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Category: Mood

So many things to fix!

Well, instead of reading Write Your Own C-extension to Speed Up Python by 100x | by Mike Huls | Towards Data Science How to write, compile, package and import your own, superfast C-module into Python We should have read Write Your Own Eiffel-extension to Speed Up Python by 100x How to write, compile, package and import…

At least one

From: 4 Unwritten Rules for Writing Code I Barely See Anyone Mentioning | JavaScript in Plain English These rules separate bad developers from great ones Only comment what your code can’t express Don’t make a massive change to the codebase Don’t use confusing names in your codebase Keep the function length small Well, at least…

I do not love…

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” Source: Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien: “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpnes…” | Goodreads The character speaking this is Faramir io non amo…

A proposito dei giovani d’oggi

A tutti i vecchi che si lamentano dei giovani d’oggi fate leggere queste due citazioni. Ma fatelo senza fargli leggere chi e quando hanno scritto questa citazione. Rinfacciateglielo dopo. “La gioventù di oggi è corrotta nell’anima, è malvagia, empia, in­fingarda. Non potrà mai es­sere ciò che era la gioventù di una volta e non potrà…

Paolo Redaelli

A growing number of college professors are finding that their Gen Z students don’t understand the concepts of directories filled with folders and files.

Source: Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work

That’s sad. But previous generations could say the same about my generation who most often does not know how a transistor works

He dislikes open-source.

Open-source model is a bad idea for the most part. One can come up with one or two reasons why open-source is good but for each of those… That’s what Leo Liou writes on Medium in his “Why I dislike open-source. Open-source model is a bad idea for the… “ It seems to me almost…

Perché non usare l’originale?

The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux Io sarò paranoico, ma continuo a sentire puzza di Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Abbraccia, estendi ed estingui) . Se la parte migliore di Win11 è il sottosistema Linux perché non usare Linux direttamente? Oltre al fatto che l’esperienza di software libero che ottieni…