An early form of domain squatting
Readit NewsTodd commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
The two things I find unacceptable are no local accounts and non consensual reboots. The latter may need legislation. They don’t even notify you that it happened. They try to restart apps and put things back the way they were but you can still tell that your house was broken into by the missing data that wasn’t saved.
Todd commented on Perl's decline was cultural beatworm.co.uk/blog/compu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Perl6/Raku killed Perl.
Python 3 almost killed Python.
It's normal. Once a community loses faith, it's hard to stop them from leaving.
Yep. Perl 6 was a wall that Perl 5 would never move beyond. It’s still Perl 5 25 years later.
Todd commented on Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs nber.org/papers/w34512... · Posted by u/hhs
An alternative is graduated capital gains rates based on total assets owned (ideally skewed higher, like 10, 50, 100MM, …). Exemptions like QSBS could still be applied. This would allow shareholder control issues to remain unaffected, which wealth taxes never seem to address.
Not sure how to apply it on the corporate side. There are also multi entity workarounds to consider.
Just an idea.
This is called cognitive offloading. Anyone who’s spent enough time working with coding assistants will recognize it.
Todd commented on Show HN: Midnight Reminders via Morse Code github.com/dmd/morse... · Posted by u/dmd
I have a patent on morse code entry to a smartphone:
Patent 6418323 Wireless mobile phone with Morse code and related capabilities
I see there are at least two of us!
The purpose is so you can secretly text other people under the table while in a boring meeting.
I see that was with Eric. I worked on his phone. It had two keys and the PM developed their own encoding. I strongly advocated for Morse. I wasn’t aware of this patent. Cheers
I try to keep a space for organization (slack, jira, whatever) and another for the ide, for example. Start working, and pretty soon I need to check an old pr on GitHub, and see it side to side with the ide, next someone sends a link in slack that opens a chrome window which is a doc with links that go into tabs. Hold, I have to hop in zoom for the daily… aaand we’re back at 20 windows and 15 tabs.
I wonder if it’s just the mess imposed by modern workflows. Picturing an engineer decades ago working alone and disconnected in its own office sounds like a dream, but I might just be idealizing it from today’s mindset.