cgag

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1. 571.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   My programming teacher was a math teacher who'd never programmed before. This doesn't seem to be unusual.
2. 572.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   I don't really think there's anything that can or should be done about this. It feels like saying Spanish is great for Spanish speakers but it's opaque to everyone else.
3. 573.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Why don't you just do that right now?
4. 574.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRflz-93JA#t=0m35s
5. 575.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Good riddance.
6. 576.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   I think the first video in this series is probably the best intro to CS lecture ever.
7. 577.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   Recursion isn't really hard once you get used to it, and often leads to shorter/cleaner code. Map/filter/reduce are themselves very clearly expressed using recursion.
8. 578.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   The vast majority of your code probably isn't manipulating state, or doesn't need to be. You can have well defined boundaries where you're dealing with state. Read from the database, pass those values through a bunch of pur
9. 579.▲
   by cgag 13y ago

   So in a word, yes.
10. 580.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I'm fully in the vim camp. I think vim is a way better text editor and non-modal editing is terrible, but vim is must less extensible and vimscript is trash. Emacs + evil would be perfect if it didn't mean having to rewrite all t
11. 581.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Yeah, it always feels like what you're looking at is out of date and/or abandoned. The actual couchdb site looks nice though: http://couchdb.apache.org/
12. 582.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Interesting, I honestly was pretty confident no one who got used to modal editing ever wanted to go back to crazy key chording.
13. 583.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Doug Stanhope calls them "tourists of life", a term I like a lot. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtbl2n_doug-stanhope-touris...
14. 584.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    There's only so much RAM in the universe.
15. 585.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Time to stop showing up to the office and move into a houseboat.
16. 586.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Thanks, we'll ask again later.
17. 587.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I'm working on some tools trying to make this extensive reading process easier, would you mind if I emailed in sometime to ask for feedback?
18. 588.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    3 Rings true to me. I've been running just linux for years, and I have no idea what's improved in the last few versions of the kernel. There are lots of other things I'm interested in that clearly need improvement and are m
19. 589.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Just for the record, Clojure has a good system for managing mutable state when you need it, of course has java interop so there's nothing from stopping you from mutating java objects. Edit: Here's a guys experiences from making a
20. 590.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I've never heard of anyone uses ctrl as a leader. I do use comma myself.
21. 591.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    That's just standard lifting I'm pretty sure.
22. 592.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I regret not hearing any of his stuff before he died, I was surprised at how amazing it was. Mr. P and Hannibal's album are both excellent. For anyone curious, Patrice's special "elephant in the room" is on youtube.
23. 593.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Yes, "Simple Made Easy" is a must watch imo. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy "Are we there yet" is also great: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-The
24. 594.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    It's surprising it's less popular than elsif. I'd think you'd either go full on with shortening it (kind of surprised there's no "ef" now that I think about it), or just spell it right.
25. 595.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I have thought about it and I still haven't cracked it. The best idea I've heard is the whole basic income idea. I don't know what you want me to do though.
26. 596.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    This is a serious question: why does anyone want backlighting?
27. 597.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    I agree, but are you letting homeless people sleep in your house or in your office? Letting them sleep at noisebridge doesn't do much to help the problem in the large, and impairs it as a space to hang out and work on projects with li
28. 598.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    If you're in SF you should stop by sometime, it's still overall a cool place to be, it's easy to get a distorted image of the place through the mailinglist and news articles.
29. 599.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    There have been times I've wanted to read in the library at noisebridge, but all the couches are just covered in people sleeping, it's pretty frustrating. I feel for homeless people, but I don't think it should be noisebridg
30. 600.▲
    by cgag 13y ago

    Yeah, I'd like to hear more about what kind of things make you fall back to imperative style.