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Coffee Is Hard

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Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by jschwartzi »

throw0101a wrote: post #44
Loughla wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to sound too much like a hippie, either, but I learned (actually after having a kid as well) that when people talked about enjoying the ride, that's what they were talking about - the tedious stuff. I always assumed it meant travel more and look for adventure, but I have come to understand that 'enjoying the ride' in your life, not always just pursuing some next thing is about enjoying the tedium. Some of my favo…

Sisyphus may disagree. :) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

The horrifying aspect of Sisyphus is that he is doomed to do it for all eternity. Whereas we have only a limited time to cherish or despise every carpet vacuumed until we die. I believe that we transcend the mundane every time we embrace it and truly live it instead of wishing desperately to be doing something else.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by RugnirViking »

cagenut wrote: post #55

Thinking about stuff like this is fascinating in the context of just how much massively more of a big deal its going to become very very soon. Specifically, if you draw the trend line on the size and price of kuka/fanuc/abb robot arms, and you put UR's models in there for today, we are really only 3 - 5 years away from you having a robot arm sitting on your kitchen counter that you can script to make your coffee for…

While UR robots are techincally collaborative robots (rated safe for operation without a cage around them), I am sure that putting them into people's homes is asking for trouble.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by comicjk »

czinck wrote: post #3

Probably worth noting that he also wrote the very well done "Programming Sucks" article, https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks and the original HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825 . If you hadn't read that post, definitely worth it.

I like the core description of programming, but the framing - that programming is tougher than manual labor - is childish. Life is not a competition for whose job is hardest, and if it were, no one on Hacker News would win it.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by bluejay2387 »

Take a look at rules engines and Expert Systems technology. Its a more declarative way to handle complex logic that allows you to state facts and let a inference engine handle the nested nature of dependent logical conditions. It will decrease the amount of work needed to code this part of your game. With your current approach you end up in the logic programming version of Node's call back hell before we had tools like async await. As an aside, I run into developers taking the same approach with business logic in enterprise apps all the time -- with the same consequences.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by lacampbell »

davinic wrote: post #67
bigred100 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She may also be a deranged and unrepentant child abuser who uses whatever societal approval is thrown her way to justify and escalate her abuse. There’s simply no way to know.

You've missed the point.

Maybe they understood the point and disagreed with it.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by afrodc_ »

nebulous1 wrote: post #85
TurkishPoptart wrote: post #10

I really like this guy's writing and am grateful that he shared some of the coding challenges. I'd really like to be able to program games like this, and while I'm not a programmer, I'd like to learn how. In TFA he shares some of the code to check the coffee "state": >'LOOK AT COFFEE MAKER': () => { if( State.scene.state.coffeedrunk ) { return "The coffee maker has done its job and mercifully drained the last life ou…

If you want to create a game you could go with GameMaker or Construct 2 or Adventure Game Studio (if you want an adventure game like SQ1 that he's describing). These are applications that provide you with an interface you can interact with, along with an associated programming language in order to make things happen. So you can draw levels and place objects with your mouse, and then make them move with a script. Game…

Construct is great for simple games like this and is pretty intuitive.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by simpsond »

If coding coffee is hard, coding espresso is really hard. More steps, more precision required... just like making espresso in reality. I like the theme of the article.

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by cagenut »

RugnirViking wrote: post #92
cagenut wrote: post #55

Thinking about stuff like this is fascinating in the context of just how much massively more of a big deal its going to become very very soon. Specifically, if you draw the trend line on the size and price of kuka/fanuc/abb robot arms, and you put UR's models in there for today, we are really only 3 - 5 years away from you having a robot arm sitting on your kitchen counter that you can script to make your coffee for…

While UR robots are techincally collaborative robots (rated safe for operation without a cage around them), I am sure that putting them into people's homes is asking for trouble.

trouble's coming!

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by alchemism »

There is a famous Zen saying (which) describes nothing-yet-everything about this:

“Before Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

After Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.”

Re: Coffee Is Hard

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Post by timClicks »

I still regret that I was never able to finish any of those games. Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest and others. I poured hours into them and never got to the end. The worst was Kings Quest V. I really wanted to get that one, but I'm still left with not much more than regret, guilt and anger.
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