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  1. Orwell is a mangoing hack

    Sunday, 02-Oct-16 18:31:45 UTC from shitposter.club
    1. New comment by maiya

      Sunday, 02-Oct-16 18:32:54 UTC from shitposter.club
      1. @maiya This is what I was implying when I said I read 1984 in 8th grade and haven't touched it since. I was being snarky, but thanks for being direct. This is the truth.

        Sunday, 02-Oct-16 18:33:37 UTC from shitposter.club
        1. @vriska I am scottish, I will ruin every joke or subtle comment with being obvious about it.  It's a cultural thing.

          Sunday, 02-Oct-16 18:34:34 UTC from shitposter.club
      2. @maiya @vriska The way adults use it as a source of knowledge reminds me of how some programmers look back at their very first introductory programming courses for what to do, which is often a bad idea.  Good example: implementing algorithms by hand when there are highly optimized and tested ones that are freely available with permissive enough licenses.

        Sunday, 02-Oct-16 18:43:41 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com
        1. @maiya @vriska It's especially bad when they reimplement the less-than-ideal algorithms from said early programming courses for production code.

          Sunday, 02-Oct-16 18:44:40 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com