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by pdiddy 11y ago
I would find this article hilarious if I weren't horrified that people may take it seriously. In the 50s, people could identify Buckminster Fuller, Saul Bellow, or Jackson Pollock. Many educated people now could identify Frank Gehry, T
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Your analogy conflates the medium and the message.
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Seriously? Why the double standard? Seems cynical.
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by pdiddy 11y ago
It is a thoughtful gesture and proper etiquette.
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by pdiddy 11y ago
It sounds like you discussed this with her already (when you said "she's too"). If so, you're having an emotional affair. In either case, you need to stop immediately. It's very difficult, but force yourself not to
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by pdiddy 11y ago
My process: keep a bug journal. If I hit the same bug I hit three months ago and go through the same research to fix it, then I know I am not progressing. Ideally through this process I will learn what it is that I don't know and then
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by pdiddy 11y ago
If you are worried about injury in a theoretical sense (by that, I mean you haven't noticed particular discomfort with your typing style), it is probably better to focus on exercising your hands (and body) than to retrain your typing s
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I haven't worked through it but the approach to Learn You a Haskell seems fun: http://learnyouahaskell.com/
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I would encourage anyone who hasn't read The Second Machine Age to check out the discussion of this topic. It is true, as you say, that a relatively poor person and a billionaire can both have the same iPhone. The contrary side of th
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Which coincides with a large increase in bankruptcies due to the "two-income trap."
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I love that he calls <%%> "tie fighters."
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by pdiddy 11y ago
>Well, 2006 was a -long- time ago, and Ruby and Ruby on Rails have come a long way. Right. I recently listened to a lot of the archive of the StackOverflow podcast. Joel & Jeff periodically discuss Rails, and Joel eventually recogniz
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Right. I think we are actually making similar points. What I was trying to say in my example of the C code compilation is that it doesn't really tell you what code is, but rather this is what it's like to write code, or rather the
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I think WIC is great--very enjoyable--and agree with this article that its presentation is basically a work of art, but it fails to explain "this is what code is," especially for the layperson. Before reading this article I refl
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I have recently started playing around with Ember and trying to get more serious with Vim by using it for this project. I found this page from Joyent to be an awesome resource for setting up Vim with Node: https://github.com&#x2F
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by pdiddy 11y ago
This. Explained further here: https://vimeo.com/105771493
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I would highly recommend the book 1089 and All That . It won't teach you much math, but it is an excellent book to read while getting started. Measurement is also a good book that starts from scratch.
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Another way is to just use subtraction: x = x + y y = x - y x = x - y I originally learned about this while preparing for some interviews. The funny thing, I find, is that in Python you can simply do this: x, y = 5, 10 x, y
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Not to your main point, but the circuit simulation reminds me of Silon by SLaks: http://silon.slaks.net/ Edit: Also, as a late-bloomer and self-taught (self-teaching) programmer, I am on the other side of the paradigm you&#
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I think the OP's salary adjusted from the cost of living in Nashville to Boston would be roughly $115k.
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Do you really want to know or are you just asking because you don't believe him?
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Thanks for explaining. After I posted I read the methods and that became clear, but the explanation of confounding is definitely helpful. Willett says in his book, "When the first reports appeared linking moderate alcohol consumption w
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by pdiddy 11y ago
This is not an area where I have much more than a passing interest, so much of this is over my head, so to speak. I was first introduced to the idea of healthy moderate drinking in Walter Willett's Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy . Here is
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by pdiddy 11y ago
No // http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm
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by pdiddy 11y ago
After reading William Gibson: yes.
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Personally I found MIT Ocw's Intro to Programming in Python to be awesome. That is a complete course, which may be more than you are looking for. But the problem sets were really fun. I did the 2008 class but there is an updated one th
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Are you familiar with the book Peopleware ? If not, check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-...
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by pdiddy 11y ago
I will recommend a pair of books that are about the question you are asking: http://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/books-n-1/products/w... http://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/books
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Regarding a couple of your points: Point 1. You might want to take a look and see if Resharper is to blame. I ultimately got rid of Resharper. I found that most of the features I used were already in Visual Studio (e.g. ctrl + , instead of
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by pdiddy 11y ago
Any suggestions on where to start learning?

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