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Completely there with you man. Initially I started playing and didn't understand why I couldn't use that weak shale you can dig easily with your hands for a pick and why the harder…

book? just pick a problem and a language, and solve it dude. Start something. You learn through doing. no book solves this.

that lifted my spirits.

I'm not a fan of medication. I believe some people really do need it to balance out, but I think others just need some proper dieting and exercise to balance their body's chemistry…

I'm fairly young, so I ask this question to the more experienced in life. Isn't this always the case? The rich stay rich by keeping their money and the poor stay poor by never keep…

I've been using Chrome for the last 2 months, and today was told Firefox wasn't working with a wordpress blog I have to administer... since when does firefox have problems viewing …

This is fine, while companies like Infinity Ward / Activision / Blizzard censor artists and developers and remove creativity from PC Gamers, companies like Id, Epic, and Valve are …

#1, Pick what you love to do, so you are passionate everyday of life instead of hating what you do and being miserable. From a personal story. I got my degree in Computer Engineeri…

This can be summed up to the following "Be proactive, happen to life or life won't happen to you" .

I've never trusted migration tools to work properly in windows or even on my mac for that matter. I keep everything organized on a samba share, map the drive and tweak the registry…

Thats kinda what I was thinking, but I don't want to be mean, and get voted down. It just feels like another mac love story. we get it, macs just work, fantastic for you. There are…

I've never installed an update in linux/windows/osx without researching it first for any potential effects it could have... Thats been a rule of thumb I've heard from gurus of back…

I've seen/learned this from many programmers. Also just another point. don't over work yourself, we're all humans (except those damn bots) and you have to give yourself down time t…

Buy gum instead, and chew. Seriously. I won't say I quit smoking completely, because I have a cigar on holidays or during celebration, but I haven't bought a pack of cigarettes in …

I still hate how they remove LAN play from games now'a'days. My buddies and I have lan parties all the time, and its getting harder and harder to have them when lan play isn't allo…

I just went out during lunch and bought the collectors edition from best buy. Waiting to get home to open it ...

Turns out sleeping pills cause more problems for me then the benefits they present. I'm going to go research the perception of time and figure out how to control it so I feel like …

As I'm waking up this morning I came across the same standard thought many of us ponder. Why can't I get more sleep? However this extended into, isn't the 24 hours "day" kind've an…

From the article I notice that they don't mention how desktop PC's have leveled out more or less on requirements of hardware. I know people still using computers from 2004 that wor…

This just came out on Steam. Its a free mod for the source engine, released with dev tools and source code. I figured I'd give 15-30 minutes to it last night with some friends that…

Some people do this virtually. They delete their facebooks or myspace pages, and go invisible so nobody can contact them except through email , phone, or meet in person. I'm afraid…

Last.fm "Pendulum Radio"

I remember reading an article about a room at an IVY league school like Stanford or Yale that contains a copy of every test(with answers) for every teacher ever given. Apparently s…

It was new to me, and It was interesting to read. But I'm very interested in interpretations since I actually found it hard to understand the tone and pov of the author.

Not straight programming, more about software engineering The Mythical Man Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month