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Re:Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not on Saturday September 21, 2019 @11:06AM (#21035787)
Which west? The one that has legal corruption under name of lobbying? Or the west which has internally, without the need of pescy public's say, elected chair of governance?
For me it was mostly video games. I have vivid memories of teachers' being astounded by how much I already knew as far as elementary. Though it was funny that I knew what "sword" is but other more common words eluded me.
Re:PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands on Saturday August 24, 2019 @08:06PM (#20790508)
Vim should be learned by blood sweat and tears Or you could just curse the random box you ssh into for not having nano
Re:Announcing Rust 1.36.0 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:02PM (#20357297)
Writing modern safe c++ isn't really the hassle everyone makes out of. Besides smart pointers the clang's sanitizers go a long way. I did try to pitch Rust at my corp but aforementioned safety checks are considered enough against the overhead of learning new language and I agree. Personally I don't like the Rc and Box syntax that's required to get a simplest homebrew version of even linked list going, C++'s metaprogramming hacks are rivaling that.

I wish the stigma against "unsafe" C++ was a bit more rational. People who use it aren't the kind fresh out of bootcamps and mostly realise the gains and risks. But maybe I'm skewed by my job which uses C++ and takes any risks seriously.

That's a really sad way of looking at things
Re:Turtletoy on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:58PM (#18683500)
I won my first (and only) programming contest in Logo. Fun to see the idea alive.
Re:Firefox 64 Released on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:39PM (#18658635)
Are there a command pop up with tab search and mouse gestures built in yet? These as well as multitab selection kinda won me over to Vivaldi a year and bit back
Re:How Restaurants Got So Loud on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:50AM (#18550598)
Libraries aren't supposed to be "fun".
This train of thought only made me ask myself if the piece itself is real at all. The wonders of internet
Re:System Shock 1 source code released under GPL on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:49PM (#16769069)
Dunno if just mobile problem, but most code has ^M instead of linebreaks; hard to browse oneline source