codeshaman

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by codeshaman 11y ago
Apart from intellectual entertainment, why would anyone create another general purpose language ? Isnt there more than enough choice already ? I really want to, but I struggle to come up with enough features or syntactic tricks to justify
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Actually, this is partly the fruits of their work. It seems like we're experiencing peak oil demand, rather than peak supply. I'm not sure if the "peak oil prophets" considered this possibility - that their warnings will
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Yes. That's what the man says. "The planet is fine. We are fucked"
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by codeshaman 11y ago
The planet will be here a long long time after we're gone.. And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that's what it does. It's a self correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be re
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I have the book, started reading it about a year ago and stopped halfway, because my bullshit cup got full. The reason I think this book is nicely packaged bullshit is because it presents exceptions as rules and then tries to build a th
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Yes. I loved node when it came out. I did a lot of experimental projects with it. I also liked npm and the ability to use modules... But at some point, this all turned into dependency insanity. It didn't bite me as much, because i&#x27
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by codeshaman 11y ago
From Wikipedia: Ponzi's original scheme was based on the arbitrage of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors' money to make payments to earlier investors and himself. ... The profit tha
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I rarely cook to win :). You play chess to win and losing is stressful and unpleasant. So you train more to increase your chances of winning. I still enjoy playing just for fun, but after a couple of "fun" games, the competitive
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by codeshaman 11y ago
This is so weird. The text looks normal, except it doesn't make any sense. But I realise that most of the stuff I've read on reddit in the last year, I've forgotten.. So I could have just read text like this and the effect w
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I love chess, but I abstain from playing, because when I start, I become obsessed with it and it takes over my life. I spend more and more time training, doing analysis, reading up, playing, trying to get better at it and become very touchy
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by codeshaman 11y ago
First of all there is tooling - lots of smarter and smarter editors, IDEs, mockup creators, programming languages and environments, graphical editors and so on.. Then there's github and software which is built out of 'dependencie
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I'm guessing too.. Still, there is undisputed progress being made in the field of rapid software development and dev tools and AI ... While not there yet, if the progress continues at the same pace, we will be there within a decade.
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I'm afraid this is a glimpse into the not so distant future where software developers are next in line after taxi and truck drivers - uncertain if their skills will be required in a decade from now. That is compound by the millions of
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by codeshaman 11y ago
True. Copyright laws are a sneaky backdoor which I can use to install my own political agenda. The government will be using the threat of violence to enforce my rules against violence. Muhaha :)
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Software licensing under politically motivated terms is not entirely unreasonable and I think we should start doing it more. For instance, I totally disagree with the fact that open source software ends up powering weapons or are used as to
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> by us not being opportunistic feeders. Is that the only description of "us" ? We can be opportunistic feeders, but we can be kind and affectionate towards each other and towards other species. Given the state of our techn
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> the only reason for eating meat is taste I've come to the same conclusion myself, after stopping eating meat several years ago. People are addicted to the taste of meat and they eat it out of the desire for pleasure. We can have a
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by codeshaman 11y ago
The ++ operator is one of the main features that brought me to C and C++ when I was just a kid. Basic and Pascal didn't have it and it looked so cool ! Then I had to learn the rest of the language which goes around the ++ operators, b
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Swift is a very nice language. And it's pretty easy to learn too - it took me about 2 weeks to get the basics of it and in 1 month I was producing code at the same speed as with Objective-C. After a couple of months of Swift-ing, I no
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Actually :).. I wanted to scare off my cat who climbs onto my chair in the morning and bugs me from behind. So I searched for the thing on youtube and put the volume to the max... At first my cat was a bit worried, but by now he got used to
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> The people of Kazakhstan can achieve the same outcome. Highly unlikely. From Wikipedia: In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote. That kind of tells the whole story - people are "behind" this (or
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Haha, I've actually seen that video last week or so on reddit and said "uh oh, nice" :)..
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by codeshaman 11y ago
After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our mo
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but last time I checked, Telegram is not entirely "open source". The core part of the service is secret. Which kind of voids the whole 'open source' argument and actually makes this whole project do
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Spaghetti. More suitable for my plate than an app. I know that Java is a terribly verbose language, but even for Java this looks over the top. This code is written with a bulldozer ! How hard is it to refactor each of those branches into s
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by codeshaman 11y ago
There is another case, which is unfortunately the most common case. Great idea, great product implementation, $$$ burned through and bankruptcy. What is the value of the idea in this case ? When instead of earning you $$$, your idea caused
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by codeshaman 11y ago
The world we live in now is good.. It's almost too good to be true, isn't it... And when you have something that good, you're bound to be afraid that you're going to loose it. We wake up to the smell of fresh coffee. W
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by codeshaman 11y ago
It's out of stock :(
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Fantastic article with so much information.. I feel humbled when I see how much work people put into these things and how great the result looks like ! Haven't read it all yet and forgive me if I'm repeating what's already me
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Regardless of wether M is currently more human than AI, we could project that in the not-so-distant future (after it's trained), M will be mostly, 99% AI. The technology itself will become more and more available and other companies wi

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