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The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

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Re: The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

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> there were no emotional, psychological, psychiatric, subconscious, etc. considerations at all > I heard good things about big shops successfully using Windows Server for Web sites and running database. I need database, and Microsoft's SQL Server seems well respected, understood, popular, documented, stable, etc. This clearly suggests a yearning for a father figure. What was your parents' relationship like when you…

Non-relational :(

Re: The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

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Psychoanalysis: psychologists that don't do experiments, according to my university. Because of this they were briefly covered during one lecture and then completely tossed aside. Psychology != experimental psychology Yes, experimental psychologists have a field that almost completely crumbled, but at least they (1) admitted it and (2) some of them try to conduct science and succeed at it (most don't succeed unfortun…

Not to spoil anyone's surprise, but the title of mettamage's linked video is "Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs".

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I dare say the title of this is an allusion to Zizek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pervert%27s_Guide_to_Cinem...

Yep the talk is about Zizek and Lacan amongst other things

interesting! I'll be sure to watch it then!

Re: The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

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This video: a) is utter nonsense b) even if it wasn't, the theory presented has exactly zero practical application

Such things can still make a fine Hacker News submission. " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> A good critical comment teaches us something

Feel free to discard point number one of my post if you enjoy watching that kind of tripe.

Point number two of my post teaches us not to waste 30 minutes of our lives watching something that serves no practical purpose whatsoever.

Re: The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there were no emotional, psychological, psychiatric, subconscious, etc. considerations at all > I heard good things about big shops successfully using Windows Server for Web sites and running database. I need database, and Microsoft's SQL Server seems well respected, understood, popular, documented, stable, etc. This clearly suggests a yearning for a father figure. What was your parents' relationship like when you…

Non-relational :(

him: one-to-many, her: one-too-many

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From the video... Psychopath Languages: Javascript, PHP, VBA, and SQL Masochist Languages: C, Assembly, Ada, Brainfuck, and Factor Sadist Languages: Perl, Clojure, Erlang, and Regex Fetishistic Languages: Erlang, Smalltalk, Elixir, and Factor Obsessional Languages: Java, C++, Haskell, Scala, Go Hysterical Languages: Python, Ruby, C#, Prolog, Elixir, and Matlib Depression Languages: COBOL Melancholy Languages: Lisp, S…

As someone who has primarily worked with Perl, JavaScript, SQL during their career, and who has a penchant for regular expressions, I'm a sadistic psychopath. Super. I mean I've been told I'm pretty unemotional, but sadism would definitely be a new development.

> sadism would definitely be a new development

I guess that might depend upon your regexps and how gnarly/undocumented they are :-)

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From the video... Psychopath Languages: Javascript, PHP, VBA, and SQL Masochist Languages: C, Assembly, Ada, Brainfuck, and Factor Sadist Languages: Perl, Clojure, Erlang, and Regex Fetishistic Languages: Erlang, Smalltalk, Elixir, and Factor Obsessional Languages: Java, C++, Haskell, Scala, Go Hysterical Languages: Python, Ruby, C#, Prolog, Elixir, and Matlib Depression Languages: COBOL Melancholy Languages: Lisp, S…

Where do Nock and Hoon belong (from Urbit, for those who are out of the loop)?

Both require either pitiful naivete or admirable courage...wherever those go.

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This is a really interesting take on the psychological motivations behind language choice. I don't know if they're 100% right, but just the concept that people choose languages based on psychological effects is worth watching the video over, even if you end up disagreeing.

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> there were no emotional, psychological, psychiatric, subconscious, etc. considerations at all > I heard good things about big shops successfully using Windows Server for Web sites and running database. I need database, and Microsoft's SQL Server seems well respected, understood, popular, documented, stable, etc. This clearly suggests a yearning for a father figure. What was your parents' relationship like when you…

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Re: The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

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So according to this video these psychoanalysts completely redefined a good number of emotionally charged terms when developing their theories?

Or did people hear the words and redefine them later? The wanton disregard for existing structures really bugs me, perhaps more than it should. It's seemingly intentionally misleading, like they're afraid other people will find their conclusions too simplistic so they intentionally obfuscated the language to appear more sophisticated.

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