cmars232

Learn Scheme. I've been coding along with "The Little Schemer" over the break.

I feel like I need a fresh perspective before I can approach Clojure -- otw I'll just end up writing a bunch of Java with parens.

This is real, not a joke, right?

I've been going thru SICP with Gambit. Wouldn't mind an alternative to Emacs at all, if/when this supports Gambit...

Be real, don't be redundant. When I used to interview contractors, I got so tired of reading "enterprise Java developer experienced with all aspects of the SDLC" blah blah blah followed by globs of alphabet soup.

Just highlight the most relevant points of past projects, related to the position for which you're applying.

This sounds funny, and well, let's face it, the idea of it is pretty funny, but then I think of the stories female friends used to tell me back in college of creepy old guys that would drive by real slow, fapping away, while they were walking to class, work, home, etc.

Yeah... look how well that works for the US auto industry. Hey, maybe we could fail too & get a bailout!

Is there an extension (could there be) for privacy protections similar to SRWare? I like SRWare ok but it'd be nice if these protections could be dropped into the latest Chrome.

I used to use pdb.set_trace() liberally to poke around at the internals of Django to figure out what it was doing in undocumented places.

This is good stuff. If these steps fail though, you're in a dysfunctional software development shop and probably need to leave. I say start looking immediately AND try the above, just so you have more options.

Not every development shop sucks. I've worked in good and bad ones, and bad ones I didn't know were bad until I found a good one.

And turn off your phone (or just stop answering work calls) at close of business Friday. Sounds like you deserve some slacking off.

How about a list of all the app ideas on there? It'd be fun to scrape and crunch that data if this takes off.

Ideas have little value, but it'd be interesting to profile them.

What if I don't store cookies? Or I delete them regularly? Or a Firefox extension does this for me?

I didn't choose my profession based on cash, but now that I have realized the potential to make cash with my talents, it's become my primary motivation.

If you're not getting paid well, or in an environment which has a strong potential to pay you well in the future, what is the point?

There could be a point, like academic or helping people, etc., but a business? SMTM!

I'd hasten the spread of coffee cultivation, production & distribution. Productivity boost!

I would invest in a sovereign not tied to a physical piece of land, because it would be an interesting sociopolitial experiment. Like Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong in Snow Crash.

Why do you have trouble finishing these products? What makes you lose the focus?

Sometimes, attention problems can be corrected by taking better care of yourself. Personally, I've found my attention problems come more from ultimately not caring than from some weakness of character. It's easy to think up ideas that could be successful, but are they really for you?

For example, I've come to discover that I get motivated when solving really tough niche problems that no one else has dealt with effectively. But I couldn't care less about serving general lusers, like writing Facebook apps. I could maybe think of a cool idea for a Facebook app, and it might even be a killer one, but ultimately, I don't feel anything about serving Facebook users, harvesting their data and habits, etc.

Is it possible you're tackling the wrong projects?

So that's why my PC opened all those TCP connections when I typed in 'ammonium nitrate'.

Especially the in-vitro human meat. It'll probably cause mad-human disease or zombies.

Looking forward to the mods and jailbreaks for cheap subsidized Apple hardware.

This is fundamentally flawed, because the sources for infringing content are many. Piracy doesn't line up for the counting. Not even all torrents could be watched, let alone all protocols, and darknets abound. This would only create an arms race of more darknets and new protocols.

Yes, Apple should protect us consumers against these hackers. They obviously know what is best for us.

Maybe Microsoft should partner with the PC manufacturers and do something similar.

Before I whitelisted it, it was just a grey screen. You might want to put something in a <noscript> tag. I like how Stack Overflow deals with that, for example.

Its good for social media consultants, marketers and gurus.

Why don't we experiment with geoengineering some other planet before we screw up our own.

Venus is covered in clouds, doesn't seem to help it any...

A worthwhile idea. After trying a few projects, I've come to realize that it's going to have to be something I care enough about to sacrifice my time and energy for and sell without feeling fake.

I really have no clue what that is. All I want is cash money really.

I wish Java would adopt len() and the like. Or perhaps a more general concept like Haskell's type classes.

It's not just that libraries are important. Platforms that are mature, portable and reliable can get products developed more quickly. Platforms that run on multiple target OSes improve my deployment options.

It's not just lack of libraries that can hinder a language. An immature runtime, or one with platform-specific issues limits your options. I think many more man-hours go into developing a rock-solid runtime library than language developers / advocates might suspect.

Language is nice to have, platform wins.

haskell, libSDL, and OS X are a match made in hell. I recently tried this, and all sorts of dylib problems on my system lead me to believe its just not practical.

Are there other 3D/multimedia frameworks that play better w/Haskell? Or is it just raw OpenGL?

One of the most pleasant things about a conventional bladed fan is the soothing white noise. I can't sleep without it.

I guess something like this is good for a novelty maybe? Or maybe some fancy CPU cooling getup?

Reminds me of the Foundation series -- the 1st foundation miniaturized nuclear powered devices.

Lots of guns and canned food. Works equally well for zombie outbreaks and post-nuclear apocalypses too.