I don't care that much about physical attractiveness; I care a lot more about what's in the mind. In the case of the person in >>1, a really shitty programming language.
>>8 Well you're crazy. I don't expect females to be especially talented programmers, nor do I need them to be, but it's good to have a shared interest.
You must be really horny or lonely if you are willing to spend the rest of your life living with a childish non-programmer just because you felt like it.
>>11,12 Why would you want two programmers in the family? It's inefficient. You can have more if you have two separate skills. Economic specialization and all that.
>>13 "Programmer" doesn't define a personality as a whole, it's merely an additional skill. Both could be programmers, for instance one being a mathematician and the other one being an economist.
Many people will go through a ton of stupid shit just to get free kisses and their dick wet, though.
HA! As if being a ``talented programmer'' takes any high intelligence. No, programming is easy (this also includes the correct way of programming with lisp and C, etc). Being a COMPUTER SCIENTIST (Knuth, SICP authors, Dijkstra, etc) is what takes intelligence.
You guys are all lame. I don't understand why someone would want to date or be partners with someone they have many things in common with.
I want to have very little in common with someone else apart from morals. I don't care about their interests. It's not important. People should have diverse interests. It's better economically, it's better socially, it's better in every way. I don't want to live in a world where everyone is the same.
>>26 Or, we could have even more diverse interests by her not being a programmer, except in the DSLs I have created for her to use and taught.
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Anonymous2014-01-23 22:38
So, in some sort of attempt to save this thread: what do you think about the intent of ``get kids to code at a young age?''
I started learning programming with BASIC at around 8 or 10, when I got access to my first computer, but I didn't do anything non-trivial until I was 15 or so (I spent lots of time doing Monte Carlo simulations of wars with randomly statted soldiers and seeing which side won, and which data-blobs were the heroes of the day). I think I turned out all right as a programmer, although I spent a lot of time learning from the wrong sorts of books until I got my first internet connection. Anyway, that's my history so you can see my biases.
There seems to be a growing idea that programming today is like reading and writing [not so] long ago: a skill that at one point was practiced only by a few, but will/should be adopted by everyone. I don't really have an opinion of this, but I do think they are going about it wrong, because every effort I've seen is devoted to getting kids to code ``webapps'' which necessarily introduces a shit-ton of infrastructure to hello, world. I guess it's because they want to attract the mainstream child audience to their lessons with the ``you can do something cool, too!'' tag-line, and writing four function calculators is ``cool'' because it's run through node.js instead of xterm/cmd.exe
>>28 Her? First you're homosexual now straight? Look buddy, you cannot have imaginary bisexual partners. Either your imaginary partner is a male or a female.
I say imaginary because YOU AREN'T EVER GOING TO GET ANY AHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH
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>>29 I still don't get it. The idea that we should teach every single fucking kid in the world to learn programming sounds fucking retarded. What if hipsters dominated the world instead and children were forced to take many subjects on alternative music?
One of the most commonly used arguments is that teaching kids programming is somehow a good way of finding talented programmers. If you are talented indeed, you probably liked math from the beginning and you are likely to pick up programming by yourself before the everyoneshouldcodeXD parade stomps on you. If you are not talented, you probably want to flip burgers for a living and don't want to have anything to do with that nerd shit.
Another commonly used argument is that "the software development market is in a shortage of programmers". Fucking seriously? Do you have any idea of how saturated is the market in first world countries? It's not like knowing how to program is going to get you an instajob either. You are right, they're confusing epic javashit webapps with programming. But that means they're in a shortage of code monkeys.
To sum it up, this is a retarded fad that should die already.
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Anonymous2014-01-24 14:25
>>34 As implemented, yeah, their attempts will (as a generalization) only churn out code monkeys and will do nothing for those who would pick up programming anyway. That's probably their intent, given how the movement is being spearheaded by leaders who could use more code monkeys.
The comparison to alternative music isn't quite accurate, though, because `programming' (not on career-level) is still quite useful. Not in the sense of ``can write epic webapps and enterprise-level abstraction layers!'' but in the sense of ``can write simple to moderately complex shell scripts, and can probably understand how to go about understanding various user-visible scripting systems built into programs''. That, I think, might be a useful type of message. Not everybody is going to write epic webapps, but I think everybody, at some point, will look at a task like organizing their CoD montage videos and think ``Gosh, this would be easier if only I could prepend the time of creation to all these filenames!''
The movement isn't focused on teaching that sort of thing (and you could argue it isn't `programming'), but it could be. Even despite the current efforts, the end result might be kids learning that computers aren't magic youtube boxes, that they can do lots of other things as well if you tell them how.
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Anonymous2014-01-24 14:56
Seeing the clips of her "reaction shots" or whatever was truly bizarre. I don't get it. I don't understand what makes this worth $125000 and counting.
I am kind of in favor of teaching kids to program, like I'm in favor of teaching kids math, just to benefit the ones that are able to understand it. But Ruby sure ain't the way to go about it. And children's books - I mean, we could benefit if the normies were capable of a little analytic thought, but I suspect their deficiency is neurological, not educational, in nature.
The only way a child can have a proper education with regards to programming is if their parent is an expert mathematician and programmer, who teaches the child from a very early age (3) full time.
>>42 I doubt many children know what a derivative is. Newton's method for solving non-linear equations is not part of what a child could master in 6 days.
>>43 You don't teach children that shit. And a bright (and I mean BRIGHT, not bright as in autism) teenager can go from arithmetic to abstract algebra within a month.
>>44 An autistic teenager could go from arithmetic to Jewish infinite homomorphisms within a month too.
Not sure if you missed my point (or simply don't remember), but Newton's method was one of the first examples in SICP.
The issue here is that 90% of teenagers aren't bright or autistic. Sure, they're could be useful for many important software companies. I've heard ENTERPRISE developers shit a lot, those toilets are in need of thorough scrubbing.
>>45 At least i'm not a paedophile with a fetish for naked little children reading SICP. Seems you got a fetish for Newton too. And even teenagers and faeces.
>>46 Where the fuck did you get that from? Do I also have a fetish for "retarded pimple-faced teenagers reading TAOCP and even algorithms and patties" if I mention how most of them aren't good for anything that's not posting stupid shit on Facebook and how they should be flipping burgers for a living?
>>52 Because of the allusion to living under a bridge and demanding a toll (users' time) to pass (continue actually discussing). Once the toll is paid, the troll does not die, but instead just goes right back under his bridge, waiting another opportunity.
I have my suspicions that the term actually originated from the regenerative capabilities of trolls in certain archetypal games, but the canonical reason I've always been told is the bridge analogy. (Plus, flames don't actually kill trolls, they make them stronger.)
In modern English usage, trolling may describe the fishing technique of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat[20] whereas trawling describes the generally commercial act of dragging a fishing net. Early non-Internet related slang use of trolling for actions deliberately performed to provoke a reaction can be found in the military—by 1972 the term trolling for MiGs was documented in use by US Navy pilots in Vietnam.[21] The contemporary slang use of the term is alleged to have appeared on the Internet in the late 1980s,[22] but the earliest known attestation is from the OED in 1992.[23] Another claim sets the origin in Usenet in the early 1990s as in the phrase "trolling for newbies", as used in alt.folklore.urban (AFU).[24][25] Commonly, what is meant is a relatively gentle inside joke by veteran users, presenting questiohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)#Origin_and_etymologyns or topics that had been so overdone that only a new user would respond to them earnestly. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)#Origin_and_etymologya veteran of the group might make a post on the common misconception that glass flows over time. Long-time readers would both recognize the poster's name and know that the topic had been discussed a lot, but new subscribers to the group would not realize, and would thus respond. These types of trolls served as a practice to identify group insiders. This definition of trolling, considerably narrower than the modern understanding of the term, was considered a positive contribution.[24][26] One of the most notorious AFU trollers, David Mikkelson,[24] went on to create the urban folklore website Snopes.com.
>>54 That's a pretty good explanation of the original definition. But holy shit - why are you so angry all the time? Did you lose an argument on the internet or something?
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Anonymous2014-02-08 17:52
I cannot believe she got $300,000 for that. And counting. What the fuck?
And for what? So she can write a book? Who needs that much funding to write a fucking book. A children's book no less.
WOW! This whore will surely get 500k for some crappy looking printings. I.e. her monthly salary is liek 250 000 for being a camwhore and almost all her backers are male. Think about it, Anon.
Data mining expert Bing Liu (University of Illinois) estimated that one-third of all consumer reviews on the Internet are fake.[10] According to the New York Times, this has made it hard to tell the difference between "popular sentiment" and "manufactured public opinion."[16] According to an article in the Journal of Business Ethics, astroturfing threatens the legitimacy of genuine grassroots movements. The authors argued that astroturfing that is "purposefully designed to fulfill corporate agendas, manipulate public opinion and harm scientific research represents a serious lapse in ethical conduct."[9] A 2011 report found that often paid posters from competing companies are attacking each other in forums and overwhelming regular participants in the process.[17] George Monbiot said persona management software that supports astroturfing, "could destroy the Internet as a forum for constructive debate."[18]
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Anonymous2014-02-12 14:43
Bump!
Will she get teh 500,000?
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Anonymous2014-02-12 15:21
Some good person wrote enterprise quality C code script to check the raised amount: http://pastebin.com/8J5df6WX
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Anonymous2014-02-12 21:19
>>61 That code is kind of disgusting, and I say that as a guy who has an image of Patchy holding K&R as his boot logo.
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Anonymous2014-02-12 21:53
>>61 Can someone explain why in a+!sprintf(a..., the sprintf is guaranteed to be executed first?
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Anonymous2014-02-12 22:23
>>63 It's definitely not guaranteed to be executed first, if you're comparing it to the evaluation of a. It doesn't matter, however, because a, as an address, is constant. All that matters is that sprintf evaluates before system, and that is guaranteed.
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Anonymous2014-02-13 3:19
>>63 because a is constant and compiler would inline it.
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Anonymous2014-02-14 15:01
I am a Ruby rockstar and I want to rock her world with my little ruby.
Next question, why did he bother with sprintf if he just gave it a constant string?
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Anonymous2014-02-25 6:02
>>69 My guess into eir thought process is that ey wanted to make it general, at first, so that the project could be passed in as an argument, and also wanted to reuse one string for both the system argument and the fgets storage. I don't know why that was scrapped, though.
The whole thing kind of confuses me though, with using curl instead of libcurl, that temporary file that's not cleaned up, that sloppy searching that will fail about 0.5% of the time (if the data is on a 2048-byte border), etc. Even accepting that exact method of searching, the whole damn thing can just be
in your shell, or (slightly better, though not quite as trivially shell-able) #!/usr/bin/env perl use Mojo::UserAgent; print(Mojo::UserAgent->new->get(shift)->res->dom->find('data[itemprop="Project[pledged]"]')->first->all_text . "\n");
And bam! You can run those on anything you want and they don't have silly bugs. I fucking love C, but if you're going to use C, you should use it correctly, and the moment the real work is offloaded to system+curl, the benefit for this particular task is lost, in my opinion. Unless perhaps the author was trying for an IOCCC-style thingy, in which case ey didn't go far enough to impress me, so I apologize for treating it solely as something intended to be useful. (In case you're reading and this was, try reworking it so that the for loop is instead a recursive call to main() or something. I think I see how you can do it with just a little modification, and I'll be impressed. I promise.)
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Anonymous2014-02-25 18:42
"i'm not a programmer ^_^ " -- linda liukas on not being a programmer "we don't teach programming per se" -- linda liukas on her "ruby programming for grills ^_^ " course "i have a github, but it's empty ^_^ " -- linda liukas on what she has coded "i don't like math ^_^ " linda liukas on being a clueless idiot "men are dumber than women; they paid for my house! ^_^ " --linda liukas on milking clueless idiots of their hard-earned money just by being a cute childish retard
>>83 Not this one. Leah was not the best representation of the female programming population, but this one has no redeeming features. At least Leah was funny in a unique sort of way. While her projects and failed start up were funny, at least she coded something. This one doesn't even program and makes money by posing in cute pictures on kickstarter.
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I would have a lot of respect for her if the language was Lisp and she was adapting SICP to children's book format.
Alas, the language is Ruby, therefore she's a dumb fuckin' cunt.
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Anonymous2014-03-16 15:45
Greetings, my fellow holocaust deniers!
I'm going to point you into the right direction...
Linda Liukas is a PR person for company called "Codecademy", which is ran by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski. As you can guess from their names, these persons are Jewish. So in a nutshell, "hello-ruby" is another Jewish geschaeft project. That is how she got so much publicity.
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Anonymous2014-03-16 15:52
Codecademy is funded by ... Yuri Milner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner Born into a Jewish family. Milner studied theoretical physics at Moscow State University, graduating in 1985. He went on to work at Lebedev Physical Institute, one of the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the same department as the future Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg.
He was born to a Jewish family in Moscow in 1916, the son of an engineer Lazar Efimovich Ginzburg and a doctor Augusta Felgenauer, and graduated from the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1938.
No crime this time, friend. Nobody has coerced or forced these goyim to part with their money. She just got a lump of cash free of interests, shareholders, and I suspect there a great deal of tax avoidance going on as well with many of these projects, it certainly be interesting to see how tax is handled.
Nobody has coerced or forced these goyim to part with their money.
Are you implying goyim are willingly funding this? This all looks like a Jewish ploy to lure the goyim into a trap, using a barely attractive woman as a decoy. How can you not consider this a crime against the Gentiles?
>>106 That's dumb, it's going to be as useless as ReactOS, but with CLOUD TECHNOLOGY. Why not give your ill-earned buckaroos to ReactOS itself if you want to fund something useless?
>>108 This system is designed for people who want to start their own cloud backend. In the past, it was called server-terminal computing and in this age, there are use cases that will benefit from this cloud architecture.
ReactOS is a free software, while Thorium Core is the "commercial distribution of ReactOS", so it should provide more competition to Microsoft's cloud services, and competition is always good, forcing Microsoft to innovate and making computation better for the whole humanity.
Yes. Microsoft had to innovate several times. When Apple produced MacOS, Microsoft had to answer with WinNT, which was better than unprotected MacOS. And when Sun introduced Java, Microsoft's C# became the first mainstream compiled language to support lambdas and dynamic typing, before C# the only choice was Common Lisp, which wasn't mainstream and had no good framework or support from OS vendor (Symbolics got out of business, you know).