laurasbadideas

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by laurasbadideas 13y ago
> I'm 35, started programming at about 10 in my TI99-4A, typing games from magazines, etc. the usual stuff. > No way a 40 year old guy have more experience than me in general programming, unless he was working at Microsoft or IBM
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by laurasbadideas 15y ago
Yes, they both had titles (something like "My cat is not a Twilight vampire" and "Holly and Thunder on a sunny afternoon". One other thing that might be relevant is that they were both PNGs.
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by laurasbadideas 15y ago
It would be nice to have next / previous / random buttons on the detail pages. I tried to add a couple pictures, and they haven't shown up on the "newest cats" page (and yes, I'm sure I'm not just looking at a cached version). If that's by
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by laurasbadideas 15y ago
That bothered me too. It seems inconsistent to say that "programming is generally more difficult", but "good people skills" are relatively scarce compared to programming skills.
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by laurasbadideas 15y ago
Two cats doesn't make you a crazy cat guy -- in some ways, two cats are easier to care for than one. And if the cats like each other, they'll frolic and cuddle together, which the theoretical women you bring home may find adorable.
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
I'm curious about whether the business owner mentioned this during the hiring process. I also wonder whether this affected the demographics of the company. If someone were to spring this on me on my first day of work, I'd probably wonder wh
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
I think that the college experience includes a lot of interaction and feedback that you can't get by reading lecture notes or watching videos online. You do problem sets and write research papers and then get back comments on your individu
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
I don't think he's saying that learning to program in C caused him to become an atheist. I think that he's saying that learning to program led to an outlook on life that caused him to question his previous beliefs (and then, eventually, to
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
To be fair, that was only the lesson for stories 1, 2, and 4. Lessons 3 and 5 were "awww, little boys are so sweet". Seriously, I agree -- if you're going to try to persuade people that doing these things is inherently good, skip the fairy
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
I once interviewed someone whose resume said he had "modified the Unix kernel to support [some device]". I assumed that meant that he'd written a device driver, but when I asked him about it, he explained that he'd bought a third-party dev
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
Save the websites for after you graduate -- right now, take advantage of the resources available to you as an MIT student. See if you can get some real-life experience with a UROP. Ask your CS professors (or even TAs) questions during the
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
Effects on cats were discussed in a USDA risk assessment of a similar program in 2002 ( http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/nwrc/publications/... ) -- basically, it looks like cats are likely to die if they eat the poisoned mice, but
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by laurasbadideas 16y ago
This really seems like a scam to me. It's possible that the amount of guilt that this person feels is sufficient to motivate them to buy the a 160 gig disk (and spend time selectively copying the most important data) but not to motivate th