Torturous metaphor that doesn't actually explain macros.

I'd posit that this is just as good as every programmer koan or story from esr's The New Hackers Dictionary

It reminds me of the "The Salvation of Doug" and its rebuttal "The Demise of Bill" that are often used to illustrate the differences in philosophy between genetics and biochemistry even when they are used to analyze the same system.

https://morphogenesis-aplab.weebly.com/beyond-the-bench/basi...

> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev

"claude, run 'npm install' for me"

> The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years than that on vanity projects

The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years _daily_ in meetings discussing if scrum standups are effective.

find -print0...|xargs -0... works for me, and i don't always want to execute something and xargs can run parallel processes. i feel like this guy never bothered to read the man page.

Your podcast episode on the history of commodities trading[1] was awesome! I, sadly, don't visit your site as much as I used to, because, well, honestly I can't really keep track of the stuff I do visit regularly, but I'm glad you're still at it. I'll see if i can support your efforts in some way.

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/death-by-derivatives/ (the audio is somewhere around there, i'm sure)

Wow, i recognized the 68000 before i even saw the caption. That little chip sure powered a lot of different things back then.

Yeah, I also have a lot of nostalgia for the good ol' 68000.

But "little" is not quite the correct word to describe it, especially not when using DIP packaging as shown in the image in the article. Actually, the 68000 was right at the limits of what could be feasibly packaged as DIP. Later 68000 machines like the Amiga 600 used the PLCC version to save space and costs (https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/media/download_phot...). Actually, the Jaguar also had the PLCC version: https://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retro-games/hardwar... .

It's a web 1.0 thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

this was a popular one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_my_balls

Webrings kinda went away when "blogging" became the new thing, and then there were blogrolls and pingbacks and delicio.us and whathaveyou. That got supplanted by the larger glurge into social media with friendster, then myspaces top 8, and now everyone is just on facebook saying "what's the point?".

Indeed. As mentioned, its for personal sites as a lightweight way to share a link to a friends site that may or may not be related, rather than a list of affiliates or sponsors or whatever.

True, because lying is the currency that HR and Recruiting traffics in.

an email harvester.

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