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Comment on: Here are the top 10 programming languages used on GitHub

I kind of wonder if the graph isn't backwards....

0 24 Aug 2015 06:31 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: This is why GitLab is better than GitHub.

GitLab is used by over 100,000 organisations worldwide, on their own servers.

how have I never heard about this?

5 03 Aug 2015 21:48 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: GitHub's new far-left code of conduct explicitly says "we will not act on reverse racism' or 'reverse sexism'"

In principle I don't have a problem with the first part, but at the same time I could easily see myself persistently forgetting who wants to be called "he", "she", "xe", "ey", "ze" and whatever other gender-neutral pronouns people choose.

The part I don't like is, "You must address people by the name they give you when not addressing them by their username or handle". Suppose I tell you my name is "King of the World and Better Coder than your Mom". Now you *have* to address me by that name (or my username) even if my GitHub account says my name is Mike?

1 03 Aug 2015 18:35 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: GitHub's new far-left code of conduct explicitly says "we will not act on reverse racism' or 'reverse sexism'"

Ah, this?

Deliberate misgendering. This includes deadnaming or persistently using a pronoun that does not correctly reflect a person’s gender identity. You must address people by the name they give you when not addressing them by their username or handle

I don't even...

4 03 Aug 2015 17:40 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: GitHub's new far-left code of conduct explicitly says "we will not act on reverse racism' or 'reverse sexism'"

Hehe, there's a bit in there which says that you can't send someone text that "represents" physical contact, i.e. "hug" or "touch", without consent.

So, to GitHub, the words "hug", "touch", and anything to do with contact, are banned without consent.

Wow, you're not kidding, that's really in there. So a comment like

Thanks! hug

is officially harassment.

EDIT: Also, saying someone is a he or she is banned apparently, when referring to transgenders/fantasists.

Where is that mentioned?

4 03 Aug 2015 17:11 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: Elevator Saga - the elevator programming game

This is really cool. I haven't come up with a great scheduling algorithm for multiple elevators, but it works. Dealing with the levels where you have to minimize the number of moves is going to be fun...

0 15 Jul 2015 10:21 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: Vim Adventures -- Learn VIM shortcuts while screwing around

you have to pay for this, right?

before doing that, try using vimtutor. then read the documentation (LearnVim is a great guide through the docs).

Also, #vim on freenode is responsive to questions.

4 12 Jul 2015 03:35 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: Learn Ruby by playing a video game.

Check out https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior/. It's the command-line inspiration for this site. It builds on levels better and at the end you can run through all levels with your final Player and see how you do.

1 12 Jul 2015 00:45 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: Learn Ruby by playing a video game.

PSA: Play Beginner before Intermediate even if you're knowledgeable in Ruby... it's hard to understand the game itself without going through Beginner first. Kind of silly, really.

I'm a little sad that you can't check your solution to the last level on prior levels, because the more advanced functions aren't available.

Like, I came up with what I believe to be a good general solution. But if it only has to work on the last level, I could have just tailored it specifically to the scenario and saved myself a lot of time.

FTR, my beginner solution is here.

1 11 Jul 2015 21:30 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: Learn Ruby by playing a video game.
if condition
  thing1
elsif not othercondition
  thing2
elsif condition1 and condition2
  thing3
end
3 11 Jul 2015 21:02 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: Networking tutorial from wire transmission to TCP

This is cool, it really does start with basic wire transmission and build up on that.

Guy has a bunch of similar videos:

  • Digital electronics series (10 videos on switches & circuits)
  • How a transistor works
  • Making logic gates from transistors
  • Building a 4-bit adder

If this is interesting, CODE is a cool book that walks through encoding/logic schemes from Braille to microprocessor instruction sets in a highly approachable way.

3 30 Jun 2015 04:10 u/roboticon in v/programming
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10 2 comments 23 Jun 2015 05:42 u/roboticon (..) in v/programming
Comment on: Need to quickly brush up on a syntax? This is one of the most useful sites I've seen in a long time

I can never remember the vagaries of Bash, but they have a great refresher. Thanks!

1 17 Jun 2015 22:39 u/roboticon in v/programming
Comment on: So, has anyone started work on "VES" yet?

As other people have said, the goal should be integration into Voat rather than extension-building.

That said, I've started a keyboard shortcuts extension because I desperately miss keyboard navigation. I hope to develop it to a stable point, then integrate it into voat. More users & feedback would always help!

0 17 Jun 2015 01:25 u/roboticon in v/programming
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