IMO business is a kind of a “war game”. Unlucky those ones who doesn’t realize it.
Paul Graham reminds me of an officer training the soldiers :-)
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yugene commented on I try not to make unlikable software (and features) drewdevault.com/2021/05/0... · Posted by u/ingve
I feel the same pain. In my opinion, it may happen a lot because "many programmers" just code whatever they (we) are paid for to code. The progress here would probably be in starting taking full responsibility for even tiny parts of what we produce, with no excuses.
yugene commented on Ask HN: Who are using Forth language on a daily basis and for which tasks? · Posted by u/yugene
I've been spending the past several months writing the server-side code of a web-app, which aims to improve the way in which certain difficult-to-price goods are valued. We're on the verge of launching the tool, and before that happens, I shouldn't be too much more specific about it. In any case, the server functionality is almost exclusively written in FORTH, a language for which I have a great affinity, stemming from the days when I first programmed my (stack-based) HP 48GX calculator as an undergraduate electronic engineering student. My experience in doing this has been almost exclusively pleasurable and satisfying (and nostalgic). Having tried various options, I opted to use a rather minimal forth, pForth, and so I needed to write a number of my own libraries, including ones for hash-tables, ones for handling the data files I required, ones for ways to communicate over WebSockets, and many others. The code-base is remarkably small, and it's been a stimulating experience.
(I'm responsible for the browser-side code too, and this is written in a Scheme, biwascheme, which is so much nicer than having to use Javascript, in my opinion.)
Along the way, I've created various other shell-script utilities in pForth for other purposes, which always rival the speed I'm used to getting from using AWK—mwak, specifically—which has always been impressively fast when handling large amounts of data.
Me being the only coder on this project is why I've been able to get away with indulging in this peculiar, but vastly under-appreciated, language!
Thank you for sharing your story. I agree it would be interesting to look into the more details in the future. Using Scheme instead of Javascript sounds fascinating too.
Did you have a chance to compare Forth to other stack-based languages, with some opinion as a result?
yugene commented on Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding · Posted by u/epimetheus2
In my case the only thing worked out fine was: stop forcing yourself to do the things you don't want being doing. Or better rephrased as: do only the things you enjoy doing.
This approach required a lot of courage, because I had to change a lot in my life. At some point I had to even accept that I might end up never coding again. But that proved wrong after several months of being mostly away from computer, reading books, walking, drawing, making yoga, doing all the enjoyable things that came to my mind. In my case F. Perls with his approach to living in here and now had helped me to switch to the new style of life, directed by true inner desires.
An article on literate programming with Org-mode for beginners: https://www.offerzen.com/blog/literate-programming-empower-y...
yugene commented on On finally learning to program at the age of 40 github.com/Dhghomon/progr... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
The hard part here is getting a curriculum to learn software engineering. Writing code is much much more then just a language. So much time spent on that. Just learn one freaking language and move on.
eg. I started with Basic -> QW Basic -> Pascal -> PHP -> Perl -> ruby -> golang and a lot of others languages too.
Writing code is not the hard part.
follow something like this: https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
Or if you want to be something specifc follow this and find resources to learn about the topics: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
And here's a compact list of the possible resources to use:
https://teachyourselfcs.com
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