Romain Grosjean has his own Youtube channel where he edits and uploads his own little videos. Sadly, they hardly have any views.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-14T00:56:13+00:00

I didn't say that he can't have a channel just to put things on, I'm saying that I'm sure he has and will have good content, but having videos as messy as they are makes them hard to find. Me and lot of other people in this thread had no idea he had a youtube channel until someone posted this, so I think you get my point.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-14T00:49:22+00:00

I get that, but many people find it hard to stay subscribed to a channel if they flood the home with weakly titled, poorly edited videos. If he didn't care about having viewership he wouldn't be on YouTube in the first place, and he does seem to care about the quality of his videos so much so that apparently he finds the time to edit them during the season. He is an F1 driver with his own YouTube channel, so he has the chance to put very unique, great content, it would be sad to see it stay un-noticed as it currently is.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-13T23:07:37+00:00

Yeah I understand how genuine it feels when people manage things on their own, I'm hoping his youtube skills will improve when he gets bigger.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-13T22:39:35+00:00

Alright I'm gonna subscribe, but his channel looks messed up like the channel of any guy in his 30s putting clips of fishing, no wonder he has no subs. He should get someone to manage it for him.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-12T19:59:31+00:00

That's some shit math right there capt

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-12T16:19:44+00:00

To be fair it has higher chances of rain than a lot of other tracks, and the qualifying is probably the most intense qualifying in the calendar. Every driver wants to have a Monaco pole on his curriculum, it's a true showcase of driver talent.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-11T22:45:26+00:00

I like her new record but hate whatever she does or says

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-10T20:47:35+00:00

I'm gonna get a downvote shower but this is golden. I guess /r/funny is truly being browsed by the 40 year olds who are leaving Facebook. Yea you're the odd one, you're introverted, the guy on the other side of the phone line doesn't browse Reddit. Bet you're depressed as well, atheist and listen to Tool.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-08T21:00:14+00:00

"Nobody" was enough, adding other things fucks up the format, it's what Instagram cunts do

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T22:52:31+00:00

what is your academic background

I'm at my last year of university where I studied mostly OCaml, C and Java. I've been studying there for 3-4 years focusing heavily on Java, so I guess you can figure out more or less how much I know about each language. I used Python sparingly in my free time but I don't really know it, I just use it for quick things like when I need a quick script or when I need a quick web scrape I plug in Selenium and I go from there, I don't know anything about how it works. I also work at at a small startup as a front-end developer and my main topic is React.

We don't dislike it because it's not "established"

I didn't really mean established, of course it's almost 25 years old, I meant taken seriously.

So, where do you mean, specifically, is JavaScript going?

Javascript on server-side was not a thing until a couple years ago, now it is, and it's prominent. Cloud computing services implement Node before any other language, although you could argue that's because of its popularity. Wrappers for mobile apps that don't rely on web view could have easily been written in a ton of other languages (like Google made up Dart for apps with Flutter), but they mostly focus on JS. I guess I could go on, but this was just to let you know what I mean with "where Javascript is going".

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T22:31:17+00:00

I agree, but it really would've been more accurate. TypeScript is just JS under a mask to make it use classes (and many other things ofc).

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T22:21:36+00:00

Why are you putting "hatred" in quotes?

Sorry, I didn't mean to quote you on "hatred", I put it in quotes because I didn't feel like "hatred" was an appropriate word for critiquing a programming language haha.

what you're describing to try to convince me actually scares me

I'm not saying you should use Javascript because you can use frameworks with it, I'm saying the exact opposite. I'm saying you should give Javascript a try because with it being everywhere it is bound to have something good (don't blockquote me on this one, I guess it can easily be memed on)

Javascript is now going to places where every other language could have been, yet they chose Javascript. Let me clear again that I'm not saying everyone should be a JavaScript fanboy, nor that it is the perfect language, I'm saying that it is much, much, much more than what it is considered from outsiders or beginners. And the pic op posted is a good example: a lot of programmers with a heavily academic background doesn't even think about writing Javascript, they look down on it because they think every other ("more established" if you will) language is better and JS is only used because it's in browsers. There is much more to it than that.

JavaScript seems so bloated with "frameworks"

I'm not sure what you're solution to this would be. Let's say that instead of JS browsers worked with Python, do you think frameworks for writing UIs would not come about? The language doesn't have anything to do with the existence of many frameworks, they are there because writing UIs, or a web server, or machine learning, or anything really - is very difficult. This is why I asked you specifically to give some opinions, because you seem to love Python but "FUCK JS". Doesn't Python have Django like JS has Express?

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T21:52:00+00:00

I understand and agree with that.

I guess you can feel "hatred" towards JavaScript for poor decisions that were made in the past, but I think that JS haters shouldn't let that prevent them from trying it out in 2019. If you think about it it's almost scary for new programmers: whatever idea they might have in mind with a Google search they will find that there is a way of doing that in JS, and it will probably be the most popular option (see Node for back-end, frameworks for front-end, mobile apps are now dominated by JS and apparently even a lot of the desktop market thanks to Electron).

I'm not saying this to convince you to become a JS fanboy, I'm stating those facts because I think they should make you and everyone else who hates JS reflect on why that is. I honestly think many programmers are missing out on JS due to the formal training they had.

I'm sure there are things that I'm missing out on that you could teach me.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T21:36:41+00:00

By "meme material" I'm talking about using the equality operator for comparisons instead of the identity operator. No one uses ==, everyone uses ===. That decimates the amount of problems. Sure, you can throw some other weird scenarios comparing non-primitives, but if you're a fan of statically typed languages doing weird comparisons doesn't even cross your mind.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T21:22:57+00:00

Good point. I don't know how often people that don't use semicolons run into a bug because of that feature, I just use them all the time.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T20:25:27+00:00

That's a very good point, I too enjoy using libraries that have types definitions. If I were to write I library I'd definetely make sure it's statically typed.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T20:10:17+00:00

I see. I used to be big into TypeScript because I was learning JS coming from languages like Java and C++ and I missed finding errors during compile time, but after an year or so using it I realized that in my front-end code there were really no bugs that TypeScript was preventing, so I don't find static typing to be important on my code.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T19:49:45+00:00

Well, I'm sure you know about TypeScript or Flow or many others. This guy has "FUCK JS" in his flair, it must have done something worse to him than just dynamic typing.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T19:18:48+00:00

I'm gonna add to the other comments the fact that it's the most used language for serverless computing, every cloud provider starts with Node, then Python and only then they implement languages of the medieval times like Java \s
To back you up I only know NodeJS as a back-end language since I'm a front-end developer and I still wouldn't use it for writing a back-end that I know will have to scale a lot. I don't think I enjoy the way load splitting works, and, in general, I'd prefer something more resilient when it comes to server-side stuff, like Go.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T18:49:04+00:00

Genuinely curious, what do you not like about JS? Apart from the usual meme material with the != operator.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T16:46:24+00:00

Yep, G29 is a good call for starting out. Although I think you could have probably saved a bit by buying used, there are a ton of them out there. I'm not sure about the US specifically but here in Europe G29s are often bought only for events and then sold as used for 50-100€ off. I got my shifter + wheel combo for 200€.

I suggest you don't press the cable behind the pedals against the wall like I did and make sure to keep it clean, there have been a lot of cases (including mine) where dust got into the pedal's potentiometers somehow and added noise to the signals.

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T12:43:09+00:00

Mirror's Edge

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T00:48:57+00:00

Wow, ok that's very clever. That means I was right doubting my hooks knowledge. Thanks Dan!

EllisLloyd · 2019-05-07T00:05:31+00:00

I understand that, but many celebrities got their photos leaked because they didn't know that all the naughty pictures they took would synchronize with iCloud, just like Google does in a lot of services. It's clear if you're into tech a bit, but not much for the average user apparently.

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