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weef | 3 years ago | on: Dice baseball: a tabletop tradition

I even played Strat-o-Matic baseball by mail when I was a kid! We'd fill out our rosters and managerial instructions then mail them off to our opposing team's manager. A week later I'd get the results back in the mail. Hard to believe such a relaxed pace.

weef | 5 years ago | on: Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my site

Clicking the OP link I get a warning page from my ESET AV:

"Potential phishing attempt. This web page tries to trick visitors to submit sensitive personal information such as login data or credit card numbers."

Is this somehow related to the Google situation?

weef | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?

I started coding at 22 years old out of college and am now 58. I've resisted the pressures of becoming a manager my entire career and have had no regrets. Recently I turned down yet another manager role for all the reasons you gave and couldn't have been happier. Management at my place understands my career plans and have been accommodating. I plan on retiring in 10 years but know a lot can change between now and then so if my current job becomes unbearable, I'll leave and take on freelance coding projects. I will never become a manager.

weef | 6 years ago | on: The Decline of Stack Overflow

I can't stand when someone answers a question on SO by first admitting they know nothing about the subject then take a guess with an answer. Why bother answering if you don't know the subject?

weef | 8 years ago | on: How to Improve a Legacy Codebase

Great advice. Writing integration tests or unit tests around existing functionality is extremely important but unfortunately might not always be feasible given the time, budget, or complexity of the code base. I just completed a new feature for an existing and complex code base but was given the time to write an extensive set of end-to-end integration tests covering most scenarios before starting my coding. This proved invaluable once I started adding my features to give me confidence I wasn't breaking anything and helped find a few existing bugs no one had caught before!

weef | 11 years ago | on: From Vertigo to Tinnitus, Ear Ailments Are New Focus for Drugs

My wife has been diagnosed with Meniere's so I know first hand the problems that go along with it. I hope they can make some advance with these treatments.

One thing I would suggest because it's something we have control over, is to avoid prolonged loud noise as much as you can, e.g., concerts in a small setting. I'm 53 years old and have been listening to loud music my entire life, mostly through headphones, and it's starting to show recently. I certainly didn't help matters by going to an extremely loud concert last year in a small club without earplugs - this surely damaged my hearing even more.

weef | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use to manage your tasks?

I use MyLifeOrganized for Windows. I'm a big fan of creating hierarchical lists of projects and tasks and this tool allows me to do that.

My organization uses FogBugz to manage our releases, projects, and tasks and I can't say enough great things about that software.

weef | 11 years ago | on: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

The lite vs. pro version is a great suggestion and I would have purchased a pro version for my daughter immediately to avoid the malware hassles it caused us. Instead she purchased an academic version of Photoshop which was $100 USD or in that ballpark. This is a shame because Paint.net is a great product and I'd like to see it succeed but their business side is poorly executed. I'll need to head over to the PDN forums and express my frustration.

weef | 11 years ago | on: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

My daughter accidentally downloaded 6 different programs while trying to download Paint.net some which were malware. While I understand these are ads probably out of their control, their website is extremely deceptive in my opinion and should be modified to make the actual Paint.net download more obvious.

weef | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many of you use Windows as primary OS?

I do and always have - currently have Windows 7 on my desktop, Windows 8 on a new laptop (had to buy Start8 to get the start menu back to avoid that metro crap). I develop websites in .NET (ASP.NET webforms and MVC) for enterprises. While I'm typing this I'm repairing my VS install because the Resharper keyboard mapping isn't working on this Windows 8 laptop for whatever reason. I guess I should be used to this time wasting stuff by now but I'm not...

weef | 12 years ago | on: Free HTML Starter Templates for Bootstrap

Very nice! What would be great is if you accepted contributions from the community. Also I was looking for a bootstrap template this weekend for a site with the logo above the navbar but wasn't able to find a good free example.
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