viktor・tech

I like articles like this, make you pause and ruminate and take another look at mundane things. Some items are funny some are very intimately felt. Reminded me in the middle of the Louise C.K. phrase from one interview a decade ago: “You are sitting in the chair in the sky!” (Ah here it is.) Thanksgiving time is an obvious time to reflect on what you are grateful for. My friend texted me and we exchange few words on a random meeting almost 15 years ago that led to this friendship. It was not something profound, just what “kids these days” :joy: call “we matched energy”. We live in amazing times, hot water running, cell phone in your palm has more power than whole NASA program that landed us on a moon, we have amazing medicine, at the same time tons of systemic issues make us blind to what we have.

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Fun discussion around APL and J and code readability – 1 and 2 and 3 APL always fascinated me, same with MUMPS. When I was in school my peers liked to argue on C vs Pascal syntax and how C is more readable, but compared to APL and MUMPS, these are all the same and there are these completely alien languages. There is fun book 7 languages in 7 weeks that take you through some less common languages, and i think it is useful exercise to do. Trying at least one functional programming language is a must, although today if you are touching front end , high likelihood you will do something in react, that to me is a decent functional programming gateway drug. Same as jQuery was before that, although not every codebase. But going back to J and friends, those are important if you want to get more than your feet wet with code golf, and also being an array language it forces you to really think differently.

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Some one made gemini halucinate what HN front page will look like 10 years from now – https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news and wow this is brilliant.

“Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in AR glasses?” hit too close home.