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by jlc 5y ago
I'll amplify nand2tetris. And I'll throw in The Little Schemer and Understanding Computation. They come from a different direction than Code/nand2tetris. When I got that they all sort of meet in the middle, I found it mind-bl
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by jlc 5y ago
LOL. I'm going to explain this for myself and then never look at this cursed thread again. What is important is to clearly communicate the intent of code to the next developer (incl., yourself) who comes across it. Comments are one too
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by jlc 5y ago
Typically, it isn't digging. It's the last commit, maybe the one before it, and I have tools for doing this (e.g., magit, fugitive). I don't notify anyone, nor do I need to. When I encounter a WTF moment, I look at the commit
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by jlc 5y ago
IMO commit messages are for why.
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by jlc 5y ago
Oh! The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
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by jlc 5y ago
Off the top of my head: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by D.F. Wallace Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Anything by John McPhee Edit: formatting
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by jlc 5y ago
I love domino games. I used to play a lot of two-hand sniff (or muggins -- lots of variants). For me there's something aesthetically pleasing about games that use generic gaming equipment -- dominoes, cards, pawns, etc.
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by jlc 5y ago
I enjoyed BBS and also Get Lamp, by the same director. I hope I'm missing something, but I don't seem to be able to find it in its entirety, and its DVD is also sold out. http://www.getlamp.com
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by jlc 6y ago
For what it's worth, I (software engineer, 49) got a better job when I was 47. I got a job that I thought would be better at 46, too. But it turned out I was wrong, so I tried again. My take, based only on my own experience, so grain o
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by jlc 7y ago
Thank you for the actually useful reply to my flip comment.
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by jlc 7y ago
I wonder if there's an interesting essay behind that interface. I'll never know.
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by jlc 8y ago
We all know that novels are by definition fiction, right?
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by jlc 8y ago
Oh man! I forgot all about Creative Computing. I loved Compute! and Compute!’s Gazette and Byte though.
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by jlc 9y ago
Been there, almost exactly there, 15 years ago now. 0) If you are having suicidal thoughts, you should get medical attention. Even if you're not "truly" suicidal, depression/anxiety will rob you of the power you need to
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by jlc 14y ago
I wonder if they considered throwing their lot in with Schooltool: http://www.schooltool.org It has been around a long while now, is in use around the world, and should at least make a good starting point for further customization.
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by jlc 15y ago
Nice problem to have. ;-) One advantage of the job that you don't mention is that it might be a learning experience for you along a number of vectors. And one mitigating factor you don't mention is that the term of your employment need not
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by jlc 16y ago
PEP 8 is great, but (unless I've forgotten . . .) it doesn't really help w/ directory structure and so on. I'd say take a look at some of the code in the standard library and in some other packages you've used before, then read this: http:
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by jlc 16y ago
I remember, but I have no fear.
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by jlc 16y ago
My Amiga 1000 is sitting about five feet from me. I haven't turned it on in a very long while. Even my beloved Commodore 64 is long gone, but I haven't been able to part with the Amiga. Not saying this is a good thing. Just saying.
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by jlc 16y ago
Working link: http://www.kypost.com/dpp/news/region_central_cincinnati/dow...
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by jlc 16y ago
I think the standard (and weak) joke about the uselessness of humanities degrees is to some extent a red herring. The real subject of satire here are technophilic power fantasies, such as _The Core_, _Impact_, _Asteroid_, etc., etc.
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by jlc 17y ago
To say I'm skeptical is an understatement.
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by jlc 17y ago
I believe they're owned by the Washington Post now.
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by jlc 17y ago
I like the Evi Nemeth book for admin: http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-System-Administration-Handbook-3r...
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by jlc 17y ago
That'll work for a while. Then the kid's going to be up half the night recompiling his kernel.
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by jlc 17y ago
Number 5 is certainly provocative. Do you have any evidence to back this up. I'd like to believe you, but all the evidence I've seen (starting w/ Richard Ballantine's book) indicates it really does pay to protect the bean. EDIT: FWIW, I thi
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by jlc 17y ago
I too say soodoo, FWIW.
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by jlc 17y ago
Interesting. I know python and ruby. Now I'm wondering if it's worth my time to learn perl.
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by jlc 17y ago
And the Fourier-ist counter-counter-argument is everyone takes away the trash sometimes.
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by jlc 17y ago
I used to have my freshmen composition classes read Bob Black. Was always interesting, but often hard for some students to see the difference between work, the stuff that gets done, and work, the social construct. I think it's good for ever

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