Cat: Peloton mode.
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I just spotted a QWERTY keyboard in Star Trek Discovery, supposedly in the 32nd century.
@EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
That's for the old computer with the legacy 21st century software nobody has documentation for, written in a computer language the ship's AI wasn't trained on, but is for some reason running life support.
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Telling me to teach the fifth graders Dvorak is the MOST FEDI suggestion EVER. OMG.
No, I just type more slowly, and they do typing games in homeroom and they are able to touch type by grade seven. It's not really a problem They are in fifth grade. LMAO.
@futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot those fifth graders need to build their own keyboards with custom layouts. kids come out of the box knowing how to design in CAD and do light soldering work, right?
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Telling me to teach the fifth graders Dvorak is the MOST FEDI suggestion EVER. OMG.
No, I just type more slowly, and they do typing games in homeroom and they are able to touch type by grade seven. It's not really a problem They are in fifth grade. LMAO.
@futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot I'm having a tough time teaching the current batch of K-5s to use a mouse! They are so used to ipads and phones they want everything to be a touch screen!
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@EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
That's for the old computer with the legacy 21st century software nobody has documentation for, written in a computer language the ship's AI wasn't trained on, but is for some reason running life support.
@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
Have you read A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge?
The spaceship in that book is called the Qeng Ho, one of the main characters is a "software archaeologist" and he describes the system clock as:
a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon.
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@EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
That's for the old computer with the legacy 21st century software nobody has documentation for, written in a computer language the ship's AI wasn't trained on, but is for some reason running life support.
@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
cobol for sure.
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@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
cobol for sure.
@MegaMichelle @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm assuming Java will be dead by then, if Star Trek is supposed to be a utopia.
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@MegaMichelle @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm assuming Java will be dead by then, if Star Trek is supposed to be a utopia.
@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
What did Java do to deserve this hate? I don't like it as much as python but... it's fine! You can do all the things with Java.
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@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
What did Java do to deserve this hate? I don't like it as much as python but... it's fine! You can do all the things with Java.
@futurebird @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
It's mostly an aesthetic objection for me. It's an unremarkable curly-braces language with ugly naming conventions and syntax. It's fine, yes. The gap between easy dynamic coding in Python and high-performance high-safety coding in Rust isn't wide enough (for me) to jam something as clunky as Java into.
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@futurebird @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
It's mostly an aesthetic objection for me. It's an unremarkable curly-braces language with ugly naming conventions and syntax. It's fine, yes. The gap between easy dynamic coding in Python and high-performance high-safety coding in Rust isn't wide enough (for me) to jam something as clunky as Java into.
@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm a language maximalist. I kind of love every language I try ... sometimes because they are ugly.
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@petealexharris @EricLawton @futurebird @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
Have you read A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge?
The spaceship in that book is called the Qeng Ho, one of the main characters is a "software archaeologist" and he describes the system clock as:
a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon.
@gbargoud @petealexharris @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I really enjoyed those parts of that story. Great book.
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@petealexharris @MegaMichelle @EricLawton @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm a language maximalist. I kind of love every language I try ... sometimes because they are ugly.
It took me a while to get used to Smalltalk, with its parameters embedded in the function name, but then I was sorry that Java swept it away just as it was gaining traction.
I learned APL in school, but it never caught on at all.
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It took me a while to get used to Smalltalk, with its parameters embedded in the function name, but then I was sorry that Java swept it away just as it was gaining traction.
I learned APL in school, but it never caught on at all.
@EricLawton @futurebird @petealexharris @cohentheblue @yurnidiot
I'm learnin' myself Prolog right now. That's like a programming language created in some alternate history where computing went in a completely different direction than it did in our timeline.
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