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Proficient users can do: depends on the kind of work you do, if you have to process images or video data or compile large projects, run data analysis tools on large amounts of data…

It makes as much sense (maybe even more) as talking about a "Code Guru" (guru being in fact a religious teacher) or "Code Ninja" (or "C++ Ninja, Database Guru or whatever combinati…

Depends on language, in Ruby those statements would be identical. But anyway, that's no reason to make things even worse.

Yes, but in this case it's not about readability, but about extremely significant whitespace. Forgetting a space and your code has a totally different meaning.

and gets even worse if you bring variables into the game. a = 5 b = 3 everybody from nearly every programming language would expect that after c = a-b you will find c to be 2 not n…

If you don't have enough experts, hire smart guys and train them. Problem solved. If you are looking for three months without success, in the same time a good programmer with some …

Companies are lucky if I use AdBlock, because my personal "Rule of 7" states that company adds I see more than 7 times make this company an automatic member of the "annoying compan…

cute. though it hangs sometimes.

As swGooF said: Write a blog. I Googled your name and found quite a lot of your books for download, but not much more info (did not search very long). If you want to become a "name…

about Rails: - Rails Antipatterns - Rails 3 in Action - The Rails 3 Way - Ruby for Rails about Ruby: - Eloquent Ruby - Design Patterns in Ruby - Well Grounded Rubyist - Metaprogram…

Exactly the point, you can drink in a "cultural" way. There are actually very different drinking cultures. (As there may be different programming cultures?) Drinking can even becom…

Nice post, made a few good points. But it's just a vain battle about a not so very interesting "manifesto" by some people who think they need to make some point (or whatever). I'm …

Linux version would be nice.

If you have any content at all (code, graphics, story) you should maybe make this available. Github would be possible or at least a simple website where people can get as much info…

1) I guess you are right, but at least here in Europe we can expect that matters get settled at some point in time. We do not have this law culture where a new law can be proposed …

I can imagine such a future very easily. For one thing the other parties will take over some of their positions (especially the Green and the Liberal). Then there is the Pirate Par…

agree. the only class where my first computer (TI 99/4A, 1983) had a positive influence was English not Mathematics. I'm from Germany and at the time they didn't translate the manu…

It means, that there is already a large amount of this kind of projects not to mention plugins for any programming language or framework you can think of. and many of them look far…

for simple scripts: doesn't matter for larger projects: depends on project

But they still need to find the information that there are such super simple options. Google "programming tutorial beginner" and the first thing is about C++. Ask in a forum and yo…

interesting, i get similar results. (with a similar background of not being very interested in the game, but having watched a few youtube videos) with iGoogle active i get exactly …

Personally I see this as a permanent cycle where I'm on different levels for different things all the time. With some languages I'm on a high level, with others on a low one. Even …

Good thing to do. Khan does great work, but to be true, he is quite boring sometimes. Getting somebody else in with better grasp of how to make a video educational and entertaining…

I'm using Macs and Linux machines since many years now as a web developer. On the Mac you just have a few tools available (first textmate, now sublime) that for everyday work I wou…

Taking brakes in an reasonable amount isn't wasting time. Scan some blogs or your Google reader. Just make sure you don't get stuck. I just sort through some "have to do anyway" bo…