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by handrous 5y ago
Hell, with some sports and arts if you haven't already been doing it at least a year by age 7 and live (or move to) somewhere with one of a handful of teachers/coaches who are top-tier at teaching young beginners, and have par
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by handrous 5y ago
Beware that it was created at a time when many programs were written in plain text editors, with no syntax highlighting or autocompletion, with the printed-book language manual on your desk, on a screen that could legibly display only a sma
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by handrous 5y ago
Most math classes are kinda that, but you could get a lot more covered if you focused more on "here's a real world problem, 1) what sorts of math do you need to solve it? 2) OK, now solve it and apply the result (you may use the
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don't mean to come off as a jerk, but I guess I'm just going to say it; in the 25 years you've been a developer, have you not tried to make a game? Yes! But there are lots of kinds of games, and none of my attempts wer
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by handrous 5y ago
I really do wonder sometimes if a series of "recognizing which kind of math you need to google" courses would be more useful for the vast majority of people than traditional math courses are, past elementary school. [EDIT] Makin
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm not sure I've ever used anything more complex than Algebra 1 from IIRC freshman year of high school. Ever. Certainly I'm more likely to go beyond that doing house projects, than at work. I think I've used trig once o
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by handrous 5y ago
How does a call to add the costs of negative externalities to product prices have anything to do with what you posted?
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by handrous 5y ago
Google clearly gave up on fighting spam some time around '08 or '09. I think they realized it's expensive, and not actually good for business if the spammy stuff is using your own ads and/or analytics anyway. This is why
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by handrous 5y ago
All the various gif sites that make it nearly impossible to get an actual gif. Why the fuck are they showing up on image results if the thing they serve to actual humans is a video ? I thought tricking the Google Bot was supposed to be b
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by handrous 5y ago
Ad buyers and credit card processors are the main regulators of the Web. It's not the government saying TikTok and others can't host artistic nudes, AFAIK.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Trendy isn't a factor for a productive dev. It can matter, since companies want to see experience with what they're using, when they hire, so developers don't want to get stuck in something that's declining. Hype
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by handrous 5y ago
What's missing from Perl 5, would you say, that's holding it back? Performance? Language features? The "line noise" stigma? (yet, Haskell is trendy and it's at least as "line noise" looking to me, in typ
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm really far from a JS fanboy, but Python's whitespace thing really is annoying enough that I avoid it when possible. Ruby'd be my pick for "most-pleasant scripting language" so long as I can avoid any libraries
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by handrous 5y ago
There aren't enough people so rich that they can live in country estates and remote coastal "summer" residences all year (so, neither parent has a job they need to be at) while sending their kids to rural boarding schools to
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, my generation! The ones whose video games, at least during our elementary school years, were good enough to be really fun, but also bad enough that we'd eventually get bored of them and go ride bikes or hit each other with sticks o
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by handrous 5y ago
Reading one of your dependencies to track down a bug, and finding that they've written it using a totally alien subset of the language that you don't use, is not a lot of fun. The JavaScript community in particular both loves depe
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by handrous 5y ago
The surprisingly-"smart" completions are the only thing I really notice about zsh vs. bash, but AFAIK you can add the same functionality to Bash if you like. Ditto the git-related prompt modifications, like showing the current bra
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by handrous 5y ago
> I find mac's unix to be really a weird variant It's closer to BSD than it is to Linux. Not super similar, but closer, especially in ways one tends to notice on the command line.
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by handrous 5y ago
I like iOS devices as a slab of glass & metal that becomes various tools (apps). Since there's nothing else that operates that way, the more it becomes like a general-purpose OS, the farther we get from having anything availabl
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by handrous 5y ago
> I don’t know anything about what you are working on, if you say it works for your specific use case, fine. A better question for you would be, do you believe you could not write that UI if Typescript didn’t exist? You’d be able to, but
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by handrous 5y ago
> I’ll argue further suggesting Typescript has added to the too much syntax conundrum Shit like: const [,, { name }] = props; Is part of why TypeScript's practically necessary in modern JS, if you don't want to go insa
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by handrous 5y ago
> I'd say that JS is moving closer and closer to Perl in its write-only-ness. I've never understood why it's common to dismiss Perl as "line noise" while, outside of contrived or unusual Perl examples, it's
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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, but I don't want them and that's on the (lengthening every year) list of stuff I wish Apple'd take out, to simplify the UI. Peaked in iOS 6, IMO, been a rollercoaster that's never again reached the height of that f
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by handrous 5y ago
I mean the "fixed" top bar that usually shows the time and battery status, et c., gets bumped down for a second one that just prints the date, on the far left of the screen. This is on the settings screen, captured on the right
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by handrous 5y ago
Lots of Zenni frames are so cheap that it's non-crazy to just order like 3 pair you think might work, and keep the two you like the least as backups, wearing the one that looked best. They also have "see it on your face" tech
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by handrous 5y ago
I've used Vision Direct (someone linked them, above) for contacts, with an "expired" subscription. Entered whatever numbers I liked (so, the ones from my existing contacts boxes), paid, and received contacts. Only slightly ch
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by handrous 5y ago
I used the "ruler on a mirror, open one eye, center it on the end of the ruler, close it and open the other eye, mark where the center is on the ruler, then read the measurement (in mm)" method. Did it a few times to be sure, exac
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by handrous 5y ago
I see three total representations of time... I think? I think that's what I'm looking at on the left screenshot on the "Mon 4" widget? A clock face? One of them's normal (top bar), one (the clock face) looks way mor
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by handrous 5y ago
Having been a developer for both platforms, Apple events/announcements are exciting for people working on iOS apps, while Google events are kinda just depressing. "Oh, yeah, that's cool I guess. Be fun to get to use it in fiv
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by handrous 5y ago
Haha, cool, I think we're actually in agreement. I think JS works best if you embrace its multi-paradigm nature, and attempts to make it either Java or Haskell would be horribly misguided, even if those were both better languages,

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