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by bmcleod 16y ago
The majority of people I've come across started by doing web stuff or Basic way back in the day. I think in general that's the largest population. The best self-taught people I know have by now read everything that would be in a university
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by bmcleod 16y ago
The list they've put together it long enough that I would expect nearly everyone to be missing a few. Compilers and Machine learning are probably the two that you don't see in self-taught people much. The ones you do see it in generally go
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by bmcleod 16y ago
People would probably be shocked by how cheap airfares are now though. Aviation technology has favoured seat cost over speed and that does show.
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Slightly related: In pretty much any store which has sales people that come and talk to you those people have the ability to knock 5-10% off if you ask for it. Cheap things aren't worth negotiating a lot for, but they certainly can be negot
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Hello world is valid for checking that you have everything installed properly and it's the fastest way to make sure you get the most basic syntax of the program. It's not like the first thing you're going to do is write out all of quicksort
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by bmcleod 16y ago
I was shocked when I took CS papers at the number of people who just could not grasp recursion. My first job out of Uni I pretty much got the interview because the sample code I sent in had recursion in it. I occasionally think I should rec
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by bmcleod 16y ago
This particular piece isn't so much dealing with skilled migrants as it is with migrants who are willing and able to work and can do something as they're seasonal workers who normally come to work in orchards etc. New Zealand has a signific
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Non-fiction: Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! - I'm not sure how I'd managed to avoid reading it this long given that I already really liked Feynman and had read and watched a lot of his stuff already. It's a great book and I proceeded to
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Probably How to Win Friends and influence people. I could have done with being nicer to people much earlier in my life, probably around 12 or so. I'm surprised by the number of tech books on this list, I found I had an appetite for finding
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by bmcleod 16y ago
It's relatively easy to read and doesn't punish you with too many horrible compile errors; kids get impatient with semi colons very quickly. It generally does what it says it does, particularly when you're just starting and not touching on
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by bmcleod 16y ago
I've found the biggest distraction from getting a product launched so far is contracting. Although it has meant I've got the cash now, so I'm bringing a guy on part-time through summer.
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by bmcleod 16y ago
The problem with this suggestion is that it seems to suggest having an MBA is a large part of being a business guy(or gal). Yes it does take a long time to become a good business guy, but that's because it relies on spending so much time ne
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by bmcleod 16y ago
I like the general idea of putting more focus on good UX Engineers. But, this guy seems to think that making the back-end support a bunch of Ajax calls is easier than. In fact, you start needing more work to make it efficient since you have
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by bmcleod 16y ago
My team built a lightweight news aggregator aggregator( http://agragr.com ) which pops things up as they hit the front page in various places. So far I'm finding it's replaced a couple of tabs I would normally have open. The stand out proje
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Why you should go to Rails Camp(breccan.com)
1 points by bmcleod 16y ago|0 comments
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MySQL is a database[video](nigel.mcnie.name)
5 points by bmcleod 16y ago|0 comments
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A Weekend with Node.js(breccan.com)
3 points by bmcleod 16y ago|0 comments
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Or the recently released Ardbeg Corryvrecken, which, I think, trumps the 10 year old.
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by bmcleod 16y ago
The strange thing here is that retirement accounts with a tax deferment policy benefit the higher earners much more than they benefit people in lower tax brackets. This isn't very consistent when the social issue that has really driven thes
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by bmcleod 16y ago
I'm guessing that he thinks if it continues like this CN is going to start actively looking to divest themselves of Reddit. By posting like this he's making it even worse for them in terms of publicity so there is a good chance they'll want
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Non-profits are a very large group featuring some very large organisations with lots of money. One of the big international Non-profits jumping on a system would add very significant costs. Most of the successful ones have plenty of money a
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by bmcleod 16y ago
Reading is something you get significantly faster at by doing it a lot. You recognise words you are familiar with much faster etc. Expect anyone who reads a lot to go at at least a page per minute with full comprehension. Speed Readers ofte
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by bmcleod 17y ago
I would suggest that the correct thing to do at that point is to move somewhere with a better tech community in the languages you do like. I moved(without having and commercial experience behind me) to a more technical city just as I was fi
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by bmcleod 17y ago
There was a post a while back suggesting having a few of your previous ratings display beside the rating scale. It requires more of a slider approach though, which is something you have to spend more time teaching users about.
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by bmcleod 17y ago
I'd suggest that a bell curve in this case isn't a particularly good goal. Most people who cook already know what collection of flavours they're likely to enjoy and will make more dishes that combine these flavours in interesting ways. A go
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by bmcleod 17y ago
It's much easier to mange your inbox to your own liking than it is a forum. Flagging, sorting, filtering and deleting are all much more difficult in a forum. It's also much easier to have all the things you do point at at one location than
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by bmcleod 17y ago
Except in this particular case the person could indeed be intending to buy an Ipad, just not from the first generation. Which is clearly not the "No" option.
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by bmcleod 17y ago
Not really, there's a very particular type of fallacy that is people sticking small seeming percentages on markets and then suggesting that that percentage is achievable profit. Unless you go completely viral it's going to be one sale at a
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by bmcleod 17y ago
Randomly multiplying a sample by an arbitrary "small" percentage is a terrible way of demonstrating profit potential. Unless you can demonstrate otherwise, the correct calculation is: $12 * 100,000 * percentage of people that are your mum
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by bmcleod 17y ago
This seems to be an amazingly meaningless image without a lot more context and explanation. I don't see why showing it beside other languages helps at all either. Maybe we could theorise about what's easier for programmers to understand. I'

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