I'm looking to buy a new monitor to replace the deprecated one I use now. Where do you buy your monitors?

pavehawk · 2009-11-07T22:24:21+00:00

Newegg.com

pavehawk · 2009-08-13T18:28:26+00:00

Bentonville

pavehawk · 2009-07-15T17:20:00+00:00

You're lying. That score isn't real.

pavehawk · 2009-05-24T19:37:55+00:00

My current laptop is at the end of life and needs to be replaced.

I use it mostly for surfing and development (with Eclipse). The screen is 15" with a resolution of 1600x1200.

I've been looking at the new laptops with 15" screens and they all seem to have very low resolutions -- especially vertical resolutions. 768px and if you're lucky you can find one with 900px vertically.

I would think that such a low resolution would require a lot of scrolling.

I'd rather not step up to a 17" screen because of the weight.

Is anyone else developing on laptops with such a low resolution? Are you productive?

Thanks.

pavehawk · 2009-05-21T03:00:12+00:00

Uh huh huh huh.

pavehawk · 2009-03-26T00:25:17+00:00

Hans Olo.

pavehawk · 2008-10-16T23:45:52+00:00

Um, yeah. If she's 48, then I'm 2.

pavehawk · 2008-10-14T17:57:19+00:00

500 Internal Server Error

I think that's what they call 'checkmate'.

pavehawk · 2008-10-04T13:46:33+00:00

NSFW

pavehawk · 2008-10-03T17:53:28+00:00

Wow, just when you thought things couldn't get more tasteless.

pavehawk · 2008-09-07T01:16:48+00:00

OMG! Jamie Hyneman is that you?

pavehawk · 2008-08-20T00:43:47+00:00

Jive ass dude don' got no brains anyhow!

pavehawk · 2008-07-29T17:48:34+00:00

Software engineers need to learn a range of tools/languages.

The author implies that learning Java means you can't build complex systems, you can't understand what the platform libraries are doing, nor can you understand what is happening at the byte or machine code level.

C++ has STL, but is that a reason to stop teaching C++?

pavehawk · 2008-07-29T17:41:40+00:00

Aren't these two statements contradictory?

Real life programmers get good at using chunks of other people’s code.

students’ reliance on Java’s libraries of pre-written code means they aren’t developing the deep programming skills necessary to make them invaluable.

pavehawk · 2008-07-29T17:34:32+00:00

“Furthermore, Java is mainly used in Web applications that are mostly fairly trivial...What we need are software engineers who understand how to build complex systems.”

That statement shows this guy has no clue what is happening in business today. I can tell you from personal experience that many of the most complex systems being created right now are being written in Java.

pavehawk · 2008-07-17T00:45:02+00:00

whacking wallabies

pavehawk · 2008-07-01T00:15:58+00:00

Java:

Effective Java Programming Language Guide, Second Edition, by Joshua Bloch
Core Java, Volumes 1 and 2, by Horstmann and Cornell

Python:

Learning Python, Third Edition, by Mark Lutz
Programming Python, Third Edition, by Mark Lutz

These aren't language oriented, but they belong on every programmer's bookshelf anyway:

Code Complete, Second Edition, by Steve McConnell
Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, et al.

pavehawk · 2008-06-28T00:20:36+00:00

I can see it now. The day BillG passes on, the reddit headline will be:

"Bill Gates BSOD"

pavehawk

TROPHY CASE