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May I ask what is so bad about it?

From my experience, absolutely.

5 years ago I was just starting out :)

Similar thread in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637

Ignoring context where necessary is a sign of intelligence.

It's getting harder to get an empty vaccine slot. I think there is a huge shortage of vaccines in my state (UP). Fortunately, I got my first shot of vaccine yesterday. At the vaccination center, I saw people breaking the line, taking pictures of their relatives getting the vaccine, and in general not maintaining a safe distance. I guess many handled their ID cards and tokens without sanitizing their hands...

It's heartbreaking to see people suffer due to this pandemic. Reminds me of the privilege I have.

There was a related thread on HN related to audio programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916254 but it was centered around DSP and audio plugins, which is a bit too high level for me. I want to learn more about things like how audio libraries like OpenAL and ALSA work.

Interesting!

The code looks very readable!

Curiosity is what caused me to frequent HN :)

I agree with your points completely. Some tools are just better designed. I was talking about the premature opinions I had on these tools before I had even used them, or seen them in action. This is a problem as it limits my teamworking capabilities. For example, I decided to do the first year programming project all by myself as I thought nobody else could do it.

Edit: added an example

I started attending college a year ago. At that time, I didn't know much about programming: just a bit of C and some Python - enough to make first year college projects. After I started frequenting HN, I came across a lot of comments by developers on programming languages, toolchains, libraries, etc. Even though I didn't understand their arguments, I still believed what they said, because I thought they were experienced, so they must be right. Even though I hadn't used the tools personally, I started developing premature opinions on them: Java is verbose, so it must be avoided, PHP is inelegant etc. These opinions also gave a feeling of security: because I thought that I had chosen the right language for programming (Rust!), the right operating system, the right text editor (vim), and the right window manager (i3). This made me arrogant, because I saw myself as above my classmates, who were still using 'inferior' tools and still struggling to grasp the concept of command line arguments. Over time, I realised that I was just basing my beliefs on HN comments, and it is not healthy in the long run. This article helped me a lot towards realising that. Thank you for posting this article :)

Edit: grammar

Really excited to see the syntax becoming more consistent!

I am looking forward to master Rust in the coming 4-5 years.

I have a similar memory where I made a sprite jump by pressing the spacebar! I played with it for atleast ten minutes without getting bored!

Recently I made a small music player and till now I have played several songs on it just because the software is programmed by me!

As someone who wasn't that good at math, I think the convention of x and y feels pretty abstract and arbitrary. Bad students have trouble connecting real world quantities to single letter variables. Lengthier and meaningful variable names will make the task slightly easier, as carSpeed is easier to reason about than x or y. Once students grasp the concept of a variable, the names can be switched. Just my 2 cents.

Thank you so much for.your detailed comment!

Thank you for posting this!

As a budding C programmer, this will be very useful to me. Are there any more tools/tricks I should know to debug programs? Pitfalls I should avoid?

Slightly offtopic comment.

I have been on HN for over six months now and I admire how people here can go into deep discussions, unlike, let's say Reddit.

But it seems like there is a lot of noise on HN now, with poorly written articles like these, which I think makes HN less appealing.

I urge the people to not upvote these posts to the front page.

Sorry for the late response. You can try Google advanced image search to find image files of a particular format. I have used it in the past to find SVGs.

To exclude giphy and friends, you can just type:

  -giphy ...

at the end of the search query.

Yeah, competitive programming forces you to use short variable names and write makeshift code which is fast enough to pass all the test cases ...

Sometimes searching StackOverflow is quicker than reading the documentation/manual.

Especially excluding Pinterest results while searching for images ;)

Thank you for posting!

Godot is a really good engine but there's one thing which I cannot get to work properly: UI font rendering. The interface font is blurry across platforms. I hope they introduce a fix for it.

Thank you!

But the GDM font remains the same

Yeah, I didn't want to install Ubuntu then because it looked ugly. Zorin and Elementary were really appealing to me then.

I really like it, especially the Inter font, which I think is much better than Cantarell. I hope the GNOME team decides to switch to it.

I remember installing Zorin back in 2016 after watching an ExplainingComputers video on it. Brings back the memories ...

How do I delete my account?

Here's a dumb question: doesn't slow software affect the environment significantly?

The website looks nice but the contrast is too low.