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by zedshaw 14y ago
I agree, but that's a totally different topic from what I'm talking about.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
> I always interpret "idiomatic" as "avoiding performance issues". Huh? That is definitely not what it means. That may be a byproduct if the language implementers then make the social mores they admire the ones that perform the best, bu
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by zedshaw 14y ago
> An analyst, customer, boss, or someone who is not a programmer, describes in words what they want the software to do. That depends heavily on their words being in sync with both their actual vision in their head and your understandi
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by zedshaw 14y ago
You are reading into what I said. Nowhere in it do I say design is easy. It's on a site where I say programming is hard, so why would I claim design is easy? Hell, I can barely barely do a passable design so why on earth would I claim
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by zedshaw 14y ago
You know, you HN guys are super buzzword and design blind. This company slaps "bcrypt", "SSL", and "open source" on a decently designed bootstrap page and the response is "this will totally work!" Sad. For example, this statement "Credenti
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by zedshaw 14y ago
This is kind of cool. I was actually talking to her about it after this event: https://twitter.com/chriszf/status/226074915940491264 I didn't realize she was actually implementing a feature. She was talking about it as if it was a proto
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Just wanted to say, my book is specifically the antithesis of "Learn X in 10 Days", which is why they have the title they do. I push people to work hard, take their time, and build skill gradually. That's why what I'm doing works for begi
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Actually, either you do know how to do it or you don't. After that there's degrees of capability, but before learning to write software in any language there's a period of "duhhhh i don't get it" and at a certain point people get a "oh! i
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Most math books suck. The one exception, and the first book that made me realize you can teach complex topics to regular folks, is Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner. It's been around since the late 1800's and
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I do all of this with just vim and some tools, and I do it with any language, any text, anywhere on any machine in and OS without having to buy anything from anyone and I can change how all of it works any time.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
My HTML version is still free, and if you tell me of the free C books I'll link to them here: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Your argument does not follow and is an illogical extension. I simply prove that it has a while-loop that won't terminate and use permutations to prove that. The logic proof is valid because I found an instance of the input that would cau
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by zedshaw 14y ago
IDEs are bad for you. It's much better to simply use a real programmer's editor that you can craft into being what you need. In fact, I can usually take vim plus cscope, exuberant ctags, and ack and demolish any code base you throw at me.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I am a very experienced C programmer, and I have full comments on any page. You find an error, drop a comment and I'll fix it immediately. Chances are though, you're someone who read the K&R chapter, then went through nitpicking minor
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by zedshaw 14y ago
No, I'm fully blocking and moderating comments. They are for serious students who need help, not drive-by netizens. In the past I had them open, but after the first two hits by HN or reddit I had to lock it down so that students wouldn't
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by zedshaw 14y ago
No, it doesn't. Go find middle C. See how on the piano it's in the middle of the piano, and also in the middle of the grand staff? Now, find one of the many on the guitar. Not really in the "middle" are they? Even the left and right ha
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I'm ditching ePub. It's a crap format that has a bewildering number of options and it seems every viewer wants to implement some different subset of them. From now on, it's PDF and HTML only.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Well I explain all the many reasons this is the wrong way to think about it in the end.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Yes, I have to update to point people there. Apparently also the latest xcode is missing a bunch of stuff people might need and requires separate downloads of those pieces. I forget what but it's still annoying.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Try going through the HTML version, and drop comments when you hit problems. That'll help me make the book solid.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
The video course is being worked on by me while I write the book, so expect it to be rough around the edges. But, I say try going through the HTML version online, and as you do get stuck write comments to ask me questions. That's why I put
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Well, the course is just cheap now because it's in-progress. This lets me get it out for immediate feedback, find bugs, and test that it works with students. In the near future the price will change, but the HTML version will most likely
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by zedshaw 14y ago
memcpy is just fine because it has a size parameter. I think you mean strcpy(), which does cause defects.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Just a warning to everyone, like the book this course is in development as I write the book. It's covering a lot of the chapters, but I have to go back and clean up some videos and do the final ones. That's why the price is low for now.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Man, I used to use fish. It was great. It was like all the things people eventually make zsh do but in one convenient binary. I think my favorite feature was that history was instantly shared among all your open fish instances.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Look at brubeck (mentioned here). It doesn't support the different state management styles since Python's coroutines are broken, but it does most of it.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
No, just different. And Klimt is better.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
You can make the workers do whatever you want, that's just the default setting since it's the most common.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
That used to be a problem before luarocks, but now with luarocks you don't have to worry about it. You get fragmentation anywhere you go in every langauge no matter what. The problem in other "batteries included" languages is the core tea
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Scaling isn't so much the problem, since you can do various things to keep users on specific servers. In my setup, I also solve a lot of the state issues since there isn't a single state for the entire app, but instead for each process tha

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