learninglisp

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by learninglisp 18y ago
Blogging has its share of muckrakers and trolls, but for me I'd say that it has opened up a medium in which I can follow a single train of thought over the course of a year even though I might have limited time to focus during any given day
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by learninglisp 18y ago
An average programmer learns a variety of tools that lead him to a series of epiphanies. With his eyes open, he no longer can cope with the lame blubiness of his career, but he finds him self pigeonholed by his old job description. He does
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I second Perl. You can learn enough Perl in a week to write neato sed/grep/awk type programs and shell script tupe stuff to outfit your command line however you like. Also... it's a good investment because your tools will run on any platf
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by learninglisp 18y ago
For the poor coders that have spent their whole lives in front of dumbed down IDE's... yes this is news. (Show some of these guys a pipe command and they won't see the implications. A sed style global regex search and replace action will
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Man, and I was thinking I was one of the "good" programmers....
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by learninglisp 18y ago
Excactly right. It's your job as a developer to always have some just-for-fun apps going where you test out new tools and techniques. How else can you suggest anything useful when the next project starts? To do otherwise is to always stay
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by learninglisp 18y ago
I think it's worse to be stuck with responsibility for a codebase that you have no real authority over. You can't live in fear of that kind of stuff. Who's the fricking expert on software development? Not the managers. If you focus on me