pooberbee (any)

If you want to improve your problem solving skills, I’d suggest solving actual problems. Data structures and algorithms can be very satisfying in their own right, but the real value is in taking a real-world problem and translating it into code.

It also depends what you want to do with your knowledge. There are domains that are deeply technical and require a lot of the things you’ve mentioned, but they also tend to be pretty hard to break into. A lot of software is not so deep. Any software project will have need for good domain modeling, architecture, and maintainability. Again, these are things best learned through practice.

Armed Bear in the same vein

C shell

Well it wasn’t a website, for what it’s worth.

Tangentially related, I remember at one of my jobs being tasked (several years in a row) with updating the copyright year in all our source files’ headers.

I suspect there are a lot of “Rust devs” that are little more than kool-aid drinkers. Common refrains are that Rust is the fastest language, most type-safe language, and most powerful language. Rust certainly seems to move the state of the art forward in some ways, but you can still write garbage code in it.

I’ve worked with lots of different people in lots of different languages, and I think I’d rather good people in a bad language than the other way around by a mile.

It always grates on my nerves to read laypeople’s opinions of how software development should happen. So much unfettered stupidity.

I think your quantifier of “any other language” is the issue. There are certainly languages with far more powerful type systems than Rust, such as Coq or Lean.

I appreciate the swords-into-ploughshares mindset

After all his tryhard Sherlock Holmes escapades, I can absolutely see Data putting on the corniest Ebenezer Scrooge the Federation has ever seen.

In universe? Inaros. I don’t know if Kai Winn’s crimes ever gets the same widespread attention.

But in every other way Kai Winn is the worst. Fuck Kai Winn. All my homies hate Kai Winn.

I prefer SQL, because you can pronounce it “sequel” or “es-cue-ell”, and it’s fine. CSS just doesn’t have that kind of flexibility as a language.

I feel the same way except I’m already here.

Kind of a strange bill, allowing home cultivation but imposing a fine for possession. I assume it means possession outside of the house. I don’t know enough about EU and Luxembourgish politics to say if it’s a good bill or a bad bill, but it certainly seems like a step in some direction.