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New comment by cloop_floop in "Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary"

cloop_floop — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:35:08 +0000

That's a retarded takeaway.

New comment by cloop_floop in "Mathematicians Bridge Finite-Infinite Divide"

cloop_floop — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 02:16:07 +0000

You just gave me a new frame for thinking about a few things I'd already learned, as well as some interesting leads on questions I didn't even know to ask. Thank you!

New comment by cloop_floop in "Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs"

cloop_floop — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:47:09 +0000

Cities are cool to think about for that reason. They're formed because it's more efficient logistically for all these economic actors to come together. However, they're unpleasant (in some ways, but not others) to live in because of side effects of the same processes: concentrated noise, pollution, etc.

New comment by cloop_floop in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

cloop_floop — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:13:32 +0000

I'd love more contributions to cross-platform native UI toolkits and frameworks. Write once, run anywhere native apps have a place.

New comment by cloop_floop in "Buying time promotes happiness"

cloop_floop — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:31:44 +0000

Even if I accepted these calculations, I still have to work a 40 hour week. I can't optimize time spent on my profession, time spent on life maintenance, and leisure time. So I just work with what I have left over, and given these constraints I choose not to change my own oil, sure as I am I could do it.

New comment by cloop_floop in "Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood (2015)"

cloop_floop — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:00:47 +0000

Ah, so you've encountered jQuery.

New comment by cloop_floop in "The long arrow operator in C++"

cloop_floop — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:11:51 +0000

this is beautiful AND insane bravo

New comment by cloop_floop in "Analyzing GitHub, how developers change programming languages over time"

cloop_floop — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 22:40:01 +0000

Some possible confounding variables: what if certain language users are more likely to squash commits? what if certain language users are more likely to have private repos?

New comment by cloop_floop in "The Beauty of Programming (2001) [pdf]"

cloop_floop — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:40:00 +0000

I enjoy programming games and other things as a hobby, but the work can fall short of your points especially in my experience in web development:

2. After days of work, your entire branch can be discarded when the feature spec changes 4. Repetitive tasks abound 5. Not so much creating from pure thoughtstuff, but rather intractable legacy codebases on top of bothersome system configuration

Your last quote sounds nice, but ignores the reality of coding. Even good coders have to write ugly (hard to maintain regardless of data structures) code sometimes. The real world just introduces edge cases which make even the most beautiful system have warts in places. Web development exposes concurrency, scaling and other things which can lead to tradeoffs against code cleanliness.