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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: May 2011

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. Open Letter to Pascal. My friend Pascal recently asked me what books I would recommend he read to learn the basics of programming. He'd been looking into it for a while but simply couldn't decide where to start, given the multitude of programming books available. In Pascal's case, I'd recommend The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. For everyone else (myself included), I'd put The Little Schemer. And The Reasoned Schemer. Why not Learn to Program. In all it...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: Drugs, meditation, warnings.

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. Drugs, meditation, warnings. I certainly don't recommend. Anyone try drugs; as with anything in life, only do what seems safe to you. Carefully judge what you and the people around you are comfortable with. I strongly recommend against experimenting with non-informative drugs, and all drugs fall into this category with enough use. Before I begin, it's worth noting that I have stopped all drug use for this reason, save tea and coffee. Zazen at Bodhi Zendo:. A few friends ac...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: May 2012

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. Defining the interface for rubymonk. Discussing an interview I had yesterday - quite interesting when delivered with Aninda. Friend, we stumbled on the fact that everything in Computer Science is an interface. From the moment you differentiate data from code, which wasn't immediately obvious to even the first computer programmers twiddling individual bits. Here are some interfaces:. Http:/ www.c42.in/a url is an interface/. We'll come back to this.). Ps aux grep clojure.

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: Why Ayurveda? Because Science!

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. He squinted through a pair of wrap-around sunglasses, the kind one often expects to see on the crowning end of a wheelchair with wings of lenses spread wide and soaring across a sea of wrinkles - or drool, if the sea had previously suffered a stroke. Or at home in makeshift bingo halls constructed of a dusty old Lions Club because all the Lions and Lionesses were dead and even the Rotary Club (Rotors? Build a bird feeder? In fact, they are identical entities if one can fin...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: December 2011

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. Programming is for girls! My buddy Anne recently posted some of her favourite articles. On the subject of women in Computer Science. I wrote an article last year which presupposed her question, "Programming is for girls? Programming is for everybody. Granted, not everyone who writes an Excel macro will be so enamored with their creation that they feel the need to master Haskell. The wonderful thing about Computer Science today is that they could. Startups are sexy by their...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: Welcome, gratitude.

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. The strategy recommended by everyone I spoke to was familiar: distraction. "You can't read? You should watch movies! You can't even watch TV? You should definitely get some audiobooks." The familiar imagery of a sick child surrounded by books, video games, and constant television stood in stark contrast to the time I spent trapped in a Marriott. I meditated. I bathed. I ate. I thought. Was the me of the past worthy of my anger and disappointment? That emotion is easily sto...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: February 2011

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. FlyMake does not like JRuby. JRuby often works out-of-the-box wherever MRI does. FlyMake is not one of those cases. Flymake expects a particular format for error messages returned from the interpreter: MRI error messages. Charlie and Friends have decided the MRI error messages can be a bit opaque. And upgraded them to something a little more readable. Sadly, this breaks anything attempting to parse those messages. List "ruby" (list "-c" local-file) ). This is steven deobald.

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: November 2014

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. I recently wrote about how thankful I am. After a decade in software, to work for an employer which inherently understands my values and the values of all my colleagues. That employer is me. That employer is also all of my colleagues. That employer is nilenso. A software cooperative owned and operated by its employees here in Bangalore. What is a coop? Each condo is sold to an individual and that individual has no ownership or authority over the building as a whole. It...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: October 2011

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. Clojure Macros: How Evil? Asked me at the Chicago Clojure Meetup this week if Clojure macros tend to send developers into the death spiral of metaprogramming Ruby's various hooks did when we first discovered those. The canonical example of evil Ruby metaprogramming is everyone's favourite this-will-trim-8-lines-of-code hack: strings to method names. Have you ever written something like this? Bad in these languages. Macros feel like adding a feature to the language. Macros ...

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious.: defining the interface for rubymonk

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Hungry, horny, sleepy, curious. Defining the interface for rubymonk. Discussing an interview I had yesterday - quite interesting when delivered with Aninda. Friend, we stumbled on the fact that everything in Computer Science is an interface. From the moment you differentiate data from code, which wasn't immediately obvious to even the first computer programmers twiddling individual bits. Here are some interfaces:. Http:/ www.c42.in/a url is an interface/. We'll come back to this.). Ps aux grep clojure.