programming

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Saw this on Hacker News; it’s an ongoing compendium of classic BASIC games, rewritten in up to 10 accepted programming languages; as well as space for “alternative” languages.

Microsoft employee:...

This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )

I accepted a position at a start up around three months ago. This company was located in New York and I was located in California. They mentioned that I could work remotely for now but I would eventually have to move out to New York. I was okay with this, as I always dreamed of working in New York....

Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses, and I don’t give in to criminals or bullies...

The mistake most devs make when trying to document their project is that they only make one (maybe two) types of documentation based on a readme template and/or what their mental model of a newcomer needs....

An absolute classic. One of my favourite parts:...

I’m a software engineer at a startup with impossible deadlines - I’ve used GPT4 for months to generate huge amounts app/server code, and much like your IDE, once you learn to use these tools you don’t want to go back to the days without it....

I’ve always flunked at math; and knowing how intertwined programming is with math, I’m skeptical of my ability to learn how to code. Can someone be too dumb to learn programming? If it helps, I’m mostly interested in learning Common Lisp.

I want start with python but I don’t know what operating system and tools to use. I have a 6 RAM icore3 180 GB hard disk Notebook laptop running Linux mint. I plan to save up to Buy a PC in the future but for I have to make due my old laptop...