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by flywheel 11y ago
"Swift is the more beautiful language and it lets you write pretty code and bring you joy" If you think code is "beautiful" then you don't know what you're talking about. You're anthropomorphizing a list o
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by flywheel 12y ago
Historically, no, there is no active demo scene in the United States. I was one of the few demo scene programmers in the US during the 1980's - 1990's, but it's never really been a thing over here.
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by flywheel 12y ago
Considering the language was created in about a week, Javascript is nothing short of a computing miracle. It has enabled anyone with a web browser to write software that can run on billions of computers. And it is extremely easy to learn an
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by flywheel 12y ago
I've been using digital cameras since the first wave of them was introduced in the 90's. Since the start I was making hot pixel maps and that helped fix images using them as a mask in photoshop to reverse the errors caused by hot
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by flywheel 13y ago
You only think you knew javascript that well. Your anecdotal evidence is unsupported by reality. You likely never really liked or used javascript as much as a real javascript developer. Let me guess, you're "full stack".
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by flywheel 13y ago
People have been saying this stuff since Coffeescript first started making the rounds, but many adopted it anyway without any good reason to, and without any critical thinking about what implications using this "made up language"
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by flywheel 13y ago
Probably, but that syntax is awful. This syntax makes more sense to me: [{"tagName":"div","class":"a-class","children":[{"tagName":"span","innerHTML":"you
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by flywheel 13y ago
The differences is that an artist doesn't have to worry about maintainability, scalability, orthogonality, or any other such concerns. Art is art, code is code. Art is beautiful, code is clever. They are different.
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by flywheel 13y ago
>It all started with my new Macbook Retina. A gleaming beacon of self-worth, and productivity (Yes, Mac IS more productive). I stopped reading after this.
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by flywheel 13y ago
It's really really simple. Significant whitespace has no punctuation to visually queue the reader of the code as to where things begin and end. It is much easier to read Javascript than Coffeescript because well written Javascript inc
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by flywheel 13y ago
You're wrong. Node.js has already overtaken what you think Ruby on rails "is". Node.js is the current darling of Silicon Beach. Add on some mongodb and more bells-and-whistles and you have Meteor. This is probably a more impo
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by flywheel 13y ago
I honestly found it to be wonky and not useful, but I am an experienced programmer who knows how to use regex.
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by flywheel 13y ago
Do you have any clue how encryption works? There are plenty of open-source encryption algorithms that are very secure. I'm not sure how W3C is recommending the DRM be implemented, but it is in no way necessary for the source code for browse
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by flywheel 14y ago
Security? Client-side encryption.
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by flywheel 14y ago
MOAR Javascript, please. There is something to be said for ubiquity that programmers of other languages just don't get. Ruby might seem like a good idea to put into a browser but it will run slow as shit compared to the javascript engines t
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by flywheel 14y ago
Those who remember the hell that was VBScript in the browser, know that having support for more than one front-end language is not such a good thing. Web developers have benefited from having javascript as the only language supported by bro
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by flywheel 14y ago
Ever hear of "free samples"? How about $0.00 for the part and $0.00 for shipping. So many chip manufacturers will send a few parts to whoever wants to order them. Atmel sample store: https://secure.atmel.com/forms/secure/verifylogin.aspx?
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by flywheel 14y ago
You don't know how to use Marijuana. You don't need to get completely baked to have positive benefits while working. It's really all about dosage and the way you consume it. I don't smoke it anymore, but I take THC pills that I either make
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by flywheel 14y ago
Both meanings are equally repulsive and are activities without merit. The fact that this is about coffeescript doesn't surprise me at all. "and just starting to learn CoffeeScript, because it seemed rather cool" This thought pattern is whol
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by flywheel 14y ago
Meditation is "the third way". The Fourth Way is superior in many respects. http://gurdjieff.tribe.net/thread/158f144d-6630-46e6-ad5d-f2... DMT is the epitome of the fourth way. It is transformative in a way that nothing else can really a
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by flywheel 14y ago
I have lived car-less in Los Angeles for 15 years. I do NOT "mooch" off car-having friends. If we are all going to a party together or on a trip, I pay for my share of gasoline, and usually buy lunch for the driver if applicable. I never re