Sparkky

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by Sparkky 13y ago
As a hobby you have complete control, as a professional in a large team, you have very little control. I think that more mirrors why so many people who program professionally get so much satisfaction by hobby projects or taking time off to
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by Sparkky 13y ago
The original post really is criticizing a straw man. Not just because they are missing the point such as how you are saying, but their paint positive thinking as relentless and illogical lies. Much like criticizing all liberals as being dre
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by Sparkky 13y ago
Not to be a contrarian; but I think this is kind of throwing out the baby with the bath water. At one point YAML, or JSON were considered new, useless technology.. Why would you need it when you have XML? Look at noSQL databases, originally
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by Sparkky 13y ago
Awareness isn't valueless, look at what pink and a ribbon did for cancer. This is just another cynical internet blogger trying to make himself feel enlightened ;) nothing more.
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by Sparkky 13y ago
I'm pretty sure they are just trying to ride this publicity gravy train as long and as hard as they can. Look at all the publicity, they are on Reddit, news sites, twitter, HN... I've never heard of them until today, and I imagine
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by Sparkky 13y ago
Yea I had a similar issue when I used to hang out in that IRC channel as well when I sold flash games. I work AAA development now, but its weird to see porter and king talking about these things that went down back when this community was f
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by Sparkky 13y ago
year #schools 2008 1778 2009 1879 2010 2048 2011 1972 2012 2103 2013 2253 According to the spread sheet, this is the numbers per year of schools that offered it nationally. (5A - 12B on Sheet1)