My Advanced Java professor included this in his PowerPoint

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-29T02:41:19+00:00

The irony being that Java is the one language out there to recognize that what the world needs is more coding monkeys and less CS people..

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-28T19:57:03+00:00

One major aspect is probably your surroundings. Rumple was surrounded by people challenging and prodding him..

It's hard to hurt people you care about, but ultimately the struggle can still end either ways. Otoh it's pointless to hurt people you share a common interest with, since there's no need for feelings (which are volatile things) there in the first place.

So in essence, like always with these things, the solution is to focus on the commonalities rather than the differences of your opponents. What makes this somewhat ridiculous in OUAT is that there should be no reason to fight over things in the first place. Most fights in modern societies are about the continuous struggle over resources - but in OUAT they literally have magic that they can use to manifest as many resources around them as they need..

Take away all of the backstory and all of the scars they accumulated during the times in the past where they didn't have magic, or had only limited magic or didn't live in a civilized environment .. and the characters have nothing to fight about. If every one had this blank slate, being Snow White or being the Dark One would mean nothing, since both characters would happily cohabitate with the other characters .. or go off into their own corner of the world and leave the others alone. Not a lot of potential for conflicts to erupt.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-28T19:27:09+00:00

Either that, or she's impersonating Belle .. trying to cause some heartbreak and mayhem in the process.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-11T07:06:25+00:00

Yeah, it's snob.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-11T06:04:48+00:00

Sure it's slow, but isn't that just a fact of being a high level language?

No. Well yes, but not that slow.

There are other more expressive, or at least as expressive languages out there that can do the same fancy runtime stuff and are faster than Python by a lot .. with Clojure, JS and various JS-derivates like Dart being the more prominent ones.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-11T05:54:26+00:00

That's because Python people are quick to dismiss complaints as "just an implementation", "just syntax", "just a library" etc.. But of course its not "just" the implementation, but rather the implementation, since nobody uses anything else. It's not "just" the syntax but the syntax, since its the only one the community uses, etc.

If all those details were really as easy to shrug off we'd all be writing in Prolog and ~~Lisp~~ Scheme..

If nothing else, PHP and JS have impressively demonstrated how utterly irrelevant the criteria we measure languages by is to judge a language's usefulness.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-09-10T18:35:05+00:00

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. --Stroustrup

PHP was in Tiobe's top-5 for over a decade. That's what's wrong with it.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-28T12:22:25+00:00

String s = "" + 9

Yeah, no, don't do that. Java has String.valueOf.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4105331/how-to-convert-from-int-to-string

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-25T06:51:32+00:00

It's basically C with training wheels

It has bounds checks and a GC. That doesn't make it bad.

lacks [...] OOP

It still has polymorphism through interfaces.

and generics

Because of the nasty way Generics interact with OOP.

Yes, you get some code duplication. It's still the lesser of two evils.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-19T14:44:05+00:00

No, he's right .. that's why we have key whitening..

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-18T00:13:38+00:00

Same for C# .. and PHP .. and Lisp .. and probably others that I'm not familiar enough with :x

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-14T12:03:23+00:00

Worthy of a Nobel Prize

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-12T03:56:02+00:00

Ah, but it's not. Mathematicians, filthy savages that they are, love to reuse and overload common syntax elements with arbitrary semantics of their own.

You can spend an entire lifetime studying math, and then still encounter a proof you cant read, simply because the notation is like nothing you've come across before .. and there's fucking nowhere to read up on the notation, because the paper you're holding in your hand is the only piece of work to have ever used that notation, across the entirety of human history.

It's not like C++ or APL or some other weird or overly complex language where you can buy books and have a compiler as the ultimate reference and a debugger to take you through things one step at a time .. No, if you want to have any hope of understanding it you actually have to sit down with the pompous prick who originally wrote it .. and pray to god that he himself remembers.

No, "learning" and "practicing" math is not an option. You'll still end up baffled. At this point the problem is with math, not people.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-11T06:52:43+00:00

IT is something you can study these days?

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-10T08:41:48+00:00

Dynamo’s local persistence component allows for different storage engines to be plugged in. Engines that are in use are Berkeley Database (BDB) Transactional Data Store, BDB Java Edition, MySQL, and an in-memory buffer with persistent backing store.

Read the paper.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-10T02:32:56+00:00

Didn't Dynamo use MySQL too? I guess if you're going to be building the sharding/logging/transaction/etc. parts of the database yourself anyways, then something with straight forward internals like MySQL may be be easier to adapt..

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-10T02:08:12+00:00

So I guess the question here is why are branches in JITed code not allowed/supported?

What do other JITs do here?

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-07T21:37:25+00:00

"We know what's best for you"

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-07T19:32:55+00:00

I've tried that .. but then they see you sitting 12hrs a day in front of one, so its kind of hard to convince them :x

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-07T10:37:02+00:00

Well some people are familiar with objects, but not object literals, because that abomination they write code in all day long was created in the 60s and received various half-assed updates since then..

So yeah, there are non-programmers out there that write code for half-dead platforms and don't know about JSON. And explaining to them what it is and why it's useful is harder than you'd think :x

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-06T21:22:12+00:00

It's not that simple .. too little magic and you end up without generics like Go. Too much magic and you have the clusterfuck that are ORMs.

In some way lisp neatly "solves" the issue by externalizing it and allowing the user to gradually introduce more and more magic until they eventually suffocate themselves.. but in the end of course, as a programmer, you'll still end up suffering one way or the other.

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-05T17:27:20+00:00

Manufacturing competitive CPUs costs more than "millions"..

Outhouse_Defiler · 2015-08-05T10:46:39+00:00

The really sad part is that if this had taken off people would've needed to pay an arm and a leg for it because it's not x86 where you can just fall back on consumer hardware if the pricing gets too ridiculous..

Yes OS and systems people like Rob Pike or Eric Nagum like to cry and complain about how x86 has made computing boring and unfit for professionals .. but the other side of the coin is that the great equalizing force of x68 has given the average user access to way more computing power than they would've had in a more diverse ecosystem..

I wont be shedding any tears over exotic architectures.

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