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by columbo 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needful_Things I see the future of 3d printing as the golden era of the service industry. I want a semi-portable laptop with a mechanical keyboard and e-ink display. This would be my ideal rugged travel laptop
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by columbo 14y ago
This is very interesting. Have they considered using multiple languages (functional, oo) as well as including 'garbage' languages (brainfuck) to track differences? I'd also be curious to see how it compares to a standard word problem (two t
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by columbo 14y ago
A good resource on this same subject is the book 'Code' by Charles Petzold. It is also a bottom up approach to understanding computers.
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by columbo 14y ago
I'm not Sean Lindsay so I can't speak for him, but I remember the first bubble and his phrase resonated with me, and not because 'english majors aren't good developers'. I don't think that is what he meant by it. The first bubble was about
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by columbo 14y ago
This is a fantastic title, right up there with 'Dynamic typing is 1000x better than static typing' and 'Tabs vs Spaces: winner spaces'. It really just leaves us arguing the finer points of what the definition of craft is. Could you argue th
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by columbo 14y ago
Good enough is a struggle... but the one thing that should never be pushed down the pipe is ensuring the code is understandable. Once you get beyond the basic crud-webapp-twitter-clone the ability for a new person to simply pick up and star
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by columbo 14y ago
> Open plan is fine, even for large offices, so long as everyone knows that quiet is the rule. I don't agree with this. Bullpens/developer rooms are designed for collaboration and they have been for the last fifteen years. They are for
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by columbo 14y ago
I have some experience in this area, here is my wishlist that I haven't seen yet in dynamic survey/assessment builders: 1 - Form Item labeling. I can't say "First Name" = 'firstName' in wufoo, instead it gives it an arbitrary id of form_1_1
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by columbo 14y ago
Good luck! Honestly I think you'll have to make a choice between a high success rate or a large number of people trained. To use an example, think of no-kill-shelters vs pounds. No Kill shelters can boast a high success rate and a low retur
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by columbo 14y ago
Hah, that would be because I copied the line from a blog/example somewhere and just replaced a few of the words without really looking at the script.
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by columbo 14y ago
Here's another hackish way to do this, probably a bad idea, insert in your profile git() { if [[ $@ == "status" ]]; then echo "NOT TODAY BUB (hint, use gs)"; else command git "$@"; fi; } alias gs='git status -' edit: remove
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by columbo 14y ago
I fully support the focus on education and I really hope this next decade could be the start of the "Golden Era of Education". To me DevBootcamp is CCE, and CCE has been around for years (what is cce: http://www.ccc.edu/programs/pages/web-
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by columbo 14y ago
Of course it does! It isn't necessarily about premature optimization or temporary code or documentation. It is because we don't know where we are going . Give anyone on this board a clearly defined waterfall project, five years, fifty mill
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by columbo 14y ago
Well Stanislaw Lem's Memiors of a Space Traveler (24th Voyage) suggests we will all be flattened into glass discs and placed in random locations over the planet. Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&lpg=PA24&#...
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by columbo 14y ago
> Right, so your prompt is composed of nothing but the hardcoded character `>` Hey that's what mine is! Actually it is simply the ')' character. I went from full on prompt-porn to nothing. For the most part this was just to see how
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by columbo 14y ago
I think you should look for marketing/digital agencies and showcase your talents. I don't know anything about these companies but they seem to be examples in your area of what I mean ( http://www.fusion92.com/home.aspx | http://www.jbchic
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by columbo 14y ago
> a nice office makes workers happier I agree, but there's always going to be a 'good enough' point somewhere between drab-gray-walls-office-park and million-dollar-renovation. When I see startups do this I see them pushing too far to t
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by columbo 14y ago
I don't know why you were being downvoted but I don't think -anything- should ever be able to block the execution thread. I never liked the fact that you could force lock a user by spamming alert/confirm boxes and I saw this effect as a bug
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by columbo 14y ago
> When most people think "education", they aren't talking about learning, but the complete package of learning, social activities, and making connections. That is expensive. You need a nice campus with plenty of green space to lie about
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by columbo 14y ago
I've taken a few courses through coursera, udacity, racked up points in khan and I've watched some videos from the MIT open source libraries, so the answer to "But what will that mean for traditional institutions?" is they will (hopefully)
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by columbo 14y ago
In case anyone else didn't notice this article was written in 2009
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by columbo 14y ago
Being over 31 just means you didn't win the lottery. The vast majority of us are simply going to make a living, a DAMN good living, but still something small where we own a house, have a family and maybe a vacation home in Arizona. Startups
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by columbo 14y ago
The story: "Since the treehouse was built on crown land, I don’t technically own it, and so its fate is uncertain. For three years I kept the HemLoft secret, but now that I’m finished, I’ve found myself wanting to share it. I even shared i
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by columbo 14y ago
I primarily do java work (consulting) for enterprise. I've always seen it as a combination of convention and time. There are java applications that have been around for decades. I've worked in codebases that are over twenty years old. Some
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by columbo 14y ago
Hrm, are you a non-profit or have you considered that? It seems odd to pay an unknown entity (you) and then perform a service (write code) all for a very high level idea alone (the good). I feel for this to work there must be some sort of '
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by columbo 14y ago
If you are mobile (no house, little debt) then go buy something like this ( http://www.landandfarm.com/property/0_acres_in_Iron_County_W... ). You could freelance 15 hours a week for 6 months to pay the entire thing off in full. Then you'
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by columbo 14y ago
> hacking at someone's identity to get them to do with you want Hrm, but how is this different from every marketing strategy ever created?
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by columbo 14y ago
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. For this board to work I think the pawn design should come with a "face" so you can remember what direction it is pointing as it seems possible to turn a pawn around or make them move sideways. For exampl
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by columbo 14y ago
Future of search? Hrm... I just tried searching for Mesopotamia and the only results was LIFE photo collections. This feels more like the way research USED to be. Back when you would find keyword matches in magazines/books/periodicals and h
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by columbo 14y ago
> they are a place many startups get stuck. Yeah sure, this is true. Anyone remember the dotcom swoosh era ( http://lekowicz.com/library/logohell/logohell.html )? Startups also get stuck on UI (custom, bootstrap, jquery-ui, yui), backe

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