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My biggest gripe now is that I can't rearrange the code + memory windows to be side by side for a large-monitor experience. I feel like that would make it easier to trace program flow.
After interacting with a few lawyers I realized I am severely lacking in communication and people skills. Their emails were inviting but not over the top. My emails were either too curt or too verbose. When talking to people face to face, I also work on adding value without rambling. Breathing more helps a lot. And for fun I'm learning how to draw. Here is some of my work. http://www.redbubble.com/people/kelukelu htt…
I'm trying to finally give Erlang, Scheme / Racket, and JavaScript the attention they deserve in my life.
I've been really enjoying Elixir – I always liked the idea of Erlang, but became frustrated in practice, and Elixir feels like it has been designed around my frustrations.
After interacting with a few lawyers I realized I am severely lacking in communication and people skills. Their emails were inviting but not over the top. My emails were either too curt or too verbose. When talking to people face to face, I also work on adding value without rambling. Breathing more helps a lot. And for fun I'm learning how to draw. Here is some of my work. http://www.redbubble.com/people/kelukelu htt…
How are you working on improving your written communication skills? I think that's something that I and others have lots of room for improvement in as well.
1. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...
2. Watch the video at the end of this link: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/watch-me-write-this-arti... The take away is write, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and rewrite some more.
3. Pay attention to the people who write well in your life. When you read an email that feels well written try to figure out why you like it. And use those elements in your future writings.
I've finally decided that regular expressions are not witchcraft and that I need to learn how to use them.
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I spent an entire day trying to decipher how to replace spaces with tabs. Wish I had been better with regular expressions.
I hope this isn't flippant, but have you read the Perl regex man pages [0]? "Perl compatible" regexes are very common, and are explained _really_ well. Similarly, the Perl Cookbook (from O'Reilly) has a whole chapter on regular expressions -- even crazy ones like detecting US phone numbers (hard!) -- with explanations. That chapter is QUITE good, and I highly recommend it even you don't write Perl. For your specific…
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I spent an entire day trying to decipher how to replace spaces with tabs. Wish I had been better with regular expressions.
I hope this isn't flippant, but have you read the Perl regex man pages [0]? "Perl compatible" regexes are very common, and are explained _really_ well. Similarly, the Perl Cookbook (from O'Reilly) has a whole chapter on regular expressions -- even crazy ones like detecting US phone numbers (hard!) -- with explanations. That chapter is QUITE good, and I highly recommend it even you don't write Perl. For your specific…
I'm trying to decide whether I want my future to steer toward mobile or web development. I've completed the Codecademy JS course but feel like I need to do certain parts of it to really cement my knowledge of it. I'm also trying to build some basic apps in Xamarin.iOS since C# is my bread and butter. I feel like I might struggle with this for some time :/ Outside of development, I'm studying Farsi, getting back into…
For JS, have you seen this? http://eloquentjavascript.net/
Swift, React, long-distance running (surprisingly, there are things to learn about endurance running)
Passively learning survivalist skills by watching Survivorman.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Monsen
EDIT: DRM-free version of the great '365 Nordkalotten' available via Bittorrent here:
https://nrkbeta.no/2008/01/29/norwegian-broadcasting-nrk-mak...
Or the location-aware Norwegian TV site NRK might be good for you here: