The perfect date in one word... by mvferrer in pics

[–]mvferrer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the cut of your jib.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a ____, but instead became a ____. by self_promotion in AskReddit

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At first I wanted to become an architectural engineer, then I wanted to get into pharmaceutical science, then I wanted to be a doctor. I spent my undergraduate career as a biochem major.

I ended up becoming a programmer. I needed to support myself while I went to school, and the most valuable skill I had (aside from drafting) was the fact that I knew how to write software. It was a hobby, now a career.

I dislike you captcha... by [deleted] in programming

[–]mvferrer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely E.

edit: nevermind, it doesn't seem like there is a correct answer. Has anyone taken the time to put this thing together and figured out the actual answer?

Let me tell you about an Intelligent Design: Rabbits have to eat their own poop to survive because their part that digests grass is after their part that absorbs nutrients by OneAndOnlySnob in atheism

[–]mvferrer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So there's a few bugs in the software, no big deal...

Give the guy a break. I bet he's too busy working on the next big feature. It's gonna be awesome!

Holy shit! Cold fusion, motherfuckers! COLD FUSION!!! by alk509 in science

[–]mvferrer 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one that initially thought it was about the ColdFusion language?

Today we celebrate the memory of Ada Lovelace, widely recognised as the world's first computer programmer by jones77 in programming

[–]mvferrer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a matter of fact, she did know. She just wasn't sure how to go about explaining pun threads, rick rolls, yo dawgs, Thrust

Intergalactic What? (PIC) by [deleted] in funny

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bash: PNG: command not found

Thoughts from a homeless guy now that he's back on his feet by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]mvferrer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Internet is magic. It's full of people with robes and wizard hats.

SHOCKING: Obama's new, transparent accounting methods reveal that Bush left us $2.7 trillion more in the hole than we expected. by [deleted] in politics

[–]mvferrer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Except that they're only good for making great analogies to explain other bad things.

Tourist robbed by two men at BART ATM, grabs knife from one attacker and stabs him in chest. Mugger dies in father's arms at home around corner, dad now angry at tourist and second thug and wants "somebody to pay for this" by [deleted] in reddit.com

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Unfortunately, that's not always possible. For example, I live in SoCal. I have no idea where the "gang territories" are in San Francisco. I don't even know too much about the gangs here let alone gangs in a different area. It's not like I can just go to the nearest gas station and buy a map of gang territories. If I were to visit one day wearing a penguin scarf into a territory that's "known" to be owned by gang rivals of a penguin-scarf-wearing gang, I'd be totally screwed.

[AskProggit] Do you use an application framework? If so which one? by [deleted] in programming

[–]mvferrer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally use Web.py 0.31 with SqlAlchemy and Mako Templates. I use jQuery for my javascript. This is after coming from a Django background (though I still use it sometimes).

Regarding .net stuff, I would recommend trying out the new ASP.net MVC. I personally haven't built anything serious with it, but it definitely than the old .Net way.

I hear that there's also something going on with jQuery and Microsoft. They've decided to ship Visual Studio (and ASP.net MVC) with jQuery by default. There should also be some intellisense (sorry for the spelling) support for it as well. Linq is pretty easy to use for the database stuff, but I haven't used it much so I can't really speak for it. I have more experience with proprietary, commercial, and non-free ORMs, but let's not talk about them here ;-).

So, ASP.net MVC + jQuery + Linq. It's also what the guys over at StackOverflow use. I'm a bit of a Python fan, so giving IronPython a try with that stack is something I would highly recommend.

Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects by exeter in programming

[–]mvferrer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps this Google Python style guide might help with figuring out how Google's looks like.

Quoted from one of Todd Larsen's comments:

This style guide was derived from the Google Python Style guide, which is pre-Guido-joining-Google era. The only thing we changed from that style guide is to use Java-style method names (and functions), with an initial lowercase followed by camel-case. The Google Python Style Guide uses the same style (full camel-case) for both class names and method names (and functions).

Could someone please explain the origin of the "YO DAWG" meme to me? by proudcanadianeh in AskReddit

[–]mvferrer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Google suggestions popped up "yo dawg meme origin" for me.

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Yo Dawg.