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Profile for Omar Rizwan. Username @omar, social.omar.website. Role: admin

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"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."

Joined on Dec, 2022. 770 posts. Followed by 283. Following 147.

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

making fun of code formatter people by creating a word processor where you just type in words and the software (using AI or whatever) automatically adds all the punctuation and paragraph breaks where *it* thinks is appropriate

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

maybe it was a mistake to think of "object-oriented programming" as a general software paradigm & teach it in isolation to new programmers with animal examples and stuff, when actually it's deeply tied to making GUIs

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

programming in Objective-C reminds me of programming in Java when I was a teenager, where I'd repeatedly get stuck (& get distracted, go do something else) on decisions about what UI class should own some data object as its property, what classes should parent or point at what other classes, what order stuff needs to be initialized in

(often felt like there was no obviously right answer, or it ended up being path-dependent on the history of the project)

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

working with the Raspberry Pi camera is funny because you gradually realize that this (or at least this part of the system) is not so much a shrunk-down PC as it is a moderately more open-source smartphone

meaning that you've got a camera system that is exceptionally high-quality, small, fast, low-power, but complex and nonstandard hardware/drivers/libraries

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