Can it shut the fuck up and move the fuck away from me?
mrmaplebar
joined 10 months ago
How does one code by themself?
You really don't! I'll explain:
1. Just like there's no shame to drawing with a reference image (in fact, it's a necessary part of practicing and improving), there's also no shame in referring to documentation, cheat sheets, and things like variable hints and function signature auto-completion to speed up the process of writing code.
The primary skill involved with programming is logic--understanding what you want to do and having some idea of how you want to do it, step by step. From there, the secondary skill is optimization--figuring out ways to do all of this stuff faster and more efficiently in terms of RAM and processing time. If you can remember how things should be written off the top of your head, fine... But memorizing the names of variables and the signature of functions inside of some object is not only not that important, it's arguably a huge waste of time.
Make sure you understand computers enough to begin to develop a sense of logic around basic things like conditionals, loops, objects, etc. Put some thought into how you can cleverly design your program so that it's easy to write and maintain. But remember that it's perfectly ok to USE DOCUMENTATION!
2. Most of the code you work with is code that someone else wrote.
If you want to learn baking, it's smart to start with something simple, like a cake mix that comes in a box. (You add some eggs and some milk, or whatever, pop it in the oven and wait.) You don't start your own farm or milk your own cows. You start by combining and utilizing ingredients and instructions that other people have organized for you.
Programming is the same. Whether you're making something high level (like a game or application) or something lower level (like a driver or an embedded system program), you're almost certainly going to be most effective by learning to use other people's libraries or APIs.
There are thousands of libraries out there that help do basically anything you might want to do, for any programming language or platform that you want to use. What to display a GUI window with some buttons and scrollbars? There are multiple libraries for that. Want to load a song file and play back audio? There are multiple libraries for that too. Basically every programming language that I'm aware of has a "standard library" of some sort with a bunch of basic, expected functionality that most programmers may need, and you should take a little bit of time to familiarize yourself with that (not memorizing, but understanding). But for more niche functionality that's specific to what you want to do, you might have to seek out a specific library that someone else made.
You don't usually just learn a programming language and start writing every function from scratch. Rather, you're also going to want to do a little research into your languages standard library, as well as some other useful libraries relating to whatever program you're trying to make.
In other words, real programming isn't something that happens in a vacuum. You will be constantly using other people's code, you'll be getting help from your compiling and basic auto-completion from your IDE, and you'll be constantly looking up documentation to learn/remember how things are supposed to work.
Hmmm, sounds like it's almost time to go on Amazon and sell some "I bought SPCX before I knew Elon was crazy" bumper stickers.
Well, as a "woke" progressive punk from Portland who supports supposedly radical concepts like multiculturalism, LGBTQ rights, equal treatment for women, and I guess the libertarian ideal of uh... dying your hair whatever the fuck color you want to...
I don't know enough about these live action movies to say whether they are truly pandering to people like me or not (I haven't seen them and don't care to). But if they are, they're clearly not doing a very good job of it because the numbers don't lie and people aren't buying tickets.
Without a doubt, these movies are a soulless cash grab and creatively bankrupt, but are they really making this about Culture Wars, or are you?
Personally I think all of this culture warrior shit on both sides is a BIG fucking waste of time and we should just live and let live, ideally while protecting people's human, civil and conditional rights. But maybe I'm the weird one.
Yeah. I feel like SteamOS users are basically just getting Pierre-Loup Griffais' last successful Arch update. Bazzite feels more fleshed out to me, but to each their own.
No. Frankly I trust the community to maintain my distro more than a trust Valve. Plus Bazzite is generally great and I like the ostree style of atomic Linux.
Please get it through your heads: animation is good. It can do anythong. Nobody needs a live action remake of an animated movie or show, especially since it's all full of GC animation anyway.
Just make animation again and take some risks.
For those keeping score at home, Trump has been very publicly claiming that the 2020 election was rigged since November 5th, 2020.
In fact, he even said before the election "if I lose it's rigged".
No offense to OP for sharing the story but... Who fucking cares?
At best it'll be his usual rambling and incoherent televised campaign speech that we've heard 8000 times before, and at worst he'll unilaterally declare war or Canada or some shit.
How else is Ireland going to compete with China as a dystopian AI superpower?? /s
Americans are too stupid to know that they need it and too corrupt to do anything about it.
They love to fearmonger about falling behind China and the rest of the world, but clearly not when it comes to transportation, urban development, healthcare, etc.
False premise.