mxyzptlk

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by mxyzptlk 2y ago
I came here to recommend Warcraft 3 also. It's how my son started on the path to coding. Being able to add to an existing platform gave his early efforts some polish that encouraged him to continue.
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by mxyzptlk 2y ago
In deer, it could be a case of chronic wasting disease
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by mxyzptlk 3y ago
Another atlast fan here. I used it as an extension language for SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) and wrote games for the GP2X handheld in a Forth-like language. Everything should be scriptable.
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by mxyzptlk 5y ago
We tried it with just PostgreSQL and struggled with missed jobs. We tried it with Redis + PostgreSQL and haven't looked back. I'll take the blame for not engineering the first version adequately (this was before upsert) but Redis
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by mxyzptlk 7y ago
Take a look at "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter. It's published by Dover, so very affordable. I've seen it criticized as too verbose, but that worked for me.
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by mxyzptlk 7y ago
Check out "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data" by Gilbert Strang. It includes a nice introduction to Linear Algebra, touches on relevant statistics and optimization, then puts them all together in chapters on neural networks. I
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by mxyzptlk 8y ago
My wife and I lived in Florida but drove home to Virginia every year for Christmas. Work schedules being what they were, we had to be back in Florida on January 1st or 2nd. We rang in quite a few New Years toasting Waffle House coffee somew
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by mxyzptlk 8y ago
AS someone that recently transitioned from engineer to engineering manager, I don't feel like I'm doing less. Quite the opposite. Is the work as worthwhile? It is mandated by the company. So no real engineering would happen withou
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by mxyzptlk 8y ago
Matz didn't change puts. It seems trivial, but I suspect making print a statement again would do a lot to speed up the Python3 adoption rate.
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by mxyzptlk 9y ago
I enjoyed sabremetrics 101 at edX. Some statistics, light coding (SQL and R), history and baseball.
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by mxyzptlk 10y ago
BFA in illustration. Started off designing web sites, then moved to programming to make them dynamic. It seemed like a natural step. Now I work with some pretty large data sets and have gone back to school part time to study math and machin
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by mxyzptlk 11y ago
A point in their favor.
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by mxyzptlk 11y ago
They seem to agree. From the article, "...after you've read something once, you've gotten what you're going to get out of it, and then you need to go out and start applying the information."
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by mxyzptlk 12y ago
And the box the refrigerator came in is the best toy of all.
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by mxyzptlk 14y ago
It makes sense to someone. Microsoft shared source initiative http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx In 2003 MS gave China access to their source http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2003/feb03/02-28gs...
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by mxyzptlk 15y ago
We're using both. Vertica is amazingly fast. Hadoop helps us analyze some very big data sets. I wouldn't want to lose either one.
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by mxyzptlk 16y ago
I tried, quickly got lost, and started learning calculus as a result. I still need to get back to SICM.
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by mxyzptlk 16y ago
If you like this type of stuff, check out the book "Lisp in Small Pieces".
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by mxyzptlk 16y ago
> After trying to quit several times I think that's an important point. Even if you don't quit this time, you have to keep trying. I tried to quit at least six or seven times before finally succeeding eight years ago. The last time, I u
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by mxyzptlk 16y ago
"Programming Perl" (the first edition) by Wall and Schwartz. Reading that book helped me land my first programming job.
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by mxyzptlk 16y ago
I stuck an old kitchen table on some cinder blocks back in May. It's great. http://marti.textdriven.com/desk.jpg (Other than being a happy customer, I'm not affiliated with Indoboard.)
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by mxyzptlk 17y ago
Thanks. I didn't know about that speech. Here's the whole thing... http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html
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by mxyzptlk 17y ago
The client that enables this behavior for 2.5 years is worse than the procrastinating contractor.
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by mxyzptlk 17y ago
Forth, because I'm to impose some creativity enhancing constraints on what I develop my free time.
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by mxyzptlk 18y ago
along with emacs lisp.
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by mxyzptlk 18y ago
You have to be careful when typing languages where "they are fucking you" and "you run out of arguments" are only one letter apart.
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by mxyzptlk 18y ago
Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People", then practice what you learn. It's even in the start up FAQ. http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html
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by mxyzptlk 19y ago
Girls like sex too.
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by mxyzptlk 19y ago
BRL is some kick ass code. Thanks.
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by mxyzptlk 19y ago
Since you already have a CS degree, take a look at SICP (it's free online). Also, recognize that Javascript is pretty Lispy, and use it to write some kick ass code at work.

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