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by reuven 12y ago
I agree; I have found that people are super-impressed with Python. Specifically, my experience -- teaching Python to dozens of experienced developers every month, for more than four years -- is that people from the C, C++, C#, and Java worl
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by reuven 12y ago
Hey, just noticed this thread! There is a lot to say, and I"m not sure where to begin. But I was (as I wrote in my original story) one of the editors of the MIT student newspaper. We had a lot of fun, and some great computers. And e
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The real questions to ask offshore developers(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 12y ago
I got e-mail from eBay yesterday (Tuesday), saying that there had been suspicious activity on my account, and that the account was locked, until I changed the password. I haven't bought anything on eBay in a few years. The message sa
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by reuven 12y ago
OP here. My zsh configuration, done through oh-my-zsh, contains the following line: zle_highlight=(region:standout special:standout suffix:bold isearch:bold,underline,fg=yellow,bg=red) As you can see, one of the items here is "isearch
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by reuven 12y ago
OP here: Yeah, I'm rather surprised and frustrated that my server went down due to this traffic. It has handled much more than this in the past without an issue. I'm looking into the problem, and hope to have a solution very soo
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by reuven 12y ago
OP here: I've been using Unix as my primary desktop, and Emacs as my primary editor, since 1988. I've known about these keybindings for a heckuva long time. But I keep encountering people who don't, and who are delighted to
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Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Implementing “filter” with “reduce”, in Ruby and Python(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Implementing “map” with “reduce”, in Ruby and Python(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 12y ago
FYI, the people who were taking my intro Python class each had 10-20 years of professional experience as a C, C++, or Java developer. So we're not talking about people who are new to software, or to software engineering. I've bee
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If you build it, they will come – but they might hate you(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Good intentions, unexpected results: Mailing lists and DMARC(blog.lerner.co.il)
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The NetLogo team at Northwestern University (near Chicago) is hiring a full-time developer. This might interest you if you want to: - work with researchers at a university - make things for kids, teachers, and scientists - write Scala an
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by reuven 13y ago
The story is that a friend of mine at MIT came back to the student newspaper and said, "I just went to a lecture given by this guy Tim Berners-Lee, describing this thing he's calling the World-Wide Web. We should get on this!&quo
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by reuven 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - based in Israel (and Chicago through mid-June), but work remotely I've been a full-stack Web developer since 1993, and a consultant since 1995. I have extensive experience with Ruby (and Rails), Python, PostgreSQL, Java
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by reuven 13y ago
I've been learning some Mandarin on my own (via ChinesePod podcasts, mostly), and tried it out on two trips to Beijing. A friend recommended that I try spoken Mandarin, and that I ignore reading and writing almost completely, since th
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by reuven 13y ago
As is often the case, the problem here could have been avoided if there had been clearer and more open communication. All this guy had to do was go to his employer and say, "Listen, you should know that I'm working on an open-sour
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by reuven 13y ago
I spend about half of my time teaching programming classes, and I love it when my students ask me about something, and I have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what they're talking about. If I can do some quick research, and answer them on the spot,
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by reuven 13y ago
I think that it's a shame that Eich had to resign. And I say this as someone who is very happy to see the winds changing in the US (and elsewhere), and who thinks that it's a good thing that gay marriage is becoming the norm and
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Teaching and acting (or, why I don't sell recorded programming classes)(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Teaching and acting (or, why I won't sell recorded classes)(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Teaching and Acting(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Brian Greene launching "World Science U," with free online physics lectures(welcome.worldscienceu.com)
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Groupon thinks Alexander Hamilton was president(marketwatch.com)
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by reuven 13y ago
I found it quite appropriate that the referenced CBC article referred to it as a moon "buggy." More seriously, I'm excited to see more countries, and more people in general, involved in space exploration. I also think that in
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by reuven 13y ago
Maybe a sales company needs a lot of salespeople... but what are these people selling? Advertising? I've been using Twitter more and more over the last year, and I am hard-pressed to remember any ads that I saw. Who is advertising on
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by reuven 13y ago
Last week, I was giving a lecture on HTML5, starting with the origins of the Web, HTML, and the "browser wars." I indicated that the browser wars were an attempt by two companies (Netscape and Microsoft) to add tags without check
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= and = aren't equal(blog.lerner.co.il)
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It's true that certain languages are particularly hot, and thus particularly in demand. The three that come to mind right away are Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, for which there seems to be unquenchable demand, even if the absolute num

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