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moccajoghurt | 5 years ago | on: The machine learning community has a toxicity problem

We cannot handle the freedom we had since the 90's. We abolished most rules that a conservative / christian society had. As it turns out we actually prefer having strict rules. These new rules are now about diversity, discrimination and racism. They fulfill the same role as the rules of the conservative / christian society. If you abide the rules, you are a good human being. If you are ever in doubt about yourself, just stick to the rules and you will be fine.

I personally don't really like this trend but I think our society is not ready to handle freedom yet.

moccajoghurt | 9 years ago | on: Blender 2.78 released

I was working with Blender for the last few months and it can be quite confusing. Yesterday I had this weird occurrence where I had call bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT') everytime before changing the matrix_world.translation values of some meshes. (Even though I didn't select anything in between). It took me hours to find out why the meshes weren't moving correctly.

I guess Blender is not perfect for using it with python only.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago | on: A recreation of the first level of Super Mario Bros. in Python

>So you took a game that used to take a few dozen KB of memory and an 8-bit CPU running at less than 2MHz, and turned it into one requiring many orders of magnitude more memory and CPU speed?

That's what I thought too.

Not sure why it's getting as much attention. Maybe because it's the combination of Python and Super Mario. A very popular language combined with a very popular game and a breeze of nostalgia.

However it's a fun little project but being on the HN frontpage is a little too much attention for something like that.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago

It's some teenager that will regret this article later in life. Let's not give him even more attention. It's just getting more painful for him this way.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago

Why is he so super elitist about "hand coding" a website?

I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life.

Being elitist always sucks no matter how awesome you are... but come on we are talking about a webdesign competition, not some x86_64 assembly hacking event. This is ridiculous.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago | on: Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science

I am positive that 95% of the CS students with a BSc. degree in my college haven't even seen function pointers. We learn the basics of C then OOP in C++ and the rest of the study will be Java. It's a farce and as an employer I wouldn't even care whether my employee has a fancy degree. You won't find real coders if you choose them by their degree. At least in Germany it's like that. I am not sure of it's different in other countries.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago | on: Welcome to my GUI gallery

Yeah but his criticism is objective and thoughtful. I have read about 5 different reviews he made and I can totally understand now why he dislikes Windows 8.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago | on: The Wikipedia Adventure

Did I just get tricked into registering? Well it worked. To bad the the adventure didn't continue after I edited my wikipedia profile.

moccajoghurt | 12 years ago | on: Stupid Programmer Tricks and Star Wars GIFs

I also enjoy gifs. I have been creating gifs with VirtualDub so far.

I usually prefer writing scripts to do stuff but VirtualDub is one of the few tools I simply use because I enjoy the open source and hacker spirit behind it.

An interesting plugin I miss for VD is an color reduction algorithm which would help to create very small gifs.

On reddit and tumblr gifs are a growing trend and it might be worth to put some effort into gif creation.

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