snek_boi@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agoAlgebra in school is like a compiler with shitty type inference: you rarely have to write type annotations and you can easily end up with impossible states.message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down113
arrow-up1117arrow-down1message-squareAlgebra in school is like a compiler with shitty type inference: you rarely have to write type annotations and you can easily end up with impossible states.snek_boi@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up29·2 years agoAlso, everyone keeps using one-letter variable names without any comments in code
minus-squareGnome Kat@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agoTerrible naming all around in maths, half the shit is named after dead French or German dudes.
minus-squareoctoperson@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoLeonard Euler was just the 16th century maths version of Alan Smithee that people wrote on papers as a joke, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Also, everyone keeps using one-letter variable names without any comments in code
Terrible naming all around in maths, half the shit is named after dead French or German dudes.
Leonard Euler was just the 16th century maths version of Alan Smithee that people wrote on papers as a joke, and you can’t convince me otherwise.