ceronman

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   by ceronman 12y ago

   Minecraft. The whole 3d world is generated proceduraly.
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   by ceronman 12y ago

   This is the only case where I think that using whitespace indentation for delimiting blocks of code is not a good idea. It makes this particular problem very difficult to solve elegantly. In languages where blocks are delimited by brackets
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   Why Python doesn't need blocks(stupidpythonideas.blogspot.com)

   40 points by ceronman 12y ago|46 comments
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   by ceronman 12y ago

   Gnome subtitles is pretty easy to use and works well: http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/
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   by ceronman 12y ago

   Because it's fun. I don't think there is a very strong reason for preferring Rust over Go except than the authors like it more. Hackers don't need to justify their decisions. They do stuff for fun and sometimes they end up wi
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   by ceronman 12y ago

   Also note the Inverse Bus Factor: ”how many developers have to be hit by a bus before a project starts to proceed smoothly?” https://twitter.com/voidspace/status/435449949342679040
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   by ceronman 13y ago

   This is not the first article talking about CoffeeScript's ambiguity and readability issues. It's interesting how CoffeeScript fans almost always decide to blame the programmers for these problems. They said good developers should
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   by ceronman 13y ago

   There has been a bug open since early 2011 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/732653 ) This is one of the most annoying thing of the Unity interface, but they just don't want to fix it because it's a
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   by ceronman 13y ago

   Netflix is not so good. Specially if you're not in the US and you don't speak english. Here in the Netherlands the selection is very limited, you rarely see subtitles in languages other than dutch. You can use a proxy to get US Ne
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    I loved this article. I started writing Perl nine months ago because of my new job. I learned it with the Modern Perl book, which is really nice and goes directly to the best practices. However, I've found that real life Perl code is f
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    And that's how we learned not to use MongoDB.
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    If your goal is to learn and become a better developer, I agree, forget about frameworks, learn how things are done from scratch, it's fun! If your goal is to move forward on a complex project adding features instead of re-inventing th
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    > When dart was released its authors asked for and received, some very specific feedback about syntax which they mentioned they'd be amenable to changing. Nothing has changed. This is simply not true! I've been following the la
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    Not at all. I love Python and I don't like CoffeeScript. I think CS superficially looks like Python, but conceptually is more like Ruby/Perl.
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    My opinion is that it ended up causing more problems than it fixed. In theory is nice and beautiful, but once you start using for large projects you notice that it kills readability and introduces some other small problems.
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    I think it's very interesting to see some changes in the Hacker News community. For example, CoffeeScript's like/dislike ratio seems to be much lower now that 18 months ago. I bet some articles had an important impact in its
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    I think Javascript is an acquired taste. People usually start hating it, but then they end up loving it. At least that's my case. Seriously, is not such a bad language. A lot of people are building awesome things with it. JS haters use
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    by ceronman 13y ago

    > Indeed, I, too, dismissed CoffeeScript when I first saw it. But now that I’ve actually learned it and used it, I see how wrong I was: CoffeeScript truly is more powerful than JavaScript. My experience was exactly the opposite. When I f
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    by ceronman 14y ago

    Twisted with inlineCallbacks is actually quite nice IMO. It's very similar to C# async/await.
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    A powerful unused feature of Python: function annotations.(ceronman.com)

    7 points by ceronman 14y ago|0 comments
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    by ceronman 14y ago

    And the worst thing was that absurd advertising in Russia the other day. What an expensive campaign just for a web framework!
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    by ceronman 14y ago

    Does this mean that MonoDevelop is now officially dead?
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    by ceronman 14y ago

    That "ideal" solution would only work on deb based distros.