tdavis

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1201.
by tdavis 18y ago
I recently reached the end of my 10-year plan and let me tell you, it's more like "teach yourself programming in a lifetime" because if there's anything I've learned it's that there's always more to learn. And if you don't have any "problem
1202.
by tdavis 18y ago
For me, it's always been a matter of the work "pulling" me along. I don't achieve laser focus & concentration; rather, at a certain point, the work becomes so engrossing that focus just naturally happens. If I think about it, I've lost
1203.
by tdavis 18y ago
"Bad" is subjective. I drink caffeine to stay awake or to wake up; getting my work done is not "bad" for me. I drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes because smoking is relaxing and helps me concentrate and drinking... I won't get into that her
1204.
by tdavis 18y ago
I've done this not on drugs and the state of living death still comes on eventually during the long (20+ K) marches. Man was not meant to march dozens of miles with 80+ lbs on his back. Lean forward... that always helps me ;)
1205.
by tdavis 18y ago
Learning Django is not at all synonymous with learning Python and certainly not at all synonymous with learning SQL. The entire point of a framework is to abstract out things such as SQL via the use of an ORM. While learning Django you do i
1206.
by tdavis 18y ago
Right. I guess the real step one is to find out if you even enjoy programming. You're correct that it's much easier to determine this realistically if you start by playing with one of the higher-level languages you will eventually end up
1207.
by tdavis 18y ago
Many lesser mobile browsers still have limited/no Javascript support. I know quite a few people who disable both JS and Flash because they don't want crazy crap flying around the screen and so forth. Some people are security nuts as well. I
1208.
by tdavis 18y ago
Saying you want to learn how to hack is incredibly ambiguous and in the strictest sense of the word pretty difficult to achieve. A "hack" is essentially a clever solution to a programming problem or a solution to a problem that's outside th
1209.
by tdavis 18y ago
One ugly thing rarely mentioned about this "rise of contextual user interfaces" is the decline of providing alternatives for non-javascript users. Try disabling JS and clicking the contextual menu arrow at the book site mention in the artic
1210.
by tdavis 18y ago
However cool this development is, and it is pretty darn neat, there's going to have to be a lot of optimization done before it's viable for... well, anything. One of the demos I played with managed to peg my 8 CPU cores to 100% while it t
1211.
by tdavis 18y ago
I correctly guessed at the use of Erlang for the web servers; persistent connections and pushing is a must and Apache is hardly designed for so many persistent processes. Thrift was also a pretty easy call considering it's a FB project; I s
1212.
by tdavis 18y ago
I wonder what the folks over at Sitepoint think about this, having just recently put up a complete CSS reference and working on one for HTML.
1213.
by tdavis 18y ago
I completely agree, however subjective the determination of what one should get for their dollar is. Having had a DH account for numerous years which I now use for nothing important whatsoever, I can tell you... you don't get much for your
1214.
by tdavis 18y ago
"How could I, a non-hacker, possibly play an equal contributory role has my hacker cofounder?" As the hacker co-founder in a shop of two people, let me tell you, you can play an equal role. Okay, so my partner doesn't setup the servers or
1215.
by tdavis 18y ago
Does the script have the ability to remove all my typos and those sets of commands I run 50 times in a row trying to debug some stupid mistake?
1216.
by tdavis 18y ago
After living in suburbia for 23 years (and finally getting out this month, thank "God") I can attest to most of this. One thing PG doesn't mention is that some people flat never grow out of the idyllic view of the world that this segregated
1217.
by tdavis 18y ago
Mostly because for monolithic companies process and procedure are more important than culture for keeping the wheels greased. In the same vein, you'd have to be pretty naive to think that culture at places like Google, Apple and Microsoft (
1218.
by tdavis 18y ago
Personally, I love finding solutions to problems that are new to me. I will work for 20 hours straight on a coding problem, but once I actually solve the problem I lose all interest. If, in the course of finding the solution, I didn't fully
1219.
by tdavis 18y ago
I am having an impossible time coming up with a unbiased and substantiated opinion on this issue. On the one hand, we know nothing about Twitter's architecture other than they're (to some extent) using a language that has a notoriously unde
1220.
by tdavis 18y ago
Right, I recognize that and agree that the top of the top is still phone calls, but as far as the web as a communication medium goes, e-mail is still the most used and most important. Plus I couldn't immediately think of a non-intrusive way
1221.
by tdavis 18y ago
It's common for one very simple reason: Programatically, it is much easier to demand user input in a single form than to code for different cases. In this specific case I don't understand it so much because it's exceedingly simple to write
1222.
by tdavis 18y ago
"I use Facebook, but only as a means to keep in contact with people whom I wouldn't keep in my phonebook. It serves as a nice mediator." I think this is a sentiment of many people either actively or passively; most people have far more "fri
1223.
by tdavis 18y ago
Since they are so similar, I think it helps to answer a few simple questions: 1. Do you need something that one has that the other doesn't? 2. Who's your target audience? Are they going to be writing a lot of markup? If so, considering the
1224.
by tdavis 18y ago
I have to agree here... a meter is a meter is a meter -- regardless of how long a rope it's being added to. The relative difference between the ropes is still only one meter when taking into account the scaled proportions. I hope the other
1225.
by tdavis 18y ago
Talk about poor margins!