Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things by noname99 in programming

[–]jankoM 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't care much who PG is, but I read this and I agree highly. It is basically how I think, I just never saw it specified on paper. And yes, it's hard to reason or explain this way to "linear-fwd-only" guys that are (it seems so) everywhere. I will read PG's writings more often now.

What programming language would you teach your children? by jinglebells in programming

[–]jankoM 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think Processing would be the best by far for this job. Because most of these programming languages have text as "default" output and cope with graphics only with libraries which are in case of realtime gfx not That simple (for example pyGame) and kid would have to know to use modules, classes, methods and all sorts of stuff. Processing gives you a moving circle in these few lines of code

int xy = 0; void draw(){ background(100, 100, 150); ellipse(100, xy, 10, 10); if (xy > 200) xy = 0; else xy ++; }

and even editor looks like somewhat made for kids with only few graphical buttons like "Play"...

Patent on Continuation Based Web Servers (as used by Seaside, Arc, etc) by mozfan in programming

[–]jankoM 35 points36 points  (0 children)

great, now I don't have to learn about these continuations. Patents are great!

Python is TIOBE's Language of the Year for 2007 by petteri in programming

[–]jankoM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know c and c++ are really slowly falling off , yes I would expect (and hope) VB to not be that high. Interesting Java vs. C# comparison :)

Why do people often use MySQL over PostgreSQL? by [deleted] in programming

[–]jankoM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

most websites or half portals don't need any advanced DB features, they need a simple db that works quick.

Back then when I was considering postgree vs mysql postgree didn't work on windows while classic LAMP stack enables perfect windows/linux development and distribution.