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Hey guys, a quick question...
I’m thinking about developing my own password safe, and currently trying to decide on the best model for the program. Here’s been three of my thoughts so far:
- a remote central database storing links to encrypted files on the server
- a local encrypted/hidden file per user/installation
- both of the above
If anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to inbox me with them, I’d like to really take my time over this.
Peace.
That feel when you spend ages making a piece of code work...
...And then discover the API you’re using doesn’t support multiple logins. Seriously. What kind of newbie makes an IM system and then expects your account to remain tied to one machine?
WhatsApp please, revise your system. Thanks.
Computer Joke
Beth: [age 6] "I think somebody should invent a computer that tells jokes."
Me: "What do you mean by 'tells jokes'?"
Beth: "You know. You turn it on, and it tells you a funny joke."
Me: "You might need a really smart computer for that. It would have to be as smart as a person."
Beth: "But... it's only telling jokes."
Me: "OK, look. What if the computer only told one joke. The same joke, over and over. Would it be smart?"
Beth: "Not really."
Me: "Would it be funny?"
Beth: "Maybe to one person, one time."
Me: "OK. What if the computer could tell a thousand different jokes. Would it be smart then? Would it be funny?"
Beth: "It would be smarter, and funnier. But that's not really a lot of jokes if you want it to last a long time."
Me: "OK. What if the computer could tell all the funniest jokes ever written by anybody? Would it be smart and funny?"
Beth: "That would be /really/ smart and funny."
Me: "Is it the computer that's smart, or the person who programmed the computer to tell those jokes, and who typed in all those jokes? And is it the computer that's funny, or the jokes it tells?"
Beth: "I guess it's the person who made it that's smart."
Me: "And maybe the jokes are funny because the programmer thought they were funny?"
Beth: "I guess."
Me: "OK, one last one. What if the computer could make up its own jokes that were actually new and funny?"
Beth: "Then the computer really would be funny!"
Me: "Right."
Beth: "Do they have that yet?"
Me: "Well, to make up new jokes, you need to be as smart as a person. In computers, that's called 'artificial intelligence', and a lot of people are working on it, but nobody quite has invented it yet."
Beth: "I hope they do."
Me: "Maybe you'll be the one to do it."
Beth: "That... would be kinda cool."
I got bored...
...So I watched like fifty different anime series, now here I am programming a bot based off of maid-chan from sakurasou, that tells people to sod off when I’m programming and handles a bunch of other stuff...mostly telling people to sod off in a very generic anime style...I promise I’ll never make anything this awful again. HONEST.
power of media 😔
Nah. That’s not it. There’s more to computers than programming. If you learn how to program, that’s like learning how to use a lathe, or a joiner, or a tablesaw, or a hammer and chisel. They’re all important tools in your woodshop, and they all do specific things. It’s not like these tools just...
Things Programmers Shout #195
“I’m gonna make games for iPhone!” (Sees $99 developer fee) “I’m gonna make games for Android!”
//submitted by keith-rasterpunk
How code reviews sometimes go.
Things Programmers Shout #190
Programmer: “Just click that link and you’re done.” User: “What link, where, this is so confusing!” Programmer: “How? It’s right there, you just have to click it!” User: “Look, you’re a programmer and understand computers way better than me, so don’t get frustrated at me!”
//submitted by anonymous
When I realise the major problem I have been trying to fix for 80 years is a missing semi-colon:
YALL MY CODE WORKS
I DONT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND MY EXCITEMENT OMG
FINALLY YES OMG
Why Coding Is Your Child’s Key to Unlocking the Future
Educators call for making computer science a cornerstone of the curriculum, even for grade-school kids
Racing across the U.S. in your taco truck, you must fight off animals mutated by fallout from a nuclear war, and you must also turn them into delicious filling for the tacos you sell inside fortified towns. Your mission: Make it to the Canadian city of Winnipeg.
You are “Gunman Taco Truck.”
“It’s pretty much only a game that a kid would come up with,” says Brenda Romero, a videogame designer for more than 30 years and the mother of Donovan Romero-Brathwaite, the 10-year-old inventor of the game.
And yet GTT already has been licensed by a videogame publisher for Mac, PC, iOS and Android, and may also arrive on consoles. It’s quite an outcome for something born of Saturday programming lessons with Donovan’s dad John, also a videogame designer of note.
Donovan’s situation—access to two parents who are both programmers—is rare. In fact, in record numbers, children are picking up a skill their parents don’t possess: coding.
And according to those responsible for teaching them, programming is just the beginning. What those kids are learning now—what they must learn, if they hope to be employable in the 21st century—is something educators call “procedural literacy.”
“When you learn to code, you start thinking about processes in the world,” says Mitchell Resnick, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor heading up the effort to build the child-friendly programming language Scratch.
Scratch has 6.2 million registered users and is accessible to children as young as five.
Whether it’s understanding how complicated systems like economies work or tackling a problem in a stepwise fashion, coding is uniquely suited to training children not just how to solve problems, but also how to express themselves, says Mr. Resnick.
“What’s fascinating about computer science is that it requires analytical skills, problem solving and creativity, while also being both foundational and vocational,” says Hadi Partovi, co-founder of Code.org, a nonprofit organization that promotes coding education. “I’m not sure there’s any other field that’s all those combined.”
Not every child who learns to write will become a novelist, nor everyone who learns algebra a mathematician, yet we treat both as foundational skills that all children should learn. Coding is the same, say educators like Messrs. Partovi and Mr. Resnick, who are pushing for it to be available to every child in America.
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The thing about programming is that you won’t see the cause of a bug until you’ve spent at least thirty minutes telling the world that it’s fundamentally impossible for it to occur.
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Things Programmers Comment #26
//todo remove
I keep old code commented out because of an irrational fear that the current code will stop working for some reason and the only way to fix it is to revert back to the old code.
// This is completely and totally irrational, and I do it all the time.
When I have to write a program in java…
Everyday life is like programming—if you love something, you can put beauty into it.
Donald Knuth, 1999 (via ja-dark)
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric S. Raymond (via left4cake-gaming)
