces
New Silicon Valley trend: Bosses demand subordinates eat their feces.

> Well, I read this article that said eating poop makes you a better worker so I thought I'd give it a shot.

tickthokk··on Shoelace.css – A back to the basics CSS starter kit
Yep!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_v...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:root

Unfortunately since IE doesn't use it, most of us won't be able to either, as much as we want to :(

tickthokk··on I Almost Left Tech Today
Woof, a lot of reply's to this one.

Everybody's taken this to mean that I'd just go around yelling "Dick" every hour on the hour, or that I would be describing last night's penetration to everybody. Of course not.

Yes you would read the room first, but I still think you should have the freedom to express yourself if you're not harming others. Just because you don't like swear words, and you hear one from me, doesn't mean that I'm harming you.

People calling it unprofessional are likely browsing HN or Reddit while at work. Not sure how much that aligns with being professional. By the way, if you're not wearing a suit right now you're being unprofessional. Maybe getting your work done is the only baseline to being professional, and saying "dick" doesn't stop me or you from getting work done.

To the people who don't think dick jokes are funny. I do. You don't. shrug

tickthokk··on Tech is the best industry for women
Obviously if her work was being assigned differently, or having her work heavily scrutinized because of it, then they're in the wrong.

The unequal thing is interesting though.

Do you think it's the first time any of them made a joke about their junk to co-workers? Or jokingly asked about call girls to each other?

Changing their behavior, for one person, would be special treatment. And not only that, pandering. By speaking that way, they _were_ treating her as equal.

I think that point is lost in this.

tickthokk··on I Almost Left Tech Today
US based, not west coast though. Maybe I'm lucky to work in a place that lets me have some fun. It seems prudish to knock somebody down just because they say "dick" in public.
tickthokk··on Tech is the best industry for women
Of course the other post's experience was horrible. And I know this is a core tenant of not understanding the situation, but it seemed like some of it was purely in jest, and if that poster was a little more... fun? then maybe the post wouldn't exist.
tickthokk··on I Almost Left Tech Today
I think a good example is the "Our app is huge, like my dick." line.

As a guy, this line was pretty funny, and I could see myself saying it (on an all male team). I might not say it in front of female coworkers though, but if I worked closely with one I may say it within earshot without thinking about it. It certainly wasn't an attack on the poster.

Are we just not allowed to talk about genitalia? I guess as a baseline rule it's inappropriate, sure, but he's not being suggestive or soliciting. As described, it's obviously a joke. Not sure where the offense is here other than he said "dick" in the workplace within earshot of someone who doesn't want to hear that.

I'll finish by saying that the rest of it was certainly uncalled for, but this one instance doesn't really stand on it's own as offensive.

tickthokk··on I Almost Left Tech Today
From a manager, while in the workplace, sure.

At a bar, drinking beer? I dunno, sounds like they were joking around. If I can't talk about body parts at a bar while drinking beer, I'm not sure where you can.

tickthokk··on Uber employees lose faith and explore exit
Pay wall?
tickthokk··on Running Costs of a SaaS app
I wanted a "total total" and calculated it. For the curious: $17,593.10.

Obviously not all months are equal, but that's about $517.45 per month.

Look like an awesome tool!

tickthokk··on Bootstrap 4's mobile-first flexbox grid system, now used by default
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631

Essentially they've stopped working on v3. I don't think they used the words "no longer supported", but that's kind of what has happened.

tickthokk··on ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
Dayton OH, no grants or anything. I've listed ITT on my resume, but never had a real discussion with an employer about it. They see Deans List (laughably easy) and just check their box. As the adjacent poster was saying, I may just leave them off future resumes, or put my degree as a footnote. Being a Web Developer for well over 10 years at this point trumps the value of any degree.

I think my only point was that it's _only_ value was what employers thought of them, which had a low rank on the value scale as it was, and now even that's gone. At this point I spent 40k for _literally_ nothing.

tickthokk··on ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
Thanks, I took a look, and that's great information for any current student, or students with outstanding loans. However, I was mostly joking; I've actually already paid them off completely, years ago, which wouldn't have been possible without my lovely wife. So the word "refund" was used purposefully, and getting one is likely improbable, haha.

For years it was always a struggle of bashing ITT with my colleagues/the internet, but talking them up with potential employers. The only thing $40k of debt got me was the perceived prestige an employer likely already had of ITT. Now that they're defunct there's definitely no up-selling them.

tickthokk··on ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down
As a 2005 graduate of ITT, I'm glad. This was a long time coming. Now if only I could get my loans refunded :p
tickthokk··on Jack of all trades, master of none. Why Bootstrap Admin Templates suck?
I think Domenic's objection is that it sounds like you're going into, for example, _forms.scss and dropping something unnecessary like the styling of the `output` tag.

Are you instead just going into bootstrap.scss and commenting out entire includes?

The former implies a lot of surgery and the latter is definitely more manageable, but could still suffer from the project abandonment he brought up.

All in all I liked what I saw :)

tickthokk··on Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
Nice list, for just names it's a great resource. I see some umlauts, spaces in names, punctuation in names, and it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields. I'm not sure what other ground could be covered that someone would need to account for.

I'm not "book" cultured, so a lot of names I don't recognize, but nice shout outs to 30 Rock and Anchorman :p

Github complains that it's not a properly formatted CSV file. Maybe consider a TSV? It'd probably still complain.

I've yet to use it, but it's been in my back pocket for when I need it. This PHP package looks nice if you need more than just names: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

tickthokk··on Is This Justice? Charging an Eighth Grader with a Felony for “Hacking”
I was a sophomore in 99. I was suspended for 3 days for "hacking" our keyboarding software. It was an old blue-screen'd DOS application. My friend and I figured out that F10 (or something) created a new folder. I made at least two, named "school grades" and "top porn stars" (Hey, I was a teenager). My friend did the same on his, but I think his was just "school grades" and "porn". They claimed that we were trying to alter our grades with those folders. We were A/B students, so that didn't really pan out.

Getting in trouble for it wasn't really a deterrent, but then again, I wasn't arrested. It probably would have stopped me from ever fiddling with a machine if I had been.

tickthokk··on Gas Valet will pick up your car and fill your tank
This seems a bit backwards. Would there be a reason to not just bring like 100 gallons with them and fill it up on the spot? Why risk giving your car to someone when the opposite seems just as feasible?
tickthokk··on Not for sale
Just to add, I think a lot of people would just google "ford" or "nissan" when trying to find info about their cars. Some of us might make assumptions, and if it fails (like expecting cars at nissan.com), your next step would be to google it.