Programming posts are the new swimming posts.
I thought this would be about some kind of rad kite flying. Fuck this.
it looks like autocomplete and integrated help.
so.... Visual Studio circa 1996?
2: Programming posts make me miss the swimming posts.
Maybe some folks can turn this into a statistics thread.
If it's gonna be this kind of party, the lawyers should get together and discuss favorite document review software vendors.
Can we go back to arguing about superdelegates again?
Contra naysayers, that does look quite handy.
I'm having to learn Ruby at the moment and something like that would be handy.
Maybe it's a super-subtle cock joke.
I thought this would be about some kind of rad kite flying.
Ha, same here. I was also thinking maybe a new kind of parasailing.
So I bought Small God-Daughter a geode in Monument Valley. A whole one - unopened. The idea is that you crack it open yourself with a hammer. And my thoughts are these:
a) What a magical experience for her when she cracks it open! She'll be the first person ever to see these crystals since they formed millions of years ago! I am an awesome godfather.
b) This would be a terrific way for some unscrupulous Navajo to make money: just charge gullible visitors $25 for a large rock. By the time the marks find out, they'll be thousands of miles away.
On the OP, you know what this should have? A little animation that pops up and says "Hi! It looks like you are writing a Python script! Would you like some help?"
so.... Visual Studio circa 1996?
Smalltalk circa 1986?
re: 12
Ditto, before I saw the video.
re: 4
A lot slicker, though.
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I did my first probit fitting today! And it worked!
13.b: Or, alternately, order them for $10/bag off Amazon and charge a roughly 25x markup.
19: I can get rocks cheaper than that without Amazon, though maybe the free shipping makes it worth it.
I did that too. Even though the fittings were nearly equally good by statistical measures, the probit fit the results wayyy better (the low probability tail in the logit was way too low).
21: I was thinking that using actual geodes improves the chances of repeat business and good word-of-mouth, and it doesn't really cut into the margin much.
I thought this would be about some kind of rad kite
I can provide (the kite flying in the video isn't rad, but the kite itself is, and there are some good shots of it flying).
For entirely non-prurient reasons, I have created a folder called Hand_Cox.
Dude as an experienced purchaser $25 is way too much for a smash your own geode, unless it's a boulder or there's a diamond in there. The smash your own geode is my go to under $5 natural history museum gift shop purchase, because it's cheap and has a "smash" aspect.
Dude as an experienced purchaser $25 is way too much for a smash your own geode, unless it's a boulder or there's a diamond in there. The smash your own geode is my go to under $5 natural history museum gift shop purchase, because it's cheap and has a "smash" aspect.
Bag of Rocks - Small is only $1 plus tax, but lacks the smash aspect.
"Smash Your Own Geode: The best discount dominatrix facility in the tri-state area."
It is pretty slick, but right now I'm trying to bend my brain around F#, so it not being on Visual Studio doesn't help me.
Also, I'd only use this if I was developing on a multi-monitor setup, because no way I'd give up that much screen space on a laptop. Unfortunately, my high-powered triple monitor setup is generally used for Minecraft and YouTube, rather than software development.
OK, I watched the video and I must have become totally lame in my middle age, because that actually sound pretty cool. Maybe as the next step, they can just link your code directly to the results of relevant stack overflow searches.
A video of someone flying a kite would have been cool too.
I think Minecraft counts as software development with a very high-level language.
28: Maybe there's a premium for getting it handed to you by a genuine Navajo.
The $25 ones were the size of a loaf of bread.
I think Minecraft counts as software development with a very high-level language.
If they can make Kite for programming with Minecraft command blocks, that's a killer app right there. These guys are marketing at hipster Ruby programmers, but if they really want a strong demographic, they should go after kids who want to spawn a wither storm.
I'm still trying to completely expose the ocean monument. The stupid fish that shoots rays killed me because it turns out that if you remove the water, falling into the ocean is fatal.
This is actually not bad. It's like what many of the walled gardens (Eclipse comes to mind, cuz I mostly Java) do for stuff that's in their language of choice*. It's all in a single UI format, so whatever horrible language you are in it's more or less the same. It implies it avoids looking at the StackOverflow posts from ten years ago ("most popular" my ass). The privacy thing probably can't work for me any time within the next ten years because bureaucracy, but I like it. I agree that the ability to put the advice popups on another screen would be awesome. I have three screens and one usually is just a mirror of another.
Maybe I'll give it a try at home sometime.
* TBH, dynamically popping up decent suggestions for the incomprehensible gibberish that is a typical Linux bash command is somewhere near nirvana for me**.
** Not to mention "we support Emacs."
27: advance to Box__Cox
Maybe programming posts should have orange post titles.
I finally googled Minecraft, guys. It looks...kinda boring. What's the appeal? Let's call this the Minecraft thread.
The new combat took me forever to figure out.
Still can't figure out, at all, how to play Minecraft.
My kid runs a server. It's making him learn some Java- just editing existing files at this point but it's a start.
I have four monitors at work, one a wall display that mirrors one of the other three, and I don't even code.
My kid runs a Minecraft server to, for some value of "runs" that means I do most of the work. But I've got him sshing into the thing so he can run "sudo service minecraft restart" from time to time. So, it gets him familiar with the Linux environment.
Also, there's a lot of value to having basically a giant sandbox on the internet where he and his friends can become socialized to the norms of on-line interaction, in an environment where the worst that generally happens is that someone griefs the stuff you've built and then you restore it from backup.
Kids today can conjugate the verb "grief" better than we ever could at that age.
You mean the verb "grieve"? Or have I been trolled?
I'm skeptical this could work outside of a pretty narrow range showcased by the demo (e.g., Python, standard HTTP libraries, etc.) Program understanding is really hard and doing it for arbitrary input languages is even harder. At a certain point you know the request/response API pretty well; what you really want to know is how all that crap code a contractor wrote two years ago fits together. I doubt an "Internet-powered" super-grep is going to help at all.
But! Something like this could definitely be nice, even if it's not actually magical. I basically always have the standard library docs open in a tab and it would be nice if there were just always visible in a sidebar.
Right, it's like predictive devdocs, which is pretty great.
I hear Agda and Idris have just super-sophisticated tools of this general sort. Maybe more people should use Idris—it's practical, I hear.
I'm not exactly wild about the part where you have to send them all of your source code and every single terminal command you run. The source code part isn't really different in practice than, say, Github or Bitbucket, but it still bothers me.
Smith says the company is still figuring out its business model
Based on his previous experience, it sounds like a leading contender is "sell it to Yahoo, which will then shut it down."
53: I was surprised to see that "grieve" apparently at one time was used in the way a modern gamer would use "grief" as a transitive verb. That is, definition #4.
Ogged, if your bootcamping is done, Uber is looking for programmers in Pittsburgh and my neighbor is selling a house. We could share a wall.
I feel like 63 is the most flattering thing anyone has ever said about me. Thanks Barry F.
Fuck. Skeleton Horses which, when by lightening, turn into Skeleton Archers on Horseback. Swimming in the ocean.
I was all wondering "Why there was a horse swimming out there?" So I go look. I'm not sure how many are out there, but it's at least three.
Apparently, that's just what happens when lightening strikes. Sometimes a skeleton trap horse appears, even in the ocean.
That took many arrows. It's hard to shoot while swimming.
No. I got the first two while standing on sand but the third was too far, so I had to swim out and get him. But not too far. Now there are at least three four skeleton horses out there ready to turn into three skeleton horsemen if I go near them.