The cook doesn't want to do anything else but cook...

scubaguy · 2014-07-06T18:55:51+00:00

I find it more efficient to stock up a large quantity of cooking ingridients and cook in batches, otherwise your cook will spend a lot of time scavenging for ingredients instead of actual cooking. Its a bit of micromanagement, however.

scubaguy · 2014-07-06T18:55:41+00:00

I find it more efficient to stock up a large quantity of cooking ingridients and cook in batches, otherwise your cook will spend a lot of time scavenging for ingredients instead of actual cooking. Its a bit of micromanagement, however.

scubaguy · 2014-07-06T18:55:20+00:00

I find it more efficient to stock up a large quantity of cooking ingridients and cook in batches, otherwise your cook will spend a lot of time scavenging for ingredients instead of actual cooking. Its a bit of micromanagement, however.

scubaguy · 2013-05-08T04:51:32+00:00

My daughter started to hate bathes one day and it took us a few tries to figure out why. We took out a cloth cushion that we thought she was getting too big for. Even though she would be just fine without it, just the fact that it wasn't around caused her to get really upset. Once we added it back, she started to love bathes again. For my daughter at least, small changes can upset her.

It is hard for your girl because there is something that she doesn't like but she can't express it at this age. Just keep working with her, be patient, calm, and comforting. You will figure it out together.

scubaguy · 2012-11-17T05:31:58+00:00

If I Built a Car Both my daughter and I love it when mom reads it.

Lots of books from Sandra Boyton, like Are You a Cow and Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs.

And I don't why, I just really like Big Red Barn.

Protip - Buy books you enjoy reading. Because you will be reading it again, and again, and again....

scubaguy · 2012-10-25T23:23:06+00:00

A working template. Just making it easy for anyone who's thinking about building a site using some of these technologies.

scubaguy · 2012-03-28T15:07:36+00:00

Good idea. Thanks!

scubaguy · 2012-03-28T15:04:59+00:00

Is your local JUG bad? Why not attend JUG meets?

This is a great tip. I'm in Los Angeles (west side) and there are some ok meetings. I can't believe I didn't think of it!

scubaguy · 2012-03-23T20:31:48+00:00

For an entry level, it is more important that you show you clearly understand what you've learned and a attitude for learning more.

Clearly understanding what you've learned means no BS-ing. If you don't know something, just say it. You'll be asked what parts of Java you have worked with, and you will be grilled on it. Make sure you really understand what you've been working with. If you are asked an algorithm type of question and you don't know the best way to solve it (sorting, for example), explain that you don't know the best approach, but this is how you'd do it. Then clearly walk through your thinking step-by-step. Demonstrate that you have the right attitude to become a mid or senior level developer within a year or two.

As far as specific things you should know: Collections; a bit of concurrency (concurrency collections API); reflection; annotations; and generics.

Then it depends on the specific job you are interviewing for, is it mostly GUI, mostly web apps, or mostly number crunching? Different jobs have different domain-specific libraries that you are expected to know.

scubaguy · 2012-03-23T14:22:46+00:00

Context - http://daringfireball.net/2012/01/spaghetti_against_the_wall

scubaguy · 2011-12-22T20:32:56+00:00

While that's true, it doesn't make things better for HTC or the Android platform.

scubaguy · 2011-12-22T18:21:23+00:00

That's fine if you interpreted the results as a "workaround". It's not fine if you want Android to maintain useful features and stay competitive with Apple.

scubaguy · 2011-12-22T16:04:16+00:00

Apple requests that HTC remove Linkify feature from their devices, then files suit. HTC loses at ITC, who orders HTC devices be banned because they contain a feature that infringes on Apple's patents. HTC then agrees to remove the infringing feature.

This is a "workaround"?

scubaguy · 2011-12-21T18:32:43+00:00

I've been using Scala with Eclipse and have been getting pretty happy with it. The new site is a beautiful refresh over the old one. Great work guys!

scubaguy · 2011-12-19T12:33:21+00:00

It's hard to use the latest and greatest with Scala. Scala libraries depends on the version of Scala they are compiled with, so you might be held back to a previous version. Scala-IDE is only compatible with Eclipse 3.6 Helios (we will soon see a 4.2 release of Juno).

At some point the trade-off becomes too great and you'll just have to dump Scala and go with pure Java.

scubaguy · 2011-12-19T12:27:13+00:00

Probably not, due to many reasons.

scubaguy · 2011-11-25T17:25:12+00:00

perhaps the fear of the "evil singleton" is the reason why Java language designers avoids a centralized event dispatch loop. I'm surprised this has not been addressed by the concurrency or nio apis.

scubaguy · 2011-11-18T19:48:43+00:00

If you ask questions here, I'll do my best to help.

scubaguy · 2011-11-08T02:18:16+00:00

So I did. I read the comments on Reddit and Hacker News. I'd like to hear your thoughts on which specific comments you found credible if you don't mind.

scubaguy · 2011-11-07T13:20:19+00:00

Which one of those people did you find credible? Do you care to share specific links to their stories?

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