bobbyz

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by bobbyz 6y ago
A younger developer might think the tools that suck. A younger developer might think that the older developer's reluctance to embrace change or recall the time when they were beginners is part of the reason why they suck. Like git. Git
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by bobbyz 6y ago
I'm wrong actually, apparently pinyin is really fast
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by bobbyz 6y ago
A study I read, I'd dig it up but I've done that twice already, perhaps you can do a quick google? Here's a starting point: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=222702...
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Hmm I seem to be misinformed. I totally forgot to think about pinyin. Apparently it's as fast or faster than english. For example, hitting "jtkqwrhyz" on your keyboard will give you "Jin-tian kong-qi wu-ran hen yan-zhong
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Why is compression bad in natural language? From reading those vitamin water labels it's clear to me that English still has room to shrink before we experience a substantial hit to readability. 'You' to 'u', 'w
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by bobbyz 6y ago
From my quite limited understanding, english is involved at some level during image and video encoding.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
As a speaker of both languages, when I say the numbers aloud or in my mind the difference is obvious.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Can you elaborate on how having 30 words for snow affects a language's information density?
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by bobbyz 6y ago
You may be right about the abstract thinking, but if we're talking strictly in terms of PISA test scores, Russia and France performed only slightly above average in a fairly recent year. However, I acknowledge that measuring mathematic
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by bobbyz 6y ago
You're thinking about it from purely a programmer's perspective. Imagine the world switches to "bobish" tomorrow, which is 20% more efficient than english. Suddenly, bandwidth decreases by 20%, downloads are 20% faster,
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by bobbyz 6y ago
The difference this time around is that Chinese has almost double the information density of Japanese, and the Chinese middle class is a lot bigger ($$$).
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Generally agree, but efficiency does matter. Higher information density tends to mean faster reading and writing, slower speech, ability to memorize more information, less bandwidth consumption. Language efficiency gains are part of human e
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by bobbyz 6y ago
My university teaches the intro CS course in Racket (lisp), and I know another that teaches in Haskell. If decades of priority exposure to young programmers is not enough to spur widespread adoption, then I'm not hopeful.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
You're right about the script, it's not optimal for computer input.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Laziness? Don't you mean unpractical and financially unviable? If I support Firefox do I support Edge, Opera, Android Webview, UC Browser? Explain how pragmatic prioritization can constitute as laziness.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Heres a fun Firefox fact. Firefox handles audio/media files differently than chrome. Since it has a small market share, it becomes a rather annoying lose-lose: either spend a bunch of time to support Firefox for the ~20 people that wil
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by bobbyz 6y ago
It would be helpful if this could have been indicated
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by bobbyz 6y ago
My analytics also indicate 5%. Just how tech oriented are the folks you have in mind?
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Reminds me of those times when I built a website that doesn't have a functioning mobile view, put it on reddit, and it turns out that everybody is mobile
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by bobbyz 6y ago
You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up
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by bobbyz 6y ago
I have noticed a commonality between systems that are unintuitive to use like git and CSS: they didn't sufficiently mimic nature, or common everyday concepts. Say you design a new relational DB. You want all the postgres and SQL people
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by bobbyz 6y ago
CSS was designed to make sense in a context that is no longer relatable, same with Git. This will never, ever happen if you'd designed your system to mimic nature (unless global warming fundamentally changes it).
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by bobbyz 6y ago
I have pretty thoroughly searched the internet and Erlang/Elixir seems suspiciously devoid of any real downsides. I see small community, not as many tutorials, package ecosystem not as developed being mentioned a lot, which implies tha
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by bobbyz 6y ago
The incessant functional evangelizing everywhere I go reminds me of why people don't like vegans
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Erlang: Cobol/Telecom: Banks/Internet: Money
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by bobbyz 6y ago
Does it though? StackOverflow's predecessor was created one year after this was written, meaning it was likely written in an environment without SO. Easily finding the solution to your every problem is the ultimate programming language
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by bobbyz 6y ago
If someone needs to read documentation for a few days in order to figure out which end of the sword to hold, perhaps the sword was just poorly designed and unintuitive.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
I get your point, but there must be some sort of connection. Erlang and WebRTC are two of the strangest things I've ever seen. It would seem implausible for one company to repeatedly produce such oddities by chance.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
I have yet to find anything.
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by bobbyz 6y ago
I remember thinking how insane it was that a big chunk of browser audio/video apps ran off of a library authored by one random dude.

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