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by enry_straker 15y ago
If you really want to, just e-mail them and ask for it. The folks at peepcode are fantastic. Very pragmatic and polite. And you have nothing to lose. :-)
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Was about to make the very same point. I used to, and still, treasure the books on science that Mr.Asimov wrote. It was fantastic. I just wish that he had lived to see this phenomenon taking place. I think he would be very, very pleased wit
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by enry_straker 16y ago
I suspect you meant the word 'ever' not 'every' in your quote.
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by enry_straker 16y ago
MIT's Open CourseWare project or OCW can hardly be described as a simple collection of videos. Each and every course at MIT has put up all their educational documents including slides, exercises, tests, audio, video, schedules etc for free.
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by enry_straker 16y ago
I can't speak about the site or the quality of the instructors but i have nothing but appreciation for Charles Max Wood, the instructor for the Ruby and Rails course. I think he also conducts the ruby programming language course. Check out
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Things can get really stuck - as the protagonistss appear to be on different continents
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Why haven't you denied the puppies kidnapping, mahmud? I can overlook the Yakuza. I have seen some movies about them and they look cool, but kidnapping puppies? Really sounds suspicious.
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by enry_straker 16y ago
True. How can you compare a nation and it's minions who are conducting a terrible subjugation of an entire group of people who made the mistake of being born there. Silly.
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Not exactly. A Googly is a type of delivery bowled by a bowler where the ball, after pitching on the ground, turns in the opposite direction of the majority of the balls bowled by the bowler. Thus a bowler who predominantly bowls off-spin (
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by enry_straker 16y ago
I suspect that you talk from experience when you make the claim that 'Most programmers got into the game because they love programming.' I currently work in india, and my experience here is that most folks who enter programming do so becaus
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by enry_straker 16y ago
It provides context. Dr.Chua's article was not just about rote learning vs creativity. For instance, how far do you think rote learning can go in music? I would suspect that children need a balanced mix of both: discipline to learn the basi
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Part of the problem is also the relationship between the managers and the outsourced programming team. If you spend time in terms of vetting the team for people you are comfortable with, take the time to be as clear and detailed as possible
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Am i the only one here who finds this post a bit immature? Any fairly serious startup needs a good business culture for it to grow and mature, and not just a reliance on technology alone. There have been a lot of tech organizations which cr
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by enry_straker 16y ago
"blogger" doesn't mean what you think it does.
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Why? 1) Your teacher cannot learn a new language well enough to teach a bunch of high school students in time. Have some consideration for him. 2) Your goal when starting to learn programming is not to learn the syntax of any one language,
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by enry_straker 16y ago
The India of today is not the india of the 80s. That would be like comparing communist china of Chairman Mao's era to the china of today. The whole process of dis-mantling the license raj was started by the current Prime Minister in 1991 wh
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Take things with a pinch of salt.There's a local saying here which, loosly translated, is as follows: That which you see is false; That which you hear is false, only that which is well researched is true. As a person who started a software
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by enry_straker 16y ago
Speaking as someone who has started and run both small and medium-sized organizations, i would suggest the following: 1) Hire folks who exhibit good problem-solving skills and possess a good attitude. These folks usually are easily trained