pilot_pirx

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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Proficient users can do: depends on the kind of work you do, if you have to process images or video data or compile large projects, run data analysis tools on large amounts of data then you will need a fast computer. But for everyday work t
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
It makes as much sense (maybe even more) as talking about a "Code Guru" (guru being in fact a religious teacher) or "Code Ninja" (or "C++ Ninja, Database Guru or whatever combination). Language is something flowing and changing. The term "h
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Depends on language, in Ruby those statements would be identical. But anyway, that's no reason to make things even worse.
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Yes, but in this case it's not about readability, but about extremely significant whitespace. Forgetting a space and your code has a totally different meaning.
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
and gets even worse if you bring variables into the game. a = 5 b = 3 everybody from nearly every programming language would expect that after c = a-b you will find c to be 2 not nil (or throwing an exception or whatever)
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
If you don't have enough experts, hire smart guys and train them. Problem solved. If you are looking for three months without success, in the same time a good programmer with some web experience could have already become a great Rails progr
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Companies are lucky if I use AdBlock, because my personal "Rule of 7" states that company adds I see more than 7 times make this company an automatic member of the "annoying company list" (Adds that blink or play sound (hear me coka cola?))
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
cute. though it hangs sometimes.
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
As swGooF said: Write a blog. I Googled your name and found quite a lot of your books for download, but not much more info (did not search very long). If you want to become a "name" in some area, you must talk about what's happening now. If
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
about Rails: - Rails Antipatterns - Rails 3 in Action - The Rails 3 Way - Ruby for Rails about Ruby: - Eloquent Ruby - Design Patterns in Ruby - Well Grounded Rubyist - Metaprogramming Ruby
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Exactly the point, you can drink in a "cultural" way. There are actually very different drinking cultures. (As there may be different programming cultures?) Drinking can even become a bad habit. Or someone can become an alcoholic and could
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Nice post, made a few good points. But it's just a vain battle about a not so very interesting "manifesto" by some people who think they need to make some point (or whatever). I'm not a 501 programmer for sure. I agree, that there is a cult
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
Linux version would be nice.
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
If you have any content at all (code, graphics, story) you should maybe make this available. Github would be possible or at least a simple website where people can get as much information as possible about the actual state of the project. A
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
1) I guess you are right, but at least here in Europe we can expect that matters get settled at some point in time. We do not have this law culture where a new law can be proposed over and over again in different forms. (Though there are tr
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
I can imagine such a future very easily. For one thing the other parties will take over some of their positions (especially the Green and the Liberal). Then there is the Pirate Parties lack of positions in many other areas of everyday polit
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
agree. the only class where my first computer (TI 99/4A, 1983) had a positive influence was English not Mathematics. I'm from Germany and at the time they didn't translate the manuals, so my reading skills and vocabulary got far more additi
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
It means, that there is already a large amount of this kind of projects not to mention plugins for any programming language or framework you can think of. and many of them look far better than yours.
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
for simple scripts: doesn't matter for larger projects: depends on project
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
But they still need to find the information that there are such super simple options. Google "programming tutorial beginner" and the first thing is about C++. Ask in a forum and you will start a long discussion about which language to learn
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by pilot_pirx 14y ago
interesting, i get similar results. (with a similar background of not being very interested in the game, but having watched a few youtube videos) with iGoogle active i get exactly the same skyrim results, plus laptop, "way to loose weight"
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by pilot_pirx 15y ago
Personally I see this as a permanent cycle where I'm on different levels for different things all the time. With some languages I'm on a high level, with others on a low one. Even within languages I know very well, there are parts I didn't
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by pilot_pirx 15y ago
Good thing to do. Khan does great work, but to be true, he is quite boring sometimes. Getting somebody else in with better grasp of how to make a video educational and entertaining at the same time would be a great idea.
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by pilot_pirx 15y ago
I'm using Macs and Linux machines since many years now as a web developer. On the Mac you just have a few tools available (first textmate, now sublime) that for everyday work I would miss on Linux. Otherwise there are not that many differen
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by pilot_pirx 15y ago
Taking brakes in an reasonable amount isn't wasting time. Scan some blogs or your Google reader. Just make sure you don't get stuck. I just sort through some "have to do anyway" boring stuff, sorting out blogs or other news for stuff worth
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by pilot_pirx 15y ago
No, you are not allone :) I actually work in a company that runs a small side business with writing apps. Most of them are free and only drive money by adds. Actually I don't understand why people download those apps at all. And I have no i