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by zedshaw 15y ago
> It very much reminds me of when I was in grade 10 and we were doing simple stuff in QBasic. That's pretty much the feel I was going for when I wrote it.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yep, I'm going at it from another direction where I teach the symbols like a language, and then it makes it easier to explain how they work later. I agree that state machines are a great way to understand them, but I don't think they're pr
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Nope, you can install awesome on ubuntu and then switch to using it. Best setup is to make a .xsession file and fire up the various gnome services you need. Then have GDM boot up a "User Defined" session (or whatever it's called, I forget
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Reaper is one bad ass piece of software. I would kill to work for those guys, 'cause damn they could use a new manual or two. I really think a great manual with a video course would turn Reaper into a powerhouse in the market. Anyway, I
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I solved my GAS by replacing the A with C: Gear Construction Syndrome. Now I make myself build it if I want it and I can.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Shiiiit, that's because the music gear is both more fun, has more style, and will actually exist and work well in 20 years. The computers will be gone in like 3 years, so why bother talking about them? But, to answer your question, I use n
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh, I don't have all old hardware. I have some pretty bad ass gear for power, I just don't go running out to buy the latest crap whenever it shows up. Instead, I find I need to accomplish something, realize my current gear sucks for it,
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I have a mix of ages in hardware, so it's not all old. The linux laptops I have sit on a desk more often, so those have 17" screens and I pair them with a 21" monitor. So, I do use big monitors. But, that's not the point. I can also code
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Well I have an awesome bed, so I agree with the article there. I use a piano bench for my chair though. Keeps me from sitting there too long. I have a lot of computers since I use them actively for different tasks, so I do agree as a p
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by zedshaw 15y ago
That's pretty much the point. I'm more about the results I get with the tech than what brand or style the tech is in. Since my software is used by people, I have to try to use what they have but maybe a bit better so I don't waste time. O
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I need to update that some, but yep that's my setup.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I'm sorry, but he's a fucking moron and an asshole. Even if he'd never learned to code he'd still be screwing up your day. You're confounding his personality with the fact that he learned some programming.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yeah! He really shouldn't learn to think more logically, or understand what his employees are going though, or even just enhance his personal growth by learning a new skill. He should be all about the ideas and stay out of programming so t
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yeah, that one was fun to write. I still have to go back and clean up some stuff, but feel free to tell me more love/hate chapters.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Actually, this is getting pretty funny. Don't bring your logic and reason to this and ruin for those of us who just bought a bag of popcorn.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
> You've got to filter the noise out. Don't submit every article about something to HN. Don't tell your friends "hey, read this article about a guy memoizing fib, completely missing the point that it was an example CPU-bound algorithm".
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You questioned PG and LISP in one comment then advocated another language with a lesser Nerd Lore Composite Score. About the only thing you could have done worse is to admit you wrote a child porn site in both and found LISP's parentheses
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by zedshaw 15y ago
The force is strong with this one. I'd love to debate random topics with you. Assuming you've actually read everything you claim, I think you'd be a refreshing change from the vast majority of people who simply regurgitate whatever their h
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by zedshaw 15y ago
This looks pretty interesting. I actually would be more interested in using it for curriculum design, not really for real-time classes. I think I'd get a group of students and a BETA version of one of my books, teach a class with it, then
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I wrote this http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ and http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/ and am now working on this http://c.learncodethehardway.org/ so I'll give you advice that fits with what I've been doing to teach people: 1.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I looked at the --> documentation <-- and when you have a single page of "yo download, it's awesome" and then a page like this: http://www.kendoui.com/documentation/javascript-dependencies... And other pages that are just enumerat
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by zedshaw 15y ago
If you take away how this looks, and start digging into the project from a beginner's perspective, this project is awful. I find this with most of the supposed "UI frameworks" out there for HTML. With a few exceptions, they mostly lack: 1
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by zedshaw 15y ago
No, that license allows remixing and adapting the work. That would let people butcher the book and leave broken copies that frustrate students.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
tl;dr If you fork and don't pull-request then that's the violation. That's the point. If you fork and don't do a pull request so I can pull it back, then you're leaving an altered copy out there. Can't do that. If however you do a pull r
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh, the great Bruce Schneier says so, so therefore it must be. How do you know he's not a shill for Microsoft and the NSA? Hmm? The great thing about backdoors is, when they get discovered they have perfect plausible deniability. "Oh that
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oop sorry, I replied wrong. Your answer is above.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY That's just from a quick google. Back in the day there were stories of "A Visit from Mr. Brown" or something like that. The NSA or "some agency" would go around to anyone making crypto or operating sy
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by zedshaw 15y ago
A joke?! A JOKE?! You jest good sir. I merely put on my tinfoil hat and thought, "Hmmm, didn't this happen to OpenBSD, Windows, every crypto system ever, numerous databases, and probably SELinux?" Then extrapolated out to a very valid poin
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by zedshaw 15y ago
That's why they should stop doing that. We aren't the smartest country on the planet anymore.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Damn, you'd think with 200k lines of awesome Java that needs to be documented with a manual that's hundreds of pages long that uses 3 other massive Java projects and released by a government agency that's done backdoors in everything from c

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