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by zedshaw 12y ago
Two links, 1, a small tiny component can be the equivalent of a spinning piece of unsafe steel: http://heartbleed.com/ And a small component is all it takes to make a vehicle unsafe: http://www.gmignitionupdate.c
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Thank you for proving my point. It is right as long as the tower of babel it's used in never collapses. The problem is, as with every book with code ever in the universe, beginners will copy that code out and use it somewhere else
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by zedshaw 12y ago
These actually took me most of 2013 and 2014 to get through: How To See Color And Paint It - http://www.amazon.com/How-Color-Paint-Arthur-Stern/dp/082302... Taught me how to paint what I see accurately. Secret Kno
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by zedshaw 12y ago
It's odd that people read my comment and assume I'm binary about IDEs. I'm a pragmatist, and I say use the tool that works. I tell people they shouldn't be dependent on IDEs to write software because that gives them c
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I just use vim for all of those.
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I totally agree, but I tell people who use one at work to not use one at home. It's about being able to adapt to changing market conditions too. If you become dependent on IDEs then when new languages come out you have to wait for so
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by zedshaw 12y ago
In a language like C# I agree with you. You have to use an IDE to get anything useful done. Same with a lot of iOS development, and Java. But, tools have a major impact on people's ability to work. If you aren't used to using
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by zedshaw 12y ago
A confused illogical comment criticizing me charging for something I made (that's free BTW) from a guy on a website run by a company that makes money making companies that charge for things (usually). Okay!
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Actually, that article is full of errors regarding painting, art history, and a lot of his criticisms of PG's take on art history are just plain wrong. Which is typical of painters. Many don't even know the chemical makeup of the
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Actually, I play guitar, and read sheet music, and this analogy is less about programming and more about an aspect of learning a subject. If you take the easy tool based route, then you're dependent on the tool you use. If you take t
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Protip: If 100% of your argument is just posturing with no evidence then it's not a good argument.
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Just a quick note, even though it's been mentioned already: I let people and even encourage them to copy my method and use a similar title to me own Learn X The Hard Way. That is all.
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I always cover my ass and being as I don't want to get sued I make sure to get reports of stories from multiple sources and research things heavily before I move.
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I wanted to thank you for one of the best comments on HN I've ever read. Having studied music "theory" for years your comment was actually the first words that described what I thought about this topic, and that book recom
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Yeah that is kind of funny, but if he finishes it then I can update that intro to point people at his book instead.
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I really hope Colin finishes this as I've always thought Lisp would be a better beginner language if there was a book like mine for it. You've either got "The Little Schemer" series, which is annoyingly written for litt
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by zedshaw 12y ago
It's not affiliated with me other than using my starter kit and the title style. I do support books like this as I think there needs to be more "trainer" style books, especially for beginners, because they work.
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by zedshaw 12y ago
A few other people mentioned this but I'll say it officially since the internet has a short memory for good things: 1. You can't really trademark titles of books, and I wouldn't want to in this case because there needs to be
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I think this is the biggest thing beginners try to avoid. Especially if they're ambitious and want to be capable now. I'm currently at the theory of becoming capable is a mixture of study, practice, and hacks. You study the thin
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by zedshaw 12y ago
"What you actually just did was entered a group conversation to tell almost everybody there that they are bad programmers before doing a humility display for everybody to see." No, I was talking to the person who asked the questio
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Like everyone else here? I hate to burst your bubble but the vast majority of the programmers here are not nearly even close to as good as you think they are. Mostly they're good at talking like they are and memorizing obscure facts
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by zedshaw 12y ago
If you read my posting, I said that it's not cheating unless you claim you don't use technology. As someone who teaches and researches teaching, I find it it incredibly disingenuous to teach people that painting is some mystical
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by zedshaw 12y ago
Well, artists are fond of saying "there's no rules in art", that is until you violate all the ones they've set down as acceptable art. So, if three's no rules, then there's no way to really cheat. Do whatever y
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by zedshaw 12y ago
I had been waiting to see this movie forever and finally did right when it came out, and I can tell you it is awesome. It's a fantastic example of science and technology being used to solve a problem that just happens to be art. It&#
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by zedshaw 13y ago
It's pretty simple. It's illegal for corporations to get together and decide the price of things. This destroys the free market's ability to choose the best product at the best price since all the products, despite their qu
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by zedshaw 13y ago
I'm sorry but every time I hear someone go "[a]gile is SOOOO diferent from [A]gile" I also hear that same person pushing the same agendas and doing following the same practices based on zero evidence for their efficacy. This
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by zedshaw 13y ago
I get asked to work for companies all the time, even asked to be CEO of a few. But I usually turn them down because I'm working on my ambitious and personal works at the moment, or I'm not actually qualified for the job. What I d
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by zedshaw 13y ago
No, this isn't really the case. What I see, as the guy who wrote the book that tells people that learning to code is hard but possible , what people are realizing is that programming is hard, but possible. Programmers are simply co
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by zedshaw 13y ago
Actually, I am against prohibition too, and against most drug laws, and definitely against applying them disproportionately. I'm an advocate for drug abuse being treated as a medical condition, for the sale of hard drugs only by pre
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by zedshaw 13y ago
First off, only my mother gets to tell me to "watch my tone". Random jackoffs online can go fuck themselves if they think they've earned my respect by default, especially if those same jackoffs use political rhetoric to harm

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