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@cartman82 at work we use High order components because it's cleaner for our use case.
although, half of the problems with mixins in js are there because they are a half assed version of traits. without the clearly defined semantics for dependencies and conflict resolution.
(reference paper)
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
A humble test of Humble DRM-free Linux games
Guy tests around a 100 linux games from Humble Bundle and GoG. Trying to determine how a noob would fare getting them to work. The results are... underwhelming.
I had nearly zero problems running Spacechem on a "Linux". Except sometimes the frame rate would be really low and the screen flickery, but only on the menu and not on the game itself. Linux distros' hardware support, heh? shrug
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Article about why many sites and services have a fake delay or loading bar. Anyone who's read the articles on TDWTF already knows the reason.
I thought you were referring to The Speed-up Loop, but this seems to be about a different psychological effect. Maybe you meant something else I'm not seeing?
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
man that site is awfully slow on mobile.
Maybe that's what they want you to think.
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@dcon said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
/* * Blah */
**twitch** Line up those damn asterisks!
/* blah */
better?
@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Article about why many sites and services have a fake delay or loading bar.
reticulating splines...
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@Zecc said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Maybe you meant something else I'm not seeing?
I could've sworn I've read at least one story on here where the clients were upset about the application running too quickly. Maybe that was another site...
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...I find the whole discussion around software licensing to be completely pointless. It’s one of the stupidest, most awful, and most incredibly redundant conversations in the entire tech world. And why is that? Well…
It’s redundant because it just DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER. If you can already find or view my code, then guess what – you have the ability to use it! Whether I want you to or not, you can already view my code, so copying pieces of it (or the whole fucking thing) is totally possible...
...if you’re the creator of something, you should have control over it!
But let’s get real for a minute: if you build something and you don’t want other people to use it, the solution is a lot simpler than licensing: just don’t fucking make it publicly accessible!
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@bb36e Sounds like someone who's not had the “fun” of dealing with Legal on this sort of thing.
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@bb36e I wonder what his feelings on copyright would be if someone used one of his free projects for commercial purposes.
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@bb36e His position is a bit extreme but I do find it funny when open source-y people trying (ostensibly) to write software instead spend hours debating about software licenses. I just assume it's their way of procrastinating though.
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http://imgur.com/gallery/O8lYT
There's no extra information on the Imgur gallery, so you might as well just watch the animations here.
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How do I prevent cars from slamming into my house? (reddit)
This guy on reddit has a bit of a... unique situation.
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Walk us through the thought process of buying this house?
"The traffic in the living room is a bit of a distraction, but the schools in this area are very good."
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@antiquarian I do not believe the person who bought/built that house would post that question. This is trollery.
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@blakeyrat Sure, but who cares? It was funny.
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Guy lays down the truth about police in the USA
Comment from the discussion about the recent police shooting on reddit:
The thing that most people are angry about and it isn't expressed properly a lot of the time, is that the entire police mentality when responding to calls has got to change.
The police's theory for handling any type of possibly violent or explosive situation has been almost exclusively to dominate it with force of action, excessive vulgarity, angry screamed intimidating orders, often from multiple cops at once so you can barely process it, and overwhelming almost malicious force with the idea that anyone involved will be so terrified that they'll submit right away, then you cuff everyone up, and then you calm down and ask questions and figure out what's going on and handle it from there.
The problem with this mentality is that it causing situations where both the citizens the cops are policing, and the cops, are getting huge shots of adrenaline, getting scared, and making mistakes or bad decisions because the whole energy level has been raised so high that you get people that can't handle it anymore and need to do something and then shit like this happens.
They're injecting so much adrenaline and tension into situations that they're causing violence due to it. And basically everyone can see this.
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@cartman82 I read a great one the other day in a similar vein about all the functions we outsource to the police that shouldn't be responded to with violence. It's a 3-part article, here's part 1, or skip ahead two articles if you want the conclusion:
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@flabdablet What could possibly go wrong?
"The current price of one standard ship's egg, I believe, is three deciduous forests"
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@FrostCat It's magical wealth!
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@boomzilla most of economics is magic by this point anyway
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@FrostCat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@flabdablet What could possibly go wrong?
"The current price of one standard ship's egg, I believe, is three deciduous forests"
Just spray water all over this parched garden. Please.
What could possibly go wrong?
"The current location of the Ark, I believe, is at the top of Ararat"
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@Jaloopa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@boomzilla most of economics is magic by this point anyway
So you're saying economics is sufficiently advanced technology? Works for me.
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This seems interesting for someone like me who knows C++ (as much as any mortal can claim of course) and is reluctant (and lazy) to learn Haskell, but wants to know what those monads are doing in the backyard:
This one looks even weirder:
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@flabdablet It looks like were attempting to post in the Quotes out of Context thread--would you like the @mods to move your post?
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@cartman82 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
How do I prevent cars from slamming into my house? (reddit)
@error_bot said in TDWTF Plays The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
The bulldozer, which you may have noticed outside, just pushed your home
down on top of you.
**** You have died ****Good question.
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Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
Another guy has drunk the functional programming cool aid. His arguments aren't all that compelling, TBH.
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@cartman82 So if you misunderstand encapsulation, misuse inheritance, and have no idea what functional programming is like, you may want to give up on OOP and move to Functional. Uh, okay?
I agree, not compelling.
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IT’S COUNTED TWICE.
gasp
Inheritance is not there for reuse, it's there to enable polymorphism. Never been, never will be, whoever told you to use inheritance for that told you wrong.
The problem with adding twice is the problem with badly specified API design.
The document/company problem is just retarded. A document is not a company. Yes, use composition here and learn to distinguish "is" and "contains" relationships.
The whole article is written in the kind of "wake up sheeple" tone (THE PILLAR HAS FALLEN! gasp) and I just don't feel like reading about what fell the other two pillars. If I wanted to read programming ramblings with little point, I'd read Blakey.
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@Maciejasjmj TLDR:
Encapsulation: if you pass a reference to an object into a constructor you can still mutate that object.
Polymorphism: use interfaces
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@Jaloopa but have the pillars fallen?! HAVE THE PILLARS FALLEN?!
So encapsulation: yes, you can do it wrong in OOP, and polymorphism: yes, you can do it right in OOP. Yay.
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@Maciejasjmj the pillars fell so quickly one might think the author was bored and wanted to go and play Minecraft or something
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@Jaloopa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Maciejasjmj TLDR:
Encapsulation: if you pass a reference to an object into a constructor you can still mutate that object.
Polymorphism: use interfacesYou forgot:
Inheritance: if I want to reuse a class that is part of a hierarchy, I need to import all the ancestor classes and their dependencies; but if I want to reuse a class that uses composition instead, suddenly all the dependencies and their dependencies magically disappear.
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@Zecc That Pillar had already Fallen. We'd moved on to the Remaining Pillars and their shaky Foundations
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@Jaloopa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Maciejasjmj the pillars fell so quickly one might think the author was bored and wanted to go and play Minecraft or something
The last pillar didn't even fall. He kind of forgot about it.
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@cartman82 because he didn't care about it, therefore it isn't important. It's a red haired StepChild
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I am not qualified to call bullshit on Paul Graham when he writes about programming, history, starting a business, or even growing up as a social pariah, but I do know enough about art to see when someone is just making shit up.
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Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do. Even not-so-great paintings - in fact, any slapdash attempt at splashing paint onto a surface - will get you laid more than writing software, especially if you have the slightest hint of being a tortured, brooding soul about you. For evidence of this I would point to my college classmate Henning, who was a Swedish double art/theatre major and on most days could barely walk.
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Let's go for a twofer:
The English translations are very important.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
The English translations are very important.
I knew quite a lot of those already…
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Er det hestens fødselsdag? – Is it the horse’s birthday? (Danish)
Meaning: The rye bread is too thick on my open sandwichUuhhh... OK... I think that made it worse.
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I knew quite a lot of those already…
In that case: you’ve really shot the parrot!
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"Hey! There's a cow, on the ice!
What's a dinosaur to do, when there's cows, on the ice?
Somebody call their MOM!"
Filed Under: I hope someone gets that
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@Yamikuronue said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I agree, not compelling.
It could have been if the author had bothered to give one reason why functional programming might be better for some people.
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@Luhmann said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
In that case: you’ve really shot the parrot!
My beard was already in the mailbox.
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@Boner said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/brass-eye-chris-morris/493454/
It’s beyond ridiculous—and yet, that’s exactly the direction in which political and journalistic discourse has trended in the intervening 15 years. Morris was mocking the weekly news show with Brass Eye, but he was also envisioning its apocalyptic future. At the end of “Paedogeddon,” a mob sets a man named “Peter Phile” on fire in his car, but the anchors dismiss his death as necessary collateral damage.
One year earlier:
Six years later:
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@all_users sigh...typical Americans.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@all_users sigh...typical Americans.
Bother. Just realised, I was looking at the dates on the articles, not the actual incidents...
Or incident. They're both talking about the same one. In Wales.