moccajoghurt

Well it's hard not to create bots when you love gaming but also love coding.

You probably say this because you dislike JavaScript. WASI is something completely different and it makes sense to run it everywhere.

We cannot handle the freedom we had since the 90's. We abolished most rules that a conservative / christian society had. As it turns out we actually prefer having strict rules. These new rules are now about diversity, discrimination and racism. They fulfill the same role as the rules of the conservative / christian society. If you abide the rules, you are a good human being. If you are ever in doubt about yourself, just stick to the rules and you will be fine.

I personally don't really like this trend but I think our society is not ready to handle freedom yet.

I was working with Blender for the last few months and it can be quite confusing. Yesterday I had this weird occurrence where I had call bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT') everytime before changing the matrix_world.translation values of some meshes. (Even though I didn't select anything in between). It took me hours to find out why the meshes weren't moving correctly.

I guess Blender is not perfect for using it with python only.

Why?

>So you took a game that used to take a few dozen KB of memory and an 8-bit CPU running at less than 2MHz, and turned it into one requiring many orders of magnitude more memory and CPU speed?

That's what I thought too.

Not sure why it's getting as much attention. Maybe because it's the combination of Python and Super Mario. A very popular language combined with a very popular game and a breeze of nostalgia.

However it's a fun little project but being on the HN frontpage is a little too much attention for something like that.

Holy fuck I didn't realize it was translated up until now. As a non native speaker that's not a thing to be proud of I guess.

I should read more careful. Thank you.

It's some teenager that will regret this article later in life. Let's not give him even more attention. It's just getting more painful for him this way.

Why is he so super elitist about "hand coding" a website?

I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life.

Being elitist always sucks no matter how awesome you are... but come on we are talking about a webdesign competition, not some x86_64 assembly hacking event. This is ridiculous.

On the other hand... give a student python in the first semester and he'll get hooked. In the second semester you can start the approach you proposed.

I am positive that 95% of the CS students with a BSc. degree in my college haven't even seen function pointers. We learn the basics of C then OOP in C++ and the rest of the study will be Java. It's a farce and as an employer I wouldn't even care whether my employee has a fancy degree. You won't find real coders if you choose them by their degree. At least in Germany it's like that. I am not sure of it's different in other countries.

On a side note: Why do you quote """this way"""?

That's one of the drawbacks of C++. I really love it but sometimes a tiny syntax error will produce so many errors that you can't even scroll to the top of the console to find the cause.

Yeah but his criticism is objective and thoughtful. I have read about 5 different reviews he made and I can totally understand now why he dislikes Windows 8.

Did I just get tricked into registering? Well it worked. To bad the the adventure didn't continue after I edited my wikipedia profile.

I also enjoy gifs. I have been creating gifs with VirtualDub so far.

I usually prefer writing scripts to do stuff but VirtualDub is one of the few tools I simply use because I enjoy the open source and hacker spirit behind it.

An interesting plugin I miss for VD is an color reduction algorithm which would help to create very small gifs.

On reddit and tumblr gifs are a growing trend and it might be worth to put some effort into gif creation.

Well this was very specific programming related joke. If they stay like that and only pop up once in a while, it's fine. Just enjoy the joke and stop worrying.

What about that guy that spent all his money on bitcoins? Is he rich now? Any news about that guy?

If the C++ code I have to deal with looked like the given example, I'd be very glad. Too bad it usually looks way more complicated.

Make HL3 an exclusive Linux title. That would do the trick for sure.

It should be mentioned that it normally only occurs when well trained people stop working out for a couple of weeks and then get into it again at full speed.

If you are used to working out hard, you won't get rhabdomyolysis.

So if you're pretty fit but stopped working out for a while, get into it with moderation!

To everyone else: don't be scared of rhabdomyolysis and work out!

>I started to realize that assembly language was real programming. BASIC was just an imitation of programming.

That's exactly why I couldn't be happy if I only knew some high level languages like Java / Python / C#.

After learning an assembly language and C I feel much more comfortable using any other language. You know the real thing.

I think it's a useful program. Keeping it in mind.

> So what went wrong? The short answer is: a lot more people logged on than we expected. More people played and played in ways we never saw in the beta.

How can the play style of people have such an impact on the servers?

Sure there could have been people spamming buildings in order to produce high traffic. But that's sounds like an unlikely exceptional case.

Thanks for explaining. The reasons sound quite obvious and I feel a little silly for asking in the first place.

Why do corporations spend resources in mounting the JRE to their devices? Wouldn't it be much simpler to use the instruction set of the hardware and write stuff in C / Assembly?

I am asking because my first language was Java and after learning C / gnu AS it feels much more comfortable to actually have control over the resources you are using than relying on the magic the JRE does for you.

Good one.

Coding is an incredibly frustrating and hard path and I doubt that coding will become more popular on a professional level. There probably can be more hobby programmers that code some simple stuff but there is NO WAY coding can become some kind of popular mainstream hobby.

I hear a lot of people complaining about that very often. I can't remember the last time I had sound in my browser without my knowledge. Maybe it's because most people don't use adblocker?

I have no clue.

Just keep reddit away from Hacker News. Reddit is a horrible place right now and there is no reason to copy it.