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Posted by
thepreacher on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @10:03AM
from the self-post dept.
Environmental Management and Technology
I have been looking for a way to marry my interest in programming ( and general love for technology) with environmental protection. I have come across a program BSc (Honours) Environmental Management and Technology offered by some universities. Unfortunately I am unable to afford the cost of attending a university at the moment and I cannot wait untill I...
I have also thought about this lately although not exactly in terms of being taken seriously as a developer but I am noticing more and more that, the "publicly seen" portable computer of choice is Mac OS X. In more and more recorded video tutorials, presentations(seminars)- you see the developer using Mac OS X. Sure I know it doesn't matter what you use as long as the job gets done. However sometimes you wonder why a mentor or someone you learn from change from say a Linux box to a Mac. You want to know what tipped the scale in favour of a Mac.
Posted by
thepreacher on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @09:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I ask this because I have just had a light come on in my head. I know its a brilliant idea and will work if implemented properly. I have some of the skills required and I can find people to help with the things I cannot do. However in-explaining to them what the idea is, they can go behind me and get it done faster. Heck, they can get it done without my help. The way I see it I have two...
Its quite fascinating seeing heavy weights have a go at each other. Most of the discussion here is right over my head but I find myself quite enjoying it. At least its better that the current boxing heavy weight scene. This is about the only post on hacker news that I have read comments on from start to finish. Brilliant all!
I agree, parents should be asked to pay a small fee. The cost of a burger will not be bad. I am planning on starting something like that in my children's school if the head will agree. In order not to disadvantage the really needy families, I don't mind teaching such children for free, but that need must be proven in order to stop abuse.
I have never done this before,(ie buy a book based on the Table of content), but this is going to be my first. I am pre ordering from Amazon UK. Do you have any idea when it will reach sellers outside the US?
Oh and I hope for a first edition the typos are not too much?
What version of python did you cover? I've gone through the table of content and since you introduce? Django, I take if you cover python 2.x and not 3.0? Any way well done.
Posted by
thepreacher on Monday January 30, 2012 @12:59AM
from the self-post dept.
Auto update just popped up on my Mint system and firefox 10 is one of the updates. I thought it was tomorrow? Oh well then. update!
wow, I'm intrigued. it must be an experience just watching someone like that work!
Posted by
thepreacher on Thursday January 26, 2012 @11:26AM
from the self-post dept.
Just a thought, do you know any "blind" programmers?
Doesn't the new auto complete and the plug-in SublimeCodeIntel do the same thing? One of my concerns is that say you are using a plug-in for a feature that is later implemented into Sublime, now you haven't read the what's new so you have no idea. What happens then?