OtterCoder

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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Who said life is fair? Or should be? I prefer mercy.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Maybe we should stop expecting perfection from public figures. I'm sure there's plenty of dirt I could dig up about you, if I rifled through your past, all your actions and opinions. I'm really tired of the idea that a hero h
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I feel like most DoT road crews have this already figured out.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
No, and I really should give those a try. That said, when I just want happy-path, idc, just reload on errors, kind of code, it's a sore temptation to just reach for JS.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Bah, I've seen runtime errors with dynamic and strict typing, and I'll take type safety any day. Besides, good type systems like Rust's force you to think about all sorts of errors at all points of the program. It's hard
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Just considering the wp text editing box in isolation, it's a hideous masterpiece of a thing, that, alone, would take forever to rebuild.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
It's kind of funny, looking at these halting discussions as a backend web programmer. At the heart of it, all I do all day is try to write nonterminating programs in an environment where the entire universe seems hell bent on termina
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
> It's evacuating a house because there might be a fire in the future. Which is a perfectly rational thing to do, if the risk is close enough to 1. Even in actual housing, they preemptively condemn and evacuate buildings that have b
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
> There will be more of us That doesn't look to be the case. While the "net native" generation is more likely to turn to digital content than other media, studies show that computer literacy, in the sense of understanding
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Shout-out to the Civilian Conservation Corps. We should bring that program back.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Tomb stoning?
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
That's exactly why, as a family man, I hate renting. You end up changing neighborhoods every few years, and none of your friends are permanent.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I think it's still a dynamic and interesting field, and there are still good tech articles on HN's front page every day. I firmly believe that we are still in the wild-west of programming as a profession, and anyone who says they
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I really dislike the recent flood of random news on HN. I'm not ready for this September. Is there a new haven ready yet?
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
If an expat from India, out of his element and native country, with no education or financial backing besides a punishing loan, can run a profitable 7-11, you can run a business too.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Exactly. I write the main code on my Linux machine, then switch to the MacMini for testing and UI finalization.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Excel? Not in the traditional sense. It's more of a... spatial(?) programming language.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I appreciate the note of caution about the panic zone. Is your project closing in on a crucial, game-ending deadline? Don't pick up a brand new library that promises to save your life, do your dishes, write your code for you, and walk
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I may be confused about the thrust of this article, but I don't like polymorphism. Independent of my appreciation for FP, I hate when I have to do a bit of code in Java or similar languages, because instead of manipulating dumb data, I
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
One of the big factors is actually weekends. 40hrs/7days = 5.7hrs/day.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Having watched even a little C-SPAN, I really, really don't understand the 'expert' argument that always gets trotted out. Senators range from well meaning but unable to keep up, to complete blathering idiots. They don&#x27
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
The readme is very terse, but exciting. Can anyone elaborate about the ownership model?
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Which failed in its stated mission and fell back to being yet another just-ok web scripting language.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Very interesting. The Mata Hari the article likely alludes to was the stage name of a Dutch exotic dancer and spy who captured both the eye and imagination of the western world in the 1920s, after being executed by the French in 1916. http
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
As a web developer, you can write servers that take orders of magnitude less space, memory, and CPU than a similar JS server, without having to deal with the madness that is first-time C development.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
> context Oh, please no. I've had to play fixer to too many codebases that used interesting tricks to implicitly import code, without pointing to a source. Trying to suss out the origin of a specific function named 'get' i
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
See, I hate the use of self, or this in code. We want to specify things exactly in code, and deliberately adding that sort of indirection seems halfway mad. If forced to write classes, I would much rather refer to the class name from within
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Exactly. The only 'natural language' exercise I can think of that compares with programming is the drafting of legal documents, which also aim to specify something precisely according to a very particular set of definitions. Unsur
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
If you really believe what you're saying, I hope you don't eat fish, or own jewelry, or use coal or oil derived power, or watch sports that have a non-zero rate of player injury, or eat at restaurants that use grease friers or kni
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by OtterCoder 9y ago
Alright. I don't know where would be best to chat. A private IRC channel? Google Hangouts? I'm also ok if Daniel3 wants to join the conversation.

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