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11-26-2015 , 01:08 AM

#21076

Bantam222

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http://mvc-the-podcast.github.io/201...ching-css.html

Here is one pod cast I found. Hosts are a computer science lecturer for Stanfords intro cs classes, and a Google developer. Content is kinda meh but I haven't been able to find anything better.

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11-26-2015 , 08:41 AM

#21077

SmileyEH

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I enjoy this python focused one: http://talkpython.fm/.

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11-26-2015 , 06:26 PM

#21078

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by candybar

It's not always good to be this early of an adopter for large, complex production apps because the ecosystem is probably not fully fleshed out, which means you will be implementing things yourself that would you'd eventually want to replace with 3rd party components or even features of the framework

One thing to note though if you haven't seen it is that Google released a module called ng-upgrade, which will allow you to use Angular 1.x components in Angular 2 applications. So assuming that works properly, the Angular 1.x ecosystem should still be available.

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11-27-2015 , 12:42 AM

#21079

Baltimore Jones

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Originally Posted by Roonil Wazlib

Personally, I'm rather fond of consciousness, and don't understand the idea of accepting an eternity of non-existence. Can't google throw several billion dollars at this problem and get it fixed?

They're on it, Calico and probably secret teams too.

There was a book that I read a few years ago about the science of immortality (oh fine I looked it up, "Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality") where the speculation is that it's pretty close.

In the meantime you could watch Hannah and Her Sisters which has some pretty profound answers for you.

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11-27-2015 , 12:33 PM

#21080

Tim Brice

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Has the Rails job market kind of dried up? I was thinking about starting to learn it but it looks like the major city (DC) I am planning to move into in a few years does not have many job listings.

Maybe I should stick with Java.

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11-27-2015 , 02:26 PM

#21081

maxtower

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Originally Posted by Tim Brice

What site are you using for listings?

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11-27-2015 , 07:09 PM

#21082

Loki

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Originally Posted by kazana

No opinion on JS stuff - not a JS dev myself - but believe it is a good idea to get your head out of strict code related stuff during semester breaks and read more meta-ish stuff.
Books such as "Programming Pearls" and similar. The sooner and more frequently you form a (blurry) bigger picture the better in my opinion.

Any other sort of books like this people can recommend for between semesters?

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11-27-2015 , 11:38 PM

#21083

daveT

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JavaScript; the Good Parts is a very good book. Never mind the fact that Good Parts is the shortest programming book ever written, while still spending 75% of the book talking about the bad parts, it will give a solid framework for approaching all programming languages because they all have bad parts.

Wiley's Assembly Language is ostensibly about x86, but doesn't spend a whole lot of time talking about programming it. It is full of fun history.

Beautiful Code is another book of not-so-much programming, but full of neat little ideas.

Hackers, Heros of the Computer Revolution may be interesting to you. It is about the old-school hacker culture. Think DEP machines.

The Productive Programmer is full of little bits of information, but mostly somewhat common sense.

Don't Make Me Think is a usability and UI guide. It won't make you a UI expert, but it is a fun little book that I think hits the mark (and you may be tempted to send a PDF to 99% of all websites you visit).

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11-28-2015 , 07:44 PM

#21084

Baltimore Jones

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Originally Posted by daveT

Hackers, Heros of the Computer Revolution may be interesting to you. It is about the old-school hacker culture. Think DEP machines.

This is one of my GOAT books, top 5. A good chunk of it is about Sierra On-Line, one of the early computer game companies, and the crazy culture they had there in a California mountain town.

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11-28-2015 , 08:21 PM

#21085

Barrin6

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

Any other sort of books like this people can recommend for between semesters?

CLRS is the gold standard.

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11-28-2015 , 09:15 PM

#21086

penguinpoker

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Originally Posted by Barrin6

That's probably because you guys shouldn't' be leaving the architectural decisions up to the offshore team. The guidelines should be scoped and specific as to not to leave any leeway for misinterpretation.

Anyways, had this problem from a hackerrank contest that I could not figure out. I spent 3 hours and it is supposedly rated easy.

For example $5 would have 4 different ways.
(1,1,1,1,1)
(2,1,1,1)
(2,2,1)
(5)

Am I a dumbass?

I did a mock interview with a Google employee today where I got torn apart for doing some O(n+m) solution instead of O(logn). And then I saw this problem above; my confidence is at an all time low.

Apparently, I need more work with dynamic programming and divide and conquer. Whatever that is.

You can make an easy brute solution force to it. Make 7 nested loops, one for each currency. the outer most loop is the hundreds and goes from 0 to N/100. The inner most loop is the ones and goes from 0 to N. Check every combo.

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11-28-2015 , 10:45 PM

#21087

daveT

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Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones

This is one of my GOAT books, top 5. A good chunk of it is about Sierra On-Line, one of the early computer game companies, and the crazy culture they had there in a California mountain town.

Glad there is a +1 on this. I haven't read it entirely yet.

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11-28-2015 , 11:33 PM

#21088

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones

This is one of my GOAT books, top 5. A good chunk of it is about Sierra On-Line, one of the early computer game companies, and the crazy culture they had there in a California mountain town.

If you're into that sort of thing, check out Masters of Deception. I didn't know those guys personally but knew people who were doing the same thing. Someone gave me a password to get into Ma Bell one time. We poked around a little but got spooked.

I was more into trading pirated Commodore 64 video games over BBSs. We did have a bunch of codes for free long distance. Someone had figured out Sprint's algorithm for creating the 12-digit (I think) pins. Lol at not using random.

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11-29-2015 , 12:49 AM

#21089

Baltimore Jones

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

There's a really great episodic documentary by Jason Scott called "BBS: The Documentary". You can find full downloads of it legally.

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11-29-2015 , 10:11 PM

#21090

clowntable

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Originally Posted by Bantam222

Are there any good technical podcasts you guys listen to for both entertainment or learning purposes? I'm having trouble finding any. Would be nice to learn some stuff while I'm driving around.

Only FLOSS weekly which basically features random FLOSS projects and can be technical or gossipy. Good light listening.
https://twit.tv/episodes?filter[shows]=1639

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11-29-2015 , 10:17 PM

#21091

clowntable

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Originally Posted by daveT

Good list, "The Design of Everyday Things" is still a classic. Not about software but rather real world objects but the design principles can be applied. I still enjoy hanging out by heavily frequented doors and snickerng at the usability issues every now and then

A good algorithm book is probably also a good idea. I like "The Algorithm Design Manual" quite a bit.

For JS I can recommend my personal two book course of "Eloquent JavaScript" followed by "Functional JavaScript". It's a pretty steep learning curve though (imo)

I still haven't worked through it but "The Elements of Computing Systems" is pretty nice. Build a computer from first principles (NAND gate to operating system running Tetris). Pretty fun if you enjoy this sort of thing.

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11-29-2015 , 10:20 PM

#21092

suzzer99

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For general design - I really like The Art of Innovation.

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12-01-2015 , 07:10 AM

#21093

kazana

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Another one from my library, I found Clean Code fairly enlightening, too.

Not to be used as dogmatic "thou shalt (not)" reference, but points out some really good things to keep in mind. Having read it, it will affect the way you look at what you're coding. In most cases, in a good way.

I did get bored at the database stuff as I found it less useful for my daily routines. So did not progress beyong those chapters.

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12-01-2015 , 10:32 PM

#21094

Grue

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The more I write it the more JSX continues to confound me. Must have closing input tags? "defaultChecked" instead of "checked" for input[type="checkbox"]? Ohh kayyyy. And like you really couldn't handle "class" and need me to do "className" 1000x?

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12-01-2015 , 10:58 PM

#21095

e i pi

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uh oh... the rabble are starting to use react now

it'll be dead in a year

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12-01-2015 , 11:49 PM

#21096

suzzer99

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When we converted a big part of our site from Weblogic to node - we were so swamped with other stuff let our offshore team own a part of it that we knew very few users actually used. I'm going through it now to make a POC for something else and finding code like this:

Code:

if (typeof(req.query.resultsetstart)=== "undefined")
  req.query.resultsetstart=1;
else  
  req.query.resultsetstart=req.query.resultsetstart;
        
if (typeof(req.query.resultsetend)=== "undefined")
  req.query.resultsetend=3;
else
  req.query.resultsetend=req.query.resultsetend;

Those else blocks are really doing a lot there guys. Unbelievable. And this is *after* they had a big code cleanup round that I wasn't involved in. I'm guessing at one time the subject in the else blocks was a variable - then someone just replaced it with req.query.resultsetend w/o paying a tiny bit of attention to notice that the code was now doing nothing.

Also you should never modify the incoming query object - but that one I can forgive as run of the mill bad coding, not surreal lack of basic understanding like the else blocks.

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12-01-2015 , 11:51 PM

#21097

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by e i pi

uh oh... the rabble are starting to use react now

it'll be dead in a year

You're still on React? Psshhh - get with the times old man - everyone uses Flummox now.

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12-01-2015 , 11:51 PM

#21098

suzzer99

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Note to self: flummox would make a pretty awesome framework name.

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12-01-2015 , 11:59 PM

#21099

daveT

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Note to self: flummox would make a pretty awesome framework name.

http://acdlite.github.io/flummox

https://discuss.reactjs.org/t/lost-o...ion-to-use/545

With saying that I feel lost on what flux implementation to actually persue. The last few weeks been playing with flux, mcfly, fluxible, marty and the list goes on. Each with there own pro's and con's (sigh).

>>>

am faced with the same dilemma. Currently using Flummox, but want to migrate after its deprecated.

I want something that will be long-term maintained, and uses a single centralized store.

Options:

Redux
Microcosm
NuclearJS

http://dailyjs.com/2015/04/12/webrx-flummox/

Flummux seems to be some Flux-on-top-of React WebRX framework that combines the dependencies of Angular UI router, built on top of ReactRX with strong influence from Knockout, focused on people who like TypeScript!

I do not envy JS devs at all. Some world you all created for yourselves.