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This is a series of posts where I share the most interesting or funny content I’ve been reading, listening to, or watching lately.
If you want to know the origin of the name, I've got you covered.
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The World's First Ever Webcam Was Pointed At A Coffee Pot For 10 Years
They say necessity is the mother of invention. They never mentioned caffeine addiction.
Such a funny story 😆
Programming Languages That Blew My Mind
This blog post is soooo nice!
Being a curious programmer made me try many programming languages, too. Some I’ve worked with, others I merely toyed around with. Some were kind of the same old story, while others left their marks.
Here’s a quick overview of my personal experience:
C: my first real programming language. I had to learn in college to pass the programming grades. It taught me all the important concepts about the basics of programming languages, computer architecture, and algorithms.
Java: also from college. I dislike the verbosity of it till now, but back then I was astounded by the fact I didn’t need to free memory myself.
Ruby: everything is an object, meta-programming, Ruby on Rails.
Haskell: have I told you about Monads?! After you learn them and go back to your mundane world in a regular and popular programming language, you feel dirty! Side-effects, side-effects everywhere!
I still wanna try:
Prolog (or any other logic language): one of the few paradigms I haven’t tried yet.
Erlang: I still want to understand exactly what the “let it crash“ philosophy is all about. I worked briefly with Elixir, but not enough to get the hang of it.
Steven Spielberg, Hollywood: The Oral History
I was scrolling through my LinkedIn timeline when I stumbled upon a passage from the book Hollywood: The Oral History, shared by Phil Eaton. Here it is:
all the films I made never helped me. They helped me grow as a filmmaker, but they never helped me get a job.
How meta, right?
I feel the same about personal programming projects. I’ve done many things and added a lot of variety to the mix over the years. Except for one, none made me land a job, but each one taught me something that I applied either at the job or during an interview, so long live the throwaway personal projects.
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