ralphb

I believe that all sales are about selling into peoples dreams. I am sure that the false dreams you refer are an extremely good business and a willing market, because - who doesn't want to buy the dream of being a successful entrepreneur?

Ironically, assuming these people are creating products primarily based on their own experiences, there might not be anything false about it - it's just that you've trying to sell into less desirable dreams!

Fundamentally I believe that for me it is impossible to passionately pursue stuff I am not really interested in. This limits the desirability of the dreams I can sell into, and I have come to terms with that. You might even think of this as bad luck.

I've also come to terms with the fact that I have to create for myself first, and any interest I get from other people is purely a bonus. Obviously that doesn't pay the bills :-)

Even includes error handling :)

At the bottom you can see some test examples of what it can do. Obviously it is a basic calculator.

> The steps above that convert a 64-bit integer to a double precision floating-point value involves both a non-trivial type conversion and a 64-bit floating multiply. They are performance bottlenecks. One can instead directly move the random bits into the right place in the double word with a union structure, a mask, and some 64-bit logical operations; but in our experience this is not significantly faster

It goes on to describe a lagged Fibonacci generator which generates values directly as floating point.

I would encourage you to do some research and keep an open mind.

Zig was started in 2015. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig_(programming_language)

The zig standard library does the following to help me:

- Logical, straightforward code, no magic incantations

- Well named variables and functions

- Comments

- Folder structure is easy to navigate

- Easy to find on github - not hidden away

Obviously your mileage may vary.

I use zig anyway.

I agree with some of the critiscims here (missing tags, bad typing experience, little integrability), but overall I am super happy with the tablet. I think it's just down to the usecase. It does what I most need it do to! (replace physical notebooks)

It also does some things that I didn't know I needed. It's just so amazing to have an undo for stuff you write on paper. The ability to select and move stuff around is also something I now do constantly.

I think it just comes down to what problem you're trying to solve. For me, replacing physical notebooks = solved problem.

Now how do I get my money back from the app store?

And BTW, anybody who a) accepts being labeled a 'superstar programmer', or b) accepts being labeled a 'superstar programmer' without being at least obviously uncomfortable about it, or c) or accepts being labeled a 'superstar programmer' by non-technical people,

is most definitely not a superstar programmer. And rarely will you see anyone who actually know what the hell they're talking about label someone else a 'superstar programmer'. Because there is always someone at least twice as good.

PRIMETEST

But the list is surprisingly long, so not that surpring that something concerning primes would be in there.

http://www.slifelabs.com/

All of those things have certainly been done on the demoscene. In the demoscene, size-limited competitions have implicit convections, unwritten rules if you will, to ensure that everybody competes on fair terms. For 4kb intros it is currently accepted (if not encouraged) to use the DirectX/OpenGL APIs. It is also considered acceptable to use the font-writing API's, and some groups exploit this to generate vector graphics out of obscure font symbols.

For sound, it's expected that you either write your own software synthesizer (or collaborate with somebody who has written one), or use the MIDI APIs. For 1kb intros, MIDI API sounds are expected. There was a big controversy in 2008, when the 4kb intro Texas (http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51448) won the 4kb competition at NVScene. Many people considered its use of samples from mp3s included with the Windows operating system cheating, since it went outside the bounds of what is considered acceptable use of the OS resources.

So there are some implicit conventions about what you can and cannot do, and if you want to compete fairly and impress your fellow sceners, you should follow them.

Of course, most demoscene parties feature the wild demo competitions, where pretty much anything goes. Demosceners always reward hard work and clever hacks, so if you want to impress, create a demo on your self-built hardware and enter into this competition. You will have a fair chance at one of the prizes.

Any suggestions as to how to think about that? Could someone explain the advantage?

  "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account."

And, furthermore, it's not really a new idea.

Judea Pearls work in the late 80's suggested something along these lines. I have also seen suggested that some of Marvin Minskys groundlaying work back in the 60's pointed in this direction, but YMMV on that one.