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by antfarm 2y ago
Learning to be a good programmer is as much about learning how to avoid technical dept as it is about learning to use a programming language. It may take a while until an AI assistant will be able to help with that.
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by antfarm 3y ago
Interesting that it starts with the representation of data. Too many introductions to computing and programming leave this fundamental part out and concentrate mostly on the imperative part, i.e. instructing the computer to perform actions
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by antfarm 3y ago
In 1986, when I was thirteen years old, I bought a Commodore 16 with datasette at a German supermarket chain (ALDI). The computer came in a “Learn To Program” bundle with a BASIC course (book and cassette). My next computer was an Amstrad C
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by antfarm 3y ago
But your comment implies there are also maybe too many people anyway? So rather less food and then eventually less people? Those are your ideas, I never even meant to imply them.
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by antfarm 3y ago
Oh, and less food waste and global inequality definitely cures hunger better than room temparature superconductors.
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by antfarm 3y ago
The world needs room temperature superconductors, yet here we are. May I ask how room temperature superconductors make the world a better place or help fighting hunger? And what do room temperature superconductors have to do with art?
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by antfarm 3y ago
Fewer snarky comments like yours maybe. I believe we won’t solve humanty’s pressing problems with more of the same. We need more love and understanding for sure.
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by antfarm 3y ago
The world needs less . Of everything.
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by antfarm 3y ago
Depends on the color of your skin.
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by antfarm 3y ago
Possession of certain substances sure isn’t legal in Germany.
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by antfarm 3y ago
About time. Weed and hash being illegal has put a large portion of my generation (German Gen Xer here) on the wrong side of the law and gave us an unnecessary deep distrust in law enforcement of any kind.
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by antfarm 3y ago
I remember well how in the early 2000s everybody wanted to get away from their relational systems and NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases were the latest fashion. Looks like we have come full cycle.
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Bringing Swift and SwiftUI to Android(skip.tools)
3 points by antfarm 3y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 3y ago
Listening to Roots Reggae music, especially Bob Marley, helps me relax and concentrate. YMMV.
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The Linear Look(frontend.horse)
2 points by antfarm 3y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 3y ago
I wouldn’t even want them to use my biometric data or even turn on the camera at all without asking for my consent. And in that case my answer would be a decisive NO.
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by antfarm 3y ago
That’s not a camera, it’s a Demographic Sensor™ .
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by antfarm 3y ago
Steve Jobs brainstorms with the NeXT team 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udi0rk3jZYM
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by antfarm 3y ago
> What does make me lose sleep some nights is what would happen if software development simply went away. It sounds ridiculous, but it’s something that I think about from time to time. Industrial workers in the 20th century probably nev
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Learn to Code. Or Don't(kyefox.com)
2 points by antfarm 3y ago|0 comments
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Can Apple Win Back Music – Vulf Opinion [video](youtube.com)
2 points by antfarm 3y ago|0 comments
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Old Man Trump (Woody Guthrie 1954)(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by antfarm 3y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 3y ago
> so much of our current experience with tech has been this pale, tasteless, flat designed pasty So true. Just look at what became of Apple Computers, from the “bicycle for the mind” to lifestyle products for the consumption of social me
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R1 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by antfarm 3y ago|0 comments
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by antfarm 3y ago
For me, it’s perfect with my MacBook on a laptop stand next to it.
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by antfarm 3y ago
Could you please elaborate on this? I seriously do not understand what you are implying.
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by antfarm 3y ago
Cool! But how is the scrolling supposed to work? I just read through the Seinfeld stack on my iPad (iOS 17, Safari) and the text of some cards was cut off at the bottom with no way to scroll down.
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by antfarm 3y ago
I recently got one and the 16:18 ratio is great for running an IDE with two files side by side while being able to display nearly 100 lines at once.
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LG DualUp 16:18 Display(lg.com)
5 points by antfarm 3y ago|3 comments
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by antfarm 3y ago
If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Simple as that.

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