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by arghnoname 17y ago
I'd agree that for web development, assembly is almost certainly something a typical programmer won't have to know. I'd argue that C is a good idea for various reasons, but that argument's been had already. That said, "learn it when you nee
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by arghnoname 17y ago
And they probably paid for those college credits. A typical state school might put that at $900 bucks. Great deal huh? The unpaid internship thing is often a scam to get people to do just the kind of work you're describing. In companies I'v
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I don't know if I'm a 'superstar', though I don't particularly favor the term, but I'll offer my own view on the onerous hiring process. I won't do it. That is to say, I won't do it for just any company. I try to determine if a company has
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by arghnoname 17y ago
It's true that a lot of kids follow the money. I'm sure a lot of students in IT in India and other places are doing it for economic reasons, so it isn't like this is universally a bad thing. In my own case, I like computers, but I like othe
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by arghnoname 17y ago
There are certainly a lot of jobs that don't really require a college education for a person of decent intellect, and some kinds of programming are some of them, but I do think there are also careers that require a level of dedicated study
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by arghnoname 17y ago
Yeah I think so too. My initial reaction was that this is his right, which technically I'm sure it is. It does call into question an unspoken rule of open source though, which is you can abandon your stuff if you want, but don't try to remo
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I'm not in the ruby world, so perhaps that's why his contributions have largely been outside my sphere and there may be a great deal I'm unaware of. That said, when someone goes and removes their repositories and whatever other traces of th
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by arghnoname 17y ago
My own math background is through Calculus II right now, so I'm a beginner, but I can't say the Companion (though it is excellent) is something I could 'get through' in the sense that people usually mean it. By necessity it is terse, despit
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I don't apply for anonymous jobs either. I think the solution to the job problem is qualified HR personnel who are capable of evaluating a candidates worthiness well enough to be an appropriate first level filter. A lot of people want jobs,
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I think it's the "too big to fail is too big to exist" theory he's talking about. If a financial company is backed by taxpayer dollars and everyone knows they won't be allowed to fail, as is certainly the case now for the consolidated power
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by arghnoname 17y ago
To the extent that the administration is looking at Google, it's because they are on the same page as a lot of people running around on the Internet. Microsoft is old news, a defanged lion that doesn't know it's dead yet. Google is the new
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I think you tend to remember the things you think about. I don't think about the past very often myself, or the 'glory days' of high school or whatever, so it's all a blur to me. At least that's how I hope it works because if it doesn't, I
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by arghnoname 17y ago
Did you know OmniTI (employers of Shiflett and Welling, former employer of Thomson, and sister company to MessageSystems (Wez Furlong & George Schlossnagle) have an office in Brooklyn? I believe the main contributor to CakePHP works the
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I'm not learning any language right now, but have learned a fair share over the course of the past few years. My general criteria is not to learn a language that is conceptually similar to something you already know unless there are profess
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by arghnoname 17y ago
One thing to keep in mind if you want to get a degree in math is you might want to get through the more introductory level courses at a community college. I've done this, and in my case anyway, there hasn't been a noticeable difference, and
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by arghnoname 17y ago
As a language, it's pretty painful to use and you run into those limitations pretty quickly. You also put more processing in the database, which isn't great for scalability. It is nice being able to test changes via the sql prompt though. A
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by arghnoname 17y ago
It looks to me in the C version, he only frees the first listener. The C++ version also provides the listeners as a set. The C version doesn't mind if you add the same listener multiple times, so to be apples to apples you'd use a vector, b
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by arghnoname 17y ago
Perhaps a good C++ programmer writes equivalent code in C++ just as fast as he would in Python (For some kind of tasks I've found this to be true as well), but how many good C++ programmers are there? It's a brutally tricky language and get
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by arghnoname 17y ago
I used emacs for everything and relatively recently got into the situation of having to do some java. http://jdee.sourceforge.net/ It handles that too. I like having one editor that can follow me everywhere. Maybe Eclipse or the others wo
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by arghnoname 18y ago
Not every usage for url shorteners is for twitter. I personally don't use twitter, but when I send long links to my mother via e-mail, she has trouble unless I use a url shrinking service. I'd much prefer one that shows the domain outside o
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by arghnoname 18y ago
Right, the old joke: "What do you call the person who was bottom of his class at med school?" "Doctor"
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by arghnoname 18y ago
I believe I read once that advertisers have software that reduces the length of the pauses between words/sounds in a video to speed it up, without it seeming as sped up.
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by arghnoname 18y ago
These sorts of of articles are never a good sign since in any ponzi^H^H^H^H^H investing scheme, delusion^H^H^H^H^H^H confidence is important. These kind of articles reinforce the reality they are describing, at least, they have the potentia
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by arghnoname 18y ago
But you bought one. Why is that? Everyone I know who knows about the RRoD issue buys one anyway. People who don't know don't seem to care about consoles. It's curious to me. I bought one too, and I knew about the issue. PS3 was too expensiv
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by arghnoname 18y ago
Keep in mind that with most things the rate of improvement is much faster in the beginning and slows down as a greater level of mastery is acquired. I've been doing this for about 4 years. I'd program at work, and then I'd come home and rea
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by arghnoname 18y ago
Personally I like phone interviews. I don't like to in-person until we are serious and chance of hire is relatively high. I've been fortunate thus far and always looked for a new job when I want to try something new, not when I'm out of wor
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by arghnoname 18y ago
I'm not presuming I am one of the candidates you are looking for, but as someone who has been able to afford a bit of choosiness here are some of my thoughts. It isn't about engineers vs. non-engineers. It's about helpful, courteous, and re