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by markatkinson 11y ago
My first ever language was Pascal in grade 6... Singing birthday cake.
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Nice! I must say we live in the most beautiful city in the world... Maybe I should attend them. I am quite busy at the moment working part time consulting, and trying to get my own thing off the ground, however I was working with a friend t
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by markatkinson 11y ago
Hahaha, for someone who doesn't ever laugh out loud, this made me lol.
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Lekker man! This is a much better analysis of the current environment I would say. Broforce did a lot better than I was expecting it to to be honest. I think I have just become jaded that SA wont ever have any successful game dev stories, s
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by markatkinson 11y ago
I live in Cape Town, South Africa (I am South African), and realized at an early stage, as a gaming enthusiast, that to get into game dev in this country you need to start your own thing. I couldn't afford to do that so just ended up i
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by markatkinson 11y ago
I wonder if Firebase is doing somersaults...
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Ha, agreed. It is one of those articles where as you are reading red flags start shooting up with an ever increasing frequency till eventually you are 2/3rd's of the way through and feel like you've been hoodwinked. I am not
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by markatkinson 11y ago
This almost made me fall off my chair... I literally made a fizzbuzz application in Elixir today 0_0
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by markatkinson 11y ago
This is the type of article that spawns the best and most informative comments. As a rather isolated programmer being able to browse through the HN comment section and read everyone's different perspective of "rules for becoming a
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by markatkinson 11y ago
Agreed, this blog post is very buzzfeedesque and must have taken an hour or less to bang out... surprised its that high up on the feed.
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by markatkinson 11y ago
Busy learning Elixir myself and this was a great read, explains a lot of concepts simply and clearly.
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Exactly, and I find not being invited to social events gives me a lot of time to do other things...
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Yea totally. I suppose a lot of people are actually using Facebook for work and their businesses (and Tinder) and so can't really get rid of their account. Also, I feel quite smug when someone asks to add me and I can say I don't
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by markatkinson 11y ago
I use Gmaps in South Africa a lot. The traffic detector feature is super useful however it hass got me into some hairy situations. Just a few months back there were protesters burning tires and stoning cars on a road, so there were no cars
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by markatkinson 11y ago
I deleted (deleted, not deactivated) my Facebook profile 4 years ago. It had clearly become an addiction, kinda like my mobile phone is now (cost/benefit balance of mobile phone is still too good to throw away). I remember actually hav
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by markatkinson 11y ago
Good point... I suppose that is also what Elixir is bringing to the party.
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I agree with you that from the perspective of the article Functional Programming is still a "maybe" as it doesn't have the same sort of following or use in large-scale projects as OO, but I suppose it might be the perspectiv
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Singularity University Releases 2015 Impact Report(cdn.singularityu.org)
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Yes, I am from South Africa, and right now I have to remote into my home computer to shut it down, before our power provider (parastatal monopoly Eskom), shuts down the power across the whole of Cape Town for 2.5 hours because they are so s