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Easier Python string formatting
6 1 comment 17 Sep 2015 20:06 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Comment on: What makes a good interface?

Enter your access code at the bottom of the screen

That's not a great user interface. You have to look to the top right to read this message, and then get sent away to the bottom of the screen to enter the code. Why not put the message to enter the code right next to where you have to enter it?

1 15 Sep 2015 19:49 u/svipbo in v/programming
The 70-Year Old Programmer Maintaining SPITBOL
7 0 comments 13 Sep 2015 22:54 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering
28 0 comments 13 Sep 2015 22:48 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Read "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" On-Line
8 0 comments 12 Sep 2015 16:36 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Guide for Implementing 2D Platformer Games
5 1 comment 11 Sep 2015 19:42 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should
2 0 comments 11 Sep 2015 18:38 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Linus Torvalds is tired indeed of "trivially obvious improvements" that are actually buggy
90 45 comments 11 Sep 2015 18:32 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Comment on: How Google's New Logo Can be Just 305 Bytes

Something I read said it was just for low bandwidth connections, or only for certain browsers or devices. Can't confirm if that's true though.

1 11 Sep 2015 03:49 u/svipbo in v/programming
A Graphical OS for the Atari 8-bit
24 0 comments 11 Sep 2015 03:48 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Comment on: The curse of varargs

Where's that thumnail icon coming from?

1 07 Sep 2015 18:17 u/svipbo in v/programming
A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
1 0 comments 07 Sep 2015 18:10 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Tom Duff on Duff's Device (1988)
1 0 comments 06 Sep 2015 13:48 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
The mystery of the fifteen-millisecond breakpoint instruction
13 0 comments 05 Sep 2015 23:32 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
How Google's New Logo Can be Just 305 Bytes
26 10 comments 04 Sep 2015 11:48 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
ctypes.sh - A Foreign Function Interface for the Bash Shell
3 0 comments 03 Sep 2015 13:02 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
The Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman
1 0 comments 01 Sep 2015 20:21 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Comment on: Python or Perl? + Questions

I've spent quite a lot of time using Perl, and I'm not really a fan. The culture around Perl is degenerate, constantly trying to prove their relevance. They try to excuse the bad choices for Perl's syntax by saying that its inventor was a "linguist", as if we should trust some alleged academic authority instead of our own eyes and brains.

I agree with most of Xah Lee's rants about the Perl community, e.g. http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/perlr.html

I haven't used Python much, but I'd recommend Python instead, just to help Perl die.

However, Python is said to have a degenerate culture as well: see http://xahlee.info/perl-python/python_doc.html and http://xahlee.info/perl-python/xlali_skami_cukta.html.

0 30 Aug 2015 17:04 u/svipbo in v/programming
Writing a Game Boy Advance Game
32 3 comments 22 Aug 2015 20:55 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Comment on: For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesnt exist

Dunno, it worked (and continues to work) for me.

0 14 Aug 2015 16:07 u/svipbo in v/programming
For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesnt exist
37 17 comments 13 Aug 2015 23:29 u/svipbo (..) in v/programming
Comment on: [PDF] A big ass timeline of programming languages

This is one of the best programming family trees I've seen by far.

0 10 Aug 2015 17:55 u/svipbo in v/programming
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