Readit Newskalonis commented on Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career? · Posted by u/jamestimmins
I pretended to often that I had figured everything out and didn't need any help. Although this worked out ok, I would have surely learnt more if I had more often admitted that I was stuck and asked for some input.
kalonis commented on The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit newyorker.com/news/dispat... · Posted by u/frb
This is his personal website with some of his caricatures: http://www.arnofunke.de/
kalonis commented on The mathematics of shuffling plus.maths.org/content/ma... · Posted by u/onepossibility
A good read. In case anyone is wondering where they have hidden their rss feed, it's: https://plus.maths.org/content/rss.xml
kalonis commented on Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014) slatestarcodexabridged.co... · Posted by u/skinkestek
This article sounds convincing but I don't find it really hard to refute these weak man arguments:
“I hate people who frivolously diagnose themselves with autism without knowing anything about the disorder. They should stop thinking they’re ‘so speshul’ and go see a competent doctor.” - "you're so right! That is why I did a lot of research before I diagnosed myself. I'd really like to see a doctor about it as soon as I can."
"I am a proud atheist and I don’t like religion. Think of the terrible things done by religion, like the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church. They try to disturb the funerals of heroes because they think God hates everybody. But this is horrible. Religious people can’t justify why they do things like this. That’s why I’m proud to be an atheist.” - "these people are totally nuts! I as a Christian can not understand how they can justify their actions. No way this is something real Christians would do."
And so on...
I'm surprised that Monica from Friends is not there. It's amazing now normal she is in the initial episodes.
But I get the case of doubling down on the traits over time like in Simpsons. They need to run for so many years you need both some kind of character change and still a lot of familiarity, so... let's make characters even more of the same. Different from Southpark with "we'll change what we want".
There is a subpage with examples from various shows: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Flanderization/LiveAc... It discusses each main character from friends (and Gunther of course) in regards to this.
When I created Bartib I tried too keep it as simple as possible which meant for me a CLI tool. Choosing a plain text file with a really simple structure meant I didn't need to implement all features right away but could always fall back to edit the file in vim.