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by zedshaw 14y ago
Uh no, it's about skills, and you learn a lot of them in 8 weeks which disproves that you can't learn any in 10. Unless you're in the Navy, then it's about keeping clean so you don't piss off everyone else on the ship. :-)
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Well, what you're seeing is a backlash from the way programming has been taught thus far. For whatever reason all computer science education is geared toward someone who's already had about 6 years of self-education. Typically that meant
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Uh, no, I was in the Army and I learned way more than not getting killed or court martialed. In fact, you saying that says either your military sucks at training or you're lying. It also doesn't answer my direct criticism of your comment. Y
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by zedshaw 14y ago
There's quite a few same-sex educational organizations around. I think you're confusing this with equal opportunity employment, which only applies to certain sized companies or ones that take Federal money.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
> 10 weeks is not enough time to learn any skill. What? So, all of the military training methods don't exist? Military bootcamps are 6-8 weeks and you learn a massive fuck-ton of skills. Hell, college courses are less than this in hour
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I'll leave that to someone more qualified than me, Geoffrey K. Pullum: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549... He "is head of linguistics and English language at the University of Edinburgh and co-author (with Rodn
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I think blogging publicly will get you over the fear of being judged, and doing it in your real name helps even more. But, that can be a tall order for some people. You don't have to publish everything you write. You could totally write 10
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by zedshaw 14y ago
The most important advice I forgot: Actually live a life full of experiences worth writing about.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Try this out: 1. Get the book "Adios Strunk And White". Strunk And White is a horrible book to learn how to actually write English well. It's full of contradictions, has some bad grammar in it, doesn't follow its own advice, and tries to ma
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by zedshaw 14y ago
What? You are massively uninformed about the music business. You are ignoring everything from copyright laws, mandatory licensing, agents, gross vs. net point compensation, musician's unions, the producer's role in it all, and seem to only
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by zedshaw 14y ago
You remember how I've been telling people they need to learn to code? If you can then you can look at their code and see that they actually don't have much there, and what they do have is kind of crap: https://code.google.com/p/course-bui
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I agree with this, but I'll throw out one other way to learn Python if you already know a programming language: 1. Blast through just about any book and type in all the code getting it all to run. DO NOT just read the book. Coders constant
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I think a major thing you're not admitting to is that most of these people and organizations were fucking people over, including me, and then using other's unwillingness to speak the truth to keep it all quiet. If more people outed these c
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Oh there's similar crap going on in the Python community, but none of it involves me directly so I ignore it. However, if I find out about similar backroom deals and cons I'm going to tell everyone about it. I cannot stand abusive communit
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Well to be honest, there's a lot of people with CS degrees that don't know the fundamentals of basic CS either. I know, it sounds crazy, but you'll frequently run into people who graduate from reasonably top notch schools and have never he
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Because I can write. Whether people love or hate what I say, I'm at least entertaining and informative at the same time. Even if my essays are full of hilarious bile I still make sure that there's a kernel of awesome information that's ve
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Stay classy? My friend, the H.S.S. HN Classy ship sailed away many years ago.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
>The concept of a jump is not one you want to ever teach, That is again another arbitrary social more invented by a rant written by Dijkstra. Learning that a computer processes code by using jumps is an important concept to learn, and
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Oh, no concern at all about the ruby style guide. I even point people at it in the book so they can start grasping and writing code with other people. My mention of the guide is not intended as a knock on the guide at all.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
You are right, and once again I am not against using functional programming, OOP, message passing, or any of the things I mention about .each. I'm against using .each as a first looping construct. In fact, go look at your supposedly be
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by zedshaw 14y ago
for-loops and .each had weird scoping rules until Ruby 1.9. In Ruby 1.9 for some weird reason they fixed .each but not for-loops. No idea why. So, if you're saying use .each for technical solution to a problem in Ruby, then your propose
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Not at all likely, and in fact if you believe this without first investigating its validity then you may be bit by bad performance. A very real scenario is that you use something blindly because everyone else does, thinking it performs wel
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by zedshaw 14y ago
I am the author of a notable amount of Ruby code. Also, for loops are syntactic sugar for .each in Ruby, so maybe you should go learn Ruby?
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Yes, you avoid idioms in writing if you want it to be clear. If you're going for style, as in fiction writing or for artistic purposes, then do whatever you want.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Well remember, I'm not against .each at all. I'm against it as a first looping construct for beginners. I even start people off in my book by sneaking in functional programming, again because it's easier to teach. They even write a game t
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Looking at your own linked definition I think you're wrong: 1 : of, relating to, or conforming to idiom 2 : peculiar to a particular group, individual, or style That again says it's a local construct that isn't a clear universal usage. If
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by zedshaw 14y ago
It's only a sign because the community adopted it as an arbitrary social norm. There's not really any technical reason to choose one over the other. In fact, don't take my word for it, here's Dave Thomas questioning the .each requirement:
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by zedshaw 14y ago
The book is actually done and being revised, so the fact that you didn't know that even though it's in the first sentence says a lot about your reading comprehension skills.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
K&R eventually did, even if they didn't at the very beginning. I also don't teach everything right away. But, if I'm going to teach the concept of looping, I'm going to teach the one that's easiest to grasp and fully know. That's a f
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by zedshaw 14y ago
It's an example of that particular social more and the canonical example of good vs. bad looping over an array. That's why I used it.

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