mlangdon

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by mlangdon 13y ago
Can't live with it, can't live without it. I hope that something better comes along.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
The questions were pretty radically different. The other question just happened to contain the answer to mine. So mine provides a valuable link for people asking the question I was asking while needing the answer to that other previously un
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by mlangdon 13y ago
The overall ethos of rigidity at stackoverflow has gotten out of control. On the one hand if I want to make a one character edit because some code snippet is broken in a non obvious way that will frustrate the next hundred people, I am told
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by mlangdon 13y ago
This guy is easily the worst. As a person who spent all his spare time the past few years to self-train his way to mere developer competency, I can genuinely say that I am continually blown away by Dewalt's accomplishments. Forget gend
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Somebody who's good at this sort of thing want to make a webgame out of this? It looks pretty amazing.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
An arbitrary number that makes crap products look artificially good. "3.5? How bad could it be?"
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Don't you think there's the tiniest chance that 3.X users will over-represent themselves in a nonrandom survey just as they do amongst the developers? This is laughable: "we asked people with a vested interest in seeming more
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Having presented at a meetup in your office, I can say you have some pretty nice digs as well.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
The bias of the police against leftwing issues is part and parcel of the power structure that makes life pretty sweet for mildly affluent white males. Look into the history of gun control. When the Black Panthers were talking about the seco
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by mlangdon 13y ago
This assumes a constant supply of programming work, which is simply laughable. We probably only ever need, e.g., so many lawyers as a proportion of the population, but the demand for programmers relative to supply is accelerating. Failing t
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by mlangdon 13y ago
"Any fool can sprout eloquent malarkey and think himself smart." Maybe don't misuse cliches while calling other people fools for doing what you are currently doing.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Just FYI, if you are making $10 per hour programming in the US please Google "salary entry level <your job> <your nearest metro area>" and tell your boss what you find out.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
The other standard downside of kivy is the mandatory giant app footprint. Hello World is going to set you back 25mb on Android.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
I can't sympathize with the "you're ruining youtube comments" argument as everybody knows youtube comments have been a vile racist backwater since its inception. I get "privacy concerns" but those are also hard
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Too long; didn't hello world.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
As long as we're taste testing paradigms, second on the totem pole has got to functional. Can you support why the OP should look at constraint programming, or do you just wish more people would?
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by mlangdon 13y ago
When the author wrote this article yesterday: http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/how-to-wri... Had he forgotten about co-writing this trenderrific, millenials-as-failed-commodity dreck las
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Node might make more sense in your case. It's almost too easy to throw something together in drupal. You never actually need to touch PHP or JS. From my (admittedly shallow) exposure to node, it seems to be a healthy mixture of minimal
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by mlangdon 13y ago
You might not be able to get the "all in one place" part, but there has never been a better time to become self-taught. If you haven't programmed at all yet, immerse yourself in some JavaScript till you can "walk",
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by mlangdon 13y ago
You are absolutely correct. You will need JS and JQuery on the front end. I was really only talking about the back end, though I was not clear about that.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
As a recent novice-to-employed developer myself, I would caution against jumping into the rails stack. This is not a knock on rails, however. Where I live (Michigan, US) there are plenty of web dev job openings at any given time. But about
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Complicated argumentation != incoherent. I was astonished by the level of subtlety here. I honestly couldn't tell where the author would fall politically for half the article, but I still wanted to read it. And I didn't feel cheat
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by mlangdon 13y ago
You say I'm being exploited; I say you have adopted a viewpoint designed to create maximum unhappiness in the reality I live in. Potato; potato.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
I have a tough time relating to the attitude toward being employed (as a programmer) that gets thrown around here. I know many employers are exploitative. But you don't have to work for an evil mega corp. I work for a company where I c
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by mlangdon 13y ago
I'm perpetually puzzled that people in tech keep seeing nefarious purposes behind this failure when it sounds like every failed project we've heard of. Moving targets (how many states, how many users), feature creep, managers with