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Ruby’s awesome. This would have slapped in Ruby.

WTF is this shit?

I’m impressed by your really clean website. Could you please share what stack and backend platforms you’re using for this?

Relationship design patterns for effective communication.

I guess what they mean by nemesis is someone who is basically your peer, but sincerely trying to be much better than you. It works when they aren’t just your rival out to crush you, but someone much more “honourable” who wants to beat you the right way, maybe even share what they learn along the way. Rather than a nemesis, this is commonly known as a “great friend” and isn’t that much easier relationship to find than a mentor. In fact depending on the culture and industry, a mentor who isn’t all knowing but much more experienced and wiser than yourself is a more common occurrence.

I feel that people just bikeshed too much about these things when really all you need to do is be helpful where you can and don’t be an asshole.

Top 10 anime tropes of all time.

The moment they put up a user reviews feature similar to steam, the entire platform would be exposed as the barren wasteland that it actually is. Most of the content is pretty substandard and not worth the time investment.

I think the convention is to only use the <expression><if…> for a guard statement. ie `return if condition true|false` which is perfectly readable.

A lot of language angst seems based on specific syntax issues, for people migrating/visiting from other programming “cultures” rather than community evolved style issues.

True. Maybe he's just a slow coder and thinks it would go faster if someone familiar with the codebase tries to fix it.

This was awesome.

If you’ve done all this then how in this world are you not a “real” developer?

Safari cannot open the page.

The error was “could not decode raw data”

The most frequent reason I turn to stack overflow, is for solutions to things I just don’t care about right now. Like, for example, how do I get bootstrap to work in webpacker for rail, etc. I don’t really care about this, I’d rather just be writing ruby code. And even in these cases, SO isn’t that helpful half the time because either the answer is 3 years old and outdated or there used to be a relevant answer but it has been deleted for some violation.

As an adult male, I’d rather not get my flesh bitten off or maimed. So I cannot engage in a fight with any monkey. The only fight that I would rather fight is one in which I have overwhelming odds of winning.

Is there any place where you can discuss the textbook problems in this course?

I thought the software division had help. In the form of many many developers making apps for the platform. What happened to them?

Can’t you just uninstall the app after 1 use. How would they continue to track you later?

I tried this program under Ubuntu 20.04 (gcc 9.3.0) and got the "Cannot allocate memory" message.

In some regions of the Midwest, like Missouri for example, the range of choices is comparable to what you would see in India. The wealth difference between places like California or Washington and India is staggering. It stands to reason that there would be a lot more companies fighting and thriving in such a larger economy.

Are there no wealthy people, over there, who just don’t want to work out?

Misaeng - how mega corporations won’t give you a chance even if you only want to do a good job for said corporation in the first place.

At some positions of responsibility you are required to make quick assessments of people that will govern how you interact with them in the future. There is no time to sit and think if this other person is a good father/mother/friend etc. That comes later when you seriously decide to invest in a relationship. I don’t see how forming strong first impressions for people you’ll hardly ever see again is a bad strategy.

To the one in the receiving end, you can choose to get intimidated by a larger than life personality like Steve Jobs, and focus on what he said to you and get crushed by any admonition or, conversely, lose your head by any praise.

This is not any good. Rather, look at the situation for what it is. It’s a mini-game. Good or bad outcomes should only inform future actions, and not be allowed to take over your thought process for unnecessarily long periods.

Content from monitors, ie information carried by monitor blue light, maybe a danger to eyes or sleep. :)

In some religious rituals, devotees offer luxury items to gods to appease them. These are items like new clothes, food, maybe even non-metallic jewelry. These are subsequently burned on a pyre by the way of offering them to the gods. Bitcoin is like that, only now you have a receipt on the blockchain. I like it.

Because so much of programming is written at a high level, most coders don’t know what the hell they are doing. Maybe the level of abstraction achieved makes it impossible to know.

Edit: One of the reasons is that because there are a very few people (probably) who do the low level stuff, there aren’t enough eyes on the code and a lot of vulnerabilities left in production.

Software companies are maybe incentivised to hire a lot of programmers who can start delivering on day 1. This wouldn’t be possible without the convenience afforded by high level languages.

Is there an aggregator for “coding drama”? Because this was all very fun to see.

My mouse would start lagging whenever I “moused” over an active Windows terminal window, in spite of running a brand new system with a 3070 GPU etc. Did they ever manage to fix that?

I found it very funny that the Hindi sample text on display, in the YouTube refterm demo, means “You can wake up someone who is sleeping, but how do wake up someone who is hell bent on pretending to sleep?”.

I’m not a specialist in these issues, first of all.

The value of money goes down because of inflation, which is why you are incentivised to earn more when you’re younger, so after accounting for decay, you have enough saved up for your eventual retirement.

But a deflationary system like gold, btc etc. are a tad unfair because the early adopters in the founding generation accumulate “a fortune for generations” for say an x amount of work, whereas an individual born in an established crypto or gold system will only accumulate an exponentially low fortune for a similar kind of effort. So this locks in permanent inequality like in the old days.

By activity trap I mean things that

- prevent science from moving forward

- prevent society from expanding its social space for everyone (ie every society has outcasts who don’t have a place in the current system)

- invent activities that keep obsolete arrangements relevant etc

Given such a broad definition I admit I’m not in a position to say what is an activity trap and what isn’t. It could all just be necessary drudge work to get to a better situation. But right now it “feels” like an activity trap.

Your solution, if I understand correctly, is to have some type of money that decays back into the system, if left accumulated and unspent after some time.

But there is still nothing here to stop someone from gathering enough quantum of value to force some sort of gate-keeping type situation. People will always be incentivised to save what they earn. Maybe for tomorrow, a bad season or the next 10 generations. It isn’t people who are thinking short term. People in large groups behave in ways that suggest to the observer that short term benefits trump long term goals.

While money seems like a good tool for societies to manage social behaviour perhaps we are looking at it wrong when we think it can easily be used to set the kind of long term goals that can easily avoid activity traps. The obsession with money and monetary system, maybe distracting attention from avenues where much greater improvements can be made.

Not ants, rather societies that can agree on long term, as opposed to short term, economic goals and modify them easily when needed. Most individual humans aren’t able to do this. A society able to achieve it would be truly remarkable.

Despotic systems like communism on the other hand only reflect the goals of a chosen few. So by human limitation these goals can never adequately represent the complexity of the governed. Such societies will inevitably degenerate and fall behind.

While pure market oriented societies can fall into “activity traps” from which it might be hard for them to climb out of.