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by craigching 14y ago
I don't want to speak for you, but it sounds more like the debt sucks, not so much college and the experience? I can understand that. I haven't finished my degree (yet!), but I promised myself I would never go into debt for it. I sorely
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by craigching 14y ago
I like your comment, I think it's the most concise explanation of why you should go to college, not for "job training" but to be educated and not simply about computer science. I think good programmers should have a good basis in general k
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by craigching 14y ago
I'm not saying I agree or disagree with GP, but some engineering disciplines require that you be licensed and are then called a "P.E.", Professional Engineer. Computer programmers don't, of course, and there are some that think we should b
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by craigching 14y ago
> There are a lot of problems that we need to look at before climate change, like population control, water management, antibiotics etc etc. Who says some of these aren't related to climate change anyway? As others have pointed out, we
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by craigching 14y ago
Not trolling, genuinely curious, is it a crime to say "I might do this" vs. actually doing it? What is the law that's broken? I have to agree with neil, though I'm not suggesting you're doing this: > our dedication to a principle is te
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by craigching 14y ago
> It uses the groovy language so hopefully it doesn't fall into the same trap as described in the post. The article mentions Gradle :-P Need to read the whole article ;-)
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by craigching 14y ago
> Explain to me why what Bradley Manning did should be legal. Allegedly did. You see? Comments like that are exactly the problem. Aren't we "innocent until proven guilty?" And that is why everyone is upset about Bradley Manning. He
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by craigching 14y ago
I'm still a clojure newb, but if I understand you correctly: >> I recall some debate about changing this so you can implement them using the native abstraction facilities in clojure (protocols) You mean records (defrecord): http://
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by craigching 14y ago
I'm a clojure newb myself, but I thought STM transactions weren't allowed to have side-effects and IO would be a side-effect, no?
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by craigching 14y ago
I want to second this. I use good reader on my iPad and absolutely love reading PDF on it. I was going to check out Readdle as well since that's been getting good reviews. The best part is that I have all my technical books categorized o
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by craigching 14y ago
Agreed 100%. Making the hard choices is where I might stutter, but I don't think I've experienced "coders block" as described in the article.
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What I took from that quote was that this was the effective MS strategy before and it worked, but that it won't work this time. So I think your response is in agreement with the article, at least the way I read it. It's hard to know for s