one of the things that made me feel better about exercise today was this
basically exercising and having a strong heart is more important for your health than losing weight and being thin (not that these are opposed to each other, but it might tell you what to focus on if radically changing your diet AND exercise is too daunting, as it is for me)
i started making more of an effort to exercise a couple of months ago (i also walk home from work). when i tell people this, they usually ask me about weight loss, because i'm a fatty. but i'm not gonna lose 20% of my body weight, i just want to be able to run and hike and explore cool places without getting out of breath.
I've been doing strength work to fix my back and all the other lingering injuries, and so I haven't lost much fat on my gut or my chest (moobs ) but I have gained mass on my pecs, so now my chest looks awkward in some shirts because the buttons strain a bit. I get the feeling it would take a lot of fat loss to rectify this tho, enough to the point where I might as well buy some new shirts in the mean time :/ or always wear a tie or sweater.
It's impressive how enjoyable learning a new programming language is when the language itself isn't actually I'M A JUGGALO WOOP WOOP ; and when you work with people who know their shit, who you can easily ask for help when you're blocking on something, and who are actually helpful.
I think it's maybe the first time in my life I'm actually motivated to learn and progress and not just going through the motion, and enjoying to work. I'm pulling 9-10 hours-workdays without even really feeling it, and actually having fun doing it. I even get to come back home each days with the impression I've achieved something and made progresses.
I may have taken a good decision with my life for once. I'll tell you in a year.
I mean it literally, as compared to it the others languages I've tried (C, C++, PHP) seems backward (etymologically : I'M A JUGGALO WOOP WOOP) - from a beginners' point of view at least.
At least the grammar is easily understood, easily assimilated, and the code is easy to read and comprehend (essential when you have to work with other people's code touching on things you don't necessarily know yet and they don't put lots of comments in them).
And I don't have to actively care about low-level bullshit like memory allocation, variables declarations or data type handling, as the interpreter is smart enough to take care of that. This already free 50% of my brain charge and leave me able to concentrate on more essential things, like getting the code to actually do what I want it to do.
Oh, yeah, and the fact I don't have to compile each time I want to test my code, meaning I can write code AND test it in pretty much in parallel, cleaning up bugs as soon as they appear.
but as you learn more you'll see more flaws and you'll see more elegance in the other stuff you know; you'll appreciate different parts of it and miss good stuff and so on
PHP is a pure pile of shit and the more you know the more flaws you'll see in it
but most others have parts you'll see l8r
like types and compilers, the more you know, the more you'll see how great they are. it might seem annoying now but they are amazing and you'll see with experience
Well, the thing is we're working on a lot of different devices, all with different specifications, and our work is to make them all work together. So we directly benefit from the layer of abstraction the language provide regarding the hardware it's supposed to work on or with.
I'm sure I'll be annoyed by the weak-typing and the lackof compiler later-on (may be up to debate, as the docs I've read so far lead me to believe there's an option to compile your code in Python), but if it mean it makes my actual job easier overall (programming is only a fraction of the job description), I'd tend to think it's very much worth the hassle.
And anyway, no language nothing is perfect, and it's a programmer's job to work with a language's imperfections, so...
Oxymoron wrote:Well, the thing is we're working on a lot of different devices, all with different specifications, and our work is to make them all work together. So we directly benefit from the layer of abstraction the language provide regarding the hardware it's supposed to work on or with.
Oh, I see. Well that makes good sense, especially if you're learning.
in my world peace fanfic one of the strategies the protagonists use is to treat every single individual with dignity and respect, even if they disagree with their politics or even their actions. people are never just a means to an end or something that can simply be thrown away
it is still a bumpy ride but this is one brick that paves the road to a happy ending
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re free speech: most people can probably agree that hate speech probably shouldn't be criminalized by the government
but that doesn't mean assholes NEED to or OUGHT to open their fucking mouths
let's close this depressing post with words of wisdom from the GOSPEL OF KIRK
Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.
I don't get why everyone's flipping out over the MOESLEMtm reaction to the cartoons and shit. I mean, nobody got hurt at the Egyptian embassy. The killings in Libya were a targeted attack that probably would've happened regardless. The actual "outrage" response probably wasn't any worse than the average soccer riot.
Yeah, for all their "enlightenment," SDN is really no different than the HPCA crowd in that regard, and this proves it. Remember in the HPCA thread when I said I hated the one dude with the racist avatar?
) but I have gained mass on my pecs, so now my chest looks awkward in some shirts because the buttons strain a bit. I get the feeling it would take a lot of fat loss to rectify this tho, enough to the point where I might as well buy some new shirts in the mean time :/ or always wear a tie or sweater.
