Yes
No
Will in the future
So this is what the personality of programmers is like... Whoa.
Code:typedef enum mind {not_blown, blown}; int main(void) { mind my_mind = blown; return 0; }
I've been wearing glasses since I was 11...
( Game Boy Color killed my eyes )
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Devoted my life to programming...
How? I don't think the GBC was backlit, so there was no glare.
I wear glasses essentially just for work, although my doctor says I should wear them all the time. I say my doctor should wear glasses since he's not seeing me right if he thinks I would wear glasses all the time.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
That is true, but come on, glasses for health? I don't adding glasses could make your health better.
Contacts are nice because they don't show, but since they are directly attached to the eyes, they can become a potential health hazard. So if you absolutely must have something to correct your eye-sight and you cannot use contacts and cannot go through an operation, then I suppose that in that sense, glasses can help your health, but otherwise...
Code:enum class MindState { NotBlown, Blown }; int main() { auto MyMind = MindState::Blown; return 0; }
Regularly hearing horror stories about both contacts and LASIK like operations have made me much more comfortable about the idea of wearing glasses for my whole life.
I know that these represent a tiny fraction of the people using those...but the fact remains that they aren't very mature technologies.
Also, spectacles are good for protection against sudden dust/snow ..etc.
There are probably horror stories about people somehow breaking their glasses and getting glass fragments embedded in their body somewhere, too. If they're unlucky, it might just be the eyes.
Everything carries risk. Although I dunno how big the risk of that happening is compared to problems with these technologies...
Children, children.
Not everyone can wear contact lenses, and not every eye condition can be corrected by surgery or laser treatment. If such people have significantly impaired vision, and don't wear glasses, then IMHO they are dangerous to themselves, dangerous to others, and they look silly.
That said, I've known people who look very good in glasses (in fact, there is a certain sexy lady who comes to mind). Generally (once concerns like correcting vision and safety are addressed) picking glasses would normally involve similar processes to picking a fashion accessory (watch, jewelery, etc). Pick a style that suits the individual - compliments their facial structure, suits skin and hair colouring colour, is consistent with preferences in clothes, etc.
I am not saying that gameboy (or should I say pokemon?) is not a factor, but myopia is affected by the DNA too. If your roots had myopia, then probably you will have too, even if you never play gameboy.
Yes. The way I see it, myopia is a part of health. Not wearing the best available glasses (thus letting inside rays that can harm your eye's strength), will eventually decrease its strength.
Maybe if you think about sun glasses, you will get a better proof.
Code - functions and small libraries I use
It’s 2014 and I still use printf() for debugging.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. " —Harold Abelson