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I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.
by ludicrousdispla 1mo ago
I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.
- Avamander 1mo agoI chuckled for a bit, then realized you're probably right. It does get people familiar with it and probably helps a lot.
- Vacyyyy 1mo agoLiterally why I got into CS
- SiempreViernes 1mo agoI find the gunplay in Minecraft very limited, so I'm surprised that is how you got into Counterstrike ;)
- tyre 1mo agoIf they’re American, guns are just part of our education system.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 1mo agoNot as much anymore. Sure, trap teams are common, but we used to have school rifle clubs that taught safe handling of firearms. Now we've decided that if we don't talk about something, people won't get curious about it. Sadly, without being properly taught how to be safe, that generally ends tragically.
- snackoverflow 1mo agoI believe the comment was in reference to the frequency of school shootings in the United States vs the rest of the world.
- picofarad 1mo ago457 deaths in US history. 1200 deaths a day from diarrhea in India. Put it in perspective.
- lazide 1mo agoNo way it’s that low in India, either.
- haliskerbas 1mo agoA larger number of people dying from an unrelated cause in another country doesn’t make these deaths insignificant. By that logic, virtually no problem deserves attention because you can always find something that kills more people.
- irishcoffee 1mo agoYou must not be familiar with the trolley problem.
- wredcoll 1mo agoThe "trolley problem" is literally never a valid argument for anything because it purports to create an analogy for a real world problem but does so by creating a scenario that cannot exist, hence any argument based on it is nonapplicable to "real" problems.
- irishcoffee 1mo agoYou think that kind of scenario cannot exist? That is your reasoning for dismissing it? You’ll hafta do better than that.
- wredcoll 1mo agoThe true version of the trolley problem requires perfect knowledge of the future. This can't exist in the real world.
- wredcoll 1mo agoI thought it was funny. Depressing, but funny.
- AngryData 1mo agoThey aren't but they should be. Many lives could be saved by making gun safety a mandatory class for all US students. If every kid had to learn the basic rules of gun safety, a significant number of accidental deaths could be prevented, and even many not so "accidental" deaths could be prevented because people would immediately recognize when someone else is being unsafe with guns. And gun safety rules are good things to ingrained in peoples heads when they are young. Similar to other safety rules like don't run with scissors, or put your seatbelt on, or don't pull sharp objects towards your body, or look both ways when crossing a road. If you teach it to kids in a serious manner the safe actions become a reflex action. And part of the problem is that our entertainment media (movies, shows, video games) pretty much trains anybody who has not been taught gun safety in real life to reflexively point a gun at somebody when it is picked up, often with their finger already on the trigger (although some movies are better about this now). People see a gun on the ground, may not even know its real and think its a toy, "Hey guys look what I found" and immediately aim down the sites at their friend.
- idiotsecant 1mo agoGood lecture but it's just a joke
- psd1 1mo agoI think you're optimistic about the overlap between "people who tit about with guns" and "people who absorb education". I dread the outcome of practical safety lessons because, the moment you give a classroom guns, then some teenage edgelord is going to pantomime shooting their buddy, or escalate a playground beef. People do not work the way you want people to work :-( May i offer an alternative? Make gun ownership a tedious bureaucratic procedure. Reams of paperwork will filter out many stupid. Stupid exist who can fill forms, but it's a smaller set.
- Rooster61 1mo ago> I think you're optimistic about the overlap between "people who tit about with guns" and "people who absorb education". The cavalier phrase "tit about with" is exactly the issue. People do so due to a lack of education about gun safety. > I dread the outcome of practical safety lessons because, the moment you give a classroom guns OP didn't mention practical lessons, and giving real guns to school children would be idiotic. You don't have to actually have a gun in your hand to learn what not to do with one should you encounter it. We have MYRIAD examples of non practical instruction (things like sex ed, chemistry [what happens if sodium is dropped in water and why?], physics [hey kids, lets visit a live nuclear reactor!]). If anything, the best way to dampen the glamor of guns instilled by media would be to make it a boring school subject. > Make gun ownership a tedious bureaucratic procedure. In many cases, it is. In my state, you can't hunt with a gun (or even a bow I think) without a mandatory gun safety course, and I needed a background check to buy the rifle in the first place. A background check that required a form. Not to say there aren't loopholes, of course, and I think most Americans agree with common sense gun laws to implement more scrutiny.
- jareklupinski 1mo agowhen a coworker asked how i remembered the argument for increasing java heap size, i just said "oh from a previous job" :X
- thfuran 1mo agoIt’s three letters, one of which is common to all the extra options. Are your coworkers really impressed by this?
- RobRivera 1mo ago[flagged]
- pkos98 1mo agoand I had to smile when asked about the intention behind the META-INF directory during an interview with JetBrains. Got the job, thanks Mr Persson
- circuit10 1mo agoI guess it depends on the culture but I would think it's a good thing to show interest and passion for this stuff by talking about things you do in your free time like setting up Minecraft servers, whoever you're talking to will probably have similar things like that
- imdsm 1mo agoAgreed. I have had my tenure as a World of Warcraft guild & raid leader from many years ago on my resume for many, many years. It has always been a conversation point but managing 100+ people, who you don't pay, to prepare & train for complex, time sensitive operations including 25-50 people all working together, and all the management that comes with that, from DKP to class leaders, and so on. "Just think what I can do with paid people!" I've never hidden my interest & passions, and I think the world is a better place when people are proud of what they enjoy. We're people first, after all.
- schmichael 1mo ago
- FallCheeta7373 1mo agoNo shit, AMD's opengl drivers on windows was so bad that it motivated me to try linux and become linux native years down the road.
- youniverse 1mo agoVery true. I bought and setup minecraft server hosting in middle school, which got me enough money to build my first pc in high school. And the rest is history. :)
- shepherdjerred 1mo agoYup. Taught me sysadmin and programming. No way I would be where I am today w/o Minecraft
- zipy124 1mo agoThis honestly is probably true, given when I help students write personal statements for applying to uni, the most common way they got into computer science is video games. I know for me 16 years ago that was true also.