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Ported iOS Game 30% Faster on Blackberry Playbook(kalogirou.net)
13 points by wmat 14y ago|7 comments
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by wmat 14y ago
Sir Ken Robinson FTW!
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by wmat 14y ago
"Mindset" by Carol Dweck is one of the greatest books I've ever read. Sadly though, I didn't discover it until the age of 41. Of equal value is "the War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. In my opinion, these are the only two "self help" styled
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by wmat 14y ago
I'm particularly fond of the "solder" item.
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A Faculty Address(blog.prof.so)
1 points by wmat 14y ago|1 comments
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by wmat 14y ago
When I click through, the Kindle Edition costs $31.30.
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by wmat 14y ago
"building beautiful, meaningful things. Things that people want." Just because people want what you've built does not necessarily make it meaningful. Meaning is a very subjective, personal thing, based on your core values. What person x f
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On Feeding Your CPU With Data(lemire.me)
2 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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Software Engineering Distilled to 20 Tweets(blog.prof.so)
1 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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by wmat 14y ago
At first glance, I thought this had something to do with the TRS-80 CoCo. What a let down!
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by wmat 14y ago
Read this before, and it's great. I wonder if it's likely due an update at all?
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by wmat 14y ago
What's next, #geekdate on Freenode?
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by wmat 14y ago
That's definitely another angle I hadn't really considered. So would current vendor clients then purchase support packages from you? Or would you encourage their conversion to your new system?
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by wmat 14y ago
I was trying to keep ageism out of the discussion. I'd argue that moving to the latest and greatest must serve a real business purpose. That purpose could be to leverage modern languages to build a more extensible, flexible, and maintaina
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by wmat 14y ago
I've read that book as well, and highly recommend it. It's excellent.
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by wmat 14y ago
That's an excellent point! And one I forgot to make. It's a pretty sweet scam if you're a vendor. I've been in situations where critical system changes to support new products were being described in Business Requirement documents, sent t
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by wmat 14y ago
Absolutely. Ironically, the last time I encountered the MUMPS language, I was also dealing with a whack of COBOL systems.
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by wmat 14y ago
Yep, definitely agree with those 3 additions. I've thought long and hard before about how to supplant a current legacy system that's taken root like an old oak tree in a financial services company. I honestly don't know how. For example, a
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by wmat 14y ago
I used to work in the insurance systems industry. There are many, many expensive problems that have to be solved before legacy systems can be replaced. In no particular order: * The Myth of Uniqueness: Each and every company doing busine
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Killing a Stackless Bug(blog.ccpgames.com)
1 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Paul Mundt(linux.com)
1 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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by wmat 14y ago
Another great resource for OS development information is OSRC: The Operating Systems Resource Center hosted by Chris Lattner (of LLVM fame): http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles
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by wmat 14y ago
Two books I've found quite useful are: The Elements of F*cking Style: a helpful parody. http://www.amazon.ca/Elements-cking-Style-Helpful-Parody/dp/... The Yahoo Style Guide http://www.amazon.ca/Yahoo-Style-Guide-Ultimate-Sourcebook/d...
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Ask HN: What's with all the Vim posts lately?
10 points by wmat 14y ago|11 comments
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Become a Google Power Searcher(googleresearch.blogspot.ca)
4 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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“Girls can’t program in their heads”: gender & games in the computing classroom(cacm.acm.org)
3 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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America’s Wildfires Can Be Seen From Space(updatednews.ca)
1 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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Scientists to hold back time - for a second(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by wmat 14y ago|0 comments
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by wmat 14y ago
I am an English major who's over 40 with a love of programming and writing. I've only recently realized that these two passions are not mutually exclusive. Given the latter, I suppose I'm a bit of a slow learner. But on the upside, since
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Why C and not C++?(dadhacker.com)
7 points by wmat 15y ago|0 comments

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