#programming talk

[radical-sainthood]

Was reminded last night of just how far our programming went.

One time our ex had triggered us so violently that we were scream sobbing, we were completely inconsolable. Then they got distressed because we were freaking out.

The minute they expressed negative emotion or distress (there were specific phrases they would say when stressed) our emotions shut off. We became completely silent and calm. We started comforting them as if nothing had happened to us.

We were. Completely numb, nothing of what had happened mattered. We don't even remember what the trigger was, I fundamentally cannot remember what abusive thing they had done to us. I just remember turning off.

[lovelylotusf1]

brain enrichment HAHAHHAHA

What is one random fact about programming people might be surprised to know….?

I had to think about that real hard.

But maybe that it works like learning any kind of second language. The more programming languages you know, the less you know about the syntax in all of them😔 Byelingual.

And also, uni sometimes lets you loose on a problem with nothing but a pen and paper as your weapon. I don't know if that's a thing everywhere but it's definitely a thing here.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

What's 0/0?

It is a standard notation in computer programming to mean "unknown," "unspecified," "neither true nor false," "meaningless."

Consider the mathematical expression

z x

where "x" and "z" are actual numbers. If we fill in values for those variables, we get two possible values for the expression:

x

and

z x

These are both meaningful expressions. We can assign a truth value to either. What we cannot do is make sense of the expression where we fill in "x" and get a meaningful value for it, and similarly for "z" and "x."

So in any well-behaved branch of math we cannot get a value for 0/0. Mathematicians call such an undefined expression "undefined" in a particular sense: 0/0 is equivalent to saying that the specified branch of math contains a flaw (no "meaningful expression" can be derived from an expression with a hole).

[programaticallydelicious]

Dividing by zero is a perfectly natural thing to do while programming, if you're using certain languages. Just be prepared to deal with infinite results. On that note, I really should do a better job of avoiding asymptotes in general.

[thefluffyprince]

So this evening in class we paired off to write up the logic to a program. I'm not gonna go into depth with it, cause I'm sure quite a few of you probably won't understand/care what we had to do in terms of programming. But anyway, I had taken a programming class in high school last year, but I felt like I basically learned nothing after halfway through that school year in that class. 

But when I designed the entire logic (because my partner didn't understand anything in that class, tbh), and found out that what I had written was pretty much spot on, I nearly collapsed in happiness. 

I've never been confident in my knowledge in programming because it's a different way of thinking and I'm usually spot on or way off when it comes to that kind of thinking. But the thought that I actually was thinking correctly...it makes me really happy. I feel like I made my programming teacher proud. 

Sure, it was just while loops and all that, but still. I'm so happy right now. ;u;

[variableundefined]

OHhhhhh the rails app is just to host the event?

Thank youuuuuuuu I misread oh god I had no idea how they were gonna make that work.

I guess I have to pick a different game engine then. HMM.

[variableundefined]

Ruby on Rails sounds like a title of a children's book.

The Little Web Framework That Does Because It Can

would be in the same strain as Everybody Poops and All My Friends are Dead