where computation is almost free, memory size is almost unlimited (although programmers' ingenuity in creating bloated software apparently knows no bounds)

I love the contradiction in one sentence. Other than that there are a few good points and a bad one including his criticizing the use of machine based integers.

That one is particularly egregious. I do not want to do my work on abstract number types that would probably support rational and arbitrary precision. I want to do my work on specific sized data because it is audio or video. I want that work to be fast since I am doing more than gigabit data rates.

Too many functions and types is right. I'm looking at you Python. I was recently forced to use you for something that was proving a lit too difficult in plain shell.

I left this tab open far too long without posting this.

What's with the Google tracking link?

A surprising development. I was going to eventually post a follow-up from my previous submission because I got an email on this topic.

avoid these web dev trends

Like putting an overlay of a loading spinner that requires the user to delete the element in the inspector? You have the right idea with "Try not to Value Presentation over Performance"

The GPL does not restrict what a user can do with the software. For example it does not prevent use in Iran, Cuba, or North Korea like (not that I care about them). You can use it to build nuclear missiles if you want. (I recall that Apple has that comical restriction on its software.) A user of GPL software does not have to agree to any terms of it to use it, because there aren't any. Any software which shows an "agree to this license to continue" box and shows the user the GPL is doing it wrong.

If you want to distribute GPL software or software derived from it then you can talk about restrictions. I don't care that some dev or company cannot lock it away in their proprietary software preventing me from using it, modifying it, redistributing it. Pay a license to some non-GPL competitor if that's what you want to do. Otherwise, provide the source and any changes you made from it such that I could recreate the binary you have given me.

I know copyleft is copyright. I would have no problem with lacking the means to enforce GPL on others if they had no means to enforce any other license. It is sort of Mutually Assured Destruction but for "intellectual property", except I sort-of want this one.

I would like a massive overhaul of copyright reducing it from life plus 50/70/90 years to something like a patent, 25 years from first publication, maybe including explicit registration, maybe renewal for a fee. Everything created before 1994 (yes really) would have lapsed into the public domain.

On the public domain, some jurisdictions do not allow one to renounce the copyright one has on their creations, which is why something like CC0 exists.

Avoiding use as user might be difficult, especially if you only use gratis software. For a developer, how do you accidentally include GPL software in what you're distributing? You choose what dependencies you compile into the final binary.

I wholly support Free Software, the GPL, and Copyleft software. I see it as a means to an end of severely reducing or maybe even eliminating copyright. Don't like the license? Don't use the software.

How do you vertically align things over multiple lines with tabs?

var_a = a;
variable_b = b;
yet_another_variable = c;

Align the equal characters. Would you make it: variable, some amount of tabs, =, value? If you're going to use spaces there, why not use them at the start of lines too?

Gitlab are the only similar alternative (or clone) of Github that I have used. They are good in terms of technology and whatnot, their politics leave a little to be desired. I'm not that familiar with other services. Personally I prefer self-hosted gits by other projects. Ones that don't encourage stupid, complicated history like Github (and Gitlab) with pull requests. I run gitolite on my NAS to share some stuff locally. A self-hosted Gitlab instance is becoming popular. Videolan already uses it and I think I read KDE were moving that way too. I ran my own too but became fed-up with the ten thousand programs and deps that it installs outside my package manager.

That reads like the same thing but I don't recall the branding on top. I also want to know how it git back there.

Okay, a new programmer. I'm not a web dev so I can't help you with the specifics of the tutorial. I guess you might call the software which runs a website, a website. Hence my confusion.

I would suggest Gitlab.com. I'm sure it has what you need.

If you have a website, why are you looking at VCS sites? I think both Github and Gitlab offer hosting for pages associated with a project but they are supposed to be for docs and whatnot.

You're right that Github was bought by Microsoft. Even before then it was proprietary software which you could not run yourself. It has also removed "problematic" projects in the past. The C+= parody project, some gamergate info pages (Gitlab did this too), and another because it used a "bad" word like retard or boobs or something.

Gitlab is open source, at least the main part of it is. They offer a paid version with more "business" features. All the options can be hosted in-house if you want but Gitlab also offer paid hosting for it. I assume you want want free which they do offer on gitlab.com. Allegedly it is simple to install and manage if you use their sanctioned methods and operating systems. If you install from source or a package that was built from source then you are in for a world of pain. It is several services to manage with tens of thousands of dependencies, none of which come from your package manager but the language specific ones. FUCKING WEB DEVS AND THEIR INSANE SHIT!

There is a very friendly instance of gitlab software at https://gitgud.io which was started in the wake of gamergate. I see they lost their Vivian James branding at some point which isn't a good sign, IMO. Old branding on Wayback Machine But they do still say this on the signin page

GitGud.io was created October 2014 in response to other popular git hosting services active participation in user politics. We wanted an apolitical platform that focused on the best features and technology for our users. Since then we've become home to over 6,000 projects and 9,900 users.

Personally I run gitolite on my NAS to provide some easy local sharing between a few systems.

There are more options but again I ask: why are you looking for git or source code services? Shouldn't you be looking for common web hosting?

I am currently working on something that will end up in two distinct pieces of software (call them "apps" if you will) one of which has a couple of flavours, all of which are sold/licensed. I am not support, thank god. I don't even do support for open source software any more. There is no QA team and each one of us is expected to do it but usually most of it ends up on the boss' shoulders.

That doesn't say much since Python is probably the worst language.

Did you link to the right thing? This is about instagram. I saw one about "reddit successfully removed wrong think" earlier. Did you mean to link that?

cout << what << the << fuck << is << this << shit

So what? Please will everyone now roll-back the reduction in performance they caused trying to fix it and instead tell people to stop running other people's code? If this means you can't even run javascript in your browser so be it. (It is a privacy violation anyway.)

If you have the installer (the digital equivalent of the physical medium) then yes you probably can. Many stores/services will allow you to download it again if you no longer have it. Go look in your emails if that's the case.

Any? I do it the British way: strong black tea with milk.

One day I will code my own computer waifu.

The highest of goals.

I need to include more masters and slaves and whitelists and blacklists in my code. Too bad none of my code really fits into these areas. Please let me know of more micro-aggressive names I should use.

Mapping the wrong buffer leading to a week of debugging, WTFs, and rewrites until a co-worker spotted a 1 character typo.

Tangentially related...

I do get paid to program but I don't get paid to deal with users too stupid to read whatever error message I give them. It tells you why it failed. You asked for impossible constraints. This is why I stopped volunteering my time to help users on some projects. They don't read.

Maybe you don't understand what it means because you lack knowledge in this domain. Okay but tell me what it says. Do not say "it doesn't work". "it doesn't work" is not an error message.

I hate users. Unless you're paying me I'm only writing software for myself.

No it won't. The second is equivalent to:

x = x * i;
i = i + 1;

a++ is "read then increment" whereas ++a is "increment then read".

Most people are judging you on your past actions. They don't trust your future actions because of it. That is despite the MSFT shills saying that they've turned around now thanks to their glorious new CEO and there is nothing to worry about.

Overclocked Remix is where I have been getting good music for over a decade. Direct downloads, torrents, and low quality youtube videos if anyone else wanted that.

As far as I know there are no bios setting to guard against either of them. Turning off the virtualisation features would have just meant running VMs was slow and had no hardware pass-through options. It didn't disable speculative execution of branches. Disabling javascript in your browser was a good way to prevent a drive-by exploit just from visiting a website though. Not to mention it is good practice in general.

On servers, particularly virtual servers, it would have been a bigger deal because you might have different users running different thing all of which could read just about everything.

It almost sounds like you misunderstand what the exploits are. I don't. I just know that one of them featured observing side effects from speculative execution. I don't think either was particularly about VMs though.

I think I see. You either need to store the individual scores in some structure--Python has a great many types but I think the basic one for this is just called a List--or just keep track of a sum and and a count from there an average (the mean) is simple.

I might have to be creative here and not use python language but...

function one(arg)
     return arg + 1
function two(arg)
    return arg + 2
a = 99
b = 101
c = one(a)
d = two(b)
print(c,d)

I would expect 100 and 103 to be printed. Now your case won't be nearly as simple as that. a is still 99, b is still 101 and arg is local to each function. When you say splitting does that mean your data in a string somewhere and you need to get it out?

I'm not familiar with Python nor that specific Python error so perhaps you should post some example. I don't understand what you mean by shuffling either. Are you new to programming in general?

If people think about the places that SJW shit has blown up then "sexy" things are where they are. Google, Facebook, Twitter shit. Other website stuff. Dongle Gate was at some conference. Gamer Gate happened.

No degree? Or just no CS degree?

Thanks for the reply. No degree at all. I made poor choices. I should also have added that I am in Europe so there isn't quite the same culture as in the US. The way I put it to others is that a degree is how you bootstrap a career (to borrow a tech term).

I think if you stay away from websites and the programming involved on and behind them then I think you'll find fewer SJWs. Unsexy programming over SSH with just text is not visible and not attractive to those attention seekers. I would say that maybe you should just tolerate whatever SJW shit to get a job. I don't really know that much. I've been working less than a year as a programmer and took the first job offered. Nobody wants to hire an "old" 30 year old with no degree.

The default of make is to execute nothing in parallel. That is why you should use -j.

Why? How do you get any useful work done if you can't change anything? Why would you change a loop to recursion? Why is something divided by zero returning zero? That isn't right. At least a floating point version could return NaN.

I swear some of these Computer Scientists never do any useful work either.

resolution of 1080 x 1920 (height x width)

Why in the name of god would you defy the standard convention?

Transcoding

okay

Transmuxing

what

Transrating

wat

Transsizing

JFC

fopen(filename,"w");

No binary mode? wut

Heh, you beat me in finding that in my history.

To /u/EngineeringReverse: if you're not familiar with that website please be aware that they live in their own Venture Capitalist funded, Entrepreneurial bubble of Silicon Valley. Not everything they say/think applies to the rest of the world. However I think they are now realising their love of boot camps isn't good for everyone.

We need a few good coders not vast amounts of terrible ones.

Don't tell that to employers. They're desperate to have more candidates. It'll help them keep down wages especially if Trump closes down or limits H1B visas.

Yes. Most communities around newer programming languages are shit. There's the obvious SJW infection but I see a few other problems on occasion.

For Rust in particular whenever a significant bug appears in some old C program/library there's always some Rust people saying "you should rewrite in Rust". Fucking annoying and do it yourself if it is such a simple task. Honestly these people drive me insane. I will even get myself banned for insulting them.

Then some of these languages want to use their own package manager and repositories rather than what I have on the system, namely pacman. Perl (not exactly new) has CPAN, Python (also not new) has pip, Ruby has "gems", and I am sure Rust will get its own segregated shithole. The ones used for "web apps" are the most annoying because those retard devs have no idea how to do anything other than hardcode a dependency with a specific version. Fuckers!

I don't get it. No matter what license you choose you will retain control over the "main branch". You are the dictator of the project you can accept or reject any contributions any others make.

No Vim or even Emacs? Trash.

I think that's only partly correct. An image won't be scaled twice First down to the simulated CSS screen, then up to the display screen. It probably only scales once from the image to the size of the final composite.

To avoid this you would need to set the DPI to be the usual desktop DPI (72 or 96). Then it should be a 1:1.

The brilliant people who do website design and who write the CSS standard and who write browsers decided that 1 pixel in the browser does not mean 1 pixel on the screen all because they are too brilliant to not represent every text size in pixels. /u/tame has provided you with a suitable link.

I'm a programmer. I don't develop new things. I don't engineer things.

I have little else to do.

Nice, but I think I need a taller H. My ladder has a few gaps.

Desktop: Windows 7 with Cygwin which provides a nice terminal emulator, gcc, git, Vim, and SSH (you know, the usual tools).

"Development server": Arch Linux with mostly the same tools plus the Linux only ones like Valgrind.

New laptop: Antergos with Cinnamon desktop. It is an Arch spin-off. I tried mah-tay first but Firefox failed to render any text so I went with something else.

True: Human-readable dates can be specified in universally understood formats such as [ISO 8601]

Ah, okay. It will probably have some knock-on effect though, for better or worse. I'm not complaining though. A shake-up is a good thing.

Either that will make it worse for me by increasing the "talent" that stays here in Europe or it will make it better for me by increasing the supply of jobs in Europe due to the "difficulty" in filling positions in the US.

A first job is a stepping stone to more jobs. Gotta get that experience somewhere. Plus a job is better than no job.

No but if you quit your job it becomes available to me.

Please don't do that. More turn-over might let me get a job.

In general variables should be as locally scoped as possible. You don't even say what language you're using so I doubt people can be specific.

I don't think this is the bookmark I was really searching for, but it is close: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11802776

While that thread started as a post for game clones in python I think I remember commenters linking to other things too.

My own suggestion to newbies is to contribute to something you use even if it isn't the easiest thing to do.

It is my impression that most regexes are line based and won't search/match across multiple lines. If I needed to do a multiple line match I would be sure to search documentation and the web for "multiple line regular expression" or maybe jump into an interpreter that doesn't work line-wise.

I don't have time to do the searching for you now but if I remember, I will try and come back and if you've got a solution.

Agreed. What I want is a configure/autotools replacement. (GNU) Make is just fine at doing what it does, namely command execution and dependency tracking.

I don't have a problem with that. The facebook link doesn't redirect me to the spam so I wouldn't have reported and downvoted without it.

Oooh, GPLv3, very nice. I think I'll see what's going on here tomorrow.

Don't feel bad. Work experience is the best way to get another job. Working on open source for free is just doing free work for others; do it if you really want to and use the thing yourself.

I once wrote a batch script to augment a DVD ripper. I also wrote one to recompress flac files in several folders into one.

On the bash side, I wrote one to split large files based on a cue sheet and correctly add the metadata from it.

I don't have much of an opinion other than: why are websites serving 128px icons? What a waste.

If it wasn't for Git's nice decentralised features I would prefer Subversion to it. A linear history with a monotonously increasing revision number is best. Never tried anything else.

[EDIT] I started programming around the time nearly everyone started switching over to Git so I didn't even get much chance to use Subversion.

I'm late to the party but... C. I have no idea why people choose C++ over it. All I ever see from C++ is a horrible mess of syntax. I/O with <<. Unknown sorts of statements with : and ::. Other unknown statements with <> in them. Worse than the most horrible mess you can make with the C preprocessor.

What year is this?

You are right to stay away from python. It is a shit language. Its worst feature is significant whitespace. Its second worst feature is what version of "print" do you use. Is it a keyword, is it a function? Its third worst feature is what version of the language to you use. 2.6, 2.7, 3.something? I guess a newbie would just use the latest.

I don't know shit about a TI84. What did you make this post on? It might be even better than a calculator.

As for what you should use, I don't know. I started with C because that was the only physical book I had at the time and I wanted to work on a C project.

Hot: SVG + JavaScript on Canvas

Not: Flash

Flash is better. Flash gave us great things.

Hot: Game frameworks

Not: Native game development

Fuck them all, especially Unity with its crap lighting effects.

Hot: Single-page Web apps

Not: Websites

I hope you watch your children gutted, your spouse die slowly from cancer, and then die in a fire yourself.

Hot: Web interfaces

Not: IDEs

Offline programs will always be better than online ones. Not to mention a command line interface is always useful.

This would probably be better as "21 horrible trends".

cout<< "{" <<i<<","<<j<<","<<k<<"}"<<endl;

Why do people even like C++. "cout left shifted by open brace"?

I am not hopeful that a third party will have better and/or newer docs than a first party.

Oh goody. Copy pasted, inaccurate, out of date documentation is what every developer needs.

What? How can you program without branches? Okay I know nothing about functional programming. I assume every time I write a function doesn't count.

Bullshit. If you're not a fucking genius then you will never make it as a programmer. Sure you might be able to cobble a few functions together to make something vaguely useful but you will never be able to produce (or work on) a masterpiece.

It is not intelligence that gets you Gnome 3 or Windows 8 (Re: "you are so convinced that this one line your wrote is perfect and you don't care what the users and testers think"). Being an arrogant, egotistical designer is what gets you that.

Once more! http://www.7-zip.org/ in case someone doesn't know how to search.

I guess you happened to trigger this sub's spam/low-quality sensor.

What a POS website that is. The body tag has a "visibility: hidden" attribute.

Another one? I still don't see why I would use anything but make.

I've tried Scons because someone wanted to contribute it to a project I was working on. I don't like it. It uses Python so it has Python's failings and I don't really understand any of what it does. I was going to try Premake but I could not see how to create my own recipes making it utterly useless if you aren't all C/C++/C#. I don't even think you can mix the languages in one project.

I'll look at this one and see.

"This function takes no arguments."

Oooh, some content that isn't a link to some spam blog.

As a non-seasoned programmer: get a degree, not necessarily in computer science though.

Having less maintenance is a good thing. Having it start on start-up is easy. Writing a new interface is hard.

Take the easy way out and have it start automatically.

> web developer

Well, there's your problem. Get out of your browser.

Underrated, thanks.

The number of bytes it requires. Why do you care about anything else?

All I can see on this page is image after image of websites being fucked up. What do you expect from incompetent web devs? Stick to C and assembly for your own computer and then nobody else has to suffer your fuckups.

Ha ha ha.

^{I don't work.}

It is javascript. That is impossible.

A better place to buy it from: https://www.gog.com/game/tis100

No thanks. I will not tell another service who is linking to whom and who is visiting. If I want to change my referrer I will do it in my browser.

Well you're not wrong. To get hired to do programming requires a full education. These shortcuts don't help you. Code monkey jobs can always be done by someone else for less money. Hell I'd work for Indian wages but nobody is hiring at that level.

Fuck you and fuck all other url shorteners.

Ha ha. I might believe then if I ever get hired.

What the heck does "blaming the user" or "user error" have to do with a train crash?

Sorry but I didn't understand much out of your word soup I think you spilled on the page. If you, or anyone else, are looking for a basic vocabulary list or glossary of technical terms often used in programming then I thought this might be useful for you http://www.programmingforbeginnersbook.com/blog/expand_your_programming_vocabulary/ It was linked to from somewhere else, I don't quite remember where.

Perhaps I misuderstood.

Downvote! Stupid spinner thing doesn't need to be there. Page loads fine if you delete that overlay.

Aw. :( I thought javascript was a magical safe language that would never do anything wrong.

The deletionists on WP won't let you restore it but it looks like you found it on The Wayback Machine.

Yes. It is your browser history stored by a third party. So basically chrome except you can access it.

Avoid Configuration

WTF? That probably works for a one button fart app but I don't believe any other software works without configuration.

Summary: connecting to a malicious server could leak your private key. Avoid this possibility by appending

Host *
UseRoaming no

To your ~/.ssh/config file

If you don't like your programming job, quit. Make some space for the rest of us to get hired.