Dewie

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by Dewie 12y ago
So many programmers have this weird inferiority complex when it comes to the term "engineer". Not you, but those who think that most programming can never be called "engineering" because people don't die if you intr
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by Dewie 12y ago
I guess you didn't read the part about "have problems understanding other people's"? It seems like we need more awareness of mental health because (young) men are too emotionally stunted to relate to other people's
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by Dewie 12y ago
I read the first two paragraphs and thought "finally, something about people having problems without bringing men up as a bogeyman (in the context of tech)". But oh well.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Criticizing others does not necessarily mean that the person who criticizes is better. And being better is not necessary in order to criticize. There's got to be some fallacy or pseudo-fallacy for assuming all of that, though.
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by Dewie 12y ago
What's the good sense?
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by Dewie 12y ago
> The usage doesn't need to spread beyond discussions of the term itself, because it was already being used long before these discussions. My mistake. I should have known that someone would take the opportunity to mince words when w
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by Dewie 12y ago
Nice concept to go along with things like Accidentally Turing Complete. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Being a successful coder because you have passion for it still requires a lucky break somewhere along the way to discover that passion and/or have someone else recognize that passion. Many passion-stories involve someone growing u
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'm inclined to disagree about the distinction between pointers and values being explicit, and how that is bad - I think it might be the right decision in an imperative language that tries to be performant in a straightforward way (as
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by Dewie 12y ago
If using dynamic typing like Python's is being drunk, then at least Go is like being tipsy - not quite sober, but quite functioning.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I debated whether or not to write this because, as I mentioned, I have a large degree of impostor syndrome because of my experiences. I don't know if you need to feel like an imposter considering you sound like a typical programme
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by Dewie 12y ago
tl;dr: all is well that ends well. It seems we only hear from those who did poorly in school that also bounced back and became successful later. I guess those that didn't don't have much incentive to telegraph their presence and t
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Under OpenBSD, that values would not have been uninitialized, were it not for OpenSSL's silly malloc wrapper -- a contraption of the sort that, if they really wanted, they could probably implement on top of Rust as well. What is a
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by Dewie 12y ago
From comments I read about that when it was written, it's not clear to me that the author actually demonstrated the same behaviour of Heartbleed. I'm not the person to be the judge of that, but for what it's worth here is the
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Maybe not the best examples, but people do tend to think of the usage as something new, while it's been around forever. To bad then that I never said anything about history, but just widespread adoption. So there is not much need
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by Dewie 12y ago
Is that supposed to prove something? Well, I guess it proves that I don't read such classic authors, which is right. My background and experience is more humble, mostly to do with writing and reading things in online forums like this o
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by Dewie 12y ago
Is 'security' really something that requires faith or belief ? It seems that "more secure" ( not secure in an absolute sense) can be made tangible, and I think that programming languages can give you "more secur
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by Dewie 12y ago
> If the gender axis is more positive, then it's more feminine; more negative, more masculine. Reminds me of my java textbook: the example was to model some employee[1] and it's gender was a `boolean`: `false` for man; `true` f
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by Dewie 12y ago
I think I've only seen "they" used as a gender-neutral pronoun once or twice, outside of contexts where the topic itself is gender neutral pronouns . So going by that experience, I don't have much faith in broad adopti
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by Dewie 12y ago
> You can't just sweep away sexism under a rug. Stereotypes are different than sexism. Some stereotypes are sexist, but assuming that someone is a man when it is likely that he/she is isn't sexist. Maybe irritating, and
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by Dewie 12y ago
First I saw mention of it, it seemed that they wanted to make a minimal OS that was very quick to boot - minimal in part because it was only the browser, or whatever. Then soon after that SSDs happened and I stopped caring about boot times.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I'll have to admit that that sounded unnecessarily judgy. :)
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by Dewie 12y ago
> On a side note, I also got a CS degree debt free. I served my country to get it. People want so much for nothing - there are no true shortcuts in life. And if there were, I'll bet people like you would feel pretty cheated.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> mutant animals How about we de-sensationalize this to selective breeding .
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by Dewie 12y ago
I wonder if being at the top of the food chain like that spoils some people. Instead of trying to reflect on how and why they get annoyed or are easily irritable, they are excused for letting it out and taking it out on other people, so the
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by Dewie 12y ago
It really is a question that I've been having for a long time. I didn't just say that to piss people off. I guess that's the risk you run of coming across when you try to insert yourself in a conversation where the other part
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by Dewie 12y ago
Of course, since it predates modern carving skis for alpine skiing ;) I can't imagine skiing with stiff carving boots in the age before the ski lift.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It's more functional than "going down a slope on skis, fast", at least. :)
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by Dewie 12y ago
Wow. I guess that's what I get for not being totally enamoured of Unix.
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by Dewie 12y ago
Pipes are very cool and useful, but it's hard for me to understand this common worship of something like that. Yes, it's useful and elegant, but is it really the best thing since Jesus Christ?

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