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by zedshaw 15y ago
Prediction: There will be a backdoor.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I am not sure, but I'll ask some Ruby folks who might know and then update the book to point people in the right direction.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Fixed. I had to move it to ruby.lcthw.org to keep the various languages straight, but I didn't update the jekyll _config.yml.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
The main thing is, help improve the ruby code with the least number of changes. I'll have a guide written up today for folks who want to help.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Zed here, this one is different because Rob asked permission and then did a great job actually completing the translation. It's not totally idiomatic Ruby, but it should be a good start for people.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yes, exactly. Rob asked permission, and did a good job doing the translation. My problem with the other attempt was it was half-assed, done without permission, and then left to rot so I had to field frustrated students asking me when it'd
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Funny, I didn't use open source at all in that post. I said, they don't show it to anyone and I meant even other employees at the bank . Some of those dudes guarded their secret sauce like crazy, even when I was asked to help them improv
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by zedshaw 15y ago
This is a huge load of bullshit. 99% of the "banking programmers" are some of the worst coders in the world. A vast majority of them just babysit a Bloomberg terminal, barely understanding the supposed math they use all day. Others just
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Bullshit. If it was used to improve a product, they wouldn't use a tracking method that tracks me between sites. They can track what I do on their site, but if I'm going from goat-sucking-maggot.com to hulu.com, then Hulu has no business
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I did this years ago, in a project called Claro, and then again in http://ihate.rubyforge.org/profligacy/lel.html and pretty much every GUI framework I've done. I got the idea from Wiki syntax and the Cassowary constraint solver as well
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I tell people to learn both, and I fucking hate Ruby. It's the way of the industry right now that if you want to easily get a job, you know Ruby and Python. I also think Ruby is slowly going away and Python is taking its place, but we cou
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by zedshaw 15y ago
It's for the better. WSGI is a piece of crap. Try getting a decent stack trace out of it's weird "we hate callbacks so we did nested function calls instead of lists" design.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
No, I don't freelance, I actually work as an employee at companies. I absolutely hate freelancing.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
They do, and people who think I'm just a dick, rather than see the truth (which is that I'm a dick to people who treat me and other people like dicks), aren't the kinds of people I want to work with.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I don't use the same language and platform at home that I do at work. That's how you stay sane. That and I play a lot of guitar which is way more fun and makes me happy.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yes, government loans. I wouldn't have been able to go to school if it weren't for the government loans I could get. I was poor, and school was damn expensive no matter where I went. Without the government handing me dirt cheap loans and
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I'll add one more thing. People ask me about getting work now that I'm "famous", and I usually just tell them this: Before I was famous I'd have to scrounge around for shitty jobs. Now they just come to me. Truth is, I still interview, I s
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I try really hard to get things done at work, sometimes that means doing shit work so someone else can have a good time coding something interesting. That's all there is to it. That doesn't mean I don't try to do the shit work in an effic
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You type the code in so that you get practice at typing the code in since in order to write code you have to type code in...a lot of it. If you don't then you're only learning 1/2 of writing code. Another reason is because anyone who's goo
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I put tau in there, get it right.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Hmmmm, I wonder if you could do that in a similar way...
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Nope, this book isn't for total beginners. I mean, it might work, but I'm actually telling the total newbs to go read http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ first. My thought is teaching "computational thinking" is easier with a language lik
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I personally have no idea why this stuff hits this site that often. Take this for instance: It is a half-finished manuscript that I announced in a tweet to people who follow me on twitter and asked for it. Already at the top of this set
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I'm glad you got so much about how my book is written from a few paragraphs in an unfinished manuscript for it.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh, there's a lot more tools on the way. C is one language that you could spend whole books on just the tools.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh I'm totally using that.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
code/ex3.c:6: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘double’ You should probably read this book. :-)
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Oh right, I forgot they added that to the C6.283185307179586 standard.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
If you really are that proficient, you should be able to figure out what you can skip.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yes, actually people are deathly afraid of C thanks to other language inventor's excellent marketing against it. There's a few things that you need to really nail to be good at C, and they're difficult things, but it's not "dangerous" like

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