Ah - then I guess it is true. That is the polar opposite of my experience.

Have you tried strattera? A few or my friends swear by it.

hmmm... now i'm not so sure. maybe it can mean both things. to me always had the connotation of checking out, which i don't associate with adderral/benzadrine, but i guess those drugs can be a form of a checking out too....

Maybe mothers in the 50s cared more about getting their housework done so they could have dinner and scotch ready for their Mad Men husbands when they got home. Whereas mothers in the 60s and 70s had no ****ing clue which way was up - so valium helped calm the waters.

Anyone have any good resources on becoming an SQL ninja? Those coursera type deals don't interest me much since I tend to blitz through content. I realized I'm stuck in rails ORM land and need to learn to write some more complex queries for when the occasion arises.

Also I feel ******ed not knowing basically any SQL.

I wouldn't mind a single source up to date SQL overview (ideally completely neutral or geared towards postgres) so I'll just +1 that

Learned my SQL from the mSQL and MySQL book by O'Reilly which is aeons old lol

I'll have to +1 that too. I still have to look up how to do what I want to do far more than I should.

I really liked http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596009762.do and used it a lot when I was doing SQL programming.

Edit: Probably not for complete beginners and its an lol-book.

I work in a customer service capacity at the moment. I have an opportunity to help out with programming at my current job and possibly move to that department if things work out. 95% of the tasks involve VB.net 2008. Can anyone recommend any resources for learning the language?

Do you want to learn the entire language or just 1/5th of it?

Does anyone have an idea of how long it would take to write a program that converts one type of hand history to another type?

The coursera class is self-study, so you can storm it as fast as you like. I'm not sure if they still do it, but I know they had a program where you can enter your SQL and get graded on accuracy.

? I thought a Prolog programmer would be a natural as SQL ? Except with the specific syntax.

Its easy, just google "regular expressions". You're welcome.

Thanks, reading up on it right now. Would this be hard for someone with zero knowledge of programming?

I'm mostly looking for some decent reference for my library/desktop but wouldn't mind a quick whirlwind refresher tour that can be read in a day. Yeah Prolog is pretty similar an implication is pretty much a select * and binding it (as) and the where part is the body of a predicate.

I think using Regular expressions for this would quickly become a headache.

I think the best way to do this would be to create a standard way of representing a hand that you design yourself. Then create methods that convert hands from site x into your format, and vice versa by writing your own hand parsers.

+1

You might end up using some regexes for individual line parsing, but trying to solve the problem as a whole that way would be misguided imo.

Valium every day seems like a bad idea just from a practicality standpoint. Tolerance is built ridiculously quickly and doesn't seem to go away. If you rarely take it then 2mg can make you feel great, but after just building it up a little bit, even 40mg can become nearly unnoticeable.

Great chart.

http://sweetmelancholy.tumblr.com/po...d-look-at-this

anyone experienced with creating/forking sublime text syntax packages? There's this one bug in the jQuery one that annoys me constantly and I can't seem to figure out the XML and um yeah want someone to just fix it for me without any more effort on my part.

Best comment I've read on Hacker News in a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733173

Emacs users: have you ever had your init file working one day then the next, it isn't? I'm trying to figure out what could be going wrong here.

I'm having one of those days. I needed to iterate through an array and then some times slice the first index off of array during the iteration. Obviously, it caused it to skip every other index. I tried a bunch of solutions and couldn't get it to work beyond moving logic unneeded-ly out of the iteration. Finally I gave up and went to stack overflow.

Yeah that's one of those "tricks" you'll never forget once you've used it because you hacked around creating code that was hard to follow and then it's like...eh lol yeah that's simple.

I think pretty much every programmer had the old "removing items screws up my pretty loop...HELP" moment at some point

For those that are interested, csharp-mode.el is really nice to work with and incredibly easy to set up. Took less time to set it up than it did to download .Net / etc.

I'm really trying to wrap my brain around why anyone would voluntarily use Visual Studio. I feel like it actively fights against the developer's interest. The default non-existent formatting, the lack of hot-keys, and the way it formats is just frumpy. While the auto-complete is okay-ish, I don't think the implementation of auto-complete is done very well.

It's quite shocking that Emacs does so much more so much better yet VS cost money to use. Yeah, this sounds religious, but using VS makes me think "Why can't I do this?" over and over again. The one I really miss and apparently doesn't exist is "jump to end bracket." The closest I can find is: http://vkreynin.wordpress.com/2008/0...visual-studio/, but that requires going back to the original brace. I'm looking for the M-e equivalent where I can be anywhere within the bracket and jump to the ending brace. I would think that this would be built in.

While building up the web-page prototypes, he would ask me to copy-paste a section of HTML 6 times. In VS, this is painfully slow. In Emacs, I would M-a, C-<spc>, M-e, C-w, C-6, C-y, and it's done. Plus, the way that VS formats HTML, it can be rather difficult to find where the open-close section is, so it's even more mental overload. This hurts my eyes, but according to VS, this is correct code:

I'm just getting started and I want to rant on and on and on and on until I feel better....

****

Regardless, C# seems like a pretty cool language to work with so far. There seems to be a lot of interesting ideas in there, but I'm still working through the basics. I'm getting the impression that, philosophically, there are many different approaches to creating programs. Some approaches seem massively convoluted. According the boss-guy, the debate is between composition and polymorphism. I'm currently working through the MS tutorial, and there are definitely areas where I'm thinking "why would anyone do such a thing?"

You might find this book interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Depth-Second-E...8999663&sr=8-1

The 3rd edition is coming out in a month.

oh, dave.

you're daniel larusso from karate kid! you've been training in isolation, so you have no idea how good you are compared to the other kids. but it turns out that clojure + emacs is like mr. miyagi: kinda kooky at first, but in touch with some fundamentally powerful ****. i predict that you will be hoisting many trophies in your future.