Software Engineer, and college student. Loves design, data, and debate. Plays devil's advocate, calls out ignorance, and sometimes RTs things I disagree with.
Louisiana
Joined November 2012
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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
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Fascinating. Just watch, even if you have seen it before.
It changes your perspective 😊
