JFred

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by JFred 18y ago
Eating too much. Exercising too little.
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by JFred 18y ago
Go for the weather and prices, not the politics. You can live as you want in the US. Plenty of hippy communes, survivalists, polygamists, vegetarians. Work in the web, relax in good weather. The best weather in the US is either in Hawaii
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by JFred 18y ago
There are some truly free universities. But you've still got to pay for essentials. The MIT curricula are on the web somewhere for free. Including texts. If you do your own open source project, it can work for you. It's hard work and it
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by JFred 18y ago
I've had it, and it did get better slowly. It cost me many thousands of dollars of lost work. The doctors are pretty useless in many cases. 0. Proper sleep, exercise and nutrition are important. 1. Hit the keyboard more gently. 2. If you'
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Test Driven Design in Medicine(slate.com)
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by JFred 18y ago
Very few of us have extensive experience in more than one library. JavaScript muddled along without standard libraries for a long time. I use Ruby on Rails, which has support for Prototype/Scriptaculous, so that's what I use. I like it a
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by JFred 18y ago
You'll also want to look at this recent NYT article on fatigue: http://health.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-chronic...
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by JFred 18y ago
Some people do better without caffeine. There is also a condition called Mononucleosis that can cause fatigue, as well as other conditions. Lots of things from vitamin deficiencies to cancer can cause fatigue. If you look up the pill on th
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by JFred 18y ago
In some places the message is "Leave". Leave this grody little town. I think it's been the message of Detroit. Jerusalem, where I live, has a message, "Pray". The biggest industry in Jerusalem is the Israeli government (analogous to DC).
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by JFred 18y ago
I haven't looked at Django, so I can't compare. I've used Rails on a few projects and I like it. I've coded for decades and Ruby is the most programmer-friendly language I've found. For the amateur, it is easier to approach PHP and start
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by JFred 18y ago
Nothing left. It's the end of the internet. In a few years every person and machine on earth will have a couple of web pages. A public one for professional use and a private one for friends and family only. We'll have to address by conte
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by JFred 18y ago
I don't think you can become a proficient C++ coder in one month unless you're really, really smart and unusual. Maybe not even then. Although, it depends on what you mean by "Hack basic apps", doesn't it? If you're working on existing a
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by JFred 18y ago
A lot of it will probably happen virally. Somebody will put up a "Web 2.0" intranet app inside the company that uses the corporate database for some small job. Then the change requests will come flooding in...
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by JFred 18y ago
People do this from all over. I have a friend here in Jerusalem who is a translator between Japanese and English. Having made many contacts when in Japan, all the work is now done over the web in an apartment in Jerusalem. I do web devel
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by JFred 18y ago
I don't live near Staples but there happened to be several printshops all near each other in the local business district. I found one that gave me a hefty discount if I would just email them a PDF of the card (according to their specificat
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by JFred 18y ago
I've been through most of the rails books, at least partway, and none of them is a great programming book. The classic, AWDWR from pragmatic programmers is a bit out of date, otherwise I would recommend it. The "Rails in depth" chapters t
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by JFred 19y ago
1. Forget coding, study management. Managers get more money. 2. NEVER put the word 'test' on a resume. Do not mention it in any interview. If they ask if you tested anything, say no. Lie, if you have to. Say the other guys on the proje
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by JFred 19y ago
Some ballpoint pen vendor agonized for who knows how long to come up with the name 'Pen Island' only end up with the domain 'penisland.com', so don't sweat the small stuff.
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by JFred 19y ago
Postgresql is free, it is less encumbered, possibly, than MySQL in the long run. Postgresql is more totally Open Source, whereas MySQL is owned by Sun Microsystems. And it is not free for all commercial cases. Postgresql is. MySql gets i
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by JFred 19y ago
Hey, if it's too easy everybody will be doing it. Nobody will be an employee again...
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by JFred 19y ago
Lots of schools teach CS and say "Code it first and fix it later". They call this preventing "Premature optimization". It's not totally wrong. But it's often wrong. The world isn't writing it's first program. Code that's too slow has a