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damck··on Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not
Which west? The one that has legal corruption under name of lobbying? Or the west which has internally, without the need of pescy public's say, elected chair of governance?
damck··on Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learning English
For me it was mostly video games. I have vivid memories of teachers' being astounded by how much I already knew as far as elementary. Though it was funny that I knew what "sword" is but other more common words eluded me.
damck··on PacVim – PacVim is a game that teaches you vim commands
Vim should be learned by blood sweat and tears Or you could just curse the random box you ssh into for not having nano
damck··on Announcing Rust 1.36.0
Writing modern safe c++ isn't really the hassle everyone makes out of. Besides smart pointers the clang's sanitizers go a long way. I did try to pitch Rust at my corp but aforementioned safety checks are considered enough against the overhead of learning new language and I agree. Personally I don't like the Rc and Box syntax that's required to get a simplest homebrew version of even linked list going, C++'s metaprogramming hacks are rivaling that.

I wish the stigma against "unsafe" C++ was a bit more rational. People who use it aren't the kind fresh out of bootcamps and mostly realise the gains and risks. But maybe I'm skewed by my job which uses C++ and takes any risks seriously.

damck··on A Teen Programmer Built a Tool to Generate Fake Lyrics for Your Favorite Artists
That's a really sad way of looking at things
damck··on Turtletoy
I won my first (and only) programming contest in Logo. Fun to see the idea alive.
damck··on Firefox 64 Released
Are there a command pop up with tab search and mouse gestures built in yet? These as well as multitab selection kinda won me over to Vivaldi a year and bit back
damck··on How Restaurants Got So Loud
Libraries aren't supposed to be "fun".
damck··on The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager
This train of thought only made me ask myself if the piece itself is real at all. The wonders of internet
damck··on System Shock 1 source code released under GPL
Dunno if just mobile problem, but most code has ^M instead of linebreaks; hard to browse oneline source