tristanstraub

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by tristanstraub 15y ago
Can't really offer any qualified advice, except listen to yourself. My unqualified advice would be to try and slow down somehow before you burn out. One thing I can definately say is, make sure that family life is working. If that falls a
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
I think the way he said it wasn't directed at anyone in particular. It was just an observation that one week vacation isn't enough. I think he might have been suggesting that the guy should holiday for longer... I've plodded through a miser
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
> 229A is close to worthless I'd hardly call it worthless myself. It lacks a deeper analysis of all the methods that are used, but using them can sometimes be a greater challenge. I did the AI course and the ML course and find it a grea
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Tl;dr
3 points by tristanstraub 15y ago|1 comments
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
doing these courses next to full time work is tough, but its just so tempting.
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
I heard him talk last week in Zurich, and got a chance to ask him about those of us that work on what he termed as "custom software" for our clients, and whether this non-free software is bad. He was of the opinion that it does not involve
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
dont forget to count the fallen..
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
I'm no expert, but I gave my 4 year old nephew a set of GeoMag, and he was copying stuff from the manual (he can't read yet, but I can see the pictures), and doing a reasonably good job of it. I was programming at 9, and using animation too
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
I'm sure the answer is 'neither'. After hearing the "cvs/ugly and stupid" comments from torvalds (sorry dude, but those comments paint a picture), and that hollywood is a world of its own, the only way to win is not to play.
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
I would go for a check box to turn the auto update on or off. I love this feature. Along with the selectors on the left and all the nice sliders, you can try out a lot of stuff really quickly.
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by tristanstraub 15y ago
If you want to be a programmer and write code for other people, then yes, cleaner code is easier to hand over. But, when I first started coding, I wrote it for myself and because it was fun! Why was it fun? Because the code made things ha