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oumua_don17
8,747karma·1,337submissions·October 23, 2014
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* A polyglot programmable programmer.
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>> in a domain that they understand That could/should be the future of programming. Every interaction with a domain expert where he shows what the app should have done makes me think "…
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And they also know when not to build frameworks :-)
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>> Major features were added over the course of weeks!
>> — to say nothing of getting the overall architecture right from the start. [Most likely] it is not that they got it right, right f…
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Please look at https://www.plasticscm.com/version-control-for-games.html We are. 2 man team and have our own hackeneyed way, some in house bunch of Python scripts to build our game as…
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Yes, everything is just a toolbar of tabs. Gitlab should revisit the UI with an empty blank slate with the constraint that there is almost everyone out there accustomed to using the other Hub. Either …
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GL is one area where just using a high level library is not going to help you master it. If you intend to use it as a black box, well you can use anything that wraps GL in your domain of choice (gam…
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PAIP: https://www.amazon.com/Paradigms-Artificial-Intelligence-Pro... While it deals with classical AI techniques, it is worth working through this book. Especially the AI example cha…
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Agreed. The Github code is a substitute for the take home assignment. If his GH code is good enough as per the employer standards, invite him in office to explain the work he did on that project. Now …
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>> They refuse to do the project because “someone will hire me without it”. This is wrong in certain cases. The candidate may have significant contribution to an open source project or may have …
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A better approach will be to recommend statistics resources to make this a better or serious recommendation. Could you be kind enough to do that? Otherwise, your evaluation of the recommendation is no…
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For initial learning, I would second NLTK with: http://www.nltk.org You can also checkout https://github.com/vseloved/cl-nlp . It is an NLP toolkit in Common Lisp. V…
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For now it is an iOS closed source app. I will ask my team if we can get you added as private contributor, if you are OK with it. My email is my profile. If you can reach out with what you would like …
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>> I am been rated above average in the current appraisal system...But after advent of this colleague, I see everything declining...as "irresponsible" I see this as a huge red flag. It…
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This resonates with my latest experience. I am working on a 3D game simulation and I have two player entities (Batter/Pitcher) who run on the ground. The running is done between to predefined con…
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This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast h…
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I have also been a Vim user for a decent while now. I try to minimize the number of plug-ins that I use, lest I get into the plugin circus. To migrate to Spacemacs, I just replicated my workflow. Earl…
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There is also Spacemacs, which imho, is much better than Emacs + Evil.
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+10. agreed, logitech solar keyboard is IIRC the first one where I haven't had a chance to think this keyboard does not work well. It has just faded in the background. Nothing to bother about the…
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And that applies irrespective of a newcomer is junior or senior. There is hardly a substitute for a fresh pair of eyes t to reveal what one thinks is cool design, code et al is not so cool after all.
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Common Lisp (Emacs, Slime) or LispWorks (which has a free personal edition). After using live image based development, going back to the edit, compile, test cycle is like going back to the stone age. …
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I would recommend Chapter 8 of `Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction` by David T. [1] It is the most lucid explanation of recursion using the story-telling format. After working through this chapter, I …
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Formally, I think this to be a good list of fudamentals: programing paradigms, algorithms, data structures, compilers, operating systems, networking, math for CS. What else would you recommend adding …
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>> "no one has time to learn everything" - especially at the beginning of their career. I wish I had this book at the beginning of my career. http://www.amazon.com/Elem…
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Taking a year long sabbatical, when I could live off for 2 years without working. Writing a 3D sport simulation game. Leads to me being a scientific software developer now, another application of 3D g…
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>>> a few of the language books ... learn during the process of getting something done If you learn by getting something done, I would suggest pick a small enough problem, that you can solve …
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You can also refer to this recent post around managing dot files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 …