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You're probably not ready for programming

10 points by Skywing 13y ago

jelled 13y ago
404 error. Is this some kind of level?
kang 13y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6DXHCsxOH9YJ:rycole.com/2014/03/13/programming-isnt-for-you.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6DXHCsx...
- mistercow 13y ago
  Thanks for the mirror, although the content sadly isn't all that much more useful than the 404 page.
  - Skywing 13y ago
    You won't read that book again because the ending's just too hard to take.
matt_heimer 13y ago
https://github.com/ryancole/ryancole.github.com/blob/bd36fccff82afbc34ad0ec1f2c7296429176832a/_posts/2014-03-13-programming-isnt-for-you.md https://github.com/ryancole/ryancole.github.com/blob/bd36fcc...
mistercow 13y ago
>Please, explain to me why JS doesnt suck. I have no idea why the author has meandered onto this tangent, but in any case: no, that's not how it works. You made the preposterously unlikely claim that JavaScript is "literally the worste programming language ever". Not just a bad language, not just hyperbolically "totally the worst", but literally the worst language ever created. Defending that position is on you.
- zimpenfish 13y ago
  Lucky that "literally" can also mean "hyperbolically".
greenyoda 13y ago
"Javascript is literally the worste [sic] programming language ever." The author clearly has a lack of historical perspective. I'm not a big fan of JavaScript, but I'd much rather program in JavaScript than BASIC or COBOL or FORTRAN IV.
- NoodleIncident 13y ago
  In the context of the post (putting hello_world.js in perspective vs Actual Coding), it's clearly meant as hyperbole to make a point.
- Skywing 13y ago
  Who wouldn't?
TheSisb2 13y ago
Random person's random opinion. Not to be rude but almost none of these types of articles, whether positive or negative, should be taken all that seriously nor be given the time of day in form of discussion.
- Skywing 13y ago
  Oh give it a break. Be rude if you want to be. Not like anybody actually cares anyway.
NoodleIncident 13y ago
"you won't make it very far unless you just like being told why what you wrote is bad every day." This is what I try to explain to people, but I fail every time.
thenerdfiles 13y ago
Debugging. Hacking is stepping into a program's skin. It's spinning your laptop around to turn into an effect what someone just blurted out in conversation about what the app should do. Hacking is looking at 3D view in FF and saying "cool." Not "why?" Hacking is rewriting the same if statement knowing full well the profiler will tell you the story. Hacking is forever hoping the damn computer will do what you want, or feel, rather than what you tell it. Hacking is forever refactoring like a kid smacking piano keys until 4am because you know that daylight shit is just tedium and yet another lunch with essentially the same ingredients. It is living to the fullest extent of one's own stupidity, and thriving on the next crushing blow to your ego. Hacking is ego death.
nemasu 13y ago
For some reason, I enjoyed that read.

10 points by Skywing 13y ago

404 error. Is this some kind of level?

kang 13y ago

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6DXHCsxOH9YJ:rycole.com/2014/03/13/programming-isnt-for-you.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6DXHCsx...

mistercow 13y ago
Thanks for the mirror, although the content sadly isn't all that much more useful than the 404 page.
- Skywing 13y ago
  You won't read that book again because the ending's just too hard to take.

matt_heimer 13y ago

https://github.com/ryancole/ryancole.github.com/blob/bd36fccff82afbc34ad0ec1f2c7296429176832a/_posts/2014-03-13-programming-isnt-for-you.md https://github.com/ryancole/ryancole.github.com/blob/bd36fcc...

mistercow 13y ago

>Please, explain to me why JS doesnt suck. I have no idea why the author has meandered onto this tangent, but in any case: no, that's not how it works. You made the preposterously unlikely claim that JavaScript is "literally the worste programming language ever". Not just a bad language, not just hyperbolically "totally the worst", but literally the worst language ever created. Defending that position is on you.

zimpenfish 13y ago
Lucky that "literally" can also mean "hyperbolically".

greenyoda 13y ago

"Javascript is literally the worste [sic] programming language ever." The author clearly has a lack of historical perspective. I'm not a big fan of JavaScript, but I'd much rather program in JavaScript than BASIC or COBOL or FORTRAN IV.

NoodleIncident 13y ago
In the context of the post (putting hello_world.js in perspective vs Actual Coding), it's clearly meant as hyperbole to make a point.
Skywing 13y ago
Who wouldn't?

TheSisb2 13y ago

Random person's random opinion. Not to be rude but almost none of these types of articles, whether positive or negative, should be taken all that seriously nor be given the time of day in form of discussion.

Skywing 13y ago
Oh give it a break. Be rude if you want to be. Not like anybody actually cares anyway.

NoodleIncident 13y ago

"you won't make it very far unless you just like being told why what you wrote is bad every day." This is what I try to explain to people, but I fail every time.

thenerdfiles 13y ago

Debugging. Hacking is stepping into a program's skin. It's spinning your laptop around to turn into an effect what someone just blurted out in conversation about what the app should do. Hacking is looking at 3D view in FF and saying "cool." Not "why?" Hacking is rewriting the same if statement knowing full well the profiler will tell you the story. Hacking is forever hoping the damn computer will do what you want, or feel, rather than what you tell it. Hacking is forever refactoring like a kid smacking piano keys until 4am because you know that daylight shit is just tedium and yet another lunch with essentially the same ingredients. It is living to the fullest extent of one's own stupidity, and thriving on the next crushing blow to your ego. Hacking is ego death.

nemasu 13y ago

For some reason, I enjoyed that read.