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by cfeduke 11y ago
ML, Haskell, Idris, or Prolog. Because these languages will challenge your problem solving abilities and should improve your overall skill in writing code in any language. If market feasibility is really your thing, then Clojure or Scala fo
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by cfeduke 11y ago
> do cool things with CS (GUI stuff, web stuff), the better CS education will be The issue is these skills don't solve serious or interesting problems. GUI and web programming have become easier than ever and requires less programme
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by cfeduke 11y ago
I've done the exact opposite having learned industry standard languages my entire career and only after many years finally gaining a much deeper understanding of computer science (and especially functional programming). I can say witho
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by cfeduke 11y ago
I forgot they turned it into its own spin off product. I've always liked the IntelliJ stuff having suffered through a few years of Eclipse.
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by cfeduke 11y ago
I believe demand for engineers to solve these problems will wane as the solutions become codified into various open source projects. Think of how difficult a problem that involved terabytes of data was to solve before the advent of Hadoop a
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by cfeduke 11y ago
> no health miracle at all, and all the weight I lost has been regained and then some Lifestyle changes that impact health require that one habitual adopt the change to realize their benefits long term. Of course if you followed a fastin
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by cfeduke 11y ago
I nearly bought this when it launched due to how frustrated I get with pgAdmin. As other posters noted its missing a lot of features. I knew my frustrations would not be solved. I use IntelliJ's database stuff instead, which I "di
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by cfeduke 11y ago
When I started programming in the '90s I thought "this is it. We are so far advanced, there's nothing left in the computing field except making slicker UIs. Hardware will get faster but computer languages are at their pinnacl
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by cfeduke 11y ago
Any book written by Charles Petzold is an enjoyable read, though particularly the non-MS specific titles Code and The Annotated Turing. Java Concurrency in Practice (2006) is older but relevant and clearly describes concurrency on the JVM.
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by cfeduke 11y ago
Hmm. Yeah, I don't know. Its possible to make substantially more than $150K as a high school drop out software engineer. And of course there is these days a cash out option for some. I'm okay with giving respect to someone who spe
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by cfeduke 11y ago
Same, one of the best things I've read. It may rank above Programming Sucks[1] which is my go to reference for friends when they ask me to explain to them what it is I do. 1. http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-suc
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by cfeduke 11y ago
Having a 3 year old who cannot get enough of "Snowman!" and as a result listening to this song more times than Long.MAX_VALUE, this is a good continuation of the version which appears in the movie.
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by cfeduke 11y ago
I largely agree with you on this. I focused on my mortgage and as a result I have less than a year of payments left. I didn't ignore investments either - roughly 10% of my income into the market - but I did not pay the minimum mortgage
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by cfeduke 11y ago
When we were about to have our first we went to Babies R Us, and had to sit through some "new parent" training nonsense with a few other couples for a 25% off coupon. I thought at the time "25% off, okay I can endure 15 minut
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by cfeduke 11y ago
As a user of second hand shops for babies it is not time consuming - at least not where I live in Virginia. These stores do excellent business because the market in used infant through toddler clothes and toys is HUGE.
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by cfeduke 11y ago
My wife and I just had two kids, about 14 months apart. The essentials we missed out on must have been unknown unknowns for us. We bought almost all of our clothes second hand (there are thriving brick and mortar stores that sell second han
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by cfeduke 11y ago
I don't think anything is giving the JVM a run for its money. There are millions of man hours that have gone into performance tuning the JVM. The CLR has substantially less. Possibly for mid-size projects the CLR _could_ be an alternat
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by cfeduke 11y ago
Hah yeah I realized that when I walked away. So expensive.
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by cfeduke 11y ago
> Maybe a few companies/startups who have cash in their pocket will use it/try it out This would be really nice to use at my startup, but its cost prohibitive even on a very large budget. I am setting up Spark Streaming to hand
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by cfeduke 12y ago
I disagree that the penalty falls unfairly on content producers. The content producers choose their business model. If technology makes that model untenable then the content producers must change their model.
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by cfeduke 12y ago
No, I often buy used text books when I find them cheap so I can fill in what I missed by skipping out on a degree. I have a separate title on discrete math (Epp) but its companion only had some solutions to exercises available in a separate
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by cfeduke 12y ago
The PDF is from 2006 and contains 231 pages. The printed book is from 2012 and contains 670 pages (including index). I bought a used copy of the book from Amazon for $27.
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Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming(cs.wheaton.edu)
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by cfeduke 12y ago
I actually had _no idea_ LinkedIn used Scala until I read further down this thread. I am referring to, of course, the large number of contact requests I receive from recruiters about open Scala positions.
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by cfeduke 12y ago
I studied Scala with the express intent of working professionally with Scala; then I went looking and found a job writing Scala. Its not an academic language at all. If LinkedIn is any indication there is absolutely no shortage of open prof
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by cfeduke 12y ago
If I didn't have a couple years of shipping Scala code into production I'm not certain I'd understand the slides by themselves. (Having audio and/or video to go along with the slides would be a great help!) I don't
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by cfeduke 12y ago
Roma and Arena: Roma II are excellent 2 player only games. Sub 1 hour and good strategy. I would disagree with you on TS, as it is one of the simplest two player games with any depth I have ever played. My wife owns a game store; I have pla
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by cfeduke 12y ago
Different pictures on each monitor should be the default. The premise is you want to expose users to more art!
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by cfeduke 12y ago
IIRC from yesterday's talk he was explaining that these will be easy to parallelize, and its slated for 1.7. I had thought they were already parallel myself until I saw the talk; and possibly some of them are, but the item is still Ope
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by cfeduke 12y ago
Yes you can have async and blocking transducers. Forward to the point in the video about channels for a discussion.

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