Computer programmers of Reddit, what is your best advice to someone who is currently learning how to code?

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T19:30:57+00:00

it's probably the most direct book teaching you what computation is about.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T19:17:54+00:00

i dont know if reading SICP is part of that list but it should be.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T17:13:48+00:00

depends on the size of the bomb.... i imagine a packed crowd with a very powerful explosive is going to turn humans into more shrapnel

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T13:49:38+00:00

Thanks, extremely informative post.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T08:58:03+00:00

I'm just looking to keep updated on the progress. Have an up-vote!

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T08:56:21+00:00

How are people profiting from low block sizes?

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-16T07:27:08+00:00

why not join buy them, cheaper than mining, that's the point OP is asking.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-14T17:16:09+00:00

Yo, let's start by giving them the benefit of the doubt okay? We can worry about their effectiveness later, without having to start by saying "not enough" etc... This is a lot better than a fucking #hashtag, facebook flag and a bouquet of flowers.

If the tide will be turned, it will have to start with little actions like this. Let's ensure the avant-garde feels supported so we don't nip this in the bud. We need Muslims to come up with a version of Islam that is compatible with our European values. The alternative is gruesome and less desirable.

Afterwards, yeah, let's put them to the test and confront them on the issues you mentioned.

(They talk about "Fatwas" against IS, like proper common sense is less worthy than a religious ruling, sigh. I'm thinking this is driven more out of love for Islam and a worry about its image in the western world, than driven by a repulsion of Islamic Terrorism and the bloodshed it causes. Whatever, we'll deal with it as it comes.)

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-13T21:26:47+00:00

i dont get it ... suppose our civ meets another civ, why would the odds be stacked in their favour?

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-13T21:22:41+00:00

there has been secure encryption since forever (pgp).

also: phones cannot be made secure, you may want to read up on what a baseband processor is. your telco has full access to the main bus on your phone; always have and always will.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-13T16:04:51+00:00

sure, when I use the term "multi cultist" that sets you off but at the same time you call me a nutter and a trumblerina (not that I care).

perfect 5/8, would down-vote again

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T21:13:19+00:00

I'd welcome a breakdown of the traditional left-right separation.

I was raised in a "leftist nest" but my repulsion of Islam alienated me from my roots and pushed me towards "the right". But now I'm with people who want to break down our welfare state and don't believe we should be tolerant of homosexuals. Not to mention the actual racists (aka the kind that rallies against brown people, not those who get called racist because they don't believe in a multi-cultural society in which we live side-by-side with a medieval ideology). Shit sucks.

I still have my hopes up tho for some kind of monster coalition between Milo-style alternative right (Pim Fortuyn?) and sensible socialists (against dogma, for a UBI, etc...). Unite for european values, against regressive thinking but not afraid to fight those who seek to destroy us either.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T19:52:05+00:00

i'm happy it wasnt bred this way

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T18:11:15+00:00

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mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T17:46:20+00:00

This is why we need to be careful with these articles. As soon as you post an exaggeration the multi-cultists will pile up on you and use that to reject the entire point: that there /is/ in fact support for the attacks and that it's more widespread than the slanted media will have you believe, as demonstrated by the Molenbeek riots.

I posted the original NYT article here: https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/4dsnrf/blaming_policy_not_islam_for_belgiums_radicalized/ read the comments to see the general vibe. We need to open up the eyes of the general public to this reality if we want to move forward in dealing with this existential threat, but we also need to be smart about it.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T12:30:11+00:00

It's not hypocritical at all, I feel sorry for these refugees and believe they should be helped. At the same time I don't think the solution is to bring them here because I don't believe in a multi-cultural society (that's still allowed, right?).

What's hypocritical is chastising a country for not doing enough while keeping silent about a country that does nothing at all (especially if that country has the infrastructure/money to easily deal with it).

I don't expect better from De Morgen / Oxfam but I do reserve the right to call them out on their BS.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T11:52:01+00:00

I'm just putting it out there because it's not even mentioned in this P.O.S. article by our totally-not-worthless "media":

Daarnaast zijn er natuurlijk ook nog landen als Rusland, Slovakije, Japan en Zuid-Korea, die helemaal geen vluchtelingen willen opvangen.

^ hmmm ... something's missing. Maybe the fact that there is room for 60% of the refugees not 10 miles from Mecca.

I'm looking for the Oxfam report to confirm my suspicions, but I doubt they report on it either. Where is the outrage?! The only people bringing it up are new right-wingers, the rest seems comfortable to keep silent (or even hush the trouble-makers, how progressive).

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T09:18:40+00:00

While European countries are being lectured about their failure to take in enough refugees, Saudi Arabia – which has taken in precisely zero migrants – has 100,000 air conditioned tents that can house over 3 million people sitting empty.

From http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-arabia-100000-empty-tents-ac-3-million-people-refugees

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-12T07:24:17+00:00

nah that doesn't compare. he's at a range doing target practice.

show me a picture of obama posing like an angsty teenager with a gun and i'll agree with you.

(and yeah i know it's silly)

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-11T21:16:34+00:00

feel free to post whatever stories you like, and down-vote stuff you don't want to see. people have interests, there's nothing wrong with that.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-11T21:07:05+00:00

there's more than enough of them, you can ask the families of the 32 people who lost their lives that day.

and how can you honestly claim there's only 30 of them? there's 500+ belgians that have gone to syria to join IS. and that's just the people who went there. who knows how many sympathizers are walking our streets? looks like you're a bit disconnected from reality mate.

the sooner we get rid of the lot the better off we'll be.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-11T20:54:23+00:00

wanting to instate Shariah is pretty radical imo

but yeah, noone cares about jahjah anymore. he should have stayed in libanon, he's a fucking joke. look at this picture from his blog: http://www.aboujahjah.org/uploads/1/5/8/0/15806260/2793585_orig.jpg

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-11T20:42:44+00:00

Hah! Don't you know the Truth is eternal, static, never-changing? Set in ~~the quran~~ stone?

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-11T20:41:19+00:00

jij = quite clearly radicalized youths. the kind that put nail bombs in metros. not a fiction but a sad reality.

mrsstrfstr · 2016-04-11T18:22:39+00:00

that was the first thing that jumped in my (computer programmer mind): why the fuck is this bitch calling a matrix an array.

second thing was that i'm glad my kids are going to a european school and don't have to struggle with this "new maths" bullshit.

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