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New comment by andreasgonewild in "JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition"

andreasgonewild — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:33:38 +0000

JavaScript and PHP are badly/barely designed languages, period; no amount of excuses and comparisons is going to change the fact. Anyone with a bit of experience in either Ruby or Python will tear their hair out when doing JS, because they know it doesn't have to be that difficult. These days it's looking more and more like C++ every day...

New comment by andreasgonewild in "JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition"

andreasgonewild — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:29:29 +0000

That says more about Java than Script though, and I've done enough of that to feel your pain. Coming from plenty of experience with sane dynamic languages (Common Lisp/Smalltalk/Clojure/Julia), it looks exactly like the madness it is. It's a difference in perspective, that's all. It's not about foolproof, it's about having any kind of intellectual integrity at all.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]"

andreasgonewild — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 04:00:14 +0000

For a programming language, I much prefer function over form. Same goes for gadgets, but that's another story.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]"

andreasgonewild — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:40:24 +0000

Good luck with that.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]"

andreasgonewild — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:39:27 +0000

Because real languages allow creating your own abstractions to fill the gaps, Go doesn't. Witness the total lack of decent error handling and data structures; despite probably thousands of people trying their best from user code. It's the iPhone of programming languages.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]"

andreasgonewild — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:27:33 +0000

C is primitive but powerful. Go is primitive and safe. I would classify the Wirth-family of languages as safe but powerful. It all comes down to power; Go was explicitly designed to enable armies of lesser code monkeys to work together without anyone getting hurt.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (2011)"

andreasgonewild — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:38:03 +0000

That, or some sort of Forth; the separate keyword also enables calling anonymous functions recursively:

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Tom Duff on Duff's device (1988)"

andreasgonewild — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:32:19 +0000

Been there, done that :) It's a neat trick, but the issue for me is that you still need to pass a separate struct for state which breaks the illusion enough that you might as well just write an ordinary iterator.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Software 2.0"

andreasgonewild — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:39:26 +0000

How can it be better when it fails randomly and we don't even understand how it works? Where I come from, that's the worst kind of software.

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andreasgonewild — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:48:43 +0000

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New comment by andreasgonewild in "Ask HN: How to go from zero to software engineer?"

andreasgonewild — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 01:10:51 +0000

Write lots of code, in different languages; find increasingly real problems to challenge your skills. Unless, of course, you're just interested in becoming another whatever; then you're better off memorizing buzzwords and JavaScript frameworks.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol"

andreasgonewild — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:38:38 +0000

Go kill yourself (?) for someone else's (?) profit then, you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol"

andreasgonewild — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:25:21 +0000

Google not working for you? I picked this at random, you'll have to use your own brain if you want to know more:

https://draxe.com/canola-oil-gm/

"Canola oil is a Canadian invention that’s backed by Canada’s government, cheap to manufacture, and many packaged or processed foods contain it. Canola oil was first created in the early 1970s as a natural oil, but in 1995, Monsanto created a genetically modified version of canola oil. As of 2005, 87 percent of canola grown in the U.S. was genetically modified, and by 2009, 90 percent of the Canadian crop was genetically engineered."

New comment by andreasgonewild in "Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol"

andreasgonewild — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:14 +0000

Yes, and rape seed oil has the about the same combination of fatty acids as olive oil; which is healthy; but it's still poisonous gmo crap. Same goes for HFCS. The amount of genetic manipulation, processing and refining matters.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "After the end of the startup era"

andreasgonewild — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 22:22:49 +0000

You are also most probably human, have you even bothered to have a look inside?

New comment by andreasgonewild in "After the end of the startup era"

andreasgonewild — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 22:21:42 +0000

It's always there for anyone to grab. Try lying on your back with all your gadgets turned off and eyes closed; and observe your brain thinking for a while; which is about as difficult as meditation needs to be. Might take some practice to not identify with the thoughts and get carried away, or to not block yourself by trying too hard. Then ask yourself while lying there: Who am I? Literally :) Who is observing the thoughts? The experience is not of this world, it can't be transferred using words. There are other ways to get a glimpse, mushrooms, ayahuasca etc; but introspection is the way to go for lasting results. I spent 32 years writing software, and I just know that a computer will never be able to do the same thing.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI"

andreasgonewild — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:58:06 +0000

Pharo (http://pharo.org) is also worth mentioning on the subject of modern Smalltalk environments.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "After the end of the startup era"

andreasgonewild — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:05:31 +0000

This boils down to a fundamental divide in life view. Anyone who has done any amount of expanding their consciousness will tell you that there is a ghost in the machine. It's always a mistake to assume that all you can see is all there is to see.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis"

andreasgonewild — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:29:35 +0000

They're tested by the same psychos that created the drugs and their bought fan club, otherwise things like Oxy would never have made it to market. It's worth repeating, big pharma is all about creating return customers; nothing that comes out of that mess is ever going to solve problems.

New comment by andreasgonewild in "The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis"

andreasgonewild — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:37:43 +0000

From my perspective, OxyContin is obviously designed to be as addictive as possible; and they have been lying all along. These people are not fully functioning humans, they will do whatever it takes to generate more profits. I promised myself to never touch their artificial crap again; if it doesn't grow on the ground, I'm not interested.