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This is very cool. I'm involved with an open source project that's similar to this, called 3Demos: https://3demos.ctl.columbia.edu/

On github at https://github.com/ccnmtl/3demos

I imagine it would be disorienting to actually play this on a CRT.

It's closed source. [Trac](https://trac.edgewall.org/) is better.

I live for drama.

you don't like github drama? (https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama)

Good. Fuck that startup.

Why is this on hacker news, lol.

Missing Lennart Poettering.

Wow, she sounds annoying.

rms comes from the old macho male programmer culture of, “logic and reason over all else”. The original hacker mindset of, “this is a meritocracy, and everyone who happens to be into programming is white and male. And there’s no problem with that.”

Eric S Raymond is the same way, but much, much worse. I don’t give him a pass, cause he has no clear vision or morality. He’s just a self-aggrandizing loser.

Linus Torvalds also grew up in that world, but is trying to change: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

I wouldn't work at any of those companies as long as I have the choice not to: they all make money off of proprietary software.

Why not disclose my current salary? I absolutely would if anyone asked. I wouldn't leave my job over another for a pay raise because I like my job, everything I work on is free software, and I can work as slowly as I want.

When I've worked at start-ups in the industry (I've worked in Palo Alto, SF, Seattle, and other places in NYC), it was like, working crazy hours, constant stress and drama, dealing with annoying requirements, and basically working on stuff I don't care about, like mobile apps, vying for popularity, etc.

If a startup wants to pay me to work on these Astronomy simulations I've made, I'd be interested: https://github.com/ccnmtl/astro-simulations (this is what I've done over the past year at Columbia).

Yeah, in general I find people to be excessive with their spending. $5k a month sounds like an insane waste to me. I'm pretty thrifty. I feel like tech workers are living in a different world than me.

My direct deposit income is something like $2400 every two weeks. That's after my IRA investments, monthly health insurance cost, metro card cost through my job, etc. I work at Columbia University, by the way.

I live in a rent stabilized 1br apartment in west Harlem: $1500/mo rent. After that I have no major expenses other than food, and I shop at local grocery stores and cook at home a lot. I make my own bread, because I like to, not because I have to. I always feel like I have more than enough money. I put around $800 a month into savings and investments.

I'm even able to travel frequently to Europe, Latin America, and to see my parents in Seattle. I agree with Bradley Kuhn on this one: in general, tech workers are wayyy overpaid.

lol I'm a senior developer, been in the industry since I graduated with a BS in 2010. I'm in NYC. My salary is currently $82k. I'm not doing anything wrong here - the numbers in the article are way exaggerated.

I don't mess with browser extensions anymore, I just use Brave: https://brave.com

The techniques and technologies we’ve used on the new Twitter.com mean you only download and run code when it’s needed. So a mobile user won’t download the sidebar you see on the home page, and may not download the settings pages until they go to update their display name. However, it also means that the full functionality of the site is still available to them should they want to access it.

Can someone explain to Twitter's web developers that there's nothing groundbreaking about this idea? Like... lmao. That's how web apps should work. That's how traditional django and rails apps already work. I like JavaScript and React as much as any web developer but if you're loading unnecessary code that's actually degrading the usability then that's a problem to be fixed asap. And it's definitely not something worth mentioning in this press release.

Oh wait, this was post written by "software engineers", not "web developers". They're probably too smart for these details.

Good! Keep them down.

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I'm going to make a similar library called Verizon.

haha, nice. https://alt.org/nethack/fastasc.html

I was going through this recently because my brother is going through the CS program that I went through, which is the only time I've encountered anyone mention Prolog. I still can't really envision how to create comprehensive systems in this, but it seems the logic paradigm could be applied to some really useful new areas that it hasn't reached yet, similar to how the influence of functional languages is pretty much expected for any trendy new language today (Rust, ES6).

Yeah, he posted a blog post about Antarctica a few days ago: https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

Ehh, wordpress is a mis-step along our path of digital expression. There's this new thing called flat HTML files that are very easy to maintain and much more flexible (and secure). If you don't mind a complete mess, like me :P

A good idea. idk if that will ever happen. Still I like my weird website - there aren't enough crooked angles, messiness, imperfections or just internet spam in general on Facebook. Parts of the internet are obsessed with authenticity and identity, and also reliability and uptime. Those things are important for airplanes, trains, things like that. Not something like this: a phonebook used to keep in touch with people and have random conversations about nothing. I like to imagine a place like facebook that gets permanently blurry if it gets rained on, like a phonebook would. And also there's no passwords, like a real phone book.

Our everyday internet should be taken less seriously - used for what you want, to simplify a few things, not make them more complicated or hidden.

Lev Manovich has some interesting thoughts on the database-centric nature of how the internet's come to be. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-new-media

An interesting article, but I don't agree with the author's conclusion that rent control is worse than the California-style alternative. Is San Francisco currently better off than New York? No rent control there, and prices are even higher than NYC. I wouldn't find my 1br NYC apt for $1500 in SF. Maybe 6 years ago, but not now.

Rent stabilization alone isn't a solution the housing affordability, and maybe there's more to it than meets the eye. But New York's solution shouldn't just be to get rid of it. What model city would they be following?

Rather, changes in zoning laws could be really great, following Tokyo's model. The author hints at this. https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...

How does he get through this article without even mentioning putting on a good old-fashioned bake sale?

Right, cause coffee is so hard to make yourself.

I guess I'll never understand the point of hipster coffee shops. I'm all for cozy cafes, but all the hipster style coffee places, like 9th st. espresso, are the opposite of that: more catering to the trendy, minimalist, i3-gaps ikea aesthetics of the mainstream of /r/unixporn.

News at 11.

Oh, I guess my parents raised me weird, then. They discouraged putting any importance into that kind of thought, especially when I was just a kid. It was always like, "do what you love and money will follow" kinda thing.