I Watched A Youtube Video About GraphQL Last Night And It Is Not At All What I Thought It Was. And Then

It has builtins that let you change the color of the text in the console! By far my prettiest Hello World to date.

You know what I haven’t thought about in while? Ruby. Maybe I need to polish off the old gemstone. 

Submitting a PR without unit tests is like having a manhattan without a cherry

Sure, it’s easier, but exceedingly less satisfying

Hey! Computer Science B.S. passing by. CS, like the last reply mentioned, is a science. A lot of schools will lump it in with the college of engineering (e.g. the one I went to), which isn’t necessarily wrong, but ultimately the discipline is a natural science.

In fact one could argue that hardware computers aren’t even necessary to perform the activities of pure computer science: people like Leonhard Euler were discovering its principles long before the first transistor had been made. Heck, even if your laundry-sorting process is rigid enough you could call it computer science.

I think of computer science as the study of the ways to move and store data. The best way to accomplish those activities happens to be with computers, so we concern ourselves with applications on the creations of our computer engineering friends.

hey! could you help me with the difference between computer science and computer engineering?

hi! my background is experimental physics, so you might be better off asking someone who is actually from one of those disciplines. but my understanding is that computer science focuses on software (eg data structures, coming up with algorithms) while computer engineering is a marriage of cs and electrical engineering, which involves more work on the electronics/hardware side of things. because of this, you'd need to learn a lot more physics for a computer engineering degree.

Raise your hand if you spend more time criticizing yourself for inefficient use of keyboard shortcuts than you would actually save by using them

React makes life almost too easy. I worry that I’m missing something.

What’s the end game here?

You know how there are a lot of programming languages that people say are “really powerful if you know how to use them”? And how usually those languages aren’t at all worth the time? I think Haskell might actually be worth the time. After a hiatus I’ve come back to it and love it. I hardly know how to use it, but at least I can perceive how it might be really powerful.

Prolog is still the worst, though.

LEDs are a critical component for any workflow

Does anyone read programming books? Like actually?

Keeping them on a shelf having skimmed the table of contents doesn’t count.

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANTED TO PUT THIS MANY PARENTHESES IN SCHEME. MY IDE IS LITERALLY OUT OF COLORS FOR THE AMOUNT OF PARENTHESES I AM TYPING.