naunga

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by naunga 12y ago
I wonder if he has a colleague in the English department who wrote an article complaining about the amount of "notebook bullshitery" that an English student has to go through to start writing an essay. Calling out the pains that s
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by naunga 13y ago
Here's my two cents: We should not be encouraging people to learn to program so much as we should be encouraging people to learn how to construct an algorithm. That's the first thing you need to learn. Kind of like learning how to
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by naunga 13y ago
As a developer who has struggled with depression, I really dig this. I've got a lot of years doing backend work, and I'd be more than happy to help pro bono. I personally would not get too hung up on the stack you use. Find someth
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by naunga 13y ago
I'm actually using this right now in concert w/ Coffitivity. It's like being a coffee shop during a storm. Really diggin' this.
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by naunga 13y ago
Unfortunately there isn't a standard computer science curriculum out there. So one school may focus on pure computer science (i.e. that actual science of computation) and another may be teaching students how to write C# programs. Softw
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by naunga 13y ago
This really should be titled: "Programming is not computer science."
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by naunga 13y ago
I found the apps to be puerile, offensive, and inappropriate. That said neither was sexist or misogynistic. It's not like they were called "How Dumb Was She?" or something. We've come around to the idea that anything cru
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by naunga 13y ago
Full disclosure I'm not a JavaScript programmer. I dink around with it. I can work with it. I understand it enough to maintain the code I need to at work, but I'm not a "JS Guy". At the heart of my programming heraldry i
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by naunga 13y ago
C++ was grown organically? I think Bjarne Stroustrup would disagree.
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by naunga 14y ago
You know if the kid really wanted some press for his app...he should have turned down Yahoo's and state that he values his company too much to allow them to be used as a PR stunt. ...and then the dump truck full of money pulled into his dri