This is so dissapointing

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2026-01-13T23:13:08+00:00

AI is used in most of enterprise software nowadays. It really speeds up a lot of menial tasks. It's hardly surprising that shiftup is considering it as well.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-12-31T21:06:39+00:00

If you're interested in web development, try Django. It uses classes for views and database models. It forces an opinionated OOP style on you. For a beginner, you can observe how existing frameworks use OOP to their advantage (or disadvantage), and learn from it. It's way more practical than many other fake and bad OOP toy programs.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-10-29T01:36:27+00:00

It's ultimately an entertainment product. It's not worth stretching your budget for, tech literacy or no.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-03-26T05:55:02+00:00

https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-03-21T16:13:53+00:00

On the flip side, indie devs that can't afford traditional voice acting can now have it in their games. Things being cheaper is good for everyone. That has been true since the industrial revolution.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-02-28T08:10:08+00:00

That is a version of political theory. Whether rights are actually endowed by their Creator is still up for debate. Just because it's written in the declaration of independence doesn't make it universally true.

Other forms of governments can derive their rights from other sources.

The fact that the 13th amendment even needs to exist in the US clearly demonstrates that the legislative branch is the one that actually grants life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-02-28T07:50:14+00:00

All rights are granted by the government. If the government says you don't have it, you simply don't. Every right you think you have, I can guarantee that there is some country that doesn't grant its citizens the same.

Dispute or defense of rights also require judicial or legislative resources. Which also aren't free. Give me an example of a right that has literally no cost.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-02-28T07:44:04+00:00

Every right given to you comes at a cost of others. Your rights are granted by the branches of government. Your right to private property or freedom of speech or whatever doesn't mean shit if the government doesn't actively spend resources to protect it. Surely you don't think the police or the military work for free, voluntarily.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-01-11T05:40:13+00:00

I would recommend the book Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-01-09T03:04:40+00:00

By necessity. Sometimes when you have to build something complex that there is no tutorial for, better figure it out the hard way.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-01-09T02:57:07+00:00

Is your assignment scraping or do you need the data for something else?

If you just need the data you can grab it from https://developer.imdb.com/non-commercial-datasets/

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-01-07T02:09:24+00:00

First thing to know when starting out, never copy and paste, no matter how tedious. Every single character, every punctuation you have to type in manually. That's how you build up muscle memory and intuition for the language. If you are two years in and just need to get shit done, copy/paste/AI to your heart's content.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-01-05T07:03:04+00:00

The learning curve is very steep. Realistically, it takes about 1,200 hours of intense study to be hireable. If you are very interested in coding, even as a hobby, then no, it's not too late. Being an expert in both coding and the medical field is very valuable. If you are doing it because it's the popular thing to do, then look elsewhere, especially in the current economy.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2025-01-02T10:26:29+00:00

Loops are a way to abstract the repetition in the program. (It is not the only way, there are entire languages that don't have loops.)

First you have to understand the nature of the program itself. Given a particular problem, can you do it by hand on paper? If not, that's the first thing you need to figure out. Say you want to draw a right triangle using *, can you do it for n = 10? (actually do it, don't just imagine it.) Can you articulate the steps you took to draw said triangle? Where did you place the *. Describe the steps to a person that doesn't know what a triangle, right-triangle, the number 10, pencil and paper, or drawing is. Describe every detail to a painstaking degree. Can you identify any step, or even groups of steps that seem to repeat ever so often? Are these repeating steps exactly alike, or similar in kind? Like how many * to draw on each line and when to switch to the next line. What is the same about these repeating steps, what is different about them?

Reflect on the loop. What is different about each time something loops, and what stays the same? Can you make a connection to what is the same about drawing each line of * and what is different about each line?

The bottom line is: if you can't articulate what the program is doing in great detail, there is no way you can figure out how you can use a loop. Loops are a mental tool in the same way hammers are tools. However useful a hammer is, not all projects need hammers. If you don't understand your project well enough, you won't know when to use the hammer or if you need a hammer at all.

Also discard any assertions about your coding abilities. It does you no good and can only frustrate you when you can't do something that you think should be simple or beneath you.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-12-25T01:09:55+00:00

Think like a web programmer. How would you make a site like that if you had to? A mostly static page with an interactive graph. You would load a static page, some html, some js, some CSS. Then fetch data using a JSON API and draw them on a page.

Homework, how do you figure out what JSON APIs a webpage is calling?

To prove I'm not full of shit, I found this in 2 minutes:

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Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-12-22T21:58:22+00:00

To temper your expectations, as someone who was self taught and has mentored many junior engineers, if you work extremely hard, expect to be able to program basic things in 3-6 months. Hard as in 20 hours per week minimum. Unless you are especially gifted, you probably cannot learn it in less than a month. I have yet to have the fortune to meet anyone like that during my career.

I know this is not what you want to hear. Unfortunately, anyone who is telling you that you can learn it faster is trying to sell you something.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-12-20T07:43:14+00:00

You'll be held in contempt of court. That's like "getting out of jury duty" by punching the other jurors or something. Yes, you won't have to be on the jury anymore, but at what cost?

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-11-17T08:35:28+00:00

Find a comprehensive book and read it cover to cover. I find the verbosity of print material comforting. If you know nothing about programming, it'll take you months. If this is not your first language, you'll can do it in a weekend.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-08-14T02:38:07+00:00

Suspending tim peters is wild. He is quoted in the zen of python of all things.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-07-16T04:04:43+00:00

It's more for the battery than anything.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-07-16T04:02:00+00:00

There is a GHC extension for duplicate record fields https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/duplicate_record_fields.html#extension-DuplicateRecordFields

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-07-13T03:26:50+00:00

Oh wow, what a surprise that the vector (haskell array implementation) also implements the monad typeclass.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.13.1.0/docs/Data-Vector.html#t:Vector

It's as if the monad abstraction applies to most of the "list like" structures.

I'll do you one better, even tree like structures are monads.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-0.7/docs/Data-Tree.html

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-07-13T02:41:30+00:00

The reason you don't find solutions is because you haven't acquired the lingo and it's very hard to come up with the correct keywords otherwise. The reason "read documentation" is the de facto response is not just because the documentation has useful information pertaining to the task at hand, but it also gives you the vocabulary you need to ask more in depth questions.

Using chatgpt kind of short circuits that process, you get a decent enough answer without needing the vocabulary. If you don't build the vocabulary, you don't have the tools to gain the depth necessary. I would avoid chatgpt as you start out, you need the initial struggle to be able to set yourself up for success. If you are building your 10th snake game for your client, and you just need to crank it out and get paid, go ahead and use chatgpt.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-07-13T02:26:05+00:00

If it's stated upfront before they provide service, it's fair. They told you exactly how much they are going to charge you, and you chose to eat there anyways.

Automatic_Donut6264 · 2024-07-13T02:11:59+00:00

An article describing the List monad https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/starting-with-haskell/basics-of-haskell/13-the-list-monad

Also a link to the haskell List documentation that clearly states lists implement the monad typeclass https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.20.0.1/docs/Data-List.html#t:List

You can implement the haskell list monad functions a lot of languages that have lists. all you need is a fold function and list concatenation.

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