bereft_orange

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by bereft_orange 13y ago
Do you go beyond public sources for you data? Commission research?
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
OSS/GitHub is what let me crack into the industry without having a CS degree or particularly good contacts. I started learning to code a year or two ago, then started contributing to open source and now I have a pretty solid track rec
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
If you don't have an idea for a project (I totally didn't), find an open source project that you like, start contributing to it and get to the point where you can get accepted as a core developer / maintainer. It can be a gre
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
Yes, the ability to rollback history more easily than paging through `git reflog` would be great . (in particular, if you rebase often you end up with a lot of cruft).
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
how far does that go though? `git push --force --yes --yes-I-am-absolutely-sure --by-pushing-this-commit-I-agree-I-am-paying-attention`. Seems like `--force` is a succinct way to cover those two parts.
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
the decorator module also preserves function signature, which is nice (check out the FunctionMaker class - it's crazy )
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
Saying that something will have the same language on client and server is misleading: javascript (and most other languages) have very simple syntax - it's more about the libraries involved. Node.js and the browser environment are total
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
Is this actually true (or is it more the experience of a few people generalized to everyone)? How do you avoid this?
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
That kind of rebase is great, because you are applying your work on top of the master branch (i.e., making the history read as it should be, that your set of commits was added on top of master). That's why git says it's "re
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
or just `s.split()`
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
Certified newbie-programmer here: without HN, r/programming on reddit, and a few other places, there's no way I'd know about half the things I know now. When it comes to choose tools for a project, that's really helpful.
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
I'm not sure whether you are trying to learn to program in general or Python in particular, but you might try out something like ["Design of Computer Programs"]( https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212 ) from
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by bereft_orange 13y ago
2 things: 1. Care to post a default so it's possible to explore? Couldn't figure out a working combination. 2. When you hit an error, would be helpful if you kept the previous selection prefilled (either via AJAX request or passin