open_bear

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by open_bear 8y ago
He uses Racket.
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by open_bear 8y ago
And if you cannot afford PICO-8, there is a free TIC-80 alternative.
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by open_bear 9y ago
> "you're lucky you even have a job; shut up and stop complaining" You probably have seen the dotcom crash yourself - there were a lot of developers feeling lucky to even have a job. There probably will be another IT bubbl
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by open_bear 9y ago
> I wish there was a way that we could apply our skills toward fixing this injustice. Educate yourself on why does that happen. Main purpose of every company is to make money. As long as IT is making a lot of money programmers will be pa
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by open_bear 9y ago
Parinfer is another good attempt at making editing Lisp code easier: https://github.com/shaunlebron/parinfer
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by open_bear 9y ago
Imperialism is the final stage of capitalism. > but the extreme poverty has been shrinking Indonesian 12 y.o. who makes Nike sneakers for 1$ a day will probably disagree. Humanity as a whole have made tremendous advancements in medicine,
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by open_bear 9y ago
> nearly feral generation of children that almost collapsed the country Care to provide a source? We have kindergartens that accept children as young as 1.5 y.o, older kids (3+) typically stay at kindergarten for 8 hours a day.
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by open_bear 9y ago
It helps a lot. My C and Python code have improved significantly since I've started learning Clojure.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Because you don't write a lot of code on paper? Working with text (for notes or prose) is very different than working with code. You don't think "I need to correct that thing located 23 words forward so I use 23w or press w 2
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by open_bear 9y ago
It's not just raw input speed - writing on paper allows you to quickly jump around the text, making small corrections, adding notes/symbols/drawings, etc.
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by open_bear 9y ago
* US spreads propaganda and lies around the globe (Voice of America) but doesn't like it when RT does the same.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Worker productivity has been steadily increasing for the past century, but wages stopped growing in the 70s-80s. No amount of corporate compensation can compensate for that.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Some tabloid is already writing an article "First alien nudes from outer space discovered".
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by open_bear 9y ago
I've seen similar statements before, and it is a major point in Lockhart's Lament. I wonder if only people who are both good mathematicians and good teachers can pull off teaching mathematics as a language.
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by open_bear 9y ago
What do you think about clojure.spec approach?
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by open_bear 9y ago
Capitalism is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (people, who control the wealth and means of production - factories, companies, banks). They dictate their will to the proletariat (people working for wage who have no control over how busin
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by open_bear 9y ago
The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem.
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by open_bear 9y ago
KGB, obviously.
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by open_bear 9y ago
> This is in part because the risk was not shared equally. Developer joining a startup risks almost as much as a founder. He leaves his existing job for a promise of a salary, and if this startup fails - is left without a job, and possib
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by open_bear 9y ago
This reminds me of an article where people tried to reverse-engineer a rocket engine from the Saturn V rocket, whose manufacturing process was also lost: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brough
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by open_bear 9y ago
There is a joke: Couple walks into a photo exhibit, and compliments the photographer "these are very nice photos, you camera must be pretty expensive". After an exhibit they invite the photographer to their house for a dinner. Pho
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by open_bear 9y ago
There is a dedicated site: https://darkpatterns.org/
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by open_bear 9y ago
Totally agree. > (which go way beyond mere bit-twiddling, btw) I was fascinated by optimizations people come up for Game of Life by reading Michael Abrash's Black Book. > a programmer who "merely" plugs frontends into b
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by open_bear 9y ago
Conway's Game of Life can be implemented naively in C/C++/Java/etc, using a boolean for every cell's state (on/off). This will require at least n*m bytes (probably more in Java). Using bits to store that data w
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by open_bear 9y ago
"Hammock driven development" is the modern application to the software engineering ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc )
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by open_bear 9y ago
> No matter how good your environment, you do not beat the collective effort and productivity of file-system based tools. I bet people said the same about trains and ships. There was a lot of work put into horse-powered infrastructure an
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by open_bear 9y ago
There is a modern book called "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" by Peter C. Brown that I quite liked.
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by open_bear 9y ago
I remember reading Arnold Shwarzenegger's autobiography, and hist amusement on the difference in body perception between Austria and USA (as in Austria it is a norm for mixed-sex groups to go to a beach or a sauna completely nude).
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by open_bear 9y ago
Upgraded 15.10 to 17.04 on my laptop. Went from working stable system to slower, less stable system - Firefox causes full system lockdown every hour.
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by open_bear 9y ago
For every "wanting a faster horse" I give you "new iPhones every 6 months", "smart bottles that remind you to drink more water" and "Internet-connected $400 juicer that requires special cartridges to make

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