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Re:Unlearn, young programmer on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:54AM (#3738719)
I feel this resonating quite strongly with me as I'm that young programmer that needs mentoring. Occasionally I get stuck with questions which I can't google answers for (for they result in the drywood type of solutions) and I don't have anyone to ask. Sure, there are many, many people around me (professors, older students) who do know the answers to those questions, but but one question always paves way for another and asking them to make a commitment for longer than half an hour seems like asking too much.
Re:Poll: Do you test your code? on Thursday March 15, 2012 @07:53AM (#3707962)
what book?
Re:Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe on Sunday February 12, 2012 @06:07AM (#3581566)
Protests in Estonia: 1500 in Tallinn and 700 in Tartu. http://www.360pano.eu/stop-acta/#.TzaolywVaW0.twitter
I might be missing the point, but math is just working with symbols - we don't need to bend to fit the symbols, but we can make the symbols bend to fit us. The way math was written 200 years ago won't be the way we write it in a few decades, will it?
Re:Why I signed ACTA on Thursday February 02, 2012 @02:19PM (#3544069)
The problem is that it's vague, meaning that not even top lawyers interpret it the same way. According to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy3zBZ4vI4E in such a case (according to the Vienna Convention) interpreted such laws requires the documents during the drafting phase of the convention. In case of ACTA these documents are secret even to the governments that have signed the agreement.

Paranoid yet?

ACTA is not only US.
This isn't right - they gave money to people outside of US last two times.
Re:Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @07:14AM (#3451414)
What exactly? They're not bankrupt, just gained some bad rep and continued working.
Re:Write a Compiler in Python - The Experiment Begins on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @07:44PM (#3422107)
Too bad the schedule for awesome chances like this to almost never seem to fit with the spare time I have. I'm way past the only-kiddy projects phase, yet haven't found anything big (as in a project shared with others) to hack on.
Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @10:20AM (#3377739)
:( Darn. Too bad I'm not american. Nevertheless, good effort! Let us know how it works out.
Re:Where Book Selling is Headed on Saturday December 03, 2011 @11:03AM (#3307982)
And in the end, there won't be a trace of the next generation, since there won't be any physical records left...