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  • ScampiLover@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYou gained pounds
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    3 months ago

    It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
    “That needs to move 50cm” meant it had to move exactly 500mm
    “That needs to move a foot” meant just kick it over about a foot

    It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring





  • Got into making redstone logic in Minecraft, including joining a community of people building all kinds of crazy things like CPUs. This was early days too - I think the repeater was brand new

    Eventually wanted to make mods so started learning Java. Was bad at it. Then wanted to make games in unity. Was bad at it. Learned C++ at Uni. Dropped out and was bad at it.

    Kind of repeated this cycle for various languages and tools for years, never with enough motivation to learn properly. Eventually I hit a critical mass of skill and was able to actually make things in HTML/JS and over a couple years this snowballs until surprisingly quickly I find myself a senior developer teaching others!


  • I like to shoot for the middle ground: skim for key functions and check those, run code locally to see if it does roughly what I think it should do and if it does merge it into dev and see what breaks.

    Small PRs get nitpicked to death since they’re almost certainly around more important code





  • People look down on Javascript (and therefore Typescript) but as someone who learned by doing I think its a really good option

    Once you get past the hello world phase you can take it any direction you want: websites/apps, command-line stuff, desktop apps you name it. Just avoid the trap of getting sucked into specific frameworks or loads of tooling early on and learn the language

    W3schools is a great resource and you can do the examples and exercises right there in your browser