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Re:AirportSim on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:55PM (#38031574)
I'm not ever buying anything on Steam ever again. Not after they started deleting games of my machine. I feel like someone came into my house and robbed me.
I have a strong feeling that the TypeScript user base is mostly composed of people who are not good at picking up other types of programming languages. IMO that is the biggest reason for TypeScript. My experience is that the people that always propose TypeScript in every JavaScript projects they join, are not very likely to be able to write software in C++, Elixir, Go, JavaScript, etc.. They can only handle object oriented, type safe architecture.
Re:Get Started Making Music on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:29AM (#35960306)
I love Live, but I just think it's too pricey. Just the standard version is $400 with taxes (in my country).
Re:Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:25AM (#34994847)
I've always heard about nix operating systems. So when asked if I preferred an nix environment for development or windows, it was an easy answer. Now there is nixOS and a programming language called nix. I know this annoys me more than it should do, but it also keeps me away from the nix language and nixOS because I think the name is such a obvious stupid decision, that I'm worried what else stupid decisions they made and I don't want to invest my own time finding out.
Re:Faithless singer Maxi Jazz dies, aged 65 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:59AM (#34126137)
There is usually a higher chance of finding the song your looking for on Spotify. Bands rarely put their songs that don't have a video yet on youtube. Then you have to rely on somebody else to upload a stolen version of it and hope the quality isn't bat.

I don't open youtube links to songs anymore. Chances are that the person who's sending you the link, the same one who won't bother to pay $11 to listen to music in good quality, isn't sending you a link to the official bands/labels channel, and the song is in bad quality. When you get a spotify link, you know you get good quality and the artist gets paid for your listen.

Re:2D Rubik's Cube easier to understand on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:29AM (#33717880)
How is this easier to understand? And is the Rubik's Cuber hard to understand at all?

You got 26 cubes in 3D space that need to go to their correct locations. They can move in 3 axis. They are color coded for recognition.

I think anyone is able to solve the first 2 layers intuitively. Just start by following one of those 26 little cubes and see how it moves about.

Nope. It's a country/language choice. Not an Apple choice.
The @ on Q is a keyboard layout standard adopted my some languages. At least it's not Apple's design decision.

I'm Icelandic and a programmer. I work with US Ansi layout keyboards. Working with Icelandic ISO layout is horrible when programming. All the "programming" keys are strewn all over the keyboard and hidden under the option layer. I think they did this to make space for the special letters in the Icelandic language. On the other hand in the US Ansi layout the "programming" keys are close to the home row.

Couple of examples, but you can find more if you want to: {} is easily accessible on the US Ansi, but Icelandic ISO it's under option+7 and option+0. ; is right under your pinky on the home row on the US Ansi, but shift+, on the Icelandic ISO layout.

The @ is also on Q on the Icelandic keyboards. Which is absolutely insane, because quitting applications in macOS you do cmd+Q and on windows I think it is ctrl+Q. On windows you have to do alt-gr+Q to get the @ symbol. But on macOS you can do both option+Q or option+2. I use the option+2. I'm not pressing that Q with a modifier combo, unless I intend on quitting something.

Re:Code Review Handbook on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:54AM (#33205196)
"Error establishing a database connection"

I guess something must've slipped through the code review.

I would like to get a fuel pump with my next car purchase.
Re:Watchman: Execute a command when something changes on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:54AM (#33097159)
Nice. I've been using yardman that's written for NodeJS and Crow written in Go. Nice to have something that's just bash.
Re:The Big [Censored] Theory on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:01AM (#32660589)
They somehow managed to make a bad show worse.
Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:03AM (#31860045)
Same here. I use it on all my devices. It's fast and it feels light weight and secure. I love developing for it because I can open web inspector for my iPad and iPhone.

I don't trust Chrome. When I went to App Store to get it, and the data Chrome gathers that is linked to your identity is: financial info, location, contact info, contacts, user conten, search history, browsing history, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics and other data. Safari also collects browsing history and location information, but they don't link it to your identity.

I would honestly not care if Chrome was 100% faster, because Google is severely lacking in their privacy policy.

Re:Ante: A low-level functional language on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:50PM (#31786323)
I calculated the dot product in my head because it looked off. Then I calculated it in my computer. Then I came to the comment section before losing all confidence in what I thought was a dot product of two vectors.
Re:Professional Programming: The First 10 Years on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:12AM (#31420355)
I agree with this article 100%. Got 14 years in the field and I've come to the same conclusions as well.
Re:When I made another Monkey Island on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:18AM (#31248603)
I love the Chuck Jones style in that game. I play through it at least 5-6 times a year. But I also just like Chuck Jones's stuff in general.