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by donaq 17y ago
What about the rest of the stuff about family? What's your take on that?
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by donaq 17y ago
That probably wouldn't work for me. I learn better by reading (good documentation; failing that, code) than by listening. Conversation can be erroneous, but code (even bad code) never lies. I think optimal learning methods differ from perso
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by donaq 17y ago
What if 50% of 35 year-olds have nudies on the net by then?
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by donaq 17y ago
On second read, I think you're right. My bad.
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by donaq 17y ago
They can’t be learned simply by following rules, as a computer does; they require intuitive knowledge that comes from long experience and repeated encounters with difficulty and failure. It's hard to try to refute this without sounding li
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by donaq 17y ago
Hmm, allow me to elaborate. 1) In his point about DRY, he speaks of humans not remembering very well. It seems unlikely that he would be referring to written communication here, since there would be no need for memory on the part of the aud
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by donaq 17y ago
I prefer much simpler advice. Keep finding customers (internal or external) and help them solve their problems. Lifelong learning will be a byproduct that will take care of itself. Uh, not to be pedantic, but the title is "How to become
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by donaq 17y ago
Why are there so many comments disagreeing with the article on the grounds that good programmers are not poor writers when the article is quite obviously talking about verbal communication?
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by donaq 17y ago
I think what he meant was more something like this: $row[6] = $src?str_replace($src,($table[$src]?$table[$src]:$src),$row[6]):$row[6]; [Edit] It's not quite so clear when it's not in English, methinks.
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by donaq 17y ago
Let's say we wanted to implement addition for a calculator. Here's a complete description: -1 is the lowest number -successor(N) is the successor to number N In the first place, that is not a complete description of natural numbers. Natur
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by donaq 17y ago
Programming is a design job. It's just a different kind of design.
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by donaq 17y ago
Wouldn't writing a complete test suite take equivalent effort to writing the program in the first place? I mean, wouldn't they require the same amount of information? Then, to simplify the task of writing test suites, you might want to desi
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by donaq 17y ago
That's peculiar. Are the results skewed according to the geographical location of the searcher, you think? I'm in Singapore.
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by donaq 17y ago
Me neither, especially since after that I did searches for database servers and web servers and they served up links to Apache and MySQL rather than IIS and SQL Server, but I thought it was an interesting contrast nonetheless.
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by donaq 17y ago
Right you are. Even though Jeff has never said anything that inclines one to think he actually understands what NP-completeness means , (I suspect he still thinks it's like porn) I must say his remark about computers operating at the speed
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by donaq 17y ago
Awesome idea. Why don't you use a cron job though?
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by donaq 17y ago
Searching for "linux download" on Bing turns up this as the #1 link: http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html Trying the same thing on Google, however, I get this: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download HMMM...
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by donaq 17y ago
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Somehow, this quote leaps to mind after reading that article. In a field where the primary means of keeping score is how much money you have, it se
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by donaq 17y ago
I was impressed by the part where the programmer called the potential customer's bluff and told him to bugger off, especially since they didn't have any other customers.
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by donaq 17y ago
I just installed it and I tried this on it as well as Firefox: http://grad.icmc.usp.br/~felipc/processing_js/chaostheory.ht... I must say that the difference in speed is impressive, even though the score did not display. Still, not too sh
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Chromium alpha for Linux(arstechnica.com)
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by donaq 17y ago
Yes, but then I do this for every site I participate in, because Goddess forbid I am wrong on the internet.
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by donaq 17y ago
Huh, half the time, I use shell over ssh, on servers that do not even have X installed. How would all that eye-candy in Bespin be rendered? In ASCII?
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by donaq 17y ago
It's a language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider
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by donaq 17y ago
If there were contrarians who buck crowd wisdom and win before social networks, there will be contrarians who do so after social networks, so why would social networks destroy knowledge?
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by donaq 17y ago
They're team killing, energy sucking, wastes. You do realize that this could have been written by Zed?
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by donaq 17y ago
Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent. In a limited way, this has already happened. Imagine talking to a human of average intelligence with the best education we
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by donaq 17y ago
And Linux.
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by donaq 17y ago
Perhaps, but you still need big peripherals to get work done. A screen and a keyboard at least.
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by donaq 17y ago
...if they are defacing him and he ACTUALLY filed a complaint of some sort I see no reason for those accounts to still exist. But I highly doubt any complaints were filed and I don't think quality control of usernames is the highest priori

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