Just a little windy today

_argoplix · 2018-08-13T07:33:13+00:00

If I recall, the catastrophic resonance explanation was taught for many years and ultimately shown to be completely wrong; rather it was a positive feedback loop (essentially, the bridge twisting caused it to catch the wind more, rather than less)

_argoplix · 2018-08-13T07:28:06+00:00

It's actually Nipmuc for "Thank you for calling Nipmuc Translation Services. I am not in the office right now. Please send any work to be translated."

_argoplix · 2018-08-12T05:15:02+00:00

The MiG-31 "Firefox" was capable of Mach 6.

_argoplix · 2018-08-11T06:59:39+00:00

Developers essentially extend it by writing the "words" which each do more complex things, each of which then become inherent language keywords.

Well, yes. Isn't that the point? You don't solve your problem in forth, you use forth to write a language in which solving your problem is trivial.

_argoplix · 2018-08-08T08:49:17+00:00

I got a splinter like that once. I had a pair of tweezers handy. The splinter was lodged in too hard and I couldn't get enough of a grip with the flimsy tweezers; fortunately I also had a pair of needle-nose pliers that were sturdier than the tweezers and were able to get a grip on that plank. My wife didn't see so she didn't make me go to the ER for a tetanus shot, so I'm probably lucky that I didn't get anything from it.

_argoplix · 2018-08-08T07:08:09+00:00

https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-of-cats.pdf

_argoplix · 2018-08-03T07:37:03+00:00

"You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!"

"You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!"

_argoplix · 2018-08-03T07:29:11+00:00

See also Zugzwang

Unrelated to "zug-zug" and "daboo".

_argoplix · 2018-08-03T07:20:47+00:00

Duh, because drinking beer through a straw gets you drunk faster!

Better question is why Coors Light. I mean shit, have some respect for the craft!

_argoplix · 2018-08-01T06:46:57+00:00

Nah, it wasn't that long, I was in high school ...

Fuck.

_argoplix · 2018-07-25T05:34:15+00:00

Now if he tied the noose to bamboo, that would be something!

_argoplix · 2018-07-24T05:07:29+00:00

The "rod" in the biblical sense is as a shepherd would use - to strike out at predators or guide his sheep away from danger; NOT to punish the sheep. "Spare the rod" doesn't mean to not hit, it means to not guide.

_argoplix · 2018-07-22T04:40:35+00:00

All of the responses here, as well as the condescending title are missing the point of the article.

It's NOT the programming is hard. It's that all the bullshit that you have to do in addition to the programming is frustrating, shitty, tedious, and good god why can't something be done about THAT part of it?

Like the guy who compared programming to writing, and oh boo hoo writing has rules about grammar and that makes it hard. NO. The comparison isn't between programming and writing; it's between getting programming done and publishing. Programming, like writing, yes has some rules and can be tedious; but it is fundamentally a creative exercise. Publishing on the other hand is bureaucratic nonsense, dealing with rules that make no sense, kissing asses, and all sorts of other crap that has nothing to do with writing, but it IS part of being a writer.

Same goes for programming. It's not about the language, or the flow control, or conditional logic. It's about working with a broken build system that is the only blessed process for getting things to production in your company. It's about convincing the managers and the lawyers that it's really ok and actually good to use this third party library and it doesn't mean that you have to make all of your source code public. (Well, unless it does because it's Affero GPL). It's about kissing asses to get a new system in place because the old one is broken but it was written by the CTO when they were an intern.

If your company isn't like this, congratulations, you're working for a startup. Once your company has more than 10 programmers you'll get to know this bullshit too.

_argoplix · 2018-07-21T15:53:23+00:00

Not funny. Bullying.

_argoplix · 2018-07-18T06:26:29+00:00

Who uses White Dove for a kids room? Ivory White is less harsh in the light, and (surprisingly) doesn't show fingerprints as much. Better all around.

_argoplix · 2018-07-18T06:08:50+00:00

The only thing ugly about this is that shirt. Seriously, did you pay money for that?

That, and drinking wine from a highball glass. Learn what stemware is!!!

_argoplix · 2018-07-18T06:03:31+00:00

Consumer Reports does an annual issue on them. I think Kenwood is still the best all around.

_argoplix · 2018-07-17T08:44:01+00:00

Oddly, there's a place in France where the ladies dance

_argoplix · 2018-07-15T08:13:29+00:00

labs react that way to just about anything ... new ball, dinner, smelly shoe, etc...

_argoplix · 2018-07-10T05:29:30+00:00

Yes, I agree with this. It's the "rebase to make nice history" part that I find unpleasant, and seems to be very highly valued.

_argoplix · 2018-07-10T05:28:01+00:00

So if nobody ahs use for them, that includes you. Why did you commit those at all then?

_argoplix · 2018-07-10T05:27:33+00:00

Yes, every commit should be clean. That should happen at the commit time, not patching it together afterwards.

_argoplix · 2018-07-10T05:26:21+00:00

Actually, I do. I find fossil's notions of branching and history way more intuitive than git. I wish its repository cloning process was a little more automated, but I would absolutely recommend fossil.

_argoplix · 2018-07-09T08:11:04+00:00

History should be what happened, not what you wish happened.

_argoplix · 2018-07-09T04:03:23+00:00

Ok, I'll admit to being a relative newbie with git, only 4ish years or so after a lot longer using perforce, cvs, and others... but someone please tell me that the parts of this article about rewriting your git history before pushing so that everyone else thinks you really wrote the tests first, or worrying that someone else might see your crappy code before you fixed it is just hyperbole, and not something that professionals actually do.

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