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by informatimago 8y ago
Where are the old programmers? But they never existed in the first place! The programmer population doubles every 5 years (approximately). So even discounting the age pyramid (dead people, or career changes), there are only 0.20% of 60-64
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by informatimago 8y ago
Sure; they did; they evolved to Hooded Pitohui, Little Shrikethrush, Spur-Winged Goose, and Common Quail. http://mentalfloss.com/article/51743/4-poisonous-birds
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by informatimago 8y ago
Yes, the earlier you learn it, the more benefit you’ll get from learning it. Now of course, you will get probalbly more jobs knowing python than knowing lisp. But you will have more fun programming in lisp, and you will learn more learning
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by informatimago 8y ago
Well, if the code base is awful, it won’t have test to begin with... what do you test when you only have the bad code, no doc, no specs...
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by informatimago 8y ago
Using national language in code bases is indeed bad, if you want tomhave them sold to foreign companies or contributed to by the international community. On the other hand, it may be good if you want to avoid this. I guess, not a lot of th
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by informatimago 8y ago
Obviously. For 70 years now, the number of programmers has been doubling every 5 years. In consequence, on averge, half the programmers have less than 5 years of experience. Therefore almost all the code will be produced in a awful way, us
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by informatimago 8y ago
I agree that unfamiliarity should not awful a code base make. However, there are degrees, and probably thresholds. If your code to manage web site users is using string theory, despite the assumedly concise, elegant and refined code, it wou
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by informatimago 8y ago
You could as well buy a lottery ticket!
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by informatimago 8y ago
That said, some national variants have more special characters; for example, French AZERTY gives easy access to § ° € £ €, etc
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by informatimago 8y ago
Historical reasons. Keyboards were invented long before computers, for teletypes, with 5-bit codes, or Morse codes.
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by informatimago 8y ago
Humor, a lost art. Idiots! You’re becoming robots!
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by informatimago 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKT9XqbCI8&list=PLWy9gm0ulp... https://jp-petit.org/science/scientific_summary.htm
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by informatimago 8y ago
Do you mean more or less than 1M LOC? grep is usable on very large code bases, because after the first scan, all the sources are loaded in the file system cache, so the successive grep are done in RAM and are very fast. So much so that I al
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by informatimago 8y ago
X.25 and x.400 do support encryption and sender/receiver certificates (x.509). Uucp can still be used when you have intermitent connectivity.
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by informatimago 8y ago
You don't carry it! You dig a tunnel (Boring Company), you vacuum it (hyperloop), and you propulse a rocket (Space X) in it with electromagnets, and lots of batteries (Tesla). Theorically, you can also come back from space the same way
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by informatimago 8y ago
There's clearly a psychological war going on, with attacks whose purpose is to make people lost time on futile stuff. The joke is funny. Go program something, don't discuss it! This is sabotage 101! http://www.business
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by informatimago 8y ago
So far, bugs in medical devices have been documented that have led to death or physical damage. Bad radiation doses, retina burning laser powers, etc. Given that most of those devices run on MS-Windows, I'm still more worried about b
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by informatimago 8y ago
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Consider being crabby a sign of good mental health.
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by informatimago 8y ago
In my ideal environment, each time I would load a source file in my editor, it would be reformatted according to my own preferred formatting rules. And upon writing, it would be saved in some common "standard" format good for git
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by informatimago 8y ago
Lisp: - Avoids the use of gratuituous special characters: (a b c) - use-dashes-in-symbol-names-instead-of-underline-so-its-easier-to-type (you can still use underlines or most any special character, but we like to keep it simple and easy).
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by informatimago 8y ago
Indeed, I’ve always felt that the increase in difficulty of hashing in bitcoin was too fast. This translatesmdirectly in the energy cost. U fortunately there is no way to back up, only to freeze this increase for a long time...
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by informatimago 8y ago
In the meantime, pens and phones are used to harass non-criminal supporters of all kinds of measures and people, (including some USA president). I propose we forbid pens and phones!
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by informatimago 8y ago
You don't necessarily need to identify one amongst 1.3 billion. (requiring 30 bits of information out of the gait!) The context is a crowd of about 100 (10 - 1000), in which you are tracking a few percent, and you need to keep "ey
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by informatimago 8y ago
What kind of world? When you hypothesize a world where AI uses cameras everywhere to know everything they can about everybody, you haven't characterized that world at all. First, IS IT REALLY EVERYBODY? (But let's assume for now,
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by informatimago 8y ago
But a bug, a feature!
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by informatimago 8y ago
Well, the same as 99% of anything "ecologists" say and do... Nothing new or newsworthy here.
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by informatimago 8y ago
Nope. See https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains Code style, or worse, programming style (See for example FreeRDP vs. rDesktop), or even the choice of programming language, are amongst the little details that you’d thing don
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by informatimago 8y ago
A better thing to consider would be to set up a programming environment where you would project high resolution on a white wall.
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by informatimago 8y ago
The first bottleneck is the keyboard. Until we have AI to understand high level mathematical intends expressed in spoken natural language and translate that correctly to code, it will be easier and more efficient to use a keyboard and forma
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by informatimago 8y ago
Not yet. Some software I use are not upgraded yet. And I have still to find how to sign gdb to make it work on Mojave.

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