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by snowfarthing 2y ago
In my career as a web developer I have worked on accounting systems three or four times now. At one point, it occurred to me that the quirky feature of Common Lisp's FORMAT that prints numbers as English names was very likely put ther
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure why people who "sling code" would object to their code being completely rewritten -- particularly when the startup mindset is "we'll get something working right now, and once we figure out what
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
I am currently convinced that the only thing useful about AI so far is that it's reviving nuclear power plants -- granted, they are to power AI engines -- but I hope that they'll be kept running after this AI fad passes!
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
It's easy to forget one major problem with this: we all have been mediocre devs at some point in our lives -- and there will always be times when we're mediocre, even with all our experience, because we can't be experien
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
Just a couple of days ago, after having heard that there's a new Mersenne prime, I had a question pop into my mind: what if it's a twin prime? Is that even possible? I could try to calculate that on my own, but since it's s
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by snowfarthing 2y ago
Why not both? Tabs can do something that spaces cannot do: they can provide unambiguous indentation information. To this end, it's braindead easy: for every tab, you have a new indentation level. But spaces can do something that tab
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by snowfarthing 14y ago
I find this idea that, just because you are in a public place, you cannot act privately, rather hilarious. Granted, it would be stupid to say something secret you wouldn't want broadcast to the world, in the middle of a crowd, while someon
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by snowfarthing 14y ago
I cannot guarantee that my advice is the best, because I'm a mathematician, and not a computer scientist, but my own experience might be helpful nonetheless. I had originally decided to become a mathematician because I read "Jurassic Park"
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by snowfarthing 14y ago
Ironically, I didn't understand Python's list comprehensions until I learned about Haskell's version (which is the original source of Python's), along with the explanation that Haskell's list comprehensions are taken straight from mathemati
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by snowfarthing 14y ago
Several years ago I bought a used Sharp Zaurus. I got so used to using the touch screen that, even now, I reach for a stylus when I try to use my TI-89. I now have an Asus Transformer, and I find that I now reach for the screen on laptops