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by kaens 18y ago
Freelance coding, currently python web stuff.
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by kaens 18y ago
And a variety of others that I'm probably forgetting. I personally find CherryPy to be great for writing small web-apps. I haven't used it for anything larger yet, but I suspect that I'll continue to prefer it over other python web framew
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by kaens 18y ago
A python "lambda expression" can effectively only be a one-liner - basically the return line of a function minus "return". That is why people consider them castrated - in most languages I'm aware of that have a "lambda" statement, it can be
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by kaens 18y ago
Screen, in addition to a lot of the other stuff already mentioned here. Recently, CherryPy.
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by kaens 18y ago
No, it is not. If we discover something that appears to disobey physical laws, then we clearly either don't understand the laws that it disobeys and need to re-examine their definitions, or are making a problem in observation of the phenome
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by kaens 18y ago
I agree with the general point of this article. I stopped buying things that were just things a while ago - if I can't (or won't) use it for something, I don't buy it. My current personal possessions amount to little more than an adequate
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by kaens 18y ago
I would think that people should be learning to learn much younger than college-age, but that's an entirely different can of worms.
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by kaens 18y ago
I think I can bring another point of view to this discussion. I'm currently 22, and have never been to college. I'm a smart kid, and have always had a passion for learning - but went through some rough times during and after high school tha
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by kaens 18y ago
How would you suggest certifying creativity?
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by kaens 18y ago
I suppose that it's probably a lot different for programmers who didn't start programming on their own - those whose first exposure to coding some software was through classes in college or whatnot. I know that for me, almost all of my know
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by kaens 18y ago
I agree with the author of this article, but I have to wonder if there are very many programmers who don't do this?
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by kaens 18y ago
This is a great read, especially for anyone who's involved in any sort of "activist" stuff. I point all my friends who do any sort of political writing - which is mainly things like small local zines and such - at this. It does a great job
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by kaens 18y ago
I haven't used them yet, but they look like exactly what I'm looking for in a host. The only downside is that they only accept credit card payments, but considering what they are offering it's not that big of a deal.
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by kaens 18y ago
I was in high school, in a comp-sci course taught by a very good teacher. We used C++. I tried very hard to write a chess AI that learned by analyzing its previous games - I failed miserably, it was fun. The same teacher taught the "CCNA" c
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by kaens 18y ago
While I agree with you, there will always be people who really just don't want to see a wall of "Congratulations" after someones success-story (or whatnot). I personally don't mind it, and think it's nice (it certainly feels nice when thing
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by kaens 18y ago
For the first, I know that it's true for me that if I don't actively create things, my ability stagnates. If I actively create things right at my skill level, I stay the same, and if I actively try to learn new methods to deal with problems
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by kaens 18y ago
I would assume that to be true. I use a CSS-reset stylesheet which helps a lot with cross-browser compatability. It gets hard if you're looking for pixel-perfect appearance across all major browsers. Of course, the browser that is the bigge
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by kaens 18y ago
I think it would depend on where it was, although I really have no clue. For example, I would expect a video game store in the mall to have a much higher percentage of people not buying anything than an isolated / strip mall store due to th
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by kaens 18y ago
I am also not a professional web designer, although I have done some freelance work. In my experience, if you don't have a problem just writing the css yourself, you may as well just do that. Read the css specs, and do it yourself, and you
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by kaens 18y ago
Of course, the web is almost, but not entirely different from a physical storefront. If someone enters a Starbucks, it is almost absolutely done with the expressed intent of making a purchase (or chatting with a friend who is making a purch
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by kaens 18y ago
Mine was like this: 2003: I haven't been able to get X working under Debian Woody for a month or so. This terminal is actually pretty nice though once you get used to it. december-2003: Holy shit I got X working. Oh my god. Well, at least I
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by kaens 18y ago
FTA: "We use MD5 checksums throughout the system, for example, to prevent, detect, and recover from corruption that can occur during receipt, storage, and retrieval of customers' objects. However, we didn't have the same protection in place
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by kaens 18y ago
"Solve a problem, not a class of problems." I, for one, think this is good advice for code in general. At least "at first, solve a problem, not a class of problems". I have noticed that if I write my code too general at first, it ends up so
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by kaens 18y ago
"Using a CSS layout with floating boxes, the sidebar-box does not stretch to the bottom." "The solution proposed by CSS gurus seems to be to create a background image with a colored area overlapping with the sidebar-area" What about height:
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by kaens 18y ago
Sometimes, but usually only in code I'm using to wrap my head around a new concept that I'm struggling with. I generally don't swear in code that's going live, or public at all.
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by kaens 18y ago
Thanks. I'm not exactly accustomed to reading RFCs (I am accustomed to reading terse specs), but those look like exactly what I'm looking for.
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by kaens 18y ago
Do you have any recommended reading for the whys of implementing protocols like that?
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by kaens 18y ago
What don't you like about scheme? Specifically, what don't you like about scheme used as a language for teaching?
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by kaens 18y ago
Huh. The only thing other than the name that I really hate about "Web 2.0" is that it's on top of HTTP. Kludge after kludge trying to be stateful with a stateless protocol. At least that's how I feel when programming web apps.
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by kaens 18y ago
I'd imagine that you got downmodded for not suggesting some of these other ideas in combination with not providing a link or two for reading about these other ideas that are better.

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