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wymyon LambdaMOO takes a new direction (1992)

I spent many many hours playing/coding/wizard-ing with several Star Trek themed MOOs and an original space themed version. I thoroughly enjoyed the language and environment. MOO is really where I initially grasped and thrived with OOP.

wymyon What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills

I'm one and make $11/hr.

wymyon Ask HN: What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?

If you enjoy history, check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on WWI, "Blueprint for Armageddon." About 20+ hours of content.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepr...

wymyon Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch

If it pitted the glass lense, wouldn't the solid exhaust penetrate the plastic bag? I'm surprised there was no other damage.

wymyon Why I Left the .NET Framework (2013)

I think it has more to do with fragmentation.

While it's great, in theory, to have broad skills in many different languages and technologies, it is difficult to be an expert in any of of them without working with them for a significant amount of time.

When I start a new project I'm looking to leverage my expertise in my areas of focus rather than trying to find the perfect technology fit. Without significant knowledge in all options, I may not even be qualified to provide a reasonable evaluation.

wymyon The Man Who Single-Handedly Converted a Washed-Out Land Into a 1,360 Acre Forest

I would suggest that planting trees is part of planting a garden. Trees are a renewable resource that if, managed well, produce so many benefits. Where I live, 100's of thousands of acres are managed over offset 30 year cycles.

wymyon Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?

The 'why' should not matter. Who really cares whether it should be done? or why they would want to do it?

If someone has an interesting problem, let's try and figure out a way to do it. Usually the why comes up along the way, but not relevant.

Thankfully, some great folks stepped in and gave quality responses.

wymyon iOS 7 “activation required” error on iPhone and iPad

I too was 'told' I was up-to-date, and lost a ton of parade pictures of the family from this morning. Badly done, Apple. Badly done.

wymyon Gates calls Ctrl+Alt+Del command a mistake

IIRC, other computers such as the Apple II had a single 'Reset' key. It was not uncommon (for me) to be typing in my code from a magazine, reach up to hit backspace (delete) and accidently reset the computer. :(

There were a few iterations that depressed the key, etc.

Overall, I liked the three finger combination because you had to mean to do it.

I will say that using it to login/lock windows instead of rebooting was not intuitive at all.

wymyon Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox

> <blink> support should be dropped for one release out of every four.

Thanks for the laugh.

wymyon Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

I just fired up Steam and now I'm downloading HL for Mac.