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Measuring programmer productivity.

It's 11:40am and I thought hey, could be fun to have some sort of "fun thoughts to have" Fridays here on lobsters. Basically if you have something silly or fun to ask the community it's the day to do it :D. So a starter I've thought of is "10 Code Commandments". This is inspired by my friend who'...

We know everyone loves text editors. We know everyone loves specific text editors, because they let everyone else know. But we know the truth: true love always has a dark side. What's your text editor's dark side?

You suddenly have in your possession a super computer. What comes next? What projects are suddenly possible for you? What performance tests can you now explore?

So what're you building that you always wanted or think humanity actually needs than another corporate piece of CRUD? (P.S. Yeah I missed a couple weeks, life has been crazy.)

We find ourselves in a reality or future where AI has taken our programmer jobs. And it's not just "write 20 lines of jank Python code" - you can simply ask it to "write me an operating system/programming language/tool with these properties" and it'll go off and do it. Consequently this means the...

How do you proceed with your life now? Do you have time to wait for C, Lisp, C#, JS, or Rust? The first personal computers aren't for awhile. Try to be as realistic as you can. Edit: To be clear you are exactly as you are now, in the place you are (give or take). Things are going to more or less ...

On a micro-scale, macro-scale, to anything in-between.

How will you leverage this new power? Will you tell everyone they really shouldn't listen to you? Or will you carve out a new group of followers to push forward your hopes and dreams? --- Remember that Fun Format Fridays are fun, philosophical activities. Responses can be funny, serious, and e...

We've learned to tap into the API of Life and now have the ability to do things like volume(universalCoordinates).spawn(h20) What're the first programs you'll write and what are some longer term programs you'd like to write? --- I may end FFF after today. It was fun.

Think of your favorite technology: Haskell, Rust, PostgreSQL, etc. Now imagine you've just learned it was created by someone or a group that's been found out or known to have done "very very bad things" (you can use your imagination on this one). Would you still use these technologies? Or would you ...

What other "your <item> <computes> <thing>" sounds interesting, real or not? Or could be? A couple others: * Your school binder quicksorts papers by dates * Your sliding door transmits WiFi (for door state) --- Less controversial than last week - I'm working on it :)

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So I can filter it out of my homepage

For some reason, I've always thought of fonts as complicated beasts with dense file formats. I knew bitmap fonts had to be less complicated than the bezier curves that specify TrueType style fonts, but then I discovered this spec, and now my mind is blown.

Mozilla is exploring new logo and branding concepts. It's kinda great, and they want our input! Even if they don't want it, they're probably going to get it! So, let's look at it and have fun. Some of them are kinda awesome, some of the them are going to set off the wingnuts, and some of them jus...