I think they're overlooking a very big issue which is trying to do any sort of business logic in a markup language is terrible. HTML is good for presentation, trying to embed logic like retrying requests in it can lead to weird code. The reason people like Javascript is having a fully C-style language for things makes logic easier to read and maintain.
You start to see "idioms" in the code. Common ways of doing things. You learn that taking the first element of a reverse of a list is the last element, per se. Like any language, with experience it becomes very easy to read.
Yeah and if you no long use JIRA it's not useful. Whatever bug tracking software you use should allow for commits to be attached to bugs. But that should stay in the bug tracking software, not the VCS.
I really like Google's guidelines for commit messages because they enforce a style like this. It really makes dealing with legacy code much easier when you can look at past commits and see that your predecessors were thinking.
https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/cl-d...
The web was also a bit of a different place back then. I think there were people who were "power users" who used Firefox and Chrome and others who used IE because it was bundled with their browser.
I remember a few years back a common hackathon project was to use lex and yacc to make emoji languages. It was always cool to see what people do with that. Maybe there will be an APL or something with emoji.
I sort of wonder if using a heat gun in the area they thought was broken would have worked better. Then it would have been more localized and easier to control temperature-wise.
I think part of it was the tone set by Linus. He had an attitude that on the surface seemed to be perfectionism but was really just abusive. It's good that he stepped back and rethought how we dealt with people.
That's fair. It was mainly the constraints of the medium that lead to ideas such as rock operas. Now that the constraints of physical storage are lifted we've seen new concepts.
They bring up something interesting which is how streaming has changed how music is made. Albums are now shorter with more songs, that nets more plays and more money. They also focus on singles instead of full albums, which gives more opportunity for "playlisting". It's an interesting, albeit concerning, effect that technology is having on art.
This is why I think debuggers are necessary. Without being able to see a full stack frame of information about variables it can be extremely difficult to debug when using other people's code. So many errors boil down to assumptions about what is in a value.
The cost will change per game, so it could be that game's cost is associated with how much compute they need. I think it will probably be a monthly subscription based on the gym membership model. Most people won't use it a lot and they'll make all their money on them.
This is also how filtering works, you map a function that returns 0 or 1 over the list. Then you can call where (&) and it will give you the indices where the function evaluates true. Index by that and you'll filter a list.
K is interesting in that unlike something like Java the hard part is not remembering the standard library. You start to learn idioms for how to do certain things as you use it more. Then you pattern match different parts of the code and it can be very readable.
A concept in K that I wish more languages had is indexing with a list of indices. It always blows peoples' minds when I tell them how sorting works in K. You use grade (<) to return the indices that will sort the array if indexed in that order. Then you pass in that list as the indices to the list. They do it in the string examples in this tutorial.
I think the reason it's in anaconda is they're trying to go after the python crowd? Regain some of the data analysis market share that stuff like numpy took from APL.
I mean, you get what you put into college. I sort of veered off my senior and took a bunch of business classes after finishing my CS requirements. I wish I took extra CS classes because there's a lot I had teach myself. Motivated people can teach themselves a lot, but there IS something to be said for having a credential.
This is why Glitch is cool because all the code on there is open and editable. I think HTML and CSS are still entry points, but not being able to see the code for stuff is tough. It's sort of ironic that we have all this open source code now but it's much harder for a beginner to read most of that than just hitting "View Source".