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by zerohp 15y ago
I'm not sure how long ago you took it, but this book is probably a better introduction than the DCPU-16 since you build the system up from gates until you reach a high level language. http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ It seems like assembly pro
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by zerohp 15y ago
My gut feeling is that Microsoft has turned a blind eye toward piracy by individuals for many years. Almost everyone I know who began doing system administration during the late 90's learned NT4 by pirating it.
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by zerohp 15y ago
I have no idea, thats why I exclude them. I don't have experience in that circle or knowledge of friends experience that I can use as a basis to speculate.
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by zerohp 15y ago
It is relevant because of the assertion that it's partially due to 25 year olds and brogrammers. Neither are true. Also it has not been established that changing things would be an improvement.
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by zerohp 15y ago
As far as I can tell, there are no more of these kinds of parties at conferences than there were 10 years ago. Excluding academic conferences, I don't think programmers drink and more or less than other professionals at conferences.
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by zerohp 15y ago
I relearned a lot of forgotten math using Khan Academy last summer when I was preparing to go back to school. I think Salman Khan's style is significantly better than many of the other videos on the internet. Showing concepts in animations
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by zerohp 15y ago
I agree with everything you've said, so I wont repeat it. I want to relay my own anecdote to the OP on top of it. I've been doing professional web application development since 1997, a year after I graduated high school. I'm 34 years old no
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by zerohp 15y ago
The last thing I printed was the entire source code to XV6 so I could browse through it at my leisure. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html
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by zerohp 15y ago
I doubt you forgot everything. It's your brain tricking you. You began school with a strong knowledge of the of the things you were aware of. Now you're aware of many more areas so you feel like you learned nothing overall. Imagine a large
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by zerohp 15y ago
I usually think of the Pale Blue Dot photograph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
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by zerohp 15y ago
This is something I discovered by accident over the last decade. At first I spent most of my income. After normal expenses I would spend what's left over on entertainment and status symbols like newer cars, etc. Eventually I discovered that
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by zerohp 15y ago
Actually, people still say that sociology, and other social "sciences" are not science. You're assuming that the scientific method is science, but its more than that. Many modern fields of endeavor call themselves sciences mostly because of
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by zerohp 15y ago
A license like that would violate the Debian free software guidelines. http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines
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by zerohp 15y ago
I agree. The exercises are a bit lacking but the videos are top notch. They are far better than any other instruction I've received. Khan Academy helped me recover from a subpar high school education and gave me the tools to excel in colleg
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by zerohp 15y ago
It's not just auditory noise, visual noise is a problem as well. The trend toward putting programmers in open plan offices has driven me to telecommute. I wish we could go back to the days of the boring cube farm with white noise speakers i
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by zerohp 15y ago
My guess is that some students never really let go of mathematics. Without this step, you cannot even begin to form a mental model of how the machine evaluates an imperative program. Students with no experience programming may be better of
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by zerohp 15y ago
The degree programs for business at most universities are just corporate prep schools. They're not educating you to be an entrepreneur. You'd be much better off in a science or engineering program where people, at least a few of them, are
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by zerohp 15y ago
I'm going to a community college now (at 34) and it seems like the quality of teaching is very good but the grading is too generous. If I had lower ambitions, I could see myself getting by on an hour a week of study for each class while st
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by zerohp 15y ago
This is where research pays off. Community college advisers, at least at my school, are very bad. In Illinois all of the schools have a complete transfer database online at uselect.org.
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by zerohp 15y ago
Quake reignited my passion for computers after I spent several years off focusing on automobile related hobbies. I had been exposed to Linux before but Quake was what caused me to run it on the desktop at first. The networking stack was sig
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by zerohp 15y ago
People don't talk about it. I have two friends with it, and I knew both of them for years before they told me.
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by zerohp 15y ago
Absolutely right. I don't remember what age I started programming. I'm 34 now and I started by typing in BASIC programs from Byte magazine when I was in elementary school. I was an awful programmer until I started doing it professionally. I
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by zerohp 15y ago
Instead of a handful of keys with tiny LCD's inside of them, I'd like to see a full keyboard that has e-paper on top of every key.
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by zerohp 15y ago
I'm going to disagree with you there. Occasionally I watch "old media" and for a while Chat Roulette dominated both traditional and comedy news shows as well as late night. Many people on the street know exactly what it is: penises.
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by zerohp 15y ago
I have a similar regret. I hated high school and expected college to be more of the same. I've been programming since I was a kid, and now professionally for 15 years. Financially in the same situation as you, usually making more than my co
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by zerohp 15y ago
I think they would assume that if they had watched the lectures. I can't recall a single one where the final answer wasn't reduced.
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by zerohp 15y ago
I'm a 33 year old self-taught software developer, that originally skipped college, who is starting at a local community college this fall with plans to transfer to Illinois for Computer Engineering. I can't express how much your team and Mr
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by zerohp 15y ago
Having spent 5 years working directly with biologists at a major research center, I can confidently say that biologists don't want better tools. They have no interest in software beyond the bare minimum it takes to confirm the result they e
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by zerohp 15y ago
I've had the opportunity to work with several women programmers. I don't think they were worse than average but none of them live to write software and use technology as a lifestyle. I have never met a female programmer that was self-taught
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by zerohp 15y ago
In the firmware, not the disk.

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