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by donal 17y ago
I don't believe that "unemployed" in this sense means "without paycheck." I considered myself unemployed after graduating from college because I was making my money by catering. Not exactly why I went to college... So, with that interpretat
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by donal 17y ago
I'm putting my support behind this interpretation of the complaint. I spent some time at a gov't subcontractor and the copy-paste version of cya was clear as day. Sometimes you'd see where search/replace failed and there would be other prog
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by donal 17y ago
Oh, that is interesting. It has been a while since I fiddled with... I think it was Fluxus. It is one of those things were I became insanely fascinated and then suddenly found myself deluged under a ton of other fascinating things. Hopefull
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by donal 17y ago
I've also read of live coding with the language Processing and Python. I think the limiting factor is the existence of a REPL. What you are speaking of with the AST doesn't sound very "live", but definitely sounds interesting.
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by donal 17y ago
I fall pretty dead on into the Level 1 category, though in certain areas I fall into the 2 and I think I managed a level 3 someplace... But, then I have < 2 years professional programming experience (proceeded by 3 years of management e
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by donal 17y ago
You aren't alone. If I had access to the book for my Project Management class, then I could give you exact stats for how terrible most estimates prove to be. The numbers are astounding (the studies are dated, but still adequately horrifying
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by donal 17y ago
It might cut down on the volumes of resumes, but once culled down to actual potentials, I think the effect of the "niche language" is minimal. I spend my time hopping between a bunch of languages and I'm equally mediocre in all of them, but
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by donal 17y ago
Sheesh, from the comments you'd think The Register is known for level-headed journalism. It is a snarky, piss-taking, grease-trap that mixes news with commentary with little to no discretion or fear of violating "journalistic integrity." On
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by donal 17y ago
Just to be contrary, I actually don't like the Aeron. I sit in one 8+ hrs a day and I don't know if it doesn't fit me correctly (I'm 6'4") or what, but I'd prefer a different chair. Unfortunately the only other chair available to me is some
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by donal 18y ago
Arguably VB for Applications could come in handy for almost anyone. Though interestingly most farmers, carpenters, and other handy-workers are more capable of performing arithmetic than the rest of the population. Still the power of a well-
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by donal 18y ago
I'm currently in a Masters program for Information Systems and one of my peers had the joy of having the professor of the class ask him why his answers and another student's were so astoundingly similar. Having worked with this gentleman a
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by donal 18y ago
Kento Cho also should get crazy amounts of respect. He just codes crazy shmups for his own amusement. Seems even someone developing for Wii took notice: http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ZIhL8DajewM6w7pMaFOVrFY... I love a good shmup.
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by donal 18y ago
Check out PyGame. Also check out the PyWeek game development challenge. Building a game in a week is an invigorating challenge. I learned python during one of the PyWeeks and I'd never made a game before. The best part is that because of th
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by donal 18y ago
Interesting question, ultimately I think the answer is yes for three reasons. 1) Sharding helps with more than just performance issues. 2) Even the most efficient write performance would still bottleneck at a certain scale. 3) Everyone like
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by donal 18y ago
The problem isn't with Nielsen's recommendations, it is his methods. He presents his findings as being based on scientific research, but unfortunately his methods are deceitful. Have you ever seen the infomercial for "Dual Action Cleanse" w
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by donal 18y ago
The issue is with false negatives (not finding real problems). It is hard to say that 100% of issues were found, because how can you quantify the number of problems that weren't found? The claim of this article that you can somehow quantify
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by donal 18y ago
Most definitely, otherwise you are really just eye-balling it and you don't want to find out that your small sample-set wasn't representative of your actual user-base. This is important considering that during early stages you could have ea
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by donal 18y ago
It was the one feature my household used the most, but whatever, I guess we'll just have to manually interleave our movie queues.
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by donal 18y ago
I think they just liked the picture and they didn't get exclusive rights to it. http://www.yiyinglu.com/sc/illustration/personal-illustratio...
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by donal 18y ago
Having someone who has successfully been published by the journal you are submitting to review your article will greatly help your chances. It will also probably smooth out the process some since each journal has its own little quirks.
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by donal 18y ago
Hmm, I wish there was aggregation for search trends, I'm curious to see Baidu's statistics. I'm a little surprised by the comments lambasting the lack of China's presence in the stats. Google isn't the dominant player in the Chinese search
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by donal 18y ago
I wouldn't use it just because the keyphrase is mutable. It is bad enough that TinyURL obscures the destination, but with the possibility for the destination changing without even the submitters knowledge makes the service completely untrus
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by donal 18y ago
My buddy switched someone's explorer.exe with a Mac OS 7 emulator. It was hilarious.
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by donal 18y ago
Isn't being able to easily "get rid of" bodies the whole point of looking for outside help? I guess I come to the same conclusion, but without the cynicism. It isn't exactly profitable to not care about utilization rate of bodies, but then
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by donal 18y ago
If you go the wxPython route, then there is wxGlade to make designing the interface easier. http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/
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by donal 18y ago
Oh how apt your timing is, Jeff Atwood just wrote a nice article on his Coding Horror block titled: "PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html ) Why introduce regressions and headache by switc
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by donal 18y ago
The opportunity to bang it out in one year is something that shouldn't be passed up lightly. Going back after being out for a while is hard. I'm getting my masters now (graduated undergrad in 2003). It is difficult, but then I'm working and
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by donal 18y ago
I fall into some grey area... All I can remember is waiting for my dad to bring home the latest "3-2-1 Contact" so that I could look at the basic program that was in it. Then my dad broke the computer and it wasn't until 10+ years later tha
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by donal 18y ago
Be careful! That might lead you down the path of <gasp> learning to program, or worse liking programming, or even worse yet changing jobs so that you program full-time. Pretty much the path I took. Though, seems to be working out, p
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by donal 18y ago
Hmm, I don't know if I'd necessarily call it a "disadvantage," it is a difference however. Not being up on the merits of different legal systems, I'll avoid demonstrating my ignorance and just refrain from making a decision I would not be a

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