Textbook and educational material publishers are some of the biggest pieces of shit alive. I take any chance I can get to deprive a company like Pearson of a few pennies.
No homo but I really appreciate the depth of knowledge you have. The Ada and Common Lisp sperging you share here are pretty cool too. Lots of info on areas and eras of computing I simply don't know as much about as I should. I've done a little with both Lisp (mostly Racket and Clojure tbh) and APL but my experiences with those were a long time ago, and I definitely didn't see the value of anything outside of the common paradigm, like I do nowadays.
I'm a hippie optimist in many ways, but I figure if you want to learn more and listen to people who know shit you don't and aren't retarded, you'll be fine in the long run. But yes, books are more legitimate. There's a level of vetting there which "retard with a blog," or "retard with a blog who works at FAANG" (not that impressive even though they want you to think it is, see the Rob Pike quote UERISIMILITUDO posted about how is average Googler is an okay coder who crammed CLRS and Skiena's textbooks to pass the interview ) completely lack. Recorded conference talks can be fine. I do not enjoy programming-related podcasts because basically every one of them aside Talk Python makes me want to reach through my phone and strangle the hosts. It's also simply not a very good format for computing-related discussion IMO.
Alot of the programming shit I see on youtube or social media are just influencers who rarely say anything of substance. And there are alot of pretentious fucks that will spew out a word salad of technical buzzwords, and even if they had something of substance to say it doesn't matter because they are too busy huffing jenkem from their own ass trying to sound smart instead of being concise.
That's the plan. Im always learning more and its served me well because I've already gotten a few small freelance web dev projects. I have a long list of things to learn. Been learning how to make shopify themes lately and I intend to learn Rust or C after Im done learning .liquid.
It's mostly procrastination, the only way to really learn is by doing the thing, otherwise it's in one ear and out the other. There are a few good teachers like Casey Muratori but they're few and far between.
What happened to wiki.installgentoo.com?
Also it is nice to see another fan of Muratori; one of my recent favorites of his is here, where he briefly goes over his allocation method:
May we see some of your APL code? I like APL's syntax a lot but I haven't come across much code to read.
I'm not sure what you meant but for my purposes I often go "window shopping" on Amazon and Google Books, the former so I can read reviews and see related items, and the latter so I can do searches of the full text for keywords I'm looking for, often in double quotes, so the exact term(s) match. Then I get the one-finger mouse discount once I'm satisfied with the outcomes.
lol that bottom left paragraph with the favorite composers (does this guy even Schubert though?) and interests could easily be me. Maybe we're not all so different after all.After reading this thread, I thought I should share this drawing R. Crumb made in 1984. Culture's changed a lot, but some things really do stay the same.
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Gee, who does this remind me of?
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It's not "cool" to do any more, but honestly if you don't need insane performance, OpenGL 2.* and 3.* are widely supported and not that bad to program in, and still have most of the shader support you would likely want. People shit all over it because, yes, the fixed function pipeline isn't what GPUs do any more and if you want to squeeze out every last bit of performance you're probably going to need to write DX12 or Vulkan, but even a half-way decent older GPU like an old 1050 Ti can still manage to do a surprising amount well with the older OpenGL compatibility profiles. A huge amount of mission critical CAD and other visualization shit is still using the truly arcane OpenGL 1.* API, and isn't probably going away either (this is also why Apple keeps screeching about dropping OpenGL for their own shitty API Metal, but never actually does). You can get something working without nine billion lines of code in GLFW or SDL with the OpenGL compatibility profile. Raylib is basically just someone's respin of old school OpenGL, except with even more hiding of shit and weird limitations. The only thing that will be a little fun to figure out is loading assets, especially god forbid they're animated.
Open source community watch is your best bet.
They realize that if more normal people are pushed into making their own games without their DEI they'll lose out, so they'll fuck with the developers directly until they have no other engine to go to and kowtow, surely this will go well even if people can just...make forks of certain engines, then they'll go after and try to remove the ability to fork said engines eventually, surely that'll also work out.
Make them. That is how you really piss these people off.
It's main pro for me over Java was mitigated by a lot of the newer Java features and my increased usage of Lombok. I think C# is fine, but I probably wouldn't use it much.
