A Lot Of Computer Science Algorithms Are Just Means To Describe Activities Humans Do Naturally.

For those of you who are worried about AI taking over the world, this is the sentence produced by a “neural network” (a fancy name for my relative frequency matrix) after I had it read Beowulf, Galen, Guinea, Little Women, Mansfield Park, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Call of the Wild. (All are freely available on Project Gutenberg in many filetypes including plain text, btw).

Me, offering my teammate the bug fix story that will certainly drive them to insanity

Update: While fun and neat, I still have yet to find a suitable hobbyist use case for Go. 

I feel like the creators of Scheme were really big fans of yoda’s verbal syntax.

I watched a youtube video about GraphQL last night and it is not at all what I thought it was. And then it made me realize that SQL, too, isn’t what I thought it was. And now I feel rather silly.

Does anyone read programming books? Like actually?

Keeping them on a shelf having skimmed the table of contents doesn’t count.

Console.WriteLine(”Not Bad”);

Alright so I find myself liking C# and the .NET framework. For anyone who hasn’t delved into understanding what it is and WHY it is: .NET is, like all other frameworks, a collection of tools for developers. Except this one is on steroids, and tailored to Windows BY Microsoft, meaning you can make awesome Windows applications without tracking down everything you need. It’s all just right there. 

C# is basically C++ with all of the .NET adapters actively available. You can also think of it like Java but instead of running inside of the JVM, it runs on Windows. 

Microsoft’s documentation is also really well-written for it, which is nice.

BONUS in case anyone is curious: ASP.NET is a framework that extends the overarching .NET to provide tools specifically for web application dev. I haven’t gotten far into the ASP documentation yet so I can’t say much about it other than that.

(define begone ‘(Go away scheme))

Out with the old... 

and in with the new...  

Submitting a PR without unit tests is like having a manhattan without a cherry

Sure, it’s easier, but exceedingly less satisfying

I can’t even style a SCROLLBAR without it looking like a potato.