tshirttime

23 karma · joined August 15, 2023

tshirttime··on Ask HN: I am the software guy and marketing is hell for me

Tell me. Better yet, can anyone show me? Charlie's Angels (2000)

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Best Preventative for Aging Parents?

When you get to his age, you'll have seen and experienced enough to realize activities and fitness and diet are all bullshit. You, like your dad, will just want to be comfortable.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible?

sed

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How did yall meet your SO?

*Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac" -- Chazz (Wedding Crashers, 2005).

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Best books on early/prehistoric humans?

Not an answer to your question, but venting about Sapiens's borderline criminal teasing of early human history (then begging off with "well, our records are spotty" and devolving into 300 pages of woke horseshit).

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How did yall meet your SO?

Brothel.

tshirttime··on HBS Strategy: The Value of Open Source Software

Sounds about right. Unfortunately, once one guy gives away the farm, everyone else must follow suit to compete. Say what you will about Microsoft in their 90s heyday. At least they took your money with your eyes open as opposed to Google's freebie baiting.

tshirttime··on How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days

Forget the CPAP. If you're having trouble sleeping, just read this longwindedness.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Is EMBA from a highly ranked school worth at age 45?

It's not worth it at any age. If money is what you want, don't get sold to by EMBA. Be the one selling.

tshirttime··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

Because it got you to hear the pitch. People hating on Zed is still better than people oblivious to Zed.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Why Free Open Source Software?

Somewhere in a programmer's 30s he stops progressing along the axis of money, and can only move along the axis of influence.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Is it dangerous to connect a PC that's been off for 10yrs to Internet?

I would feed it no more than a few gigabytes to start, then gradually increase by 10% each day.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: In 2024, is it worth learning Emacs Org Mode? Alternatives?

If your field is CS or Physics, then yes. Otherwise no. For whatever reason, the kinds of people in those two fields possess a strong enough UNIX background to tame pain-in-the-ass emacs.

tshirttime··on The Art of Electronics (2015)

Dense, wordy, incomprehensible. Phys123 alum here.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How do you decide a non-fiction book is worth your time?

You're getting ahead of yourself. Before reading How To Read A Book you need to have first read How To Read How To Read A Book.

tshirttime··on Evaluating new software forges

There's gitawonk.com, a gitea instance that lets you charge people for your commit history.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How do you protect your open-source side projects from copycats?

No. Isn't that obvious? Even a draconian software license, which MIT's is decidedly not, requires a paid legal team for enforcement.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How do you protect your open-source side projects from copycats?

Most MIT licensed projects don't get any attention, and none of them make money. Consider your project an outlying success.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How do I help my kid get started with Minecraft?

I'm trying to figure out how to get her started with Minecraft

Said no one ever? Would be like asking how to get started on crack.

tshirttime··on New York State Prisons: How to Avoid Rape in Prison – Men's Orientation [video]

Kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right. -- Office Space, 1999.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Who are some programmers who entered politics?

The perl6 brosephina for sure.

tshirttime··on Do You Need to Shower Every Day?

Yes, to clean the spunk off the enclosure.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Which non-fiction books had the biggest impact on you?

Dense, wordy, incomprehensible.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: How did you get rid of your performance anxiety?

Put two condoms on every morning. Take one off when it's showtime.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Why do people on Reddit hurt each other?

We'd knock each other down a peg in real life too if it weren't for fear of reprisal. All species evolved a put-down-others gene to attract mates.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Best books to understand semiconductor business?

Chip War (2022) by Chris Miller

tshirttime··on Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?

Unplug the computer from the internet, hand the kid a UNIX manual, and suck all joy from computing.

Having a working browser teach you programming is like having an android in the form of Kelly LeBrock teach you robotics. You're gonna want to do things to it that engage your little brain.

tshirttime··on Ask HN: What haven't war video games replaced actual wars?

A five-year old can tell you the optimal strategy is agreeing to the video game, then showing up in a tank.

tshirttime··on I paid for Sublime Text

The guilt-trip business model is a shitty one. How I miss the days of shrink-wrapped diskettes when the software, and not the customer, was the deliverable.

tshirttime··on What's new in Emacs 29.1

So how does slow tasting freedom help achieve the goal?

It doesn't. Stallman hand-waved the "taste of freedom" nostrum to avoid throwing away the man-years supporting emacs on Windows and Mac. The same stupid argument was made to justify the new Android port.

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