andrewjanke

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Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD(tau.dev)
269 points by andrewjanke 1mo ago|69 comments
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by andrewjanke 2mo ago
I am typing this on an 2017 iMac Pro running Intel, which has been my main work and personal machine for the last 7 years. I do like 90% of my computing on it. Works fine, I kinda love it, and don't want to give it up any time soon. Th
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by andrewjanke 3y ago
Dan Luu is great. If he's up your alley, you may also like Steve Sinofsky ("Hardcore Software"), Raymond Chen ("The Old New Thing"), and if you're in to the business & finance side of things, Patrick McKenz
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by andrewjanke 3y ago
My approach is mostly to curate your news/social/stream feed to individual people that post the sort of things you like, and to slower-moving publications. Limit your follows on social media. Prefer blogs and RSS over Twitter-st
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by andrewjanke 3y ago
Big +1 to this. Much of the programming stuff I've read that's made a big difference to me and my skills and career has been the older "classic" and fundamental stuff. Unless it's directly related to the specific to
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by andrewjanke 4y ago
+1. Sneakers is the best hacker movie we've made yet.
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“My balls include a copy of the license”(lists.gnu.org)
19 points by andrewjanke 5y ago|3 comments
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by andrewjanke 5y ago
I think this is all good advice. Including the "type it out yourself" bit. I'd add a recommendation for _Code Complete_ by Steve McConnell, which is like 2/3 Programming and 1/3 Software Engineering, and seems about
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by andrewjanke 5y ago
Beware of the Cormen et al "Introduction to Algorithms". It's a good book. But while it says "introduction", it's typically used for like a third-year undergrad who has a fair amount of programming, data struct
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by andrewjanke 5y ago
Seconding the recommendation of The Little Schemer, especially as a beginner book. Very accessible and low time investment, but even as an intermediate programmer when I read it, I got a lot out of it.
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by andrewjanke 7y ago
One more "yes, daily" here. I'm on Freenode for tech topics: #octave, ##matlab, #zsh, #bash, #machomebrew, and #macports are active and useful. And I have a group of friends who are on a private IRC server and have been for y
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by andrewjanke 7y ago
LimeChat is great. I use their mobile version, and it is about the fastest iOS app I've ever used. I'm still Textual on the desktop, though.
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by andrewjanke 10y ago
"formulae" is plural for "formula".
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by andrewjanke 12y ago
Very interesting theory. Anybody have a link to an actual source for Carmack's interest in virtual "worlds" instead of just games? Everything I've found from searching is talking about Oculus' Palmer Luckey, not Car