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by lispylol 13y ago
Yeah I can already see the headlines. > "Model S catches fire due to direct impact from nuclear missile". Media goes apeshit and Musk responds by equipping Model S with anti-missile defense system.
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by lispylol 13y ago
> Honestly, I felt more ageism because I was young at the time (contrary to this article) than than I ever do now as a 40+. I was getting paid a relatively low salary and was expected to work insane hours. Interesting! Was it ageism or w
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by lispylol 13y ago
What was the job market like when you graduated from university? Do you think it's easier for you to get a job now than it is 10, 20 years ago? Just curious to hear your thoughts.
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by lispylol 13y ago
I think the point of teaching programming is quite clear. The debate is over the question of necessity. Of course it teaches a valuable way of thinking - so does any other science. What the author argues is that the benefits of adding a CS
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by lispylol 13y ago
> We have enough trouble raising English literacy rates, let alone increasing basic computer literacy: the ability to effectively use computers to, say, access programs or log onto the internet. Throwing coding literacy into the mix m
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by lispylol 13y ago
Now that's an awesome feature.
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by lispylol 13y ago
this is motherfucking funny
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by lispylol 13y ago
The worst is when, not only are you surrounded by private conversation, but forced to listen to godawful music blasting at full volume from the office stereo.
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by lispylol 13y ago
reminds me of this: open source report card http://osrc.dfm.io/
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by lispylol 13y ago
Many "dev bootcamps" have been cropping up in the U.S. I wonder if that is / will be a trend in Europe? also, hope you're doing well Morgante :) - fellow '13
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by lispylol 13y ago
I feel like this is definitely endemic to the software industry. It moves so quickly that the only ones who survive are the ones who care enough (passionate enough) to keep up. While I don't think I should have a say on how everyone sh
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by lispylol 13y ago
Yeah, I think photography is a good analogy for capturing (no pun intended) this trend. And maybe I'm just being overly sentimental, but I feel like because it's so easy to do things with our devices now without knowing how they w
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by lispylol 13y ago
I agree. I think we will continue to abstract our communication with machines until the act of having to type code into a computer is a task that is largely only performed by a small subset of society (programmers). But even when the day of
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by lispylol 13y ago
My comment wasn't purely speculative. That would be unfair. It contains the thoughts that I had after reading your sample. Here's one excerpt Kôdô Sawaki says: if you need to sleep, sleep. Don’t plan your software when you are tr
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by lispylol 13y ago
Did level 18. This is hacker news - people type for a living! Really like the animation and the sound effects. Would be awesome if there were more surprises, because the novelty (and difficulty) was reduced once I realized that there were a
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by lispylol 13y ago
Does anyone feel like a book by a non-zen expert that attempts to teach something as deep and ancient as zen through programming analogies actually does more harm than good? It teaches neither programming nor zen, and may contain a number o