AMA: I'm a Random HN User, ask me anything (and I might respond)

14 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by SpyCoder77

Item id: 48478510

28 Comments

hnthrow10282910

an hour ago

What matters to you deeply beyond survival and family and pets

RiverCrochet

5 hours ago

Besides life imprisonment without parole, what other punishment is appropriate for those who use the term "compile" to refer to what an assembler does (which is literally "assembling" not "compiling")?

SpyCoder77

4 hours ago

One day blinding stew; Stew that blinds them for one day

MrCoffee7

2 hours ago

What are your favorite podcasts and what are they each about?

cednore

4 hours ago

Which one suits you best?

- Spying with coding - Spying while coding - Spying the coding - Coding with spying - Coding while spying - Coding the spying

Or anything else you are actually doing?

SpyCoder77

3 hours ago

Spying the coding, I guess. When I was young used to be really into Spy Kids, that is why that is my name

WheelsAtLarge

6 hours ago

Why do you participate in this community? What keeps you here?

SpyCoder77

6 hours ago

I participate because I am not currently employed and have nobody else in the dev space to interact with, and even though this place is pretty parasocial, I still like it.

zippyman55

6 hours ago

It has a piquant nose, not dissimilar to a guavesque beverage i once sampled in Mozambique, before the place was overrun by tourists. What am I drinking?

giardini

5 hours ago

How do you know you are "Random"?

SpyCoder77

4 hours ago

I guess I should say pseudorandom, shouldn't I...

ihalip

5 hours ago

If I asked you to send me 1000$, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?

naturalmovement

6 hours ago

How do you feel about pineapple on pizza?

SpyCoder77

6 hours ago

I have never had it, I prefer to go with things I already know I like.

m4rc3lv

5 hours ago

How often do you play outside?

bell-cot

5 hours ago

Tell us two interesting truths and one plausible-seeming lie about yourself.

(You need not reveal which is which:)

SpyCoder77

4 hours ago

I am male, I know how to code Java, I am not allergic to dogs

6510

4 hours ago

What do you think of my minimalist text editor in a self contained html document.

https://text-edit.go-here.nl

One is suppose to download the doc and use it like a desktop app.

tmpz22

6 hours ago

How much industry experience do you actually have and, with that in mind, do you regularly make opinionated comments authoritatively and beyond your expertise?

SpyCoder77

6 hours ago

I am still in school, so I have no "industry experience" but have been programming text-based languages (so not Scratch) since 11.