Cat: Peloton mode.
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Telling me to teach the fifth graders Dvorak is the MOST FEDI suggestion EVER. OMG.
No, I just type more slowly, and they do typing games in homeroom and they are able to touch type by grade seven. It's not really a problem They are in fifth grade. LMAO.
@futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot I'm having a tough time teaching the current batch of K-5s to use a mouse! They are so used to ipads and phones they want everything to be a touch screen!
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@EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
That's for the old computer with the legacy 21st century software nobody has documentation for, written in a computer language the ship's AI wasn't trained on, but is for some reason running life support.
@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
Have you read A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge?
The spaceship in that book is called the Qeng Ho, one of the main characters is a "software archaeologist" and he describes the system clock as:
a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon.
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@EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
That's for the old computer with the legacy 21st century software nobody has documentation for, written in a computer language the ship's AI wasn't trained on, but is for some reason running life support.
@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
cobol for sure.
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@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
cobol for sure.
@MegaMichelle @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm assuming Java will be dead by then, if Star Trek is supposed to be a utopia.
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@MegaMichelle @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm assuming Java will be dead by then, if Star Trek is supposed to be a utopia.
@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
What did Java do to deserve this hate? I don't like it as much as python but... it's fine! You can do all the things with Java.
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@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
What did Java do to deserve this hate? I don't like it as much as python but... it's fine! You can do all the things with Java.
@futurebird @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
It's mostly an aesthetic objection for me. It's an unremarkable curly-braces language with ugly naming conventions and syntax. It's fine, yes. The gap between easy dynamic coding in Python and high-performance high-safety coding in Rust isn't wide enough (for me) to jam something as clunky as Java into.
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@futurebird @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
It's mostly an aesthetic objection for me. It's an unremarkable curly-braces language with ugly naming conventions and syntax. It's fine, yes. The gap between easy dynamic coding in Python and high-performance high-safety coding in Rust isn't wide enough (for me) to jam something as clunky as Java into.
@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm a language maximalist. I kind of love every language I try ... sometimes because they are ugly.
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@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
Have you read A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge?
The spaceship in that book is called the Qeng Ho, one of the main characters is a "software archaeologist" and he describes the system clock as:
a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon.
@gbargoud @petealexharris @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I really enjoyed those parts of that story. Great book.
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@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm a language maximalist. I kind of love every language I try ... sometimes because they are ugly.
It took me a while to get used to Smalltalk, with its parameters embedded in the function name, but then I was sorry that Java swept it away just as it was gaining traction.
I learned APL in school, but it never caught on at all.
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It took me a while to get used to Smalltalk, with its parameters embedded in the function name, but then I was sorry that Java swept it away just as it was gaining traction.
I learned APL in school, but it never caught on at all.
@EricLawton @futurebird @petealexharris @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm learnin' myself Prolog right now. That's like a programming language created in some alternate history where computing went in a completely different direction than it did in our timeline.
