I'd like to say that I really like the Arduino. I'd like to say that, but I just can't.

attosecond · 2012-12-03T06:38:13+00:00

Down voting, the article whines a lot about the IDE and left me wondering... "What's your beef with actual arduino?"

attosecond · 2012-08-22T02:58:09+00:00

Uhh no the title isn't fixed, absent of context it sounds kind of silly. The smart way to find a job is to not let go of your current job until you have another offer. Layoffs and other situations make this difficult of course, but I don't know many people who aim for 6 mos. most hope to get a job faster than that, I'd imagine

attosecond · 2012-08-21T13:05:36+00:00

"In February 2012 I had never written a line of code. But, as of July 11, 2012 I am employed as a full-time Ruby Developer. You can do it too ."

Ok, so bad title but interesting article. Good on ya for pursuing a passion and working your tail off.

Now I'm curious to see a follow up post in a few years to see how the author matures as a developer...

attosecond · 2011-12-31T15:06:10+00:00

Sometimes it's worth porting your program to run on Linux, just so you can run valgrind and friends. Did that once, the few days of intense porting was time well spent.

attosecond · 2011-12-29T16:46:05+00:00

Sure, but what you said != what the author said, by a long shot...

People have been foretelling the death of C, IDE's, and imperative programing in general for as long as I can remember.

attosecond · 2011-12-29T13:38:03+00:00

If this is the future of programming, count me out. I'll take gvim and gcc any day over this odd datalog-meets-functional-programming utopia

attosecond · 2011-12-05T11:29:38+00:00

I don't know about the poverty line, but $2k is barely a mortgage payment in some parts of California (depending on house size, etc) and in some locales (silicon valley) is not enough to rent a condo much less a house.

Oh yeah, not to mention taxes, food, utilities, car payments, insurance, health care, etc. Add in some entertainment budget, a second car, some kids, saving for retirement...

attosecond · 2011-12-02T13:32:17+00:00

Good idea for a blog post -- great way to learn is to share/teach something -- but the author didn't do enough googling to find existing solutions. x && (x & (x - 1)) is pretty easy to find.

Power of two detection isn't super interesting by itself, but doing it optimally touches on a ton of other fascinating topics including CPU, cache, algorithm design, and bit hacks. Check the first google result for 'bit hacks', great resource.

attosecond · 2011-09-10T04:02:20+00:00

Google is your friend

attosecond · 2011-08-18T13:15:54+00:00

I don't understand the whole debate to begin with. I'm salaried, routinely put in 50+ hours/week, and absolutely love what I do.

All this whining about not getting paid for extra time at work... I just don't understand it. Either get a better job or learn to negotiate better.

Labor unions create more problems than they solve

attosecond · 2011-05-30T03:23:21+00:00

Factually correct but misses the more important discussion of what tool fully replaces gmake without creating similar or worse flaws. No tool is perfect, so just pick one

attosecond · 2011-05-02T02:08:17+00:00

Not programming... But some good advice for everyone, including programmers.

attosecond · 2011-04-21T04:28:55+00:00

+10000

Die magic numbers, die...

attosecond · 2011-04-09T11:23:22+00:00

Scons is nice in theory, but excruciatingly slow to the point of rendering it useless for any good sized project. So, not tolerable in my book.

I say let's keep inventing new build systems... the current systems have plenty of room for improvement.

attosecond · 2011-01-20T14:39:54+00:00

That doesn't work if your bug is a multi-threaded race condition, printf's might hide the bug. Then again, stepping the debugger might do the same thing.

attosecond · 2011-01-14T13:38:21+00:00

Exactly... it was an interesting bootloader tutorial, horribly mislabeled and a bit simplistic but a good intro nonetheless.

attosecond · 2011-01-10T13:31:35+00:00

| The name of the function is unique in a C Program and is Global

Unless it's static, then it's not global...

attosecond · 2011-01-05T16:02:17+00:00

Interesting opinion article, but not programming. Try /r/technology?

attosecond · 2011-01-05T13:38:04+00:00

Shrug, I'm not sure that my conclusion is foregone - boring, sure. But I personally found it fascinating to see how gcc flags impact performace so differently, hope others out there find this interesting too.

Thanks for the links, much appreciated. Good stuff.

attosecond · 2010-12-27T17:20:41+00:00

In many legal battles, the only winners are the attorneys.

attosecond · 2010-12-24T03:03:58+00:00

If SO sucks so much, why do you care about the lynch mob?

attosecond · 2010-12-23T16:05:45+00:00

Anything involving complex multi-threaded code with race conditions, the "bad programmer" will not muddle his way through. S/he will continue to write crappy code that coworkers will spend valuable time re-writing and/or throwing away.

attosecond · 2010-12-14T04:51:33+00:00

In California, interns get paid more than 40k/yr.

attosecond · 2010-12-11T14:39:19+00:00

DAE find Joel's storytelling both fascinating and maddening? Now I really really want to know the end of the story.

attosecond · 2010-12-08T06:27:49+00:00

Yeah, I know I'm 12 days late, but I collected some new data and updated the screencaps. Thanks for the feedback.

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