To add a personal anecdote, I was accepted to speak at a large regional conference as my first speaking gig. I explicitly stated I did not have any previous conference experience. I attribute this partially to having a…
We use http://www.dbmaintain.org at the Java shop where I work. It enforces all of the best practices in the article. Something else that we do is to have the schema/mandatory data in a separate git project. This has…
What about the House of Cards release was a hugely bad decision?
I signed up after reading about this on Reddit. As someone who is looking for a first development job (graduating in May), this is a great resource.
You're right, I misunderstand the comment I replied was using that as an example of how other people misunderstand the problem. D'oh. Edited!
Is "So if there are 23 people in a room there's a 50% chance that one of them will share a birthday with me?" correct? If you pick a fixed person (you) that would break the pigeonhole principle, I think. I would think…
I think that programming is a microcosm of culture as a whole, not just pop culture. On one end you have the pop aspects of it (Node, Ruby, <insert trendy language/framework>, and at the other end you have COBOL…
I'd like to see a Piet program where the program output was the same as the 'code' for the program itself.
I notice that some of the tips have code examples and some don't. I know that people other than the author of the tip can post comments, but it may be useful if they could also post gists along with the comment. This…
This might be an obvious suggestion, but have you tried building something useful? I have found myself in that strange in between space before when learning a new language, and by starting to build something I am able…
I see a couple mentions in this thread of Flask taking a while to adopt Python 3. I am relatively new to Flask, could you explain why they are seemingly behind things in regards to Python 3?
Kayaking, fishing, hiking....generally outdoors type stuff.
To add a personal anecdote, I was accepted to speak at a large regional conference as my first speaking gig. I explicitly stated I did not have any previous conference experience. I attribute this partially to having a…
We use http://www.dbmaintain.org at the Java shop where I work. It enforces all of the best practices in the article. Something else that we do is to have the schema/mandatory data in a separate git project. This has…
What about the House of Cards release was a hugely bad decision?
I signed up after reading about this on Reddit. As someone who is looking for a first development job (graduating in May), this is a great resource.
You're right, I misunderstand the comment I replied was using that as an example of how other people misunderstand the problem. D'oh. Edited!
Is "So if there are 23 people in a room there's a 50% chance that one of them will share a birthday with me?" correct? If you pick a fixed person (you) that would break the pigeonhole principle, I think. I would think…
I think that programming is a microcosm of culture as a whole, not just pop culture. On one end you have the pop aspects of it (Node, Ruby, <insert trendy language/framework>, and at the other end you have COBOL…
I'd like to see a Piet program where the program output was the same as the 'code' for the program itself.
I notice that some of the tips have code examples and some don't. I know that people other than the author of the tip can post comments, but it may be useful if they could also post gists along with the comment. This…
This might be an obvious suggestion, but have you tried building something useful? I have found myself in that strange in between space before when learning a new language, and by starting to build something I am able…
I see a couple mentions in this thread of Flask taking a while to adopt Python 3. I am relatively new to Flask, could you explain why they are seemingly behind things in regards to Python 3?
Kayaking, fishing, hiking....generally outdoors type stuff.