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by learninglisp 17y ago
Here's my new theory: I wouldn't necessarily be happy getting a high-powered hard-core ultra-geek development job. I don't want to have to move to the Big City (tm) and ignore my family. Going "deep" would be fun... but strategically, goin
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by learninglisp 17y ago
I defined it as "mostly coding database apps, doing tech support, and some sysadmin type duties." That means coding the hell out of SQL... and then taking that SQL and dressing it up in ways that users can benefit from it without bothering
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by learninglisp 17y ago
Oh... and that's a Software Engineering certificate that can turn into a Master's if you decide to later. (Baby steps to the class... baby steps to the bank... baby steps to the bank...)
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by learninglisp 17y ago
That's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm looking at this one: http://www.cs.illinois.edu/online/programs.php I don't know if my work experience will make up for having no compsci bachelors courses on my transcript. The prices are crazy steep
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Ask Hacker News: Online BS in Comp Sci?
20 points by learninglisp 17y ago|32 comments
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I don't think it was verbose criticisms. I was focusing more actually on an architecture for increasing the level of abstraction.
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I think he said that it is okay to reinvent the wheel if the 'wheel' happens to be central to your business/service. I think. Nice Feynman quote in there, though.
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I like Perl hackers. They do stuff... cool stuff... even lispy stuff... but they remain practical and relatively humble. The TMTOWTDI philosophy seems to have hardwired a certain degree of open mindedness in them-- they just don't appear t
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by learninglisp 18y ago
In some domains, big failures are better than small failures: you learn more.
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by learninglisp 18y ago
my gosh... that's where my best project is... a total skunkworks that achieved viral adoption in my side of the company...
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I want to read a zomplet run of Zot! Shoot... the entire run of Comico books would be great. (I miss the black and white independent comics fad of the 80's. Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters? Anybody?)
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by learninglisp 18y ago
There's a certain type of female that is completely addicted to the sort of raw intimacy and lavish attention that this type of person will deliver during the early stages of the relationship. They will overlook all kinds of problem signal
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Let me expand out that opening line for you. The post explores a perspective for the express purpose of generating and connecting ideas and experiences. Other established interpretations are possible, but we will temporily set them aside s
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by learninglisp 18y ago
It seemed like such a promising train of thought before it finally tanked. Argh. There's a thesis in here somewhere....
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Later. I'm working on a set of strategies that will allow me to be clear about my needs and limitations with people so I can be more productive to the people that matter to me and/or pay me money.
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Hey, it's the holistic answer to the "how to". What, should I have broken it down into 12 steps? To sum it up: let him solve problems his own way. Let him develop tools/abstractions that help him hide the sort of details and menial tasks
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Another one for the "you are sick" perspective? Looks like two types of stereotypical psych people: the "just be yourself"/"embrace your inner dolphin" crowd and the "wanna prosac?" types. I'm suspicious of all of you-- especially given the
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Trying to assimilate all of the data... trying not to jump to premature conclusions.... Trying to be clear without being overly romantic or pessimistic.... I want a Jean Piaget to work out the experiments and pin down this further....
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by learninglisp 18y ago
The first post on the topic was mostly negative-- with good reason. If us slacker/failure/mad-genius types want to hold on to the fiction that there's a place for us somewhere, then please back off and let us fool ourselves about it for a w
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Yes. This personality type is prone to making sweeping generalizations. I'll put that down as another generalization about him.
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by learninglisp 18y ago
This is a very specific personality type that's just rare enough that all of them think they're the only ones. But given the number of "my god, you must be stalking me" responses... there may be enough of these guys out there that this mer
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by learninglisp 18y ago
What is needed is someone to give permission to ignore all the other details and just get one item done. The INTP is a commando problem solver killer... he just needs someone to "cover" for him so he can go in and tackle an objective.
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by learninglisp 18y ago
The irony is that it is easy for this sort of person to live only for the day, to not be materialistic, etc. All of the things that are in the Sermon on the Mount, but not practiced by the church at large. This sort of person truly has mea
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Heh heh. A collaborator would be better. Someone that could be excited about the right things and maybe steer a little via encouragement and reason. A truly anal micro-manager will simply humiliate the INTP. The creative urge is a force
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by learninglisp 18y ago
This post may give you some additional insights into that weird guy you're depending on to help you change the world with your crazy start-up company idea.
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INTP Programmer Traits Follow Up: Watch Out For This Type(lispy.wordpress.com)
1 points by learninglisp 18y ago|1 comments
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I'd read that a long time ago before writing the post. It's even more scary now that I have some more "data points" in focus and on the table....
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by learninglisp 18y ago
But they're not technically programmers. I'm talking about applications that require extensive customizations to be useful. There's a lot of cases where people are having to trick people with the business knowledge into doing the config
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Yeah... but in my company, there are many cases where job positions have spontaneously materialized that are essentially programming positions, but that we have "con" someone into doing it even though it really is programming. The users ar
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I don't understand this. There are about 5 to 10 entry level to intermediate level Perl idioms that are just plain useful. (file handles, sed and grep commands, basic regular expressions, etc.) that can do most of what you need to do with

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