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Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
#21
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 1:29 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(January 21, 2023 at 3:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: People are generally frustrated by things they’re not good at.

Boru
I don't remember being nearly as frustrated when making my PacMan in JavaScript or my website. Sure, I ran into a problem that "clientWidth" and "clientHeight" didn't work on SVG elements in Firefox, but I immediately thought of a simple work-around.

Have you given any thought to switching to a course of study in a subject in which you don't suck?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#22
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 5:48 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 1:29 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I don't remember being nearly as frustrated when making my PacMan in JavaScript or my website. Sure, I ran into a problem that "clientWidth" and "clientHeight" didn't work on SVG elements in Firefox, but I immediately thought of a simple work-around.

Have you given any thought to switching to a course of study in a subject in which you don't suck?

Boru

Well, sometimes I am indeed thinking about switching my field of study from computer science to something else. But the problem with that is... to what, actually? It seems to me that, at anything else, I'd suck even more.
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#23
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 2:42 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 5:48 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Have you given any thought to switching to a course of study in a subject in which you don't suck?

Boru

Well, sometimes I am indeed thinking about switching my field of study from computer science to something else. But the problem with that is... to what, actually? It seems to me that, at anything else, I'd suck even more.

(Bold mine)

Not sure that’s possible.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#24
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 3:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 2:42 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, sometimes I am indeed thinking about switching my field of study from computer science to something else. But the problem with that is... to what, actually? It seems to me that, at anything else, I'd suck even more.

(Bold mine)

Not sure that’s possible.

Boru

Why would that be impossible? You think you know about me better than I myself know? I mean, what makes you think I am bad at programming and that I would do something else better?
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#25
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 4:11 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 3:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (Bold mine)

Not sure that’s possible.

Boru

Why would that be impossible? You think you know about me better than I myself know? I mean, what makes you think I am bad at programming and that I would do something else better?

You are in your fifth year of a three-year program.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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#26
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 4:11 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 3:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (Bold mine)

Not sure that’s possible.

Boru

Why would that be impossible? You think you know about me better than I myself know? I mean, what makes you think I am bad at programming and that I would do something else better?

I think you’re bad at programming because 1) you said so yourself 2) you’ve taken five years (so far) to finish a three year course of study and 3) you’re always coming in here begging for help.

I take back what I said - I actually DO think you might be worse at something else than you are at programming.

As for knowing you better than you know yourself, ‘O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!’

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#27
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 23, 2023 at 4:44 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 4:11 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Why would that be impossible? You think you know about me better than I myself know? I mean, what makes you think I am bad at programming and that I would do something else better?

You are in your fifth year of a three-year program.

I don't think those tests at the university accurately measure one's ability to program. I think most of my classmates could not even make a SVG PacMan, which I made back in high-school, yet alone a PicoBlaze Simulator runnable in a browser, much less a compiler targeting WebAssembly.
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#28
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 24, 2023 at 1:35 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:
(January 23, 2023 at 4:44 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: You are in your fifth year of a three-year program.

I don't think those tests at the university accurately measure one's ability to program. I think most of my classmates could not even make a SVG PacMan, which I made back in high-school, yet alone a PicoBlaze Simulator runnable in a browser, much less a compiler targeting WebAssembly.

It’s a poor workman who blames his tools.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#29
RE: Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems
(January 24, 2023 at 2:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 24, 2023 at 1:35 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: I don't think those tests at the university accurately measure one's ability to program. I think most of my classmates could not even make a SVG PacMan, which I made back in high-school, yet alone a PicoBlaze Simulator runnable in a browser, much less a compiler targeting WebAssembly.

It’s a poor workman who blames his tools.

Boru

I think most programmers complain about their tools, the languages they are using and so on. But, unlike most programmers, I actually try to make better tools.
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