codeshaman

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by codeshaman 11y ago
The more I examine it, the more I realise that at this point in time, the programming profession is a trap. I'll try to explain it. 1. 20 years ago we were called "computer geeks". Young people fond of computers. This term d
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by codeshaman 11y ago
You said it yourself: > a programming language is one Rails bootcamp away It means that anyone can learn a programming language and become as 'competent' as the 55 years old. When you have a choice between a 22 year old and a
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Great job! Do you plan on making it a real app for iOS ? Will Apple allow it on AppStore ?
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> So, do you have to propose anything better? If I did, would anyone listen to it here ? The point being that, throughout history humans always had a dominant theory about the origin of Universe and it was considered the truth at the tim
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> As far as we know What we 'know' is given to us by the mathematical models which we invented to describe the observed reality. Currently, we have different models to describe reality based on the scale of observation.... Whic
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> Age of the universe: ~13.8 billion years If the age of the Universe is 13.8 billion years, I wonder, what was happening 13.9 billion years ago? What about 13.8^2 = 190 billion years ago and even before that ? Kind of mind bending, but
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Oh, but that's the whole paradox of this life - 'satisfaction' is a moving target, not a fixed point. In fact, this is what life is about - getting from the current 'not so satisfied' point to the next 'a bit m
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by codeshaman 11y ago
To understand, you have to get out of your current 'reality context'. It's very easy actually. A powerful psychedelic trip leads to a couple of simple realisations: - you are God that created this Universe experiencing the s
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by codeshaman 11y ago
They can trigger a paradigm shift in many other areas, not just mental health care. Except it's so hard to explain this to a 'normal' person, who's never taken any. "If God were to permit you a brief voyage into th
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by codeshaman 11y ago
It's not necessarily 'that' kind of voice. We all have a little voice in our heads. If you haven't noticed it, it's the voice that said 'what voice?' right now. It's the voice we're in a perpetu
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by codeshaman 11y ago
The third reich seems to have developed a relationship with Ephedra and Poppy (plus tobacco of course). And we saw the consequences of that. I've always been fascinated by the impact of various drug-containing plants on humanity and i
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Interesting that this trend is present in the works of many artists from the post communist block , not just photographers. You will notice this trend in music, film, literature, painting, even comedy. The depiction of decay, of ruin, of we
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by codeshaman 11y ago
'Cause for the world you are someone, but for someone you're the world' ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlG-H_Pjbg
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by codeshaman 11y ago
"that against a cosmic scale of time and space, every human being is minute" There is a paved road to clinical depression which starts with thoughts like these. I know it because I've taken it. Life stops having meaning if yo
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Suppose you need to get from A to B and back. You need to do it often, you need to do it fast. Your cargo - written notes which two kings (from A and B respectively) exchange between each other. So you try to solve the problem by getting f
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by codeshaman 11y ago
As I'm observing this scandal unfold, I find it amusing that all the eyes are on the VW company and how it affects it's finances, it's reputation, etc While the effects on the company are extreme, I think we should also consi
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by codeshaman 11y ago
The enemy has no problem killing you exactly for the same reason that you have no problem killing the enemy. If these kids didn't listen (weren't forced by the State to listen) to older men telling them horror stories about the &#
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Surely the pilots were briefed about the destructive power of the weapon they were going to drop on civilians. He knew. He had a choice. He could have chosen not to fly that mission. Even with the risk of being court marshalled. Even if som
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by codeshaman 11y ago
While I agree that it might be time for Flash (the proprietary plugin) to be retired, I'm totally against dancing on it's grave, as is the tone of this article. We have to respect it for what it brought to the world. Flash has ena
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Technically, the Github servers are being attacked. The "website" (or "app") is the abstract thing that runs on those servers. The servers are trying to service a flood of incoming tcp connections and http requests from
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by codeshaman 11y ago
It's an interesting period. On one hand, even though the complexity of the app has grown a lot, so have the tools and libraries which are available. Another important aspect of doing it alone is the ability to market your software. If
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Those are cool projects ! The abstract visual debugger is how I imagine people will be doing development in the future. Real time, interactive manipulation of objects which represent parts of the program. Have you considered applying it to
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Thank you ! I've been so looking for this article, I was totally amazed when I first read it (back in 2013, I guess). I think it's one of the best math explanations (or rather, visualisations) that I've ever seen.
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Wouldn't it be wise if the compiler (or preprocessor) issued at least a warning if you redefine language keywords ? :) So I just pasted this into a C++ file I was working on and it compiled without a single warning: #define struct unio
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by codeshaman 11y ago
And It looks so ... non threatening. No weird obfuscated instructions, no strange looking if ... Just defining something.
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I love this. Evil in it's purest form. But also a great war story for the person who discovers it later. "So it was my 5th sleepless night. The thing would work 99% of the time. I triple checked every single line of code and it wa
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Lots of money, lots of employed engineers, everyone needs to do something. That's the case with a lot of tech today - it's done for the sake of letting people do something. Which, I guess, is not that bad, in the end things are br
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Thank you for your thoughts, they are helping. You are right again, it's a self fulfilling prophecy - the more you dwell on it, the more pointless the whole thing becomes. But as sebkomianos said, it's like a vicious circle: In o
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Yes, I am doing that and it's a shitty way to see things, because it makes me sad and angry and everything is gloomy. Probably a phase I'm going through right now - my bullshit-filtering glasses are broken. I go through this phase
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by codeshaman 11y ago
At first I thought 'this is so cool' , but then after thinking about it for a while, I realised that it's no cooler than any of the 200 videos or pictures with 'cool stuff' that I see every day. I think it's a

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