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by bendmorris 16y ago
I absolutely love DropBox and use it to sync my laptops, home and work computers. One great use for it, I think, is Tomboy Notes, which I use to take notes in meetings on my netbook, track progress on projects at work, keep a list of stuff
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by bendmorris 16y ago
It might sound trite but for me, the best clients I've found were people I either knew personally or who were introduced to me through an immediate acquaintance. Look around at your circle of connections - someone probably has a problem tha
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by bendmorris 16y ago
I tried to change the Nibbles snakes to lizards by changing variables with "snake" in them to "lizard"...that didn't work right away either.
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by bendmorris 16y ago
Other peoples' software will always be "crap" while software you wrote yourself will seem better. Joel Spolsky: "There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the o
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by bendmorris 16y ago
It's not about books; no book is going to make you a better programmer automatically any more than a book on running will make you a runner. Start programming at whatever skill level you're at, start some independent projects, get a part ti
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by bendmorris 16y ago
You're looking for a lot of money fast for little effort and your first lesson in school is going to be that pretty much nothing in life is that simple. Try and find a flexible part time job - they do exist, especially on campus. I worked t
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by bendmorris 16y ago
I'm a college undergrad graduating pretty soon and I decided to study biology, not CS, for the same reason that you mentioned - that I felt like I probably "knew it all" already. I also ran into the problem that my school doesn't let anyone
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by bendmorris 16y ago
I'm also a huge fan of Python, and I do believe that it (or other higher level languages like Ruby and Lisp) spoils you. I once took a well-paying job, but the main language used was ColdFusion - and not just ColdFusion, but a huge, complex
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by bendmorris 16y ago
My metric for plagiarism is pretty strict: is the article fundamentally different because the author read your article? Thus, whether it was copied word-for-word is irrelevant. They could change every word, they could even change ideas and