andreasgonewild

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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
If you're more into the social part of networking than newsletters and don't mind a bit of privacy, Snackis might be worth a look: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
When what you need to get done is really tricky and no one else can do it, having a programming-addict or two hanging around might not be a bad idea. The problems I've seen come from treating them as what management want them to be, in
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Yuck; if that's where awesome profits takes you, I'll pass. Can you get more detached from reality?
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Or choice of symbols and identifiers. People love to bash Perl, but Larry is definitely on to something when it comes to names and symbols, however flawed/misused the implementation in Perl may be; I feel like we're chasing the s
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I guess you could say we've had similar experiences, I wouldn't be this motivated to find another way if I thought Lisp or Forth was the final answer either. Or Smalltalk, I was really excited about Strongtalk for a while. I'
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
You're not alone in still mourning Dylan... But the more code I write, the more I appreciate languages that stay out of my way until I ask for help; besides Lisp & Forth that basically means C/C++. Elaborate syntax, no matter
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Very good, now go write that on the blackboard until you understand who is who in that sentence.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Lisp and Forth, everyone gets that reaction on first contact; the real problem is that most popular languages look the same these days. Popularity has very little to do with earning it. And it's getting worse with more and more crapscr
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
May I suggest considering Forth as a substrate? Or will that get me voted straight into neckbeard land? I've had a lot of fun hacking Forths, writing my own languages didn't really click until I finally had a serious look. Forth s
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Keep telling yourself that; first impressions are vital, you go numb from forcing yourself to conform. I too was 19 years old back in the days, I'm 40 now and I'm more certain than ever that doing my own thing is the only way forw
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Word. It's funny how the people we try to copy became who they are by doing the opposite, simply being themselves.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
This thread was a truly depressing read. Someone is fed up with the bullshit and has the courage to speak their mind, and the best you can manage is throwing stones to protect your own miserable bubbles. Here's some constructive advice
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
It looks like, and is often accused of reinventing wheels. Forgetting that it's not about the wheels but what the designers learned from going through the motions. Writing code that you've never written before on a daily basis is
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
If you really mean relational, and not SQL; then all you need is columns, tables and records. Just do it, once you have a stupid implementation of your ideas running you'll know what information to look for. I've been cooking my o
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Except I have 32 years of daily practice and plenty of experience from most paradigms/languages/kinds of software out there. I'm guessing similar goes for some of the hundreds of people who complain about the same thing. This
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Sure thing. Bear in mind that this is my way of doing it; plenty of people will yell blasphemy at the choices I make, and some may well turn out to be suboptimal without 32 years of experience to back them up. https://github.com&
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
You see the eclipse? The human eye is pretty well adapted to the sun by now. This is pure FUD masquerading as science.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Likewise, the fact that I've been you makes it even more so. I believe in experience; and our ability and responsibility to draw conclusions from that experience and speak the truth that we see, especially when it's inconvenient.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I don't care what we call it, it's still confusing as hell.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Couldn't agree more, a much better investment of anyones time. C++ won't suddenly refuse to solve your problems because they don't fit into an arbitrarily limited view of the world. And some of the stuff coming out of standar
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Safe as in nil not even being equal to nil any more, I know I'll sleep better.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I'm sorry, I know the official line is to be dead-scared of anything natural out there but this is just total bullshit. If sunshine was poisonous to your eyes you would already be blind. I look straight into the sun for several minutes
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Indeed. It's a shame that every attempt at taking on social networking ends up being more about money and targeted ads than networking. Snackis has nothing to sell, it only wants to help: https://github.com/andreas-gone
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Using other human beings as tools.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Can't be that easy, right? Has to involve nasty chemicals, radiation and flesh-cutting if it's going to work. Because, erm, that's what the profiteering psychos running this world are saying. Is that the best you're capa
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Yeah, right, the shame game. Just trust me when I say that there's another perspective, just as valid; where you are the crazy one. And I've been you.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I'm sorry to hear that; if you let them in there with their gadgets; they will find a reason to cut, medicate and radiate; that's unfortunately just the way things are. These are not the only options, not even the best options, fo
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
If multi-platform is your biggest problem, I can see how that helps. I don't really care that much myself as long as my code compiles on the unixes. I sadly agree that static linking is a pain in the behind in C/C++ land. Still, t
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Would you mind explaining more what that would buy us? Because I can't see it from here. Snackis uses email as a dumb transport; it doesn't even bother with headers that much since most content is encrypted; it's quite possib
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I would argue that writing it in C++ would have gotten you there faster, assuming a decent level of experience with the language. There's no ecosystem in the world that beats seamless integration with C and no language that even comes

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