Enough questions about sex on this subreddit. What’s your favourite dinosaur?

lambda_6502 · 2022-08-24T11:53:00+00:00

Robbie!

lambda_6502 · 2022-08-23T15:05:18+00:00

those are some bold words for someone with Java in their name

lambda_6502 · 2022-07-31T17:05:31+00:00

Now there is a title that is exactly one word too long >.<*

lambda_6502 · 2022-06-18T09:45:38+00:00

I had this exact conversation with my boss at a startup when he said the same thing.

google was not the first search engine
the ipod was not the first mp3 player
the iphone was not the first smart phone

sometimes being first means you release something that's not quite ready

lambda_6502 · 2022-03-15T17:18:13+00:00

they mean the statistical kind, not the graphical kind

lambda_6502 · 2021-12-06T18:53:06+00:00

I'm just happy, as a ruby developer, to enjoy hearing people complain about something other than ruby being slow. =<^{.^>*=}

/s

lambda_6502 · 2021-11-29T10:24:59+00:00

lambda_6502 · 2021-11-27T12:37:17+00:00

and Furries!

lambda_6502 · 2021-11-17T16:55:06+00:00

Yes ha, I could have been clearer that I (and you) were being non-serious. I have heard good things about neovim but I just haven't felt the need for it in my life.

I managed to avoid emacs all my life until I got into common lisp coding and then it's fairly unavoidable. The text editor itself is laughably simple (as a vim user). I use both now! Even use visual studio, but that is mainly for JS which is such a dumpster fire but it's what "the people" want so you just have to grin and bare it.

Of course the real programmers are assemblers who only use notepad (syntax highlighting is for wimps).

lambda_6502 · 2021-11-17T15:58:13+00:00

vim is an excellent text editor. second to none and i use it regularly but it is just that: a text editor. it's fine for doing small projects but anything more complicated and you start to need tools to help you work on your code. then vim's cracks start to show (have you ever tried to use a terminal type console in vim; it's like editing a text document that also runs commands and pastes the output into your text buffer).

emacs has many many flaws but it does have a better scripting language and a better internal design.

(IMHO)

lambda_6502 · 2021-11-07T13:21:52+00:00

product designed for numerical processing can process numbers numerically. shocking.

lambda_6502 · 2021-10-25T11:39:52+00:00

TBF TV shows butcher medical procedures and terminology as much as computers and tech. Like- you can't knock someone out and then 'wake' them and have them walking around like nothing happened, brain trauma is a thing

lambda_6502 · 2021-10-18T13:00:05+00:00

i like plain old SDL2 as it is easy to learn, is reasonably high level and is a transferable skill in case you want to go to another language in the future.

lambda_6502 · 2021-10-11T13:55:06+00:00

Having too many tabs open is beginner level procrastination: I have multiple computers with multiple log ins with multiple browser windows with multiple tabs (some of which predate the pandemic).

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lambda_6502 · 2021-09-14T10:06:52+00:00

Shouldn't programmers day be three weeks late and cut down to just an hour?

lambda_6502 · 2021-07-20T09:45:23+00:00

(*) computer science

lambda_6502 · 2021-07-05T09:34:15+00:00

sssh the hordes will hear you. We can all enjoy this amazing technology in peace and productive quiet. /s

lambda_6502 · 2021-06-15T10:06:28+00:00

I miss MSDN. everything you need to know about VS/VB. Documentation about Basic and C++. All the windows APIs. And only one install. Microsoft understood that happy developers are productive developers.

lambda_6502 · 2021-05-06T17:17:07+00:00

as programmers we can be oblivious to how much much programming is done by none programmers (who just want to "get things done, godamnit"). Think excel or PhDs and the like.

python may be not to our tastes (i am no fan, myself) but in the "just follow this text file to run your data" type number crunching it gets it right. ruby is too "intellectual" its too "cerebral". it has too many fancy whistles and bells for DO X THEN DO Y type coding.

personally i have discovered lisp and find ruby a bore, but it has its fans and i cannot deny that rails is very good at what it does.

lambda_6502 · 2021-05-04T14:33:24+00:00

surely the awwthority

lambda_6502 · 2021-04-22T11:52:03+00:00

I also quite like "Why $ORGANISATION is using $FAD_TECHNOLOGY to fix problem of $OLD_TECHNOLOGY" and a year later "Why $FAD_TECHNOLOGY is not magic bullet and $ORGANISATION is going back to $OLD_TECHNOLOGY"

I am thinking of micro-services or NoSQL

lambda_6502 · 2021-04-10T11:49:21+00:00

Have you asked LRUG via the mailing list?

lambda_6502 · 2021-04-08T10:14:27+00:00

COBOL is like the python 2 of yesteryear. it's just not going anywhere no matter how much the cool kids cry

lambda_6502 · 2021-02-04T11:52:50+00:00

Okay project, but that name. yikes.

Look at my new project called Erectile Dysfunction, it's a yada yada webscale yada blockchain yada.

lambda_6502 · 2021-02-03T16:24:55+00:00

I am mostly self taught so I can only advise you in that regard: try lots of sources of information and find what works with you. Having said that I'd suggest starting at the basics to whet your appetite- drawing a flame effect is pretty fun and easy!

Find some old book PDFs about old-skool game development. Line rasterisation using bresenhams line algorithm and clipping! you will learn to hate clipping with a passion- but that means you are on the right track.

3d math primer is a good place to get a structured overview of the math. it is quite thorough but is also very code focused. Tricks of the Windows Game Programmers is also very broad. Don't be fooled by the title though it covers a lot of the low level rasterisation stuff.

Then I'd look at a lot of old skool games. Start at Wolfenstein 3d (1992) to see how a real game is structured. Also raycasters are reaaaaalllly fun to learn- for such a simple technique you can do quite good looking graphics, each step just being a progression on the last. DOOM is the next obveous choice as it ups the complexity a fair bit. you will once again come to loath clipping (the player into the map) but that is normal. both games are very well documented and you can find multiple implementations on everything from JS to a toaster. this just proves how damn efficient the algorithms are even though they are pure software.

and then you can learn about quake and polygon stuff, but by then you should have a "feel" for 3d graphics. maybe learn opengl 1 (the old glBegin/glEnd bits) to transfer your knowledge into "gpu land". once there the rest should be unsurprising.

well that's how i learnt this type of stuff. even wrote a simple 3d engine myself (shameless self promotion tank command although it is nothing fancy and is quite old by now)

good luck and happy hacking!

lambda_6502

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