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Instead of entire new programming languages, maybe existing languages can have alternate localizations (done at the IDE level). The same source code would display in a different language from a user with their IDE in Spanish vs the user with their IDE in English.

Edit: Food for thought regarding reserved keywords...

I recently discovered Chrome had MIDI as well while looking for a music sight-reading app. Unfortunately, Chrome for iOS does not support it even though Android does.

The level of humour I experience from spoken Spanish (especially on day-to-day conversation) is on another level compared to English. This is solely based on some words/phrases sounding way more funny in Spanish than in English. Can't think of any examples, but generally a quick 2-3 word phrase in Spanish will carry some (intended) funny-ness to it, whereas in English, the joke is on the meaning of the words rather than the sound and expression of it.

My English comprehension level is comparable to native speakers, so it's not because I'm missing any jokes. This is not to say I don't enjoy comedy in English, in fact, I seem to enjoy it as much as anyone else.

Programming Quotes 8 years ago

I think removing unnecessary code and generalizing redundant parts should be a given. On the other hand, early optimizations such as caching or in-lining should be avoided unless needed.

Very possibly. But that would be easily reproducible with layers as well.

Look how there is no perspective change on the rising blocks and the shadow underneath. Blocks just move straight up and down and shadow just increases/decreases in size.

People movements are just tween animations.

You can probably do this with simple tools. It's all about the layers; If you observe closely, you can see all the objects in the frame have very simple movements.

The 3D effect is just an optical illusion coming from all these simple movements in 2D space.

Some creativity goes a long way!

I read these two as well. Computer Organization and Design and Computer Architecture on my 2nd and 3rd-level computer architecture courses respectively. Glad to hear Hennessy and Patterson getting the Touring award, always had a good hunch about Computer Architecture despite not knowing as much back then.

That's a very black and white point of view. There's lots of grey areas and varying urgencies for problems. I'm sure most respectable programmers would take care of matters as fast as they could, even if it isn't that urgent.

If it takes me an hour to take systems back up after things go bad during the after-hours, it's not because I was purposely not doing my work. It's because that's literally what took me to fix the problem.

Programmers aren't magicians and we certainly aren't out there to get you and waste your time on purpose.

Keyboard latency 9 years ago

I am with you with the relative movements. Most of the faster songs are fun because they have triplets or alternating patterns that are easy to adapt to once you're used to the pattern.

As for the game you played, it must have been the DDR series. You can't "finish" Stepmania since it's an open source rhythm game where the community has created thousands and thousands of songs to to play.

Keyboard latency 9 years ago

It's hard to explain, but with these sort of games your brain "feels" if something is off (a little bit of latency, etc). I get a similar feeling playing instruments. It's quick to adapt to these changes, but the feeling of something being "different" still lingers for a bit.

Used to play (still could if I got back to it) at that difficulty with my keyboard. Got to the point where I could have conversations while playing. I also play guitar so I stopped playing Stepmania to avoid extra strain.

It varies greatly here in Victoria. I've seen Jr. positions anywhere form 30k to 80k. I've also seen senior positions as low as 50k. Java seniors earn around 115k. People from Vancouver say it's worse there... Keep in mind the Canadian dollar is significantly lower than USD right now, 100k doesn't get far at all.

Spanish is my native tongue and if I hear "ahorita" it means "right now" or maybe within a few minutes, but never hours or more. I was born in El Salvador (very close and similar to Mexican culture) and lived there for 17 years.