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Woe is Me

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 0:29

I can't do the exercises in Chapter 1.

I have failed.

I will not kill myself with fire.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 1:22

i love you...

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 5:32

>>1
Well then, what method of killing yourself would you prefer?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 11:51

>>3
(call-with-current-continuation kill-self)

Just in case reincarnation exists.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 15:46

>>4
since when the fuck does kill-self take a continuation? idiot.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 16:01

Continuations are fun.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 16:58

>>5
Proceeds with continuation in case of undead, reincarnation, or Jebus. Has side-effects if undead.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 21:56

>>7
Proceeds with continuation in case of undead or reincarnation. Has side-effects if undead.
OMG OPTIMIZED

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 22:16

I feel like I've failed the Sussman and the Abelson. I wanted so much to be an expert programmer, but my inability to create the beautiful black-box abstractions has left me crippled and worth nothing more than Samir from India who writes C# for $0.15/line.

I am so distraught I have intentionally failed to BBCode properly.

See my shame, /prog/! Would that I had never touched a computer than known the disappointment of failing SICP.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 22:29

I barely passed my assembly class.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 22:46

I suck at algorithms

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 11:38

I'm thinking of switchin to Ubuntu because I'm too lazy to look for and read confuguration manuals or tutorials.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 12:09

I am actually dumb but people think I am smart.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 12:28

I call java C# code with continueation concurrently in my assembly class.

:(

I'm not actually a programmer, I just browse here. Did that make sense?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 12:32

I rule.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 13:48

I actually have more than two problems.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 13:49

>>14
It made more sense than anything posted here in the last 3 months.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 13:54

I own a copy of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 14:49

>>18
Haha, me too. I'd never admit it though. Watch me disappear into the anonymous mass again.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:18

>>18-19
I own a copy of Head First Design Patterns. :(

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:37

I own a copy of GEOS Inside and Out.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:45

>>19
I found it incredibly boring and couldn't bring myself to read it.  Might as well have burnt the money.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:50

Every semester when I have to buy textbooks for school, I buy 5 copies of SICP instead. I'm up to 30 copies of SICP stacked on my shelf. When I'm really lonely i like to pile them all around me and fall asleep, letting the Sussman protect me.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:53

>>22
You can still burn the book.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:56

>>22
Seconded. It's in a box somewhere in the cellar.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:57

>>24
I'm affraid the fumes of shittiness will be lethal.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 16:01

I'm surrounded by EXPERT PROGRAMMERS who believe they are superior because of their knowledge of ENTERPRISE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 17:40

>>23
I am jealous.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 18:31

>>27
Is that your way of saying I will, along with my job?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 19:21

I don't have any intention of ever reading SICP.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 20:21

I dropped out of college (Computer Science) years ago, have never had a job, and have never published anything remotely interesting.  Sometimes I write patches for open-source projects, but I don't submit them.  I still consider myself a programmer.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:03

>>31
How do you make a living?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:06

>>32
Terrible!

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:06

>>32
Parents, basement

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:13

>>31
I have never had a job. Sometimes I write patches for open-source projects, but I rarely submit them. I still consider myself a programmer.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:17

I've had a job for years, doing PHP and Python (I only had to do Java for 4 days, and I'm getting Python pushed into the organization, yay). I write patches for a few free software projects (C and Python), but don't submit them because they wouldn't get accepted (I make them work my way, after already knowing they don't like this way from talking in the development newsgroups). I still consider myself an EXPERT PROGRAMMER.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:22

I don't know the BBCode for the EXPERT PROGRAMMER meme.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:46

I apply B, I, U and O in any order, then output EXPERT PROGRAMMER, then apply /B, /I, /U and /O in opposite order. For example, quoting the program:

'[\[B]\[I]\[U]\[O]EXPERT PROGRAMMER\[/O]\[/U]\[/I]\[/B]]

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:47

>>38
Oops, remove the backslashes. I thought this BBCode interpreter still required them, I'm glad quote works. I guess I can start using [quote ...] now.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 21:53

>>38
Now I can do the EXPERT PROGRAMMER meme, but actually I'm a NOVICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS ANALYST, and I'm jealous of the developers who I work with.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 22:16

I'm a developer, but all I write is Java. I'm contributing to ENTERPRISE faggotry, and I'm too lazy to find a better job. I'm sorry /prog/

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 22:23

>>40
Actually, we're tiny, and I'm the senior developer for internal development (there's another senior developer in the company but he's not writing code). This is why I like it: I get to do a lot of things in every part of the development cycle iterations, I get to take a lot of decisions, and I can discuss anything with my boss (who, surprisingly, almost incredibly, knows what he's talking about, gets to the gory details, and trusts my judgement when I make sense). I love small companies: instead of ENTERPRISE BEST PRACTICES TURNKEY PROFESSIONAL SCALABLE SOLUTIONS, I get to do real R&D, and my work can be as varied as to teach class for a week, install a production server the next day, then back to work on one of the two big projects I'm into. Moreover, we're developing a "not done here" syndrome which means we get to do almost everything, so we can't get bored with a single project.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 23:49

>>42
Thats great, but I was referring to myself in >>40, per the theme of this thread: how hard I fail at being an EXPERT PROGRAMMER

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-23 2:15

wtf

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-23 11:21

I only write type signatures for my Haskell functions when it won't compile otherwise. I also never use type aliases.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-23 19:02

I'M THE SUSSMAN
SON OF A BITCH FORTRAN-DERIVED LANGUAGES
FORTRAN IS PIG
DO YOU WANT STATEMENTS?
DO YOU WANT LOOPS?
FORTRAN IS PIG DISGUSTING
JOHN WARNER BACKUS IS A MURDERER
FUCKING POPULARITY

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 6:09

The distribution how to   program properly otherwise.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 6:44

compiler will warn you   of them Neither   will tell you   how bad your.

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Name: Anonymous 2011-02-04 19:47

Don't change these.
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