Software Engineer, and college student. Loves design, data, and debate. Plays devil's advocate, calls out ignorance, and sometimes RTs things I disagree with.
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Joined November 2012
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And as far as what to do about that, if you'd like to take some action out in the world that helps people, and/or encourages others to, I'll stand right next to you in agreement. If you want to use our legal system as a weapon to force people to "be nicer", I absolutely will not
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point(x+m*cos(TWO_PI*t-y*2),y-m*sin(TWO_PI*t+x*2));
#processing
@beesandbombs
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I made a tool to write/test easing equation functions projects.stroep.nl/ease/
#gamedev #webdev #javascript
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"An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it." - Meir Lehman
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"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it is the opportunity of doing it again." - Unknown
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"Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom - you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests." - Ryan Campbell
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Commenting your code is like “cleaning” your bathroom if cleaning your bathroom consisted of sticking notes on walls like “shat in this corner, was in a hurry, will have to clean up later”.
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A thread on HN about bad code in legacy projects both makes me think how little we've learned as a discipline over the years and, honestly, how little credit we give ourselves for some pretty major innovations.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Real happy to see module level functions get accepted into the #haxe evolution github.com/HaxeFoundation/ha… #programming #portable #code #languages
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Unicode in Haxe 4 haxe.org/blog/unicode/
We finally stopped doing pointless stuff and focused on emojis 🎉
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"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." - Doug Linder
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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
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The plural of truth is lies. The only exception should be "We hold these truths to be self-evident"!
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"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie
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"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want."- Niklaus Wirth
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"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." - Christopher Thompson
Working on creating an embedded database lib in #haxe, based on nedb. I've been studying and researching for months, and I've got it mostly figured out. Anyone interested in collaborating? If all you can contribute is ideas, that'd be helpful too