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Nice article

Davis, California - the American city which fell in love with promoting itself ;-)

Sorry if I came off as sounding hostile. I'm sure having the experience of so much attention due to a media campaign is a bit disquieting. I think, when you start bring gender issues into it, you open yourself up for a backlash.

Reading through the non-gender issue parts of the post, you sound like a very nice and hardworking person. So I apologize for my knee-jerk reaction to what I saw as typical male bashing and let's drop the issue ;-)

at 10^8 HN will have annexed galaxy number UDFj-39546284 and constructed an alternate civilization entirely out of 3D printing. All of its citizens will be given stock options at birth.

More than a million minutes and, of course, theverge chose a cat video to highlight!

and /usr/local/bin ? there's a joke there somewhere

if you get a Programmer Union, you're going to need several locals:

PHP local

Haskell local

C local

etc

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming - Peter Seibel

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483

great book, easy reading, inspiring and insightful, highly recommended!

sounds to me like employers want to "churn and burn" through young talent

Being good at Math and writing open source software plus having an intense interest in ML, you might try contacting a few professors working in the field you are interested in and volunteer to write up some software in exchange for some help.

You can contact them online, but try contacting 10 or so, not just one and getting disappointed if you get a bad response.

As I stated below, woman starts rant, woman ends up saying "how hot I am"

anchalee above is the same anchalee who's blog we're talking about.

geez...and I lost three points on this thread!

lost a point for that :(

haha...thanks for the reply ;-)

drop, drop, drop like a stone....

I think everyone should roll their own distro ;-)

The example given is based on Debian Jessie. The hosting forum (vsido.org) is run by a distro based on Debian Sid (experimental).

Just to give a little motivation, the first is changing your titles on a terminal when you use man, less or vi...so instead of having 5 terminals open all with the same cryptic title of "someuser@somehost - Terminal" you can actually tell which man page is which (pretty good, I think)

The second is how to install a local wiki on your box. It's a great way to access local docs, keep notes for projects, etc. My example uses MediaWiki but Docuwiki also works. Check the pictures I posted and you can see a good example of its use.

Anyway, hope someone finds this helpful ;-)

Here's the contributing guide for angular:

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI...

and the discussion group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/angular

I'll start by saying it will all be finger waving and toe wiggling by then!

I like looking at old stuff from Bell Labs and Xerox Parc. If you dig around, you can find some tremendous papers about designing systems. For example, search around for books and papers in the 70's and 80's on Unix, the Alto, Ethernet, etc...and when you find an author you like, check the reference and find more like that. Checking the articles listed in a wikipedia article's reference is also a good starting point for this sort of thing. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet

things are always in flux and one must seek a balance...there are no black and white answers, although engineers always want them ;-)

after all...what is life for? we should all learn how to enjoy it ;-)

right...that's exactly it...more is not always good. In fact, I've read that the human mind is primed to value new information regardless of whether it is better than what one already has.

I think this is true. It is a question of what you are filling up your mind with. If your thoughts are full of what you are working on, then you stay focused. But, when you wander it is hard to regain that discipline. Sometimes it is good to take a detour and focus on things related and try to finish them off first...that can help get you back on track.

Totally agree this is the way to go. Unfortunately, I'm a little too undisciplined and I need to take stricter measures on not having access at home.

This is only my personal take on things. For me, the internet is like water...you can find it anywhere...especially the library. In one hour at the library I can download all the webpages I need onto a usb stick. Generally, I go 4-5 months without having the net at home, 2-3 weeks with having a connection just to update my system and download a bunch of youtube videos ;-)

totally agree with this. if you are using linux, install a few window managers and start playing around with them...fvwm, xmonad, fluxbox, etc...then start thinking about what you would like to do better...look at the code for some of the utilities...bbpager, dmenu, etc...well, that's if you're interested in this kind of stuff ;-)

I'd say get rid of the Internet at home. That's the number one distraction. Personally, I can't read more than a paragraph online without jumping to another page...so just kill that beast. Here's an example...I have all the documentation I could ever want right on my hard drive, but I might spend a few frustrating hours surfing the web trying to figure out something out instead of looking at what I already have.

Some other ideas...have a pipeline and modest goals. Be happy if you read 45 minutes every day and don't think you need to read giant text books to learn. Find slim books! 150 pages max. But get really, really good books from the masters in your chosen field.