Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. “self-thought” ... I guess studying psychology does that to you ...
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  2. Don’t let your cluster get into a fluster!
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  3. Does that explain why he likes PHP?
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  4. If your OS manages time as UTC, you can still figure it out. If your OS only keeps track of local time, you’re stuffed.
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  5. tar supports a number of different compression methods these days, not just gzip. Which is the best? I was going to say bzip2, but I think zstd is taking over nowadays.
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  6.  @astral6749  Does it? Ah, it’s the way you pronounce “z”.
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  7. You know how if you use “<script type="module"> ... inline content ... </script>” inside a web page, there is no module name to import from, so it would appear you cannot access any function defined in that inline content part from outside? Actually, there is a way you can.
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  8. I think the browser sends you the same cookies as for the page itself. So if your Web connection is already authenticated, you can depend on that.
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  9. Because only VBA or PHP programmers would think it worth including.
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  10. Lambdas are just functions. If you think lambdas are bad, then that must mean functions are bad.
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  11.  @supercellodude  OK, so if it is Java that is “brittle”, rather than lambdas in general, you would get no argument from me. ;)
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  12. Java was supposed to be simpler than C++. But if you look at the language spec, the one is now almost the size of the other.
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  13. I wonder why it’s not just pronounced as it’s spelled. Think “ng” followed by “inx”, then run them together.
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  14. “f” means create an output file, rather than writing to a tape drive.
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  15. Setting it up on Windows is a pretty manual process, though.
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  16. Some of us run multitasking workstation OSes, which means we do multiple things at once. The idea of devoting the entire computer to doing just one thing seems so ... quaint.
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  17. Linux is easier.
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  18. Think about what “sunk-cost fallacy” means ...
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  19. Anybody else want to see LISP in 100 seconds? As old as it is, its macro facility is still streets ahead of struggling with #define in C.
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  20. If a straight line maps to a straight line, then that’s the definition of a “linear transformation”.
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  21. There is static type, there is dynamic typing, and there is no typing at all. JavaScript is one of these.
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  22. Quantum computers that can run Shor’s algorithm are vapourware, and destined to remain that way indefinitely.
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  23.  @jonathanalonso6492  The successful businesses are the ones that produce quality results. Are you really going to pay for someone to perform a manual process over and over? Automation is what computers are for!
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  24. Sure, the programmers will use the Python and the Jupyter and the Pandas and all the rest of the data-analytics toolkits they already do. Just leave out the Excel part.
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  25.  @EidosX_  Which doesn’t make any sense to have only a teentsy bits of procedural code at the edges with pure-functional code in the middle. That’s just pretending to be functional.
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  26.  @EidosX_  So, does Haskell have I/O (i.e. procedurality) or not?
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  27. Cold Fusion, WebObjects, Java applets ... how many more names can I drop to confirm I was alive before this century?
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  28. Go is not for systems programming. When Google were looking at what language to use for implementing their Fuchsia† kernel, they decided Rust was a better choice than Go, even though Go was created by Google itself. †As to why Fuchsia even exists, is entirely another matter.
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  29. DOSlexic confusion of “/” with “\”?
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  30. Look at VS Code--
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  31. they used Electron with
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  32. It’s for those Excel jocks who are too dumb to realize you can access all this stuff directly, outside Microsoft’s walled garden, for free.
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  33. Too bad.
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  34. Sure they do ...∗clik∗ ... sure they do ... ∗clik∗ ... sure they do ...
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  35.  @bit2shift  Perl used other characters with variables as well. Yet it was “$” that PHP chose to copy. Fun fact: in Perl a name can mean at least four different things, depending on which of these characters it is prefixed with. And also depending on whether it is followed by a pair of parentheses, brackets or braces (or none of these).
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  36. Similar here, I guess. My main reference was the man pages (just type “man -s1 -k perl” to see how many there are). But I was never entirely sure I understood the implications of some of the language features I was using. Then I discovered Python. That had a much cleaner syntax, and all the language features actually made sense. So I switched, and pretty much stopped using Perl.
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  37. Let there be an end to dotfile clutter! Doing a listing of your home directory and seeing it filled with hundreds of these stupid little things is not a good look. The XDG conventions try to confine these to a small number of top-level locations, like .config and .local; your app can simply create a directory tree of its own under these. Much tidier, don’t you think?
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  38. 2:33 ∗titter∗
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  39. Guido also gave up his post as Python BDFL. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  40. They pretty much invented it.
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  41. I think you have to concat each stream independently, then combine them.
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  42. Can a Windows machine be the control node?
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  43. I prefer Circulartine, since I think it’s a more well-rounded drink.
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  44. I’m using 7.3, and it still sucks.
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  45.  @mjacobim  You first.
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  46. It would take you longer than the age of the Universe to come up with a hash collision.
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  47. There is a phrase you might have heard: “cattle, not pets”. If a container instance malfunctions, you don’t bother spending time and effort trying to fix it: you just dump it and create a new one. Should I explain the analogy further...?
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  48. FORTRAN actually has no reserved words.
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  49. They did: it was called “IronPython”, built on DotNet. Nobody wanted to use it. Because ... DotNet.
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  50. Anybody tried Jupyter? Now there is an integrated terminal.
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