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by zedshaw 14y ago
Well that brings up the flip side of the situation. Out of the types of roles you need to run a software business, what ones can you outsource? I can outsource my initial design to a site like themeforest, accounting to an accountant, mar
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by zedshaw 14y ago
What? Uh no there's plenty of businesses that are just one coder. There's no software businesses that are just one marketing guy.
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by zedshaw 14y ago
Take all the activities required to build some kind of software. Let's just say, a little website. And let's say you need marketing, sales, design, product management, and coding. Now, start removing everything and see if you can still bu
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by zedshaw 15y ago
> I mean, if you disagree with a potential employer's" values", it's career suicide to... It's not career suicide. People should talk about shitty places to work more often, and there's no way Zynga can keep another company from hiring
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by zedshaw 15y ago
So is your comment, please stop making them.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I came up with the title, started my book, then found the perl book. So this perl book isn't like my books at all and predates them by many years.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Hmm, very interesting. Looks like these translate alright, but are you running them through node.js?
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by zedshaw 15y ago
No, a suggestion would be: "You need to narrow your scope. I personally would be more interested in X and Y, but not Z, J, or N." What you did was give a vague criticism without offering a concrete solution in response. Those kinds of criti
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by zedshaw 15y ago
People email me sometimes or ask, sometimes I mention I'm looking for someone on twitter. It's not as often as I'd like since I don't have a stable meeting place and coffee shops sort of suck.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
One thing I do with my books is I actually meet up with beginners and watch them try to use it. It seems every time I do that I find something new I hadn't anticipated. Like recently I changed the first exercise of LPTHW to have screensho
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by zedshaw 15y ago
That was 20 years ago, things change in that amount of time. It was also a lot of propaganda and not a lot of evidence. But hey, it's not like programmers need to update their Internal Information Hashmap. Just put something in there once
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Yeah, that happens to me all the time. I'm in the habit of running hardware with a faulty PCI bus for very long periods of time so I don't really need anything more complex than Windows 95 since the kernel doesn't matter when you have a fau
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I disagree with the idea that a language changes how you think. I think a more accurate statement is: "A programming language teaches you to think like the language's creator(s)." If you look at it from that more anthropological lens, then
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Actually, learning all the cool new stuff that comes out is what I like the most about programming. I love taking apart new stuff, watching communities rise and fall, and dissecting the philosophies that come out of it all.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Let me know when you can tell the Architect that his building needs improvement or contact a designer about their devices. Oh, and without programming.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You say "troll", I say "honest".
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. This part of my book seems to get fairly polarize results or simple meandering talks about each person's own life and decisions so it most likely has nothing to do with your comment.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Let me know when you can tell a Fashion designer you hate their dress by writing on the back of some girl wearing it. Oh, and doing that without software.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You're right, the real way to be an asshole and have people love you for it is to say: "im too tough for the rest of the world, tha hell with them" Because being smart and confident is just uppity, but being tough and confident is baller yo
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by zedshaw 15y ago
1) No I could actually write the same thing with the same quality in most any language I know, baring a few esoteric ones like brainfuck. One language may take me longer than others, but the error rate would not be higher or lower usually.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Now that is interesting. I'm trying to imagine how you would apply machine learning to biology. Related to DNA sequences probably?
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by zedshaw 15y ago
> Please remove the sentence "They cannot." Nobody asked you.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
You can do quite a lot without knowing much official computer science theory. What CS theory does is teach you what's been done already and what's possible. That helps you avoid some classic pitfalls and keeps you from wasting time doing
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Right, but I think you are confusing causation with correlation. You say, "Nobody wants to learn the boring stuff and they just want to make games." But, they will learn the boring stuff if you teach it right. The concepts aren't what'
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I don't think those kids would enjoy programming a game even with a good kit. They want to play games, not code them, and thus why I said no amount of graphics will get them to. Also, what you describe is why I wrote: http://learnpython
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by zedshaw 15y ago
Ha! Alright he probably should quit doing that before he gets KimDotcom'd.
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I actually wanted them to ban me for that, because then they'd have even more to explain about them allowing rape/abuse comics about me on their site: https://github.com/nickmartini/dongml Which has: https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.gith
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by zedshaw 15y ago
The age range for my courses is 11 to 65 so far, but I haven't been able to get statistics on the median. It's a touchy subject to ask folks their age, but my guess is the median is about 30, or that it's bimodal with 20 being one hump, an
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by zedshaw 15y ago
And no, I'm saying it's a huge myth that nobody wants to learn the "hard stuff". They do, you just have to teach it right. After that you just have people who aren't interested in programming at all and no amount of graphics, games, or cu
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by zedshaw 15y ago
I have about 200k+ unique visitors a day reading my books, and over a million since I started tracking in May last year. I have comments on nearly every exercise on my books, which means people are actually going through them. I have 2200

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