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True. A lot of my closest friendships came about from me just being in their repeated general proximity for a long-enough period of time.

This is the book I wish I had 5 years ago.

I'm not arguing against writing integration tests, they are as important if not more important, as you've said. Maybe I've only seen badly written ones, but my issue was against in…

In my experience, it's usually not the existence of unit tests themselves that's causing an issue, but that most of them are badly written. One telltale sign is when writing the un…

I'm doing the exact same thing! (quitting end of this month too). While I haven't decided to completely leave tech, I'm planning to do a couple of 3-month furniture intensive class…

I'd suggest finding a hands-on online course that gives you a tiny portfolio in the end. A lot of the fun with programming is seeing your work come alive and seeing all the project…

Wow. You've described exactly what goes in my head during parties. I've been better at faking it / being able to emit short bursts of real gregariousness, but I've never been able …

Just Effin Do It?

Even so, the GWT creators ended up recognizing the value of presentation markup and introduced the UIBinder system (HTML markup + XML for custom widgets), which arguably made my li…

Having local storage is good for services like Spotify though, especially for those long road trips where the signal can be a bit spotty.

That looks narrow-minded for those particular employers though. The leadership might have made a lot of questionable decisions, but I don't think that should affect the quality of …

For games, Chris Granger and his team have coded up a prototype game in Clojurescript using the Entity-Component-System architecture, which seems to be a good fit for functional la…

One thing I've learned from trying to learn drawing is that there's value in creating rough sketches in order to capture a certain form or gesture. It feels like coding small-scope…

Other than improving my programming skills and learning a bit more computer science theory in general: 1. Music. Learning to play the piano 2. Drawing and Painting 3. Cooking

It depends on the company. The company I work for right now had a software architect that worked 3 days a week only for a couple of months or so before going full-time (I think he …

I'm not actually part of the hacker school batch (though I wish I were). I might try my hand applying for the next semester.

This sounds awesome! I've just started learning about Clojure and Clojurescript and have encountered a lot of David Nolen's work. It'll be amazing to be able to hack with and learn…

I tend to have thoughts that maybe I have a genetic disadvantage that prevents me from excelling from things that I care about (programming, computer science, drawing, etc.), but I…

The issue I have with commenting is some people enforce it for the sake of having comments in place, which would most of the time describe the "what" and the "how" of the code, rat…

If you're getting into mobile phone development (likely Android), then you should start with Java. I think some people have managed to compile/run clojure to run on Android, but th…

I never play public games and only play with a group of friends, so I can't comment on that aspect. With regards to class distribution, I have a good mix of friends playing various…

I accidentally deleted my post, but what I was trying to say previously (in which the parent replied to), was that higher difficulties require thinking, like dodging an Arcane sent…

That's where I think most people are wrong about inferno though. That difficulty rewards proper communication and group play. Sure, soloing everything requires a crap-ton of godly …