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I came here to recommend Warcraft 3 also. It's how my son started on the path to coding. Being able to add to an existing platform gave his early efforts some polish that encourage…

In deer, it could be a case of chronic wasting disease

Another atlast fan here. I used it as an extension language for SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) and wrote games for the GP2X handheld in a Forth-like language. Everything should be …

We tried it with just PostgreSQL and struggled with missed jobs. We tried it with Redis + PostgreSQL and haven't looked back. I'll take the blame for not engineering the first vers…

Take a look at "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter. It's published by Dover, so very affordable. I've seen it criticized as too verbose, but that worked for me.

Check out "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data" by Gilbert Strang. It includes a nice introduction to Linear Algebra, touches on relevant statistics and optimization, then puts t…

My wife and I lived in Florida but drove home to Virginia every year for Christmas. Work schedules being what they were, we had to be back in Florida on January 1st or 2nd. We rang…

AS someone that recently transitioned from engineer to engineering manager, I don't feel like I'm doing less. Quite the opposite. Is the work as worthwhile? It is mandated by the c…

Matz didn't change puts. It seems trivial, but I suspect making print a statement again would do a lot to speed up the Python3 adoption rate.

I enjoyed sabremetrics 101 at edX. Some statistics, light coding (SQL and R), history and baseball.

BFA in illustration. Started off designing web sites, then moved to programming to make them dynamic. It seemed like a natural step. Now I work with some pretty large data sets and…

A point in their favor.

They seem to agree. From the article, "...after you've read something once, you've gotten what you're going to get out of it, and then you need to go out and start applying the inf…

And the box the refrigerator came in is the best toy of all.

It makes sense to someone. Microsoft shared source initiative http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx In 2003 MS gave China access to their source http://www.micro…

We're using both. Vertica is amazingly fast. Hadoop helps us analyze some very big data sets. I wouldn't want to lose either one.

I tried, quickly got lost, and started learning calculus as a result. I still need to get back to SICM.

If you like this type of stuff, check out the book "Lisp in Small Pieces".

> After trying to quit several times I think that's an important point. Even if you don't quit this time, you have to keep trying. I tried to quit at least six or seven times befor…

"Programming Perl" (the first edition) by Wall and Schwartz. Reading that book helped me land my first programming job.

I stuck an old kitchen table on some cinder blocks back in May. It's great. http://marti.textdriven.com/desk.jpg (Other than being a happy customer, I'm not affiliated with Indoboa…

Thanks. I didn't know about that speech. Here's the whole thing... http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

The client that enables this behavior for 2.5 years is worse than the procrastinating contractor.

Forth, because I'm to impose some creativity enhancing constraints on what I develop my free time.

along with emacs lisp.