Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • ( I like programming, and I love PHP as much as I loved LISP, but you know js ow

    ( I like programming, and I love PHP as much as I loved LISP, but you know js owns the future and as far as I can tell unless your communicating directly with hardware the question is settled science. )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-19 11:59:00 UTC

  • In programming as in all things, never do by indirection(externality) that which

    In programming as in all things, never do by indirection(externality) that which you can achieve by direction (construction).

    Someone told me last week that he wanted to hide and show content by changing the mathematical dimensions of the panel, rather than simply turning content on and off. It’s sort of like ‘lying’.

    This is an example of ‘doing the wrong thing’. It requires the preservation of states not logically connected in an environment where state is always conditional.

    Just hide and show stuff. It’s not complicated. Let the engine do its job and you do yours.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-17 05:35:00 UTC

  • SLEEP AND PROGRAMMING I was waaaaay too tired to work last night, but kept worki

    SLEEP AND PROGRAMMING

    I was waaaaay too tired to work last night, but kept working until almost midnight. But woke this morning and the answer popped into my head with the first bit of awareness – and I felt stupid for not watching a movie instead of working.

    it’s that feeling of “i want to do the right and heroic thing” when in fact the right and heroic thing to do is eat, drink water, and sleep.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-13 03:57:00 UTC

  • Damn our software does a lot of stuff

    Damn our software does a lot of stuff.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 16:18:00 UTC

  • Denis Chmel : I need another smart UI person to bounce some dumb questions off o

    Denis Chmel : I need another smart UI person to bounce some dumb questions off of. Is it OK if I ask your opinion on a question about the Workspace?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-12 03:57:00 UTC

  • Adding new features to Oversing. Having a blast. Refactoring a bit. Making class

    Adding new features to Oversing.

    Having a blast.

    Refactoring a bit.

    Making classes for the panels.

    The workspace is kind of ingenious.

    Just should be organised better.

    Leak is gone on the server but still a little locally related to websockets. It should follow the gmail method of extending the polling time in Fibonacci or geometric rather than constant.

    Haven’t coded full time in a long time and so I keep mixing syntax from different languages but it’s getting there.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-05 16:01:00 UTC

  • Is it me or has this whole ORM thing gotten totally out of hand? I mean. Do any

    Is it me or has this whole ORM thing gotten totally out of hand?

    I mean. Do any developers actually have the faintest idea how much shit goes on in Pdo and like technologies?

    Do you know how primitive a database api is? Omfg.

    How fking hard is it to make a class that opens the appropriate classes today cover the appropriate tables, and pass the bunch of them a transaction or roll it back?

    I mean parameterized queries are basically function calls. How framing hard is that?

    Let me help you: code should read like a story. It shouldn’t read like a puzzle made from an Escher painting. Ok?

    Oh. And for f—k’s sake, your api outta somehow reflect uses not table structure. Ok?

    Jeezus.

    You know.

    I have as much problem with syntax as I do with punctuation so I have never been fast.

    On the other hand I never sucked digital dick either.

    Dynamic method names.

    Unused parameters.

    Disorganised methods.

    No inline comments.

    Zero encapsulation. It’s like how many disparate places can I speed the properties of this thing????

    Unnecessary callbacks.

    I mean it took me five days to figure out I could write fifteen lines of very clear code to do the same thing … Omfg.

    I’m gonna kill myself.

    The JavaScript thank god is relatively elegant, readable, and lightly commented. Cause I have too little experience with it to unwind in a reasonable time frame it if it wasn’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-04 15:16:00 UTC

  • I just did something you should never do. I checked in a file on a Friday night

    I just did something you should never do.

    I checked in a file on a Friday night when I was fried.

    And I just realised that I was teasing the wrong URL.

    Sigh.

    Never check in code on Friday night.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-07-01 12:52:00 UTC

  • I think transhumanism is the best choice

    I think transhumanism is the best choice.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-28 04:29:11 UTC

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  • Where will I find three fairly sophisticated JS to pull out mixed front-end-back

    Where will I find three fairly sophisticated JS to pull out mixed front-end-back-end js intertwined with datatables? OMG

    Source date (UTC): 2016-06-24 04:59:00 UTC