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by schwurb 7y ago
What is the problem about not knowing how computers work? I care about well-written and working code. I couldn't care less about technology. In fact, I consider it an unfortunate fact of life that programming is tied to computers.
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by schwurb 7y ago
Just yesterday in the students room I whiteness the awe-inducing effect and joy of discovery that a proficient use of Vim has on someone who has never seen something like this before ;)
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by schwurb 7y ago
I think you got a point that some emacs users might severly underestimate the power of limited choices and pre-configured workflows. However, as in understood Blub, this is strictly about power of expression. I think emacs is at the top of
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by schwurb 7y ago
> Looked at emacs the other day but I need to read a lot of manuals and tutorials and practice to get to grips with it) My recommendation: Go with spacemacs. It is perfect for people who just want to use the goodness of emacs without it
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by schwurb 7y ago
Homer was wrong in his assumption. If there however does exist a button, and it works, and there is no danger associated with ignorance about its internals, then there is nothing wrong with using the button. After all, someone put it there.
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by schwurb 7y ago
Also Naughty Dogs of Jak & Dexter and Crash Bandicoot fame - mostly due to Andy Gavin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin
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by schwurb 7y ago
Isn't the lack of a stateful REPL a feature in Haskell? Don't get my wrong, I love image/state-based developing (having working knowledge with SmallTalk and just getting into emacs). But I think it is quite haskelly to introd
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by schwurb 7y ago
> had to keep reminders and schedules just not to miss renewals until I synchronised their renewal schedules to batch (manual) renewing them. Another use case for the app I am developing! The basic idea: You can enter an item (i.e. &quot
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by schwurb 7y ago
I leave it to that someone else to have to resolve the cognitive dissonance. One concrete benefit might be not doing in my 50ies due to stress-related health issues. And I would happily live in a poorer society with better ethics any day (g
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by schwurb 7y ago
I appreciate the advice in general; but don't worry - Learning stuff in odd order was never a problem for me and also while I love to learn systems and languages starting from the edge cases and broken corners,the code that I write ref
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by schwurb 7y ago
Not reading this now, but will totally reading it when I want to learn about macros. All the stuff that Alexis is doing is always mind-expanding and well-explained!
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by schwurb 7y ago
In-between coding there is more human interaction and the craft of coding itself became more social on an abstract level (code should be more communicative and all). But I would still say it is far from really social jobs - after school, I
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by schwurb 8y ago
This is where these two issues beautifully tie together: Saving the environment is important - consuming less is a way to do say - with less paying consumers, adds become less valuable - less incentive to violate privacy.
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by schwurb 8y ago
I had a gut feeling you could ;) Interesting.
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by schwurb 8y ago
Also sorry if I came of as rude, did not mean to!
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by schwurb 8y ago
> You understand the crux of a language by being expert at it not by "me too" novice at it. Let's not pretend "knowing" a language well is akin to a 10-year-journey like some arcane samurai art. If you - could bu
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by schwurb 8y ago
In my eyes, you neglect the opportunity cost of "using one tool for everything": You end up with a solution that is much harder to mantain, since the wheel will have been re-inventend many times over and sprinkled with bugs along
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by schwurb 8y ago
> That will depend on what the GP has done with SQL. I am sure they built their UI with SQL - as opposed for example simply doing some queries, or some joined procedures at best. > Also, JQuery implies in Javascript. With uttermost li
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by schwurb 8y ago
> cron, Makefile, bash, sed For a programmer with a minimal amount of linux experience, it likely takes a week to catch up to what the codebase is doing with these. > regex There are good tools to destructure regex. > python sql jq
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by schwurb 8y ago
I always think of Emacs (never used it tho) as a Smalltalk system without images and with Lisp instead of Smalltalk as the underlying language. Every visible and invisible think is inspectable and changable at runtime, yup - pretty cool and
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by schwurb 8y ago
How would you compare Perl to Haskell (i.e. in terms of mindexpansion) and APL (i.e. in terms of learning how think tersely)?
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by schwurb 8y ago
What does the effect of harassment on males have to do with whether males are more likely to be harassers?
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by schwurb 8y ago
Please point out where I am (completely!) wrong. I have formally dealt with approximation algorithms before and I skimmed the wikipedia article, yet I did not find anything that contradicts me. Note the in the section on hardness, P and NP
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by schwurb 8y ago
ML is all about finding approximate solutions. Categorizing problem as NP-complete only makes sense when talking about exact solutions.
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Ask HN: Going live with my app now or finish my master thesis first?
3 points by schwurb 8y ago|1 comments
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by schwurb 8y ago
First of, all the best to you! Regarding your point: That does not sound like an issue inherent to startups, but more like an issue of bad prioritizing. Why does an start-up have to be all-or-nothing? Robert Graham advocates this way of goi
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by schwurb 8y ago
> Take care of yourself first, you are competing with others that are in tip-top shape. Competing is a two-way street. If one has enough money banked up and enough motivation, why shouldn't they go forth and found? Chronically ill p
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Ask HN: Few question about monetarization of flutter apps
1 points by schwurb 8y ago|0 comments
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by schwurb 8y ago
> There must be an "other" -- something to conflict or compete with -- in some sense. Absolutely with you. My suggestion: Climate change. Why would you need hostile aliens when our environment itself turns against us?
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by schwurb 8y ago
I am currently building my first mobile app on Flutter and quite happy I choose that technology! Developing in AndroidStudio + Flutter does not feel like the chore I remember developing android apps to be.

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