Oh God.
Me: You look like a mad scientist.
Logan: This is my third eye.
Can’t stop the Science, Nat.
Ah yes, the ol’ “promise one thing, deliver that same thing later” scam
- Morgen: Hey Logan do you have any idea -
- Logan: No I have no idea what ANYTHING is and I hate you
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”—
The world’s two worst variable names | Andy Lester (via spooningfork)
intention revealing names. it’s not terribly difficult with just the smallest bit of effort. i suppose thedistanceinsidious and i should argue about this now or something xD it’s less relevant with throwaway code, but if someone is going to look at your code (including your future self) it is quite beneficial to at least have an idea what things are.
diving through legacy perl code right now is a pain only mitigated slightly when i land somewhere that is at least somewhat anchored conceptually. just thoughts.
and yes: cache invalidation is a difficult problem x__x
I hate to fall into the trap of predictability, but naming things IS incredibly hard.
Namespaces and proper scoping help, but any sufficiently complex “real world” [read: enterprise] problem will usually escape into a combination of magic names (Ex: “sumCustomerValues”), extremely verbose names that don’t tell you anything (Ex: “customerUniqueKeyForSomeLegacyPurposeWeForgotAbout”), and really magic names. (Ex: “tmp_x” as an integral component in production code)
Don’t even get me started about corporate internal coding standards policies. Those things are brilliantly bad at creating “clean” code. Only verbose, uniformly-unreadable code.
Even hobby projects lend themselves to the naming problem, and that’s honestly for the same reason OOP has many shortfalls: things are complex.
(Source: ekline)
help I’m running out of pictures of SC2 pro players doing the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon
I’m dying right now. The public outcry is the most entertaining thing that I’ve seen today.
Everyone is retarded.
And it’s hilarious.
Justice Times: Is Code Moving Forward?
I’ve been thinking about how far programming as an industry has come, and I’ve decided that it has slowed down.
Think back to the early 90’s and late 80’s. A hot new program would redefine the face of efficient code. People didn’t use the same solutions to different problems and a lot of them…
We’re at a point in development when the average browser can do things that desktop applications with full access to your computational resources couldn’t do ten years ago, and on top of that, they can do it beautifully and easily.
We have access to GPU shaders and specialized computational resources that can do things better, faster, and more efficiently than ever before. [GPUs: Not just for graphics processing. Vector calculation resources are very handy. Example: cracking WEP/WPA keys.]
Yes, we have a generation of developers who want to build the next Instagram or Farmville, but we also have people doing things like this.
And developers do great things for the community because the community gives them so much more in return. The solo dev can do great things, but why deprive yourself of so many great resources?
Fuck, we’ve organized a loose development group on tumblr (#tumblrcode) and it’s a totally beneficial machine that has arisen. We each gain from the each other’s experiences. We each learn about new things that we were previously ignorant about hourly, and it’s not even a purely professional endeavor.
In fact, I’m currently building a platform around the concept of community driven microprojects and social development. (HackAWeek)
Don’t discount the merits of social development because of social-oriented products.
i find it peculiar how, despite the algorithm that i used to draw these being left almost entirely up to chance, we can still attribute form within a noise of shapes..
This is pretty neat. If you’ve got the algorithm handy, I’d love to see it.
It looks a bit like some kind of fractal with noise, but I can’t tell with any degree of certainty.
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CSS disasters: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.
Some notes: (CSS reformatted for clarity)
if (document.all) { document.onmouseover = doRainbowAnchor;No. Don’t make links strobe through rainbow colors when you mouse over them.
body, div, p { font: 10px Lucida Sans Unicode, Tahoma, Verdana}No. Don’t make the text 10 pixels tall. Never do that. (Also, you don’t have to include div and p in that selector: they’re both descendants of the document body.)
body, a, a:hover {cursor: url(http://static.tumblr.com/f50xx01/bVDm1u5c8/mar.png), progress;}No. Don’t change the cursor to a pokemon. Don’t change it at all, in fact, leave that shit alone.
iframe#tumblr_controls {opacity: 0.2;}No, don’t fade out the Tumblr controls. Never do that. Leave that shit alone.
<img alt="tumblr themes" src="http://static.tumblr.com/thpaaos/dHHkt0jor/install_theme.png" style="position:absolute; right:3px; top:32px;">Here’s where I get to escape my broken AAC-player routine, and complain about something I haven’t whined about a hundred times before. Namely, themes that put “Install this theme!” buttons next to the standard tumblr controls.
I’m not sure if I hate it.
Sure, the button’s displayed even if the reader isn’t actually a Tumblr user, which makes it totally useless for that segment of readers. And sure, it apes a standard UI element in a totally dishonest way, like banner ads that pretend to be Windows alert boxes. But it’s used in a theme by one of the Tumblr devs, so I guess it’s okay.
But check this shit out:
iframe#tumblr_controls:hover{-webkit-transition: opacity 0.7s linear;opacity: 1} a img:hover {-moz-transform: scale(1.02);
So when you mouse over the install theme button, it scales it up by 2%, which just makes it blurry, but not a whole lot bigger. (Again! Why does this keep happening?)
But when you mouse over the controls, it just fades them in, but doesn’t upscale them. Two completely different visual actions for what, to the user, are the same class of button. Combine that with the giant ugly gap between the tumblr_controls row and the install theme button, and you have a magnificent trainwreck of UI design.
c1qkeyboardsmash, warrior of the internet.
