Readit NewsI often think that the reason why PHP is still so popular compared to Perl is because php never stopped evolving.
If php had paused development or even slowed it down like this it would also have been far less popular as probably even frameworks like Symfony and Laravel won't be possible with the older versions of php.
So thank you to the maintainers but I wish Perl evolved more quickly like PHP.
thyrox commented on The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder lanceewing.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/smcameron
This game was such an insane strong part of my childhood that when I think about the present day many years later it feels like a dream. I try to imagine in my current life having the same sort of "connection" to a game and it just feels impossible. Everything around me feels like "just" a game, show, material object, whatever... but space quest 2,3,4 all feel like they are fundamentally part of my DNA, intertwined with it.
I feel that for music. During my teenage years I used to listen to the same songs over and over on my walkman. I still remember 99% lyrics to the whole albums. The music used to have such a strong connection.
Nowadays there are 1000+ songs in my playlist I can't even recollect 20% lyrics nor there is a chance in hell that I would listen to every single song on the entire album let alone every single song by tthe same artist.
It's like if I don't like the first 10 seconds, it's hide song and Spotify makes sure I never have to listen to that again. Even though some of my all time favorites are songs I hated at first but then there was no hide song button.
Sorry I digress but yeah the connections you make in childhood are really something. I just hope it's my age and not the technology responsible for this and the youth of today feel the same connection too.
thyrox commented on One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence bbc.com/news/articles/c88... · Posted by u/yowmamasita
Surprised the headline didn't mention it was a Boeing 777. Points to bbc for not going for the obvious clickbait.
Very nice. Since Hn data spawns so many such fun projects, there should be a monthly or weekly updates zip file or torrent with this data, which hackers can just download instead of writing a scraper and starting from scratch all the time.
The company I work for absolutely must have everyone using it as it's supposed to be much safer to Windows. So I had to spend over $2k for a stupid laptop that won't even run half the apps without hacks like Rosetta. I also hate that there are 3 special keys and command and ctrl are separated.
I am myself a Linux user and using a Mac makes me appreciate Linux so much more. It could be the #1 reason I want to start my own business so I don't have to use a Mac anymore.
thyrox commented on Warn HN: The AI That Plugs Your Product on Reddit in Conversations replyguy.com/... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T
On one hand I agree that this should be flagged and taken off homepage (as it is right now), but. Otoh more people need to be aware of such scams and simply not trust reddit, hn, etc as good source of information anymore.
I would definitely be willing to pay to try it out and provide feedback in addition. I'm genuinely surprised by this news.