compostor42

I would definitely be interested in such a service. I've basically stopped gaming these past 3 years and now my old rig is severely out of date. It is too much money and hassle to buy and build a new rig that I wouldn't be using that much anyway (and will be out of date in a few years!)

If anybody out there seriously starts working on such a service, let me know!

Thanks for the article. Well written and a very interesting concept.

Great article. I had never heard of dh-virtualenv but will be looking into it.

How has your experience with Ansible been so far? I have dabbled with it but haven't taken the plunge yet. Curious how it has been working out for you all.

Does anybody know what the data source for this is?

The point is, I shouldn't need to exert any mental energy at all. Code is read more than it is written. The onus is on the author to make things clear.

The example provided is trivial, sure. As complexity increases and you have more cryptic variable names to juggle, you'll be glad for the explicit, clear names.

Also, keep it mind that code will need to be comprehended in less than ideal circumstances. The engineer getting woken up in the middle of the night to fix a bug in production will not be at their mental peak. They'll be grateful for the clear naming conventions.

"Not crazy" is a low standard. The point is I shouldn't have had to exert any mental energy whatsoever to understand what those variable names represented.

Its a race to the bottom. Online newspapers are really feeling the squeeze with regards to declining ad revenue.

Everybody has to adopt the click-bait tactics now or be left behind.

His variable names really bother me. I can live with "lat", "lon" if I must, but "d", "md", "trkpts"? Readability would be greatly enhanced if he just spelled those out.

Programmers shouldn't be wasting brain power deciphering cryptic variable names. Save that energy for where it counts (solving actual problems!)