p_nathan

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by p_nathan 16y ago
Well said. The bulk of my recent code is simply not available for public use.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
They have paid the price already. You pay the libraries cost either directly or through your taxes.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
She's popular to the tune of 800 free downloads per week and 10 sales per week. Anecdotally, one of the ISVs over on Programmers.stackexchange had a piracy problem; when he started detecting pirated software and reminding the user to buy, n
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Why set up one gun when you can set up six? More firepower always wins , right? Also, hoghide is incredibly tough.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
The article does not say anything about web controlled guns being illegal. In 25+ states, cyber hunting is banned. The article headline is definitely in error, not just misleading.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
I'm not saying anything about innate ability. Just as a lawyer gains 'legal lenses' as they work through law school, so do programmers gain 'software lenses'.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
When considering programmer to be "anyone who writes some code", I agree. But when considering programmer to be someone who is comfortable: - operating on multiple planes of abstraction - using recursion/pointers - 'seeing' the concepts emb
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by p_nathan 16y ago
If it's important enough to be committed, it's important enough to be remembered.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
The right kind of advertising is pretty awesome, because it provides value for me. Right now, Stack Overflow and Amazon have the best ads out there, IMO. SO took a while to get decent ads too. I watched some stuff on Hulu the other day. Fan
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Old Spice Guy was a pretty striking ad series. I don't know that it resonated with me, but it sure is memorable!
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by p_nathan 16y ago
I think - supposing that Mrs. Chua was grossly misrepresented, which seems a bit likely - that the WSJ owes her a public apology and the opportunity for a rebuttal piece.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Perl does not have the sex appeal of Ruby or Python right now. That's a shame, but that's the way it is.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Piano has assorted benefits, sure. But I'm not convinced that it's worth making a major investment into unless you're focused on being a professional musician.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Regarding the WSJ essay - my perspective is that what Chua's kids are going through is barbaric and will not generate well-educated, Renaissance-esque people. There is tremendous value in learning and discipline, and my observation of Ameri
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by p_nathan 16y ago
That is well said. I was chatting with a friend who is studying education for her PhD about the article. We were unimpressed by Chua's approach and think it's quite too extreme.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
What about when Gorillas are doing the marketing?
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by p_nathan 16y ago
I rummaged up the numbers from the BLS this fall for unemployment vs. education over the past 10 years. They came out to something like this: No HS degree: > 10% unemployment HS/some college: 7-9% unemployment Associates: 5-7% Bachelors
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Back when I finished my undergrad in '06, the general perspective I ran into was, "oh, you didn't do open source. shame. don't call us back". I spent my time trying to do well in school, not contribute unpaid work to open source.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
You can avoid somewhat of that with some considered keymappings. For instance, I remap Control to Alt a ton in emacs. It's very easy for me to thumb-key instead of pinky-key. YMMV, depending on keyboard and hand-size.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Disagree. With the move towards electronic articles, one needs a login to access the computers at the library or to read the articles. Sorry. :(
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by p_nathan 16y ago
As a counterpoint, I'd like to say that it makes a lot of sense to retain some level of control of servers you are renting. You want to avoid your cloud becoming a botnet cloud (what would that be, a virus cloud? O.o). If you have your own
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by p_nathan 16y ago
I'm not sure of the origins of the zenny/ascetic minimalist idea either, but it certainly is present, and not a figment of my imagination ( http://cultofless.com/ is an example, so is http://www.farbeyondthestars.com/minimalist-freedom-ho
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Less shirts helps your mind? Really? Really? Not even close to convinced. There are a ton of thunguses in one's life that can be ditched to remove the maintenance of. There's a lot of validity in that particular concept. But when one want
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Bill Gates is, in my mind, a phenomenal businessman who also evidently was a pretty hotshot coder before MS got rolling. I see Gate's/Microsoft's genius as being able to bring a usable computer into every household. Of course there are ot
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by p_nathan 16y ago
The Brits often have such a way with words. Bless them.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
A chap named Brooks wrote an article a long time ago that went by the name "No Silver Bullet". Sorta sad how the world keeps looking for the silver bullet to slay the vampires of software. You'd think by now we'd know...
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Syntax helps frame thought. I wrote a comment on this topic over on the StackExchange just the other day. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/30135/does-sy...
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by p_nathan 16y ago
I don't know of any larger-business CEOs besides Jobs who dresses casually. Certainly the execs(mid-size company) in my company always have a suit on in public/semi-public appearances. Could you cite your assertions please?
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by p_nathan 16y ago
Partial Baloney! Fast food joints could be mechanized. I have a scheme for a nearly fully automated department (grocery/walmart/etc) chain. It would take capital and engineering, but it's a solved problem.
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by p_nathan 16y ago
There's sort of the "Computer Science" vs. "Software Engineering" difference going on there.

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