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by enry_straker 14y ago
Sadly true. Give me Shakespeare for tragedy, Shaw for wit and Wodehouse for light-hearted comedy with some bacardi and coke, and maybe an island in tbe caribbean any day. ( I prefer a warm bed for my nights though ;)
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by enry_straker 14y ago
Wow. Such childish behavior. To be so jealous of a dead guy that you would use his name in such a manner and to be such an attention seeker that you would dis-parage Aaron with one liners. Pathetic.
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by enry_straker 14y ago
Nice work, dude. The simplicity of both the html and the js is neat - and, oh the colors are so sharp. it's a pleasure to play.
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by enry_straker 14y ago
Though it might come across as 'dealing in absolutes,' Zed is making the broader point that when one starts learning programming, it's not good to put any book on a pedestal and blindly follow their style - without working through the code.
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by enry_straker 14y ago
Tilting at windmills, don quixote?
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by enry_straker 14y ago
You are damn lucky. It's a rare professor who focuses on the needs of the student at the expense of his own ego inflation.
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by enry_straker 14y ago
This is not about enhancements but about the patentability and prior art of common concepts
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by enry_straker 14y ago
Wow. Companies colluding with incompetent governments to tresspass on its citizens with impunity.
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by enry_straker 14y ago
To those who knock groovy, just give it a try. As a long time java user, i was very reluctant to learn groovy and it took grails for me to really tune into groovy. Now it's really hard for me to go back to java. :) I also personally feel th
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Congrats, Holland. Way to go. Hopefully this will spur europe to move forward, as a union, to enshrine net neutrality into law, and hopefully prod the US into action.
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by enry_straker 15y ago
That is a sensible idea - but i would go one step further. Ideally you want to learn about a potential candidate's design/coding/debugging/bug-fixing/testing skills. Github project collaboration over a week or so would go a long way towards
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Apologies if this came across negetively. My goal, at the time i started my company, was to build a really hard-core team. I am sure that is one of your goals too, aside from providing a really intensive training program for your participan
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by enry_straker 15y ago
I used a similar approach when i wanted Windows internals programmers in the early 90's. I just called it a internal training program, though. Irrespective of the number of hours put up, i still think a person new to rails will get a chance
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Ruby Creator and chief Designer - Yukihiro Matsumoto Rails Creator and Maintainer - David Heinemeier Hansson
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by enry_straker 15y ago
You have put into words my thoughts exactly. To be sure, i am a bit of a woz fanboy, having lived through the 80's and poring over his work. Though i don't begrudge Jobs the fame and fortune, i do think a lot of people overlook woz. To me,
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by enry_straker 15y ago
I beg to differ. When one first starts out, it's ok to just sit in front of an interpreter or a compiler and start trying out small programs, make mistakes, learn from them and go on. But one vital quality of good developers is being able t
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Though i am inclined to agree with you i do think this distinction might be appreciated in the context. What i mean is, when a person is starving he doesn't really care if his food is from a 2 hat or a 3 hat restaurant. Having said that, i
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by enry_straker 15y ago
I suspect that the sample size is too small to really draw any reliable conclusion. Having said that, you are on the ground. You see and talk to them. You definitely have a good idea of what you are talking about. Me, i'm just a guy half wa
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by enry_straker 15y ago
No, thank you ( and richard and mohammed ) You have no idea how helpful you guys are.
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by enry_straker 15y ago
You too - though i didn't have access to too many computer magazines so had to make do with odd listings gleaned from various sources including kermit. ZX Spectrum rocked my world in my childhood :-)
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Wow. You justify the death penalty on the basis of it providing incentive to the police and the prosecutors to do a better job. Holding their children hostage would provide a really good incentive. Would you then recommend that as well? I u
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Had to laugh cause i had a similar reaction. It's more a reflection of how i view his words rather than the words themselves. Zed was being serious and was talking about how he wants his recruiters to take him seriously, I suspect that i am
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Not Always. The thing we use to communicate rests on an infrastructure called the internet - A US Government funded Project (DARPA):-)
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Why the false equivalence? Are you really comparing the efforts of one man ( for the most part ) who produces free videos for mostly high-school and collage students with the output of a giant global corporation? Maybe a simple pointer that
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by enry_straker 15y ago
The whole point of a Summary video of history, and what is tested in class for most students, is the what and when - not the who and why. Also, from reading the original scare-mongering article based on a single video viewed by the author,
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Who gives a damn? The Center is run by a bunch of bureaucrats who are generally appointed for life. Not a single person will be fired. Not a single person will own up for being responsible. But now, they can demand more funds in the name of
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by enry_straker 15y ago
As far as love, and other personal matters are concerned, why do you care what other people think? ( with apologies to Feynman ) If you were to judge Asian women purely on looks, they might feel like they belong to a different class, but mo
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by enry_straker 15y ago
Check out indian politics - for a real taste of chaotic democracy in action. Here folks get to talk crap about a whole bunch of governments - from city, state and national - and there's a whole bunch of 'em to talk crap about - unlike the t
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by enry_straker 15y ago
If she just wrote to Salman Khan along with classmates, i am sure he would be happy to cover the missing areas too. It's just that he chooses areas to cover based on feedback from students/users - and if enough students approach him, the su
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by enry_straker 15y ago
This is where the medical community as a whole, including medical-licensing boards should get together and look at the long-term negetive impact of such ethically dubious practises of a few doctors. If this goes ahead, every member of the m

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