Comment on: A fork() in the road - Microsoft Research
fork() is one of the defining features of Unix and one of the things that Winblows most lacks. It's also a major roadblock in porting a lot of Unix programs to Winblows and the workarounds people use alway lead to huge performance overheads in the Windows ports. No shocker that Micro$hit is trying to rally against it.
Comment on: NCURSES is a fun and easy way to make TUI in C. I found this tutorial to be really fun and informative
ncurses is probably the most brain damaged software API in history. There's so little variation between terminals these days that you're better off just using vt220/xterm escape sequences directly, instead of a portability layer.
Comment on: NCURSES is a fun and easy way to make TUI in C. I found this tutorial to be really fun and informative
I don't know why people consider it to be a difficult language to get into
It's not difficult at all to get into, but most beginners produce absolute dogshit with it because it makes it easier to do the wrong thing than the right thing. C is still my favourite language 20 years after first learning it, but it definitely requires great discipline to use it properly.
Comment on: Building MongoDB Dashboard using Node.js
It was founded by a kike and is now maintained and stewarded by several other kikes. The reason it became popular is Sturgeon's Law -- crap programmers wanted a language that matched their low abilities and brain-dead mental model of async I/O. Most of them even admit this.
No competent person would ever use JavaScript by choice. Thankfully, even the web is slowly but surely moving away from it, with WebAssembly.
Comment on: Building MongoDB Dashboard using Node.js
MongoDB and Node.js are both hipster technology fads. Avoid like the plague.
Comment on: Linux Outreachy Program pays women $5000 to make trivial whitespace changes
Not quite so egregiously as this though.
Linux Outreachy Program pays women $5000 to make trivial whitespace changes
88 79 comments 06 Mar 2019 17:41 u/LarryBagelstein (self.programming) in v/programmingComment on: Imposter Syndrome in tech
"Methodology" talks and "new paradigm" hype are the twin cancers of the tech industry. The only way to get good at programming and project management is to spend a lot of time doing it. 99% of these talks are given for a single purpose -- marketing. Either to sell a product or sell conference tickets or to make a name for the speaker (to increase their future earnings).
Most people with imposter syndrome have it because they're unskilled and inexperienced -- the fix is to improve one's skills, not to brainwash yourself by listening to untalented dopes. I'm pretty sure she only chose this topic to speak about because 90% of programmers are mediocore morons and she knew it'd attract the largest possible audience by appealing to their insecurities.
Comment on: Imposter Syndrome in tech
Her GitHub repo is 90% untouched forks and 10% irrelevant, low quality Ruby projects. I don't know if "impostor" is the word, but she certainly isn't talented or notable...
Comment on: So you want to be a wizard
Payment processing is about as basic and mundane as it gets. This broad has absolutely nothing whatsoever original or insightful to say. She's just a personality cult on Hacker News because she has a vagina.
The thing that most sucks recently in UI design is "mobile convergence". It's that brain damaged "one size fits all" mentality that lead to the original Windows 10 train-wreck and the awful GNOME shell redesign. Windows 7 UI was fine -- they just need to refine it, not start over from scratch.