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by tjr 19y ago
Mostly classical (especially Bach) and jazz (Dave Brubeck, Pat Metheny, Abraham Laboriel, Miles Davis, et al) Very rarely anything with lyrics, as it tends to disrupt my concentration.
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by tjr 19y ago
You might enjoy "Concrete Mathematics" by Don Knuth, et al. I opine that graph theory and probability are typically-useful branches of math for programmers to study.
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by tjr 19y ago
Will the source to news.yc also be released, as a non-trivial example program?
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by tjr 19y ago
Touche'; I should have grouped my sentences differently. C++ is not a small, easy-to-learn language.
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by tjr 19y ago
Yes, C is another good example. The language is fairly small, and it's not terribly difficult to learn the language itself and write your own programs. But to be able to look at an arbitrary piece of C code and understand all of the impli
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by tjr 19y ago
I've been anxiously awaiting to give Arc a try for five or six years now. I don't necessarily have a particular project in mind for it yet, but from what I've seen, I expect to like it, and will start using it for SOMETHING as soon as poss
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by tjr 19y ago
Very exciting. Should we arrange another Lightweight Languages day at MIT for this?
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by tjr 19y ago
I've done a variety of jobs, from classic intro-job retail to working in a computer tape library to scoring essays to teaching to, yes, actually, programming. :-) In my experience, programming is perhaps the hardest of the lot to do consis
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by tjr 19y ago
I've done a lot of work on avionics software. Reviews for avionics are commonplace. In fact, sometimes it feels like half of the work is the paper trail and making sure that everything meets FAA requirements. But, as annoying as it feels
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by tjr 19y ago
None, though I occasionally download individual recordings when the topic and/or speaker interests me.
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by tjr 19y ago
Always a favorite! There's also a video available: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8860158196198824415
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by tjr 19y ago
Hmmm. So he agreed to take part in deceiving the employment agency in order to get his first computer-industry job? Frankly, I don't have much respect for this.
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by tjr 19y ago
Sorry for the repost then, and thank you for the link!
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Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps?
4 points by tjr 19y ago|7 comments
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by tjr 19y ago
If anything else interests you, try developing a non-hacking hobby. I'm a big fan of Philip Greenspun's writing, and over time his love for photography seeped into my personality. I started buying camera equipment and found that I greatly
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by tjr 19y ago
Hmmmm... you can run GNU/Linux on a MacBook, no? Or is he bothered by a non-free BIOS, or some such thing?