andreasgonewild

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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
JavaScript and PHP are badly/barely designed languages, period; no amount of excuses and comparisons is going to change the fact. Anyone with a bit of experience in either Ruby or Python will tear their hair out when doing JS, because
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
That says more about Java than Script though, and I've done enough of that to feel your pain. Coming from plenty of experience with sane dynamic languages (Common Lisp/Smalltalk/Clojure/Julia), it looks exactly like the
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
For a programming language, I much prefer function over form. Same goes for gadgets, but that's another story.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Good luck with that.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Because real languages allow creating your own abstractions to fill the gaps, Go doesn't. Witness the total lack of decent error handling and data structures; despite probably thousands of people trying their best from user code. It&#x
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
C is primitive but powerful. Go is primitive and safe. I would classify the Wirth-family of languages as safe but powerful. It all comes down to power; Go was explicitly designed to enable armies of lesser code monkeys to work together with
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
That, or some sort of Forth; the separate keyword also enables calling anonymous functions recursively: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Been there, done that :) It's a neat trick, but the issue for me is that you still need to pass a separate struct for state which breaks the illusion enough that you might as well just write an ordinary iterator.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
How can it be better when it fails randomly and we don't even understand how it works? Where I come from, that's the worst kind of software.
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Skip Lists Revisited(github.com)
1 points by andreasgonewild 9y ago|0 comments
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Write lots of code, in different languages; find increasingly real problems to challenge your skills. Unless, of course, you're just interested in becoming another whatever; then you're better off memorizing buzzwords and JavaScri
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Go kill yourself (?) for someone else's (?) profit then, you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Google not working for you? I picked this at random, you'll have to use your own brain if you want to know more: https://draxe.com/canola-oil-gm/ "Canola oil is a Canadian invention that’s backed by Canada’s
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Yes, and rape seed oil has the about the same combination of fatty acids as olive oil; which is healthy; but it's still poisonous gmo crap. Same goes for HFCS. The amount of genetic manipulation, processing and refining matters.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
You are also most probably human, have you even bothered to have a look inside?
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
It's always there for anyone to grab. Try lying on your back with all your gadgets turned off and eyes closed; and observe your brain thinking for a while; which is about as difficult as meditation needs to be. Might take some practice
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Pharo ( http://pharo.org ) is also worth mentioning on the subject of modern Smalltalk environments.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
This boils down to a fundamental divide in life view. Anyone who has done any amount of expanding their consciousness will tell you that there is a ghost in the machine. It's always a mistake to assume that all you can see is all there
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
They're tested by the same psychos that created the drugs and their bought fan club, otherwise things like Oxy would never have made it to market. It's worth repeating, big pharma is all about creating return customers; nothing th
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
From my perspective, OxyContin is obviously designed to be as addictive as possible; and they have been lying all along. These people are not fully functioning humans, they will do whatever it takes to generate more profits. I promised myse
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I was on Oxy for about a month after smashing one of my vertibraes into pieces in a climbing accident, I was prescribed more than three times as much. I walked through hell to get out of that crap; nothing else I've encountered even co
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A decently typed Forth with a touch of Perl(github.com)
2 points by andreasgonewild 9y ago|0 comments
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
What does building for people (which I am) have to do with making profits (which I don't)? What about sharing? Building for profit is the opposite of building for people, the two mind sets are not compatible.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree; write more tools, more code; own your skills.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
There are plenty of things worth doing that are not profitable. If anything, the people who made the profits where standing on the shoulders of giants like Kay; I think we can afford him some space to be grumpy over shitty execution and lac
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
One true language, one true paradigm, one true database, one true encoding, one true editor; the list goes on and on and on, that's where forum flame wars and hate mobs are born. The problem is lacking experience; you need to earn enou
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Depends a lot on what type of companies you want to work for, but I would say that Go is definitely more popular overall. Popular is unfortunately mostly crap, which is why it sucks as a long term optimization target.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
, and not a second too early. Definitely cause for celebration! Edit: Sore toes, anyone? Too invested to see clearly? I did enough EE-consulting to have an opinion; it's over-engineered, marketing-driven bullshit; designed to make ever
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
"Recently, using indentation as the sole grouping construct of a language has become popular". Given that popularity doesn't say a peep about merits, it's worthless as an indicator of where to go. There are plenty of goo
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I have one word for Facebook: Myspace; and it's not a second to early for that bunch of scheming zuckers.

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