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You're right, benhurmarcel. My input here has come to nothing, and it wasn't a good input to begin with. I wish there was a retract option.

Not everyone has the time to learn yet another language. Besides, learning a language to understand content like this takes a lot of time. (I speak 4 languages already.)

Authors addendum: This post was a mistake on my part. Please downvote this post. Thank you! I would rather have a retract option, but there is none here on HN.

Original post:

Apologies to you on behalf of people who made you feel uncomfortable.

Full disclosure:

I had (still have?) negative biases/sentiments/stereotypes towards Americans: being ignorant, self-absorbed, reckless, careless etc.

And this almost made me have a knee-jerk reaction to the expressed desire to make the content in question available in English. As if I am tired of you Americans Americanizing everything you touch[2]. This sentiment is also expressed in Ramstein's song "Amerika"[3].

But that's why it is called a "stereotype". I shouldn't stereotype a population of +300 m out of a small sample size (that includes YouTube/Twitter too). I lose a lot of potential good/bad experiences if I continue to do that. And even if, for the sake of the argument, 90% match my silly stereotype, I still should have an optimistic modus operandi. Pessimism/cynicism is a counterproductive trait. You should be an optimist[1].

But putting all that aside, what makes you think that the inquirer is an American? He could be a French person knowing Japanese and Russian besides English.

Anyhow, we shouldn't follow protectionist policies. Nothing good comes out of that. We should be thankful/appreciative to people who are willing to share content with others (open source, creative commons, etc.).

References:

[1] Algorithms to Live By

[2] https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/01/04/report-plays...

[3] https://youtu.be/Rr8ljRgcJNM

Edit: for the people who take issue with my post here: I would appreciate a feedback on why my post is counterproductive/bad. Thank you!

Yep, I now use duckduckgo.com and yandex.com for reverse image searches.

Why is the EU so lenient with Sweden in that case?

I. C++ (related) forums from Germany and Japan that I've found (so far):

- https://www.c-plusplus.net/

- https://dixq.net/

II. Quality YouTube channels from Germany:

- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos

Explains societal/political/historical topics (in a neutral manner) to laypeople.

- https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos

Explains science topics (chemistry, biology, studies) to laypeople.

III. Quality YouTube channels from Japan:

- https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos

Math professor teaching linear algebra, analysis etc.

IV. Services from Germany

- https://www.mindfactory.de/

Computer hardware etc.

- web.de

For me the best European Dropbox alternative so far (Online-Speicher).

V. Services from Japan

- https://fc2.com/

Website hosting etc.

- https://www.nicovideo.jp/

The Japanese YouTube basically.

- https://www.rakuten.co.jp/

The Japanese Amazon.

VI. Concluding Remarks & Miscellaneous

- Arte, Phoenix make good documentaries. (But these were already mentioned by others.)

- https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/ - https://www.xmg.gg/en/

Laptops made/assembled in Germany.

- https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/

Some smartphones are made in Germany.

- https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos

By Genki Sudo (須藤 元気) former MMA fighter. He's now a politician.

- Hiroshi Abe (阿部 寛)

The Japanese Clint Eastwood.

- Kim Ki-duk

A Korean movie director that I happen to like.

PS: If I find/remember more interesting stuff from Japan and Germany, I will update this post. :)

My apologies. Yes that was perhaps a little weird from me. (But I am a socially awkward person anyway. :))

My intention was to inquire why person X came to that conclusion. Many people have different experiences throughout their lives. Some rich people wouldn't be perhaps able to empathize with poor people (making less than 10k a year). Some of them don't know (most of the time) what it is like to live with 10k a year and trying to make ends meet.

Louis CK expressed that sentiment in a clever manner: https://youtu.be/P3jLufZx3IM

So why did I come up with the "rich people example"? Well, I am trying to illustrate that we all have our blind spots somewhere. Different people, different experiences (and with that different levels of empathy/understanding).

Anyway, thanks for your input, paulcole & ploika! I think, I can see your point/sentiment better now.

> Starting with a software renderer is nuts.

No, not really. You can write a simplistic ray tracer and rasterizer in about 10 - 50 lines tops:

https://github.com/d26900/JamaisVu/blob/main/tests.c

Lines 66 - 91.

The result/screenshot: https://github.com/d26900/JamaisVu

If this is "nuts", then so be it. Let me be nuts. :P

Peter Shirley's one is nice too!

But he has 2 more:

https://gamephysicsweekend.github.io/

And you can do a very simple one in much less than 30 lines in C. ;)

Edit: Oops, it was the wrong one... This is the right one:

https://raytracing.github.io/

Sorry!

It's a great book! Thank you for your effort and for making it accessible to people for free!!!

Edit: (If I wouldn't be so poor, I would donate to your cause as well.)

I would start with fundamental rendering algorithms first before anything.

- Write a software rasterizer

- Write a software ray tracer

You can do all that without exiting a programming language's standard library.

I wrote a simple ray tracer (primary rays only) in vanilla C89 in about 30 lines (if you don't count the PPM image library that I made):

https://github.com/d26900/JamaisVu/blob/main/tests.c

Lines 66 - 91.

Screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d26900/JamaisVu/main/scree...

Here are great resources:

- https://www.scratchapixel.com/

- https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat...

- https://erkaman.github.io/posts/junior_graphics_programmer_i...?

- http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

> I'd like to keep my momentum going and hopefully remain physically capable when I'm old.

On that matter, here are some interesting people:

- Robert Durbin (64-year-old doing calisthenics): https://youtu.be/NPG94VMWPww

- Lucio Chiquito (the 104-year-old PhD student): https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p090s793/advice-from-a-104-ye...

Maybe it will serve some of you as an inspiration to draw upon. Who knows?

I think HN would benefit if more people would hop on board from different walks of life (doctors, lawyers, artists, moviemakers, photographers, manual laborers, philosophers, historians, economists ...).

So it is good to have you here.

All you need here is basically curiosity and friendliness.

> But the most interesting thing to me is the cognitive dissonance, ego, obstinacy, and single-mindedness of the discussions.

Can you illustrate your points of complaint with examples, please?

> It’s just as funny to me as browsing /r/SubredditDrama or any other hobby forum.

I think no community should take themselves too seriously. People are people at the end of the day. :)

IMHO: Stack Overflow was (and perhaps still is) a toxic place, and I am not alone with this sentiment:

https://insights.dice.com/2019/10/17/stack-overflow-moderato...

I find HN way better in that regard (friendliness).

Python is so cool and old (1991) or let's say "battle-tested". I really like minimalistic languages like C (1972) and Python. It seems like minimalistic languages have higher chances of survival.

That sentiment is shared by a significant amount of people[1][2][3][4], it seems.

I am also sympathetic to minimalism in life (owning essentials only) and in many of my (programming) projects (single-header libraries[5], minimal dependencies).

I think I would be content with C, Bash, Python and SDL alone, if I wasn't so dependent on the need to "exchange my time for money". (And perhaps Rust as well.)

References:

[1] https://www.askonomm.com/blog/i-dont-want-to-do-frontend-any...

[2] https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

[3] https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-08-31-portable-stable-softwa...

[4] https://copyanddesign.com/blog/the-benefits-of-static-websit...

[5] https://github.com/d26900/JamaisVu

Great recommendations!

Here's an HN-based book recommendation list for C++:

https://hackernewsbooks.com/topics/learning-c%2B%2B-programm...

"All links to Amazon, Safaribooks and O'Reilly get extracted once a week from Hacker News posts. We then rank the links based on how often they are mentioned and the karma of the user on Hacker News. So books mentioned several times by different people having high karma tend to rise to the top."

Reference:

https://hackernewsbooks.com/about

With "asset reverse engineering" I meant: recreating the assets from scratch. Just like a painter reproducing another painting.

Wow, impressive!

Can the assets be "reverse engineered" as well?

Also, can R* shut this project down? Is there a legal basis for them?

If we had "benevolent monarchs" (riches, people of power) who have always our best interest in mind, I would agree with you. But these "monarchs" aren't benevolent they simply do not care about us other than manipulating us as "dumb sheep".

And I still believe that the majority of people (us) are decent. Yes we can be like sheeple, but the best cure for that is education and/or political prevention mechanisms against our ills (lobbying, populism and gullibleness).

Was money always the primary incentive or did you just lose the passion for programming over time?

Well not quite. I based it on the Stack Overflow developer surveys as well (Tiobe too). Tiobe is basically a measure for how often a language is searched for, if I am not mistaking. Rust for example has a small market share (based on the Indeed Japan results). I still want to use Rust (even if I don't get to use it in a professional setting).

Though, I understand your sentiment, but I guess it's a "technically I am right situation". Or what do you think?

Tl;dr: I picked Rust. :)

Edit: Though on a second thought: you are actually right! :) Sorry OP!

I picked 11 languages that I found to be interesting:

C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript, Swift.

Then for each language I created categories (7 in total):

- Job Results from Indeed Japan

- Release Year

- Salary in Yen

- Stack Overflow's Dreaded Languages

- Stack Overflow's Loved Languages

- Stack Overflow's Wanted Languages

- Tiobe Rank

After that, I first discarded 63 % of the suboptimal languages from each category (37 % rule). And selected (roughly) 37 % of the most optimal languages from each category.

Finally, I gave a point for the top 37 % languages in each category, and it culminated to:

1. Python

2. JavaScript

3. Rust & TypeScript

4. C

IOW: the 37 % rule tells me that these programming languages are decent.

Python, JavaScript/TypeScript and C have a solidified job market already. (More than 9000 results; ignoring the outlier TS. A minimum salary of 800000 yen.) The only outlier with the lowest result was Rust. (Kotlin was the second lowest, and Swift the 3rd lowest.) But the heavy Stack Overflow weighing (42 %) brought Rust into the top 4.

So the answer is: Rust. (The language that I would like to use in a professional setting, but can't.)

Websites used:

- https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-mo...

- https://jp.indeed.com/

- wikipedia.org

- https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

That's an interesting proposition/sentiment. I haven't thought about that. As if "neo-monarchy" (the status quo) is necessary for us "dumb" humans.

But there are problems as well with that. Brexit is a good example. Rich people got their way by fooling the masses through targeted propaganda. And the masses got screwed (lost many rights) because of that.

But your sentiment is a little cynical/hyperbolic too for my tastes. Not everyone is a QAnon maniac. I think the majority of people are decent.

Thank you, I really appreciate your input!

Then how would you decide whether a finding/study is valid or not? What is your modus operandi in that case? Is there an algorithm for this (for selecting good studies or for finding the truth)?

> The constant rate of "New Study Finds Coffee Improves [insert health benefit]" articles

Yep, this has become so inflationary, but it doesn't mean that studies and findings are invalidated per se. If multiple (independent) findings come to the conclusion X, then the correlation becomes stronger and stronger. When the correlation is strong (multiple findings conclude X), then you can be reasonably certain that X is likely. Or am I wrong with this?

Yes, powerful lobbying organizations not only had success with the food industry, but with things like Brexit too.

There's also an interesting finding[1]:

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism."

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Valter Longo? Nutrition science is fuzzy. It isn't like physics or mathematics. Water fasting, calorie restriction[2], keeping your protein low and having a joyful life[1] seem convincing to me (Blue Zones), but I am yet another layman here.

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-8...

[2] https://nintil.com/longevity/

By keeping up with lobbying organizations and lobbies disguised as "think tanks". (Lobbies had a major influence on Brexit for example. In other words, lobbies are really powerful.)