gordaco

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by gordaco 5y ago
This is exactly what Youtube does.
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by gordaco 5y ago
I'm glad to see someone else that finds Python unreadable. I keep seeing people saying that it's one of the most readable languages out there, and each time I feel like I'm from another planet.
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by gordaco 5y ago
I was a mild advocate of static type systems. Then I spent about two years working on dynamic languages, mostly Python, on two jobs with otherwise very different code bases. I am now fully converted: after that experience, I strongly, stron
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by gordaco 5y ago
I can't talk about others, but for me, the number one reason is the UI. If I could be 100% sure that updating to a newer version would keep my UI just the way I know it, and that no workflow is going to be broken, I would probably upda
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by gordaco 5y ago
Also Killer Sudoku and Kenken for the more arithmetically inclined. https://www.killersudokuonline.com/ https://www.kenkenpuzzle.com/
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by gordaco 5y ago
I like HexCells Infinite for the huge amount of content from procedurally generated puzzles, but I love Tametsi for the incredible difficulty.
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by gordaco 5y ago
I don't know if this is the kind of answer you want, but to this day I swear that playing Kula World (also known as Roll Away in the US, I think) made me smarter. It requires spatial reasoning, which maybe isn't what you're l
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by gordaco 5y ago
Agree 100%, and in fact I'm happy to see that someone shares my opinion on this. It's so clear. To me, it's the best beginner language out there, and I'm kind of sad that it learned programming with other tools, and only
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by gordaco 5y ago
Ha, just a couple weeks ago I wrote a small GUI frontend for youtube-dl, to download a video with chapters and create a different .mp3 or .mp4 file per chapter (useful for music compilations). I created it with the express goal of using it
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by gordaco 5y ago
Nice to see people rediscovering this language from time to time. I wrote an interpreter for an early version several years ago, just for fun. Possibly my favourite esoteric language. I particularly love the philosophy of "if you write
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by gordaco 5y ago
I'm also very tired of the increasing rate of change. I know a lot of people here will be familiar with the Red Queen Hypothesis [0]; although the term initially comes from evolutionary biology, I think it's applicable in any situ
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by gordaco 5y ago
For a LOT of us, at least in certain circles of power users, this is the only thing tying us to Windows. I have a fuckton of software that I know almost for sure that will run under the newest Windows... in Linux, yeah, maybe Wine likes it,
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by gordaco 5y ago
"An interesting question is why nobody has stumbled across and widely shared this method before" Hmmmm... I "discovered" this method when I was like 14, but I didn't think it was a big deal, since it was equivalent
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by gordaco 5y ago
Yes, this is the way I do it as well. There were quite a few cases where I went all in with an apparently overengineered solution, and then I could use the code directly for the second problem with almost no changes. I don't go for bei
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by gordaco 5y ago
This is my experience as well. Working with dynamic languages soured my experience with programming so far that I stopped doing projects of my own when I was in jobs requiring them. Sounds like hyperbole, but it's something I didn&#x27
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by gordaco 5y ago
Not that these two things are opposed to each other, you know. We should try to achieve both, at least to a reasonable level. At the very least, it's much better to have both qualities in a reasonable amount than to be excellent in one
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by gordaco 5y ago
I absolutely do. I'm 100% aware that it's the nostalgia talking, but I don't care, I unapologetically love them. For context, the first computer we got at home was a PC at some point in '94 or '95. We had MS-DOS 6.2
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by gordaco 6y ago
Ha, this is one of the reasons why I also include outlandish and wrong-looking stuff in unit tests. If we see where it doesn't belong, then we know for sure that we are doing something wrong. Most often I use unicode strings in unexpec
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by gordaco 6y ago
Wow, Dev-C++. Not the very first IDE I used (that would be Div2), but at least the very first IDE I needed to use for academical reasons, back in 2001. This is the IDE where I started committing serious mistakes, i.e. the ones that make a l
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by gordaco 6y ago
Yes, this is the real answer. What you want to watch, or what you would like youtube to recommend to you, is at odds with what youtube would like you to watch (and potentially share), which is enraging, clickbaity, low quality material. As
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by gordaco 6y ago
This is surely anecdotic and very subjective, but I have (in Java and in C++; IIRC the exact versions were Java 7 and C++03), and the level of pain was lower than with a Python code base that was about one order of magnitude smaller. In the
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by gordaco 6y ago
Wait, winamp didn't work on Windows 10? Why is that? I've been using it -version 2.91- in Windows 7 without problems (in fact I'm currently listening to it right now). I thought that it was solidly programmed and that it coul
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by gordaco 6y ago
This happens in Spain as well. About how did it pass, I assume it's because lobbying.
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by gordaco 6y ago
Very nice. Earlier this year I was hooked to this game, another variation on hexagonal minesweeper: https://store.steampowered.com/app/304410/Hexcells_Infinite/ .
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by gordaco 6y ago
I guess that it varies from person to person. To me, writing definitely makes me remember better and more clearly whatever I write. There is something deliberate, something about the additional time that it takes to write as opposed to type
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by gordaco 6y ago
I hate this as well. This is not just software: it's becoming increasingly difficult to acquire DRM-free digital goods (i.e. products that I can guarantee I will be able to use in 10-15 years), and in some cases, video in particular, I
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by gordaco 6y ago
You are not alone. I'm also like this. Ads are horrible both in concept and in execution; their existence causes all kind of troubling incentives (for example: all those discussions about youtube radicalising young people because their
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by gordaco 6y ago
Exactly. As I said, I'm comfortable working from home and I see the advantages, it's just that the commute happens to be one of the pre-pandemic things that I miss. It's definitely something subjective, and in fact I would sa
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by gordaco 6y ago
It's just not the same... but I sometimes have fantasised a bit about doing it (and other variants, like taking trains). Anyway I'd rather not use public transport right now. I don't think it's safe.
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by gordaco 6y ago
Yeah, I agree. I miss my old routine too. I even have a dedicated office of sorts, and working from home is comfortable and convenient to me. But... I miss the commute. The bus I used to take wasn't particularly uncrowded, but I always

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