looks as if keeping some CloudFlare verification going would be helpful. Normally with it off there would be a page of spam

Seems like it stopped not just the spam, but also everyone else from posting.

The irony of communities is that any type of activity drives new activity. Kind of already knew the theory on Kissu but the complete silence after removing spam makes posting seem less welcome

>>28
Do you mean people will comment on spam, thus driving new activity which will then drive activity to THAT activity?
Well, it couldn't hurt I suppose, as long as the spam isn't terribly harmful, but it's usually a great annoyance

>>29
No, I mean the awkward silence means people feel like there's silence to be broken. Breaking the silence is a mental hurdle that makes it harder to post

>I'm not exactly rich (for a grown up person, not living at his parents)
That's not good. If you're rich, as you say, you should make sure that you're exact with your money. Otherwise, you become a rich slob.

>>18
This.

I am really curious what OP did to earn that kind of money.

>>18,20
Pic related.

>>21 Looks kind of nice...

You will scrape semen off used computers, and you'll like it.

What's a 10X programmer?

>>5
Is there really that much differences between the fields? I'm skeptical about that. There might be different constraints but I'd like to believe that they are fundamentally the same activity. But I'm open to reconsider my position.

I was thinking about how to decompose programming into smaller activities, that would be easier to improve at, but it's pretty hard. If I take something like debugging, that's certainly an important part of programming, but is it actually any easier to practice than programming itself? I don't feel like I've gotten closer to an answer this way.

Greatest or the most successful? I think you could be the best one in the world, but it wouldn't necessarily become a successful career and get you fame and fortune.
I guess... practice a lot? Some people just have brains that do certain things better, though, and if you don't have that kind of brain you could be limited.

>>9
Greatest, I am not after fame and fortune but competence. Practice, yes, but what and how? I can keep doing exercises from textbooks but those seem to cover only a limited domain of programming.

>>10
Probably something you're born with combined with lots of effort I would guess. Do you feel like a programming god and things come to you naturally? If so, maybe you have what it takes.
Hard work just doesn't beat natural genius

Only window managers I've ever used are dwm and icewm, Xinerama's just worked in those cases.

>>2
I did get Xinerama working with xfce a few days back, but I noticed that some of the programs I like don't play nice with it. I wouldn't mind trying it out in the future though.
I'm currently on Fluxbox, and I've been able to get my set-up working on it. It wasn't easy, but that's not the WM's fault, I just had to learn more about how xorg works to get things going. Now I just have to settle in to doing more configuration by hand.

Of course an edge case like that is going to be largely unsupported.

>>4
In a way, I guess the lack of support can be seen as a good thing, as users no longer have to buy multiple cards to have multiple monitors running. Still, it was a bit of an inconvenience.

>>42 Funny signature I found on the internet: https://github.com/yaychris/dvorak7min

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____/| Ragnar Hojland (ragnar@ragnar-hojland.com) Fingerprint 94C4B
\ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C
=(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for 104B78C56 B72F0822
U chaos and madness await thee at its end." hkp://keys.pgp.com

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

I can't figure out how the fuck to pan zoomed-in book images on archive.org.
Left-clicking advances the page. Middle-clicking advances the page. Right-clicking opens the context menu. Shift-left clicking, Ctrl-left clicking advances the page. Up advances the page. Down advances the page. Left, right advances the fucking page.

OH FUCKING OKAY it's the scroll wheel. got damn. well i'm going to post this anyway. fuck

I had to stop using DuckDuckGo because
- the Japanese search suggestions were always incredibly pedophilic, despite some basic attempt to filter out obscenity
- the noscript DuckDuckGo gives entirely different, way lower quality results, listing the same unrelated results (manga, always the same titles and websites; or the index pages of porn, dlsite, and booth) for different search queries

>>44
>Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end.
That quote is from The Ten Commandments for C Programmers: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html

>>2
Oops wrong software
https://github.com/ECHibiki/Kotatsu-V

used to have one where I would call loop variables "iii" and "jjj" and "kkk" instead of "i" and "j" and "k"

>>6
But, everything in Racket is an expression! Value of everything but price of nothing and all that.

I have the tendency (though unintentionally) to create patches of code that keep my program running, but are never called or referenced once by anything else. It becomes bloat since you want to get rid of it, but you can't because for some reason it's vital to the architecture I've created.

>>9
That's called being a bad programmer.

>>10
Yeah, I know :(

Yes, just read the Holy Texts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

I can't believe I have to write spoilers to a textbook, but here it goes. Read at your own peril.

In the last two chapters the curtain is pulled back and you get to see how the wizard's magic works. It's part of the book's "story", they start with saying the computer science is not really a science but has more in common with magic. But this is not approving, they want it to mature into science and they gradually reveal what goes on behind the scene. Early science was also connected to magic and esotericism, hence the alchemist on the cover of the book. I think it is fitting because many people seem to be stuck in the "programming is reciting spells" phase for an embarrassing amount of time.

But yes, if you read SICP, it will teach you what you need to know to become a wizard and more.

ok i will start making a hat