Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
Fucking men, man. What an egotistical, useless bunch. /s
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Playing with tools and machines is not so much sexist as it is anti-social more broadly speaking. Asocial is a better term. Unless you're talking about the "mad scientist" (mad engineer is a better term...) that builds
573.
by Dewie 12y ago
I started when I was 21. So at least you can feel that you're better than me.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Why is the first claim more 'fantastic' than the second? Why are nurture-arguments so often viewed as perfectly innocuous and impartial, while nature-arguments are viewed as so controversial? Throwing around unsubstantiated claims
575.
by Dewie 12y ago
If I wanted to get involved with making games, it would probably be in order to design games. Not coding per se.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I can't quite articulate the feelings of isolation and frustration I felt in that class, Probably a feeling many nerds have had at some point in their life.
577.
by Dewie 12y ago
> Movies like Weird Science, Revenge of the Nerds, and War Games all came out in the '80s. And the plot summaries are almost interchangeable: awkward geek boy genius uses tech savvy to triumph over adversity and win the girl. Movies
578.
by Dewie 12y ago
I would be curious to know if the authors of this feels that there is something that Swift can give them that some other ML-like or whatever language can't, if we disregard any ties to the Apple platform and ecosystem.
579.
by Dewie 12y ago
I do it, though I guess I only initially made it worse. I can't go back now, though, since now it is unruly as hell if I don't do something about it.
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by Dewie 12y ago
You mean going from a pretty gender balanced high school, to a department with a large majority of men? (we were talking about nerds here, and I am talking about things like CS departments, since this is HN.)
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. And I suppose the purpose of this sentence is to shame them?
582.
by Dewie 12y ago
OT: I've been thinking about getting Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard. Is it good?
583.
by Dewie 12y ago
Sir, there is nothing uncool about static typing. :) (verbose typing is uncool, though)
584.
by Dewie 12y ago
You could just try it. It won't take long to adjust to, and you can stick to basic things so that you will be no less productive compared to working in any basic text editor. There are some things that you will have get used to in orde
585.
by Dewie 12y ago
I've been thinking about using a simpler browser for reading simple documents. The motivation is to have a sort of "minimalism", as in using simpler programs to do simple things, and not get easily distracted by all the bells
586.
by Dewie 12y ago
No. You are assuming that my backup and syncing needs overlap with my git usage, so that all I need to backup or sync is to use git push in my already-existing git directories. I backup and/or sync things that I don't have under v
587.
by Dewie 12y ago
Well now we are up to three, arguably distinct needs: - version control - backup - syncing Syncing can, like backup, be had with software and services that are dedicated to that end. I just use Dropbox, though I'm not that worried abou
588.
by Dewie 12y ago
> Compiler enforced static typing rejects many correct programs, Do you have any examples of programs that would be actually useful? I don't necessarily doubt that they exist, but it's not an interesting point if the argument i
589.
by Dewie 12y ago
It's also popular in Norway.
590.
by Dewie 12y ago
Once you have automated backup set up, how much work is it to maintain? If you keep your code in a few areas/directories (like for example /home/workspace), it seems like a set-it-and-forget-it thing. PS: how is a command tha
591.
by Dewie 12y ago
I back up every 10 minutes. So I lose 10 minutes if I screw something up, which is acceptable to me. I guess I could back up every 5 minutes, and I don't think that would be a problem.
592.
by Dewie 12y ago
If the concern is the computer failing, you should do backups. And it's probably simpler to use automated backups than using git push as a backup mechanism.
593.
by Dewie 12y ago
[This offends me.]
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by Dewie 12y ago
That's what I don't like about these "throw you into our world" games/websites. Sure, it's kind of adventurous to just be thrown into some game you don't know what is about or for, but it's not good f
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by Dewie 12y ago
IMO it might not be worth to spend that kind of money on something like this if you don't know what you want from it yet, which you don't seem to. Maybe you can find some free editor/IDE, or a free version of such? Then maybe
596.
by Dewie 12y ago
> This is a sugar-coated version of errors as return values. By which you mean that errors as return values are bad, and that they are trying to sugar-coat the fact that they are using errors as return values?
597.
by Dewie 12y ago
See the "Think fast" section. He just seems to go on and on, and whatever point he has doesn't seem to be... worth it.
598.
by Dewie 12y ago
In what ways do the tabs need to cooperate/interact?
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by Dewie 12y ago
So if I have relatively more muscle mass compared to my height, that means that I am at a higher chance for getting a heart attack? Well, that could be the case for all I know.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that shorter words (abbreviations) like that are easier to parse than the full version. Perhaps you were looking for the verb understand ?

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