tgerhard

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by tgerhard 15y ago
What are you interested in? How in depth are you willing to study? I'm basically in the same boat and recently out of the blue developed a passion for math. I found there are plenty of free books available online. Right now I'm studying com
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by tgerhard 16y ago
F5 timestamp in Notepad.
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by tgerhard 16y ago
Not only that, but this plus Learn Python the Hard Way ( http://learnpythonthehardway.org/static/LearnPythonTheHardWa... ) makes it a lot of fun as well.
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New York Times review of StarCraft II(nytimes.com)
1 points by tgerhard 16y ago|0 comments
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by tgerhard 16y ago
This is why I am continually entranced by numbers.
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by tgerhard 16y ago
How refreshing!! As an editor, I must say that it warms my heart to know that someone out there actually proofreads his comments. Bravo! Also, thanks for the C Pitfalls link. It will prove quite useful in my current project. The original ar
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Why Microsoft's Internet Explorer Dominance is Ending(eweek.com)
4 points by tgerhard 16y ago|1 comments
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by tgerhard 16y ago
Agreed. Still, as the parent of a 15-yr-old boy, I have firsthand experience with teachers behaving incredibly cruelly and unprofessionally. In these instances, combined with the normal pressures of high school, it is no wonder that a stude
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by tgerhard 16y ago
I've just started showing my nine-year-old son how to do simple printing and math in Python (basically Chapters 2 and 3 in LPTHW), and he is pretty stoked about it. This will be a great addition. Not to overburden the discussion regarding t
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by tgerhard 16y ago
I live in the Central Florida/Space Coast area, and there is a palpable fear that soon all these aerospace jobs will be gone with nothing to fall back on in a crappy economy. This speech was meant to be encouraging to a broad constituency o
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Web Standards for E-books(alistapart.com)
6 points by tgerhard 16y ago|1 comments
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EU project developing autonomously-learning robots(hplusmagazine.com)
1 points by tgerhard 16y ago|0 comments
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Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again(nytimes.com)
95 points by tgerhard 16y ago|49 comments
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by tgerhard 16y ago
I'd have to echo the XHTML/CSS suggestion. Becoming proficient in just those two allow you to make robust, accessible sites, limited only by your creativity (and perhaps your client's requests). It might help also to study HTML5. After thes
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by tgerhard 17y ago
I am fortunate enough to have an employer and a manager who allow me to work from home. This used to be an infrequent option but became a necessity when I lost access to a car. (The office is a 45-minute drive away.) Even with having to get
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by tgerhard 17y ago
Simply based on the victims' experiences, this seems more in line with ergot poisoning than a mass LSD experiment. Acid trips are different for everyone, and the experience is heavily influenced by environment: physical, mental, and spiritu
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by tgerhard 17y ago
The benefits of barefoot running can be obtained without going totally shoeless. I haven't started running barefoot yet, but my beefy New Balance running shoes have been relegated to mucking about in the yard. I now run in a well-worn pair