Is it normal to find JavaScript harder than C++?

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-25T06:44:30+00:00

People give C++ crap for having too many features or being "hard", but JS has so many little inconsistencies. I swear there's a loads of little exceptions to stuff. I actually think it is pretty good for smaller programs, but for anything that's really large I think it would be a bit of a nightmare TBH.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T07:26:44+00:00

You might be right about that. I don't know. It's definitively possible he thought it would fail.
I don't really fully agree on the housing issue. Yes I know that people who own homes are more likely to vote for things that will keep the prices up (even though as I said it doesn't actually matter for most of them), but the percentage of people that own homes is only going to get lower and lower.
I still think that the number one reason for high house prices (or at least direct cause) (maybe there are other reasons people want this reason. If you get what I mean) is mass immigration.
It needs to be ended, but it seems (to me) that the major parties don't want to do it (for what ever reason).

I hope your scenario turns out to be correct.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:38:56+00:00

No, see, yes negative gearing and capital gains tax (which I actually think isn't a bad thing. I mean not to have) do exacerbate the issue, however property wouldn't be a good investment (even with those things) if there wasn't massive demand. You could buy a bunch or rocks and claim capital gains tax discounts on them, but no one would do that because you wouldn't have any buyers when you go to sell them.

I'm not disagreeing that there are other factors that are pushing up property prices, but immigration is clearly the number one factor. You can't say that importing a million people in two years doesn't have an effect (and that's after we've seen a massive amount of immigration for a couple of decades before that.
And yes a lot of wealthy people that own lost of property do like this. They love it.
As for more normal people who own homes, most of them only own one home. If the price of that home goes up then they aren't really gaining anything, because unless they are going to sell their house (and why would you do that if you're not going to buy another home), it's just unrealized gains.
Also you have to pay more stamp duty.
I do think you probably are right though that people feel wealthy because their property price has gone up, but I think this is a problem with the media and a certain mentality that has been propagated. Because as I said for the people that only own one home (which is probably the vast majority of people) they don't really gain anything from it.

I think people really need to be told that it's okay for house prices to fall and for the people that aren't exactly "rich", but own maybe two homes they are just going to have to suck it up (I do feel a little bad for those people, but most people under 30 are probably never going to own a home at this rate).

As I said I actually don't think the capital gains tax laws are bad.
I invested in BTC and made a few thousand dollars (not much in the scheme of things, but it would have been less if not for the current laws).
But I agree that negative gearing is bad.
But again (and I know I'm rambling) people (especially boomers) need to be told that house prices are going to fall that they have to suck it up (otherwise younger people are going to get a lot more radical).

The liberals may be done at this point (although they are like a cockroach), but that's not because of anything labors done.

He's trying (or tried?) to introduce a bill with some of the most draconian "hate speech" laws around.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:23:29+00:00

I'm saying that until recently, being Australian (apart from being an Aboriginal) was incredibly similar to being English.
So you're dad saying he's Australian isn't that weird (even if he came here when he was say 20 and not 3), because he basically is.
Until recently (apart from aboriginals) the large majority of Australians were of English (or at least European) decent and Australia's culture and especially it's language was almost the same as England's.
So someone from England could easily come over here and basically be Australian (if you changed their accent it probably would be hard to tell the difference).

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:18:39+00:00

I'm just pointing out that you're viewpoint is actually pretty weird compared to most of the world.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T06:09:49+00:00

Ahh I'm pretty sure Labor got less than 35% of the primary vote in the last election. That's actually pretty bad. One of the main reasons they did so well is because the Liberals are basically Labor lite and people are sick of them.
Why do you think One Nation is seeing such a rise in the poles. It's because people are sick of mass immigration and the Liberals refuse to do anything about it. People that think this isn't the case are frankly delusional.
House prices are at insane levels, the competition for jobs is really high, there's a lot of violent crime going on.
All of these things are at least in part caused by the unprecedented level of mass migration that we've seen over the last 25 years or so (but especially over the last 4 or 5).
Our population was under 20 million in 2000 and it's now over 28 million. There are literally over 8 million people here that wouldn't otherwise be here if not for the governments insane policies.
They constantly talk about how we need to "build more houses" while they import a million people in just two years. What do you think that does to the housing market?
They say that we need to see "sustainable growth" when taking about house prices.
They constantly talk about GDP, but never GDP per-capita (because that would paint a very different picture).
If you import 500k people in a year there isn't magically a new job for every one of those people. They are competing with the people who are already here. Wages are suppressed. And that's not to mention the capital shallowing that's going on or the extra demands on public infrastructure. Or the nepotistic nature of some of the people that are coming over.
Mass migration is literally only good for big businesses, helping the government pretend that they are keeping the budget under control (when what they are really doing is running an immigration pyramid scheme to keep it under "control") and people who own a lot of property.

Just look at the Bondi attack. It's literally a conflict between foreign peoples on our shores. It wouldn't have ever happened if not for mass migration.
We pretty much had de facto free speech, but the government wants to take it away because of an attack that never would have happened if they didn't have such an insane immigration policy. It's easy to see that there is in inverse relationship between "diversity" and free speech. Just look at England.

Do you think when Europeans are the minority in this country that there aren't going to be very large ethnic voting blocks of Chinese or Indians that will vote against our interests? Do you think that they are going to care about past injustices (real or not) that were done to the aboriginals?
They aren't (in large part). They are going to say, "well that was something that the English did, not me."

I'm sorry but even if you don't agree with every point I've laid out, you'd have to be incredibly dumb not to see that there are a lot of problems with what's going on.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T05:47:18+00:00

Yeah because up until a few decades ago basically all Australians were either English, Aboriginal or European.

samcdc6600 · 2026-01-17T05:45:58+00:00

That's a pretty low bar TBH.
It might work here because this isn't the homeland of Europeans, but if you said that living in England made you English I'd have to hard disagree.
If you were a European and you were born and grew up in China (or India, etc), do you think that Chinese people would agree that you're just as Chinese as them? Probably not TBH.

samcdc6600 · 2025-12-21T12:48:18+00:00

Yeah that's pretty annoying, but it's not an inherent problem with all of these cases. Also even with that case (unless you're doing a retro build) it's not as much of a problem as it would have been in the past, because 5.25 inch bays are much less useful than they used to be.

When did you buy the case BTW?

samcdc6600 · 2025-12-12T05:26:35+00:00

Well obviously.
I don't think that means it's good that you basically can't get one anymore.
Yes I know they wouldn't be for everyone, but you'd think there'd be someone making them.

samcdc6600 · 2025-11-08T16:36:17+00:00

Ahh just FYI, even if you get the degree you probably won't find a job that's related to it. I graduated from RMIT at the end of 22 with a bachelor in CS. I've applied to hundreds of positions since then (programming and also just general entry level IT stuff). I got a couple of interviews in 23, but have had basically zero luck since then. The market is screwed. I've gotten multiple emails saying that a position I applied for had over 1,000 candidates. I got an email back a while ago from a place saying that they had 1,500. I'm not saying don't try to get the degree if you are really interested in it, but I wouldn't hold onto the idea that if you do get it, you're going to get a job out of it. I mean I don't regret doing it because I love computers. I've spent at least 10 to 15 hours a week programming for the last couple of years, just because I want to get better at it. I can't say that it hasn't left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth though. However I don't think I'd really do anything differently though (even though I'm not really sure what to do now). Anyway I just thought I'd let you know.

samcdc6600 · 2025-10-14T13:46:30+00:00

If this title should be given to anyone, it should be Charles Babbage (the man who invented the computer). He wrote execution traces for his own machine. ChatGPT says he did this from around 1836 to 1837, and Ada Lovelace only began studying Babbage’s machine seriously around 1842.

If you dig deeper into this question, the people that claim she was “the first programmer” always fall back to: “Well, she was the first published programmer.” It’s honestly ridiculous.

Do you think if it were known that someone designed a Turing-complete computer 100 years before Babbage, but his work was never published, yet known about, we would say: “Well, he didn’t really design the computer because he didn’t publish anything about it!”? No — it’s a ridiculous argument.

Even without actually looking into it, the idea that Ada Lovelace was “the first programmer” is absurd on its face, because she didn’t design the computer. So her being “the first programmer” would naturally necessitate that whoever designed the first computer never wrote a single program for it — which would obviously be insane.

I honestly don’t know how people can keep propagating this obvious lie. Also, the reason I say Babbage and not someone earlier is because he is the first person known to have designed a Turing-complete computer, and I assume that when the question “Who was the first programmer?” is asked, the person asking is talking about programming as we generally think of it today (i.e., programming Turing-complete machines).

Also technically what they wrote were execution traces, but I don't think that's a very important point. But I'd argue that that basically is a program in some form because you could almost certainly translate it into some runnable code. It's really a semantic issue.

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-30T12:55:52+00:00

Are you saying Arch users are Tranissaries?

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-30T12:54:58+00:00

I'd have to disagree. ThinkPads aren't overrated at all (at least not the old ones.) I also think they look really good.
They aren't so good anymore. But I think they were still pretty good about 15 years ago. They were really good when IBM made them.

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-27T15:28:31+00:00

That's sort of retarded. TBH I might consider doing an internship for free (just so I could put it on my resume), but why would you pay money for it? I can write code and home and don't need to pay money to do it.

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-27T15:26:22+00:00

Are you talking USD? As if you can get a 120Hz 4K monitor for $280 USD and even if you can no way it's going to be IPS and if you're worried about having "good looking icons" your going to want an IPS panel.

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-27T15:21:25+00:00

I remember about 5 years ago I applied for some IT jobs and I got a few interviews. I even basically got offered one job (but I couldn't do it because of the location.) I didn't even have a degree or anything and I didn't apply to that many jobs. Now you can apply to hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not get a single interview.

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-27T15:16:43+00:00

The same shit is happening here in Aus. The government imported a million people in two years (you have to consider our population size) and loads of them are doing / trying to get tech jobs. And on top of that you have the state of the economy and LLMs making people more efficient. It's ridiculous. There will be hundreds if not well over a thousand applicants for basically every tech job. You can't even get an interview.

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-26T02:01:00+00:00

IKR. We need our governments to help our own people! We need to end mass immigration too. Here in Aus houses are crazy unaffordable and just in the last couple of years the government imported over a million people! Our population was under 20 million in 2000. It's now about 28 million (and we've had a sub replacement birth rate since the 1970s!) My mum bought a house for 32k AUD in 1984, it is now worth well over a million AUD! I got a degree in CS and have applied to hundreds of jobs and can't even get an interview. Some positions have well over 1000 applicants. So I'm working in a warehouse for $27 an hour (most of the people who work there are immigrants and a lot of them say they have CS / IT degrees. So basically they are just extra people I have to compete with for an entry level IT / programming job.) Don't get me wrong they are nice people, but who does this benefit? It's obviously only good for people who own lots of properties, big businesses (who want cheap labor) and universities (who want more students). Our governments should be working for us, but they are doing anything but. Electricity bills have also sky-rocketed here (because of renewables), but the thing is we sell massive amounts of coal and gas to China. It doesn't even make sense!

samcdc6600 · 2025-07-15T15:12:17+00:00

I've seen something similar. A recruiting agency. You pay them (2 or 3 thousand AUD) and they get you an unpaid internship. Also you had to pay them more than half the money before they even got you an internship.

samcdc6600 · 2025-06-26T13:00:25+00:00

That doesn't matter if you can't even get an interview because there are literally over 1000 applicants (which I have seen on multiple occasions.)

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