fdsary's comments

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: The Duck Programming Language

This looks like a nice language, mad props to the author(s) for actually creating a new language, that's something I dream of doing one day!

But I wonder, is this means for me to use, and then why should I use it? The text had great examples of how to use it, but I couldn't find the why.

Again, super cool that you wrote a language!

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is 'Better Than Currency'

I mean, anyone who ever used bitcoin will see how it's clearly superior than going to a bank office, getting an account, waiting days for it all to work out. And then transactions take a night (at least in the countries I've lived in).

Bitcoin transactions show up instantly. There's no need to a trusted middle man. Anyone I show it to is swooned, because it's simply really really cool.

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Clojure Distilled

I love clojure, and dream of the day I can work with it.

But do you know why more people get into ruby or js? It's community is beginner friendly. Most texts on the subject of lisps feel like wannabe dissertations, preferably with the Computer Modern font and 5 pages long.

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: SlackTextViewController: A new growing text input for iOS

So I'm making iOS apps sometimes, but have not implemented a chat feature.

Why would I want to use this rather than a UITableView where I append the newest message in the end of the UITableView every time (you'd have to increase it's length +1 for each new message, but hey that may be ok)?

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: BitPay and PayPal

I'm developing an app now, where bitcoin payments are part of it. I decided to try bitpay rather than running bitciond myself (less chance to fuck up) but their API is horribly hard to use, gives inconsistent errors and the docs are awful at best.

I'm using their old version, but the errors I get are from the new version. Their library for the language I use is not yet updated. The new docs seem to be better, but I lost faith in them as a developer.

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?

Well two things: we need some of the things in our environment that we also destroy. We need to global temperature to stay below certain levels, but I fucking love flying to nice vacation destinations. My personal interests are in conflict with what is good for humanity.

Also: we need to respect other forms of life. Just like I can't kill someone from another family, even if we are unrelated, it is immoral to kill or damage the environment of another species. I can't kill a human from another family, or other country, without being an asshole. That extends not only to other humans, but also to other forms of life.

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?

When speaking about aggressive governments, the elephant in the room is the US, waging war everywhere with a military bigger than all other countries combined...

How can we citizens of the world figure out a way to if not stop then exterminate this brutal force that has grown out of proportion? Can we do it without human sacrifice, and in a way that does not harm the american people who the US military is "protecting"?

Ninja edit: No I'm not saying a good solution is for the worlds government to wage world war against the US. Just trying to say that there is little difference between Ukraine and Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan, except that the war in Ukraine is a piss in the ocean in comparison to the sins of the American government and military.

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Ruby 2.1.3 is released

I don't mean to come off as an ass, but just curious.

Why do you want to develop ruby (or anything else) with windows? Especially since most servers (where ruby is popular) are linux servers? All colleagues I've had running windows always seem to have to jump so many hoops that the *nix crows don't.

Also, no unix shell and package managers, how do you deal with it?

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys

As a man who left school not that many years ago, I'm amazed how well I feel this describes the situation back then. I remember being frustrated by grades being all about who (I then thought) manipulated the teacher best by acting like a "Good Boy/Girl". By being neat and by being timely rather than the one who knew what the grade requirements asked of the students.

I wonder, is the article true or does it just appeal to my feelings?

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys

It doesn't link, but to nit-pick (and show Teacher I did my homework!) it does reference studies. But you do have a point, I agree.

fdsary | 11 years ago | on: Android One

An iPhone 5 with better hardware is not too shabby, and finally NFC is nice. I'm planning to get an Android after my iPhone 5 is totally wrecked (any week soon) and start developing for it.
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