Finally learned how to change dir to ls in Windows today. So happy!

It is an exiting year for a lot of people. Not only this, but finally Perl6 and PostgreSQL finally gets UPSERT and a whole load of other really cool things.

Congratulations! You finally discovered Powershell?

Nah, batch file in the Windows directory

I had the most cleanest copy of Windows 8.1 installed with all sorts of terminal commands by C++ that I had pointed my system paths to the respected compiled output files.

Now Windows 10 comes out and I expected the upgrade to be super smooth but nope, their Windows Security would not enable and the only support was clean install on formatted drive or whatever automatic option they had to do that.

Anyway, I lost all those configurations by forgetting to save them.

Today i'm trying to configure some apps to work correctly on secondary account on macbook pro because of name change.

This gem was extremely useful:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Applications/X

Oh and a rant about iTunes is that apple music needs the same song downloaded multiple times on the same machine, even when using the family sharing setup. What a waste of space, even have it configured to share the music in system settings but big fat nope.

iosys,

Really big risk you are taking with just one semester, but good luck man! Get me a job too please, I'm still looking for internships for next summer.

I feel like I should drop out too, but I don't have a job lined up so I'll be playing it safe. Still got 4 quarters left, which is basically 2.5 semesters for you semester people.

Actually the system is capable of doing this today generally speaking.
CoffeeScript - Accelerated JavaScript development

Read the portion at the end entitled thinking asynchronously. It states that essentially CoffeeScript essentially will not take advantage of multicore systems. It seems that when using that editor you are stuck with a sequential execution model.

That's not a limitation of coffeescript, it's just the code execution model of nodejs. Back when I wrote nodejs apps I would just run a web app on each core and load balance them to effectively max out a machine's CPU.

In this case I would guess they use some library to deal with the low level details of utilizing more than 1 core but I haven't looked at the source code personally.

I thought you had to be in classes the following semester for a summer internship, but apparently not all of them are that way.

Started applying to some last night.

Well it is basically a limitation of coffeescript nonetheless. Sure you can run a separate web app on each core but that is different than running a single app on multiple cores IE multi threading. One of the reasons to use multi threading is to do operations in parallel while an app is performing something slow like I/O especially if you are reading data from a relatively slow device like a disk. You are using an SSD so who knows what the issue is. Again, not sure why the editor is slow but you are stuck with a sequential execution model when using it.

Skitch? **** that thing. I found it pretty much useless. But it's been a while so I can't remember why.

And good luck uninstalling it. It still runs from the Trash, and for some reason my corporate "secure trash" thing couldn't figure out how to delete it. I finally figured out to restore it, then delete it from Terminal.

Nah it's not Skitch. It's the embedded screen capture tool that comes with the native Evernote client. Its process name is EvernoteClipper.

@Barrin6 Life is risky, I could die at any given moment lol......

The thing is that I consider myself a degenerate but successful at it.
Everything I do, i'll usually gravitate towards the most risky situation because I find the most fun/energy receiving by taking that path.

Its not like i'm not a motivated person, I believe most if not all developers, are in the high percentile of motivated people. Learning about the all depths of technology is basically akin to figuring out; how to create anything. There is very little guess work in the field, besides if people will run with the thing and that is pretty beautiful.

I remember at the start of high school, when I wanted to get into programming but had no clear idea of where to go in learning. That is non existent anymore, learning is a never ending path but I now know the map of everything to keep up on and learn to achieve what I want.

Life is sort of like a movie for every individual and I want to be the one conducting my movie from now on. I see more beauty, if finally dropping out in my story, when I never wanted a 'degree' and I have many ideas written up in my head that I just need to get finished with help of new acquaintances or continuous work by myself.

If I land the job, that I want with friend in California, i'll be really happy but I have many options if that doesn't work. I've always been the type to wait till the last moment and work in overdrive for everything.

/overdrive_enabled

I also checked out Evernote and its sort of bloated for just wanting the desktop taking pic tool.

On a related note to uninstalling it, I'm using my 250+gb flash drive to put all the applications I need to install, if I were to format my machine.
I'm going to be doing a clean install, over a formatted fresh drive on my macbook pro sometime this week.

Going to setup all the path variables, install all dependencies, updates and re-download everything extra but will be worth it.

Sadly, i'm on such a slow internet setup that it takes ages to download one app but there is no bandwidth cap.

Need to call up apple and get rid of the password keeping me from formatting the drive that I forgot. So that will be a headache but people say online it shouldn't be an issue.

Is the desktop pic taking tool you are looking for for os x?
If so, a screenshot tool is built-in already. cmd + shift + 3 for full screen, cmd + shift + 4 for partial screenshot.

Yah the feature that would be cool is automatic upload with url after taking the screenshot.
That with a menubar option, instead of the shortcuts, would be nice for small pics too.

With fullscreen games, you always have to memorize the shortcut though.

Anyone ever use the browser Yandex?
Its Russian based and seems pretty fast after testing it.
Just came across it today and thought I would check it out because never knew about it. Seems like they built it off of chromium.

You could use img.urls app from imgur to then drag screenshot onto that (so place it on the dock). The direct link will be put on the clipboard.

Like so.

Exactly what I've been looking for, thanks!

11 straight hours of Ruby. Think my eyes are melting

Speaking of Ruby, Rails 5 is coming out really soon. DHH released a pretty nice demo of ActionCable (the new Rails way of dealing with websockets) which he used to build a simple chat room.

Switch to taking the highest EV route and not the riskiest one
I still feel like dropping out is an ego thing of sorts for you ("I made it without a degree") and like I said I'd treat that last semester as a pure challenge of willpower and get that dumb piece of paper just in case (you never know if you want to apply to the Googles of the world some day). Noone is saying that you can't just grind it out but do fun stuff on the side. Just come up with one or two medium sized projects that you want to finish and treat the semester as a side gig. Just my 2c.

But at the end of the day you have to do what feels best for yourself. Saves me 10$ :P

For the self-learners here, how do you find a good way to limit yourselves?

Like, going through Odin project, I have no clue how long modules are supposed to take. My brain goes,"oh, one module, I should do that all at once, in one sitting then!" even when the module includes reading several books and doing loads of online training.

Also find it difficult to stay on track. I know Java pretty decently after three semesters of it, but I don't know how a lot of things are done in Ruby that I do in Java, like are interfaces a thing? Will I ever need to make my own data structures? And what of gui? So I end up reading waaay more than is probably necessary and take much longer to get through stuff which, as I mention, I tend to want to do all at once.

Bad combination of traits on my part. :-/

@Noodle,

Nothing will ever beat motivation to make something you want, and just figuring out things as you need it.

You'll learn much faster by doing than trying to go through some 400 page language book or course that really doesn't teach you anything other than syntax.

Maybe I'm backwards but I tend to learn things in the opposite direction.

- Think of something I want to build
- Learn the thing that will help me build it in the best way possible as I go
- Skim language specifics as I go
- Refactor after x amount of time with knowledge I've gained while building

I've taken a couple of courses for "fundamentals", but that was more for theory, not syntax.

^^ exactly what shoe lace said is best path to go; once you've gotten a good grasp of the basics and intermediate stuff.

Just working on a project that you have in mind, while listening to music and learning as you go by researching the next thing and so on is way more fun/productive imo.

Clean install of 10.11 OS X last night, on formatted drive and hello 200+gb extra free space; that came out of nowhere with all my stuff installed/back.

This is generally how most people learn (and prefer to learn) but if this is what you do all of the time, you should occasionally try the other way. On the other hand, if you tend to learn from books, spend a lot of time contemplating and have a tendency to shy away from doing something before wrapping your head around it first, my advice would be to dive in and get your hands dirty.

Has anyone ever built a site in English and Arabic, or even English and any right-to-left language?

I'm estimating a project and want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything obvious.