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Honestly didn’t realize I felt this way until I read that. We need social networks that actually allow you to meet people, not compete with your friends for likes. It’s not the same because the social networks are focused more on consumption than creation.

It is wonderful. I really want to find a way to help teach kids/teenagers about programming. It can really make you feel good about yourself to build something and see it working

I learned to code from some indie version of basic on the internet called Liberty BASIC when I was 13. I used it for years because the people on the forums were so nice and basically held my hand through learning a lot of basic computer science and exposed me to the history of computing via recreated qbasic programs and games, etc.

I’m super grateful for little things like that. All those older people that were welcoming to me on those forums have a special place in my heart, and I’ve been thinking about them fondly while I build a compiler—something I wouldn’t have been able to do without them answering all my questions when I got stuck.

Congrats!! I’ve been trying to study the basics of type theory but without a more formal background in some of the mathematics/proofs i’m in a little over my head with those books. The red dragon book seems to have simpler / less mathematical explanations of basic type stuff so far

take an afternoon to learn we pack

If only it was that easy. The weeks I’ve spent hunting down webpack specific bugs because the plugins don’t always quite work with typescript transformations and source maps...

Wow, thanks for ruining my life

But seriously. That...feels true. But rather than waiting for things to happen to me, what happens if I go out and expose myself to more events where the dice of fate can be rolled for an outcome in my favor (or against)? Am I manipulating luck that way?

That’s the best breakdown of the ES proposals I’ve ever seen. I wish this existed a year ago when I was trying to explain it to a coworker.

I’m glad someone took the time to put this together. Also, I did not realize that the native functions for most of those features were available, and considering they are faster than transpilers like Babel that polyfill everything, I need to check my webpage compiler outputs to make sure i’m not needlessly polyfilling for the 1.8% of IE users I don’t care about

I don’t know if it counts as a charity, but my college is a private liberal arts school (and a non profit) and they pretty much gave me a full scholarship and connected me to the tech world...so I give back every month.

I think if everyone, especially those who received big scholarships, gave back to their college even a little bit every month, it would help bring the cost of education down for everyone.