> I found it ironic that this programmer seemed not to realize that I had used Lisp as my primary language for 15 years of my career.
Why is that ironic?
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
My account was reset. I've been around since day two. :) You're right, it has some downfalls. But a lot of the time it simply doesn't matter. All the links at https://www.tensorfork.com/tpus are dynamic, and the speed you gain by being able to whip up a feature in 10 minutes is worth the pain of an occasional dead link. On the other hand, I did some work for "deduplicating fnids": http://arclanguage.com/item?id=20996…
Are fnids anything like Fnords? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord Or are they more like Vermicious Knids? https://roalddahl.fandom.com/wiki/Vermicious_Knids
Fnord!
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#33Arc is underrated as an information management tool. There's something to be said for having a web framework that works out of the box. Rails is probably the only other framework that makes it as easy to "just make some forms that pass data around and run some code on that data." But not quite -- I haven't seen arc's closure-storing technique used in any other web framework. The main issue that arc solves is that it…
problem with those frameworks that "just works" is that they get old pretty darn fast.
it handles all your sql and auth cookies? too bad now there's an easy way every script kiddie can now login as admin or guess cookies without the security header du jour.
It's all nice and all when it's being actively updated. But arc, rails, phoenix-ecto, node/react, drupal, spring, etc it all get old pretty soon when the core maintainers loose focus, and then instead of just keeping an eye on the latest best practices and implementing it yourself, you have to dive deep down into years of feature creep and bad coding practices to do the little thing you need to keep things going.
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#34> I found it ironic that this programmer seemed not to realize that I had used Lisp as my primary language for 15 years of my career. Why is that ironic?
If somebody is trying to school you, and if there is a reason to believe you work in a genius-factory, then its ironic that the school-er doesn't do their homework into the school-ee to understand what they might be doing.
Go back to school?
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#35Man. I miss Johnny Cash. His cover of NIИ's Hurt is so powerful. June Carter (his wife) died a few months after filming the video, and that just broke his heart. Johnny followed her less than six months later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI Trent Reznor admitted that the song was no longer his after watching it.
I like mostly metal, industrial, heh even ska, ... bust mostly death metal, but then there is Johnny Cash, and I hate country - though not Johnny - there is something about it - also Willie Nelson (and few other, probably there is more, it's just that I don't like mainstream one...)
Nah, most country on the radio just doesn't have the same kinda honesty that Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson had. Nor do they have the kind of intensity that a man like Cash had. It just isn't the same. Fellow metalhead who likes ska, btw.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
You haven't been around long enough, at least under the same name, to remember when there was an implicit time limit on the comment reply page, inflicted by those stored closures silently timing out. Having long comments so often eaten that way was actually the specific thing that annoyed me into first installing It's All Text. It's an interesting approach, as attempts to force statefulness on a stateless-by-design p…
My account was reset. I've been around since day two. :) You're right, it has some downfalls. But a lot of the time it simply doesn't matter. All the links at https://www.tensorfork.com/tpus are dynamic, and the speed you gain by being able to whip up a feature in 10 minutes is worth the pain of an occasional dead link. On the other hand, I did some work for "deduplicating fnids": http://arclanguage.com/item?id=20996…
the speed you gain by being able to whip up a feature in 10 minutes is worth the pain of an occasional dead link
This is everything that is wrong with the software industry, summarized in one sentence. Speed gain enjoyed by developers is paid for by the users in pain.
It used to be that developers would go through tremendous amounts of pain just to squeeze out a few instructions from a UI drawing routine in order to make it just a little bit smoother for the users. Now those developers are derided as "greybeards."
I'm sorry, I probably could have found a less harsh and cynical way of writing all that, but I feel like the Internet is getting worse everyday and there's not enough urgency among tech people.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I know when I was 25 I was damn sure I knew better than anyone twice my age. This is why I've long believed voting systems should restrict the voting age to 16-28. After all, whom would you rather have voting: people wracked with doubt and who fear their own ignorance, or people who know everything?
I'd rather have "people wracked with doubt and who fear their own ignorance" :)
Ah, so you don't believe in experts, eh? Not even ones apparently expert on every subject?
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#38> I found it ironic that this programmer seemed not to realize that I had used Lisp as my primary language for 15 years of my career. Why is that ironic?
If somebody is trying to school you, and if there is a reason to believe you work in a genius-factory, then its ironic that the school-er doesn't do their homework into the school-ee to understand what they might be doing. Go back to school?
How did you gather all of that from the short paragraph at the beginning of the article?
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#39I remember reading something someplace that was something like ... the problem with being old and full of wisdom is it's hard to share that wisdom with the people that need it most without sounding like an old condescending jerk. Plus, they won't listen anyways. The best you can hope for is that when they are old and full of wisdom they'll remember you and think "hey that old guy was right" . I know when I was 25 I w…
For engineering/creative endeavours at least, the trick is to keep making things that support what you say. It's pretty easy to get people to listen to you if they respect your skill. On the other hand, words are cheap.
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#40Man. I miss Johnny Cash. His cover of NIИ's Hurt is so powerful. June Carter (his wife) died a few months after filming the video, and that just broke his heart. Johnny followed her less than six months later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI Trent Reznor admitted that the song was no longer his after watching it.
Johnny Cash guest starred in the best Columbo episode ever, "Swan Song":
https://columbophile.com/2018/03/11/episode-review-columbo-s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtLYJ4STuXY
He was humping the pretty young girl singer, and murdered the mean old lady bible thumper in an airplane crash, then when Columbo finally (but barely) caught him, he was so remorseful he said he wanted to get caught all along.