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I'll amplify nand2tetris. And I'll throw in The Little Schemer and Understanding Computation. They come from a different direction than Code/nand2tetris. When I got that they all s…

LOL. I'm going to explain this for myself and then never look at this cursed thread again. What is important is to clearly communicate the intent of code to the next developer (inc…

Typically, it isn't digging. It's the last commit, maybe the one before it, and I have tools for doing this (e.g., magit, fugitive). I don't notify anyone, nor do I need to. When I…

IMO commit messages are for why.

Oh! The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Off the top of my head: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by D.F. Wallace Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Anything by John McPh…

I love domino games. I used to play a lot of two-hand sniff (or muggins -- lots of variants). For me there's something aesthetically pleasing about games that use generic gaming eq…

I enjoyed BBS and also Get Lamp, by the same director. I hope I'm missing something, but I don't seem to be able to find it in its entirety, and its DVD is also sold out. http://ww…

For what it's worth, I (software engineer, 49) got a better job when I was 47. I got a job that I thought would be better at 46, too. But it turned out I was wrong, so I tried agai…

Thank you for the actually useful reply to my flip comment.

I wonder if there's an interesting essay behind that interface. I'll never know.

We all know that novels are by definition fiction, right?

Oh man! I forgot all about Creative Computing. I loved Compute! and Compute!’s Gazette and Byte though.

Been there, almost exactly there, 15 years ago now. 0) If you are having suicidal thoughts, you should get medical attention. Even if you're not "truly" suicidal, depression/anxiet…

I wonder if they considered throwing their lot in with Schooltool: http://www.schooltool.org It has been around a long while now, is in use around the world, and should at least ma…

Nice problem to have. ;-) One advantage of the job that you don't mention is that it might be a learning experience for you along a number of vectors. And one mitigating factor you…

PEP 8 is great, but (unless I've forgotten . . .) it doesn't really help w/ directory structure and so on. I'd say take a look at some of the code in the standard library and in so…

I remember, but I have no fear.

My Amiga 1000 is sitting about five feet from me. I haven't turned it on in a very long while. Even my beloved Commodore 64 is long gone, but I haven't been able to part with the A…

Working link: http://www.kypost.com/dpp/news/region_central_cincinnati/dow...

I think the standard (and weak) joke about the uselessness of humanities degrees is to some extent a red herring. The real subject of satire here are technophilic power fantasies, …

To say I'm skeptical is an understatement.

I believe they're owned by the Washington Post now.

I like the Evi Nemeth book for admin: http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-System-Administration-Handbook-3r...

That'll work for a while. Then the kid's going to be up half the night recompiling his kernel.