Post little thoughts, jokes, news, etc. that don't necessarily warrant having their own thread.
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Anonymous2018-09-02 19:10
HAX MY ANUS!!!!
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Anonymous2018-09-02 20:42
listen to cloud rap a.k.a. trillwave (it's a real subgenre) hosted in the cloud while you work on your AWS EC2 instance... in the cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1h38Z5raIg and the weather is cloudy out
computin' in the
cloud l o u d
while puffin' on dat
loud o u d
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Anonymous2018-09-02 20:48
me, now, sitting in front of a screen: I sure miss the past me, 10 years ago: look at me sitting in front of a screen
modern nostalgia makes no sense
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Anonymous2018-09-02 22:02
Indian programming tutorials on Youtube. Not just regular beginner ones, but for complicated or uncommon things. They talk very slowly and with a heavy accent, and you can hear car horns and traffic in the background, but it's a very obscure tech topic and they're the only resource you can find for it.
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Anonymous2018-09-02 22:07
*fart*
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Anonymous2018-09-02 22:11
>>4 do you sit in front of a screen 24/7 or something?
hosted in the cloud while you work on your AWS EC2 instance
What?
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Anonymous2018-09-02 22:46
>>7 no, but I'm starting to dislike programming because of how far-removed it is from nature
>>8 the video I linked to features music from a genre called ``cloud rap''
the video I linked to is on youtube, which I guess you could say is in the cloud (it's a stretch, but it's for a joke, but it's not funny when you have to explain it)
Ever heard of SIM swapping? Two factor authentication sounds good in theory but people are using social engineering of wireless providers to get access to people's accounts by getting the phone company to give them someone else's phone number. So then they get the codes for logging in or resetting a password. This is why authenticator app authentication is superior.
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Anonymous2018-09-03 23:30
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.
“I am teaching a man to fish,” Sussman replied.
“Why?”, asked Minsky.
“If you can't tune filesystem, you have to tuna fish”, Sussman said.
Minsky then doused him in lighter fluid and lit him on fire.
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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Anonymous2018-09-03 23:35
>>15 MIT is so enlightened now that they replaced Lisp with Python for their introductory CS courses.
Do you think the web will ever become obsolete? As in, maybe something else will replace it, or people will just use apps instead. Maybe the worsening performance and slow/transactional nature of the web will put people off, and it also just seems like there's a lot of stuff that simply isn't possible (or at least very difficult to achieve) through web technologies that are better suited to other languages. Slow 2D documents... will they ever lose their appeal, or are we going to accept this kind of thing 10-20 years down the road?
the .co TLD is only good for typosquatting of .com domains
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Anonymous2018-09-06 11:24
Out of honesty and clarity, the root user on UNIX-like systems should obviously be renamed stalin.
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Anonymous2018-09-06 12:32
s/stalin/nikita;
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Anonymous2018-09-06 12:37
Java is the epitome of conservativeness in programming: clunky, burdened by obsolete "features" that were never good, too slow do adopt important features that others already benefit from, preferred by low skill workers from the east, disliked by the skilled and smart, guilty of enabling horrible atrocities, but also way more popular than it should be allowed to be and found all over the world.
but >>27 is an anus too, java isn't a preferred language for anyone anymore. it's a boring language for maintaining big enterprise shit, and everything else is just the momentum it built up in previous years.
On the topic of Java, I have a lot of experience making desktop Java software. How hard would it be to make Android apps in Java? I downloaded Android Studio but I've never really used it before.
Any recommendations for resources for learning Android app development through Java? Can you even still submit Java apps to Google Play, or is it Kotlin-only now?
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Anonymous2018-09-06 13:28
>>34 you just need to learn about the UI system (which is easy) and about the IPC (which is retarded). the rest should be familiar
Is it anything like JavaFX? I use that for desktop apps.
IPC
The what?
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Anonymous2018-09-06 13:44
>>36 UI is a bit like JavaFX, a bit simpler I think. it has XMLs and a visual builder. I didn't do much with it, but what I did was pretty intuitive.
IPC is inter-process communication. basically, a lot of the things in Android is done by sending 'intents' to other processes, and by receiving them. they're all about stuffing things in some kind of badly typed variadic data structure, and then manually extracting them. so imagine Java with zero type-safety. well, some things have a bit of type-safety because of automatically-generated wrapper code (basically you specify the interface in their're are 'AIDL' format and it does the dirty work for you), but don't rely on it, that's used just for one specific thing ('bound services'). everything else must do shit the hard way.
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Anonymous2018-09-06 14:01
>>37 Hmmm, interesting. Are there any books or tutorials you'd recommend for learning Android development?
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Anonymous2018-09-06 21:00
if you did SSH tunneling on a quantum computer, could you call it quantum tunneling? huehue