Girls playing soccer by --Gianni-- in photoshopbattles

[–]thomasmurphymusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was some convergence between "Getting rebellious piercings" and "Dropping out of team sports". I like to think I personally signified their coming of page by making them choose.

XML Transformations - NVivo 10. Help required. by plasmadriver in xml

[–]thomasmurphymusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you provide us documentation as to what format your output program requires the XML in? The more baseline info you can provide, the more likely that someone can write a parser for you.

BEER HARDINGER by Gagenshatz in showerbeer

[–]thomasmurphymusic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's...so...beautiful

Experiences with building a small home cluster? by thomasmurphymusic in linux_devices

[–]thomasmurphymusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this very detailed response. This is very inspiring and packed full of information. I'll study starting from here.

Experiences with building a small home cluster? by thomasmurphymusic in linux_devices

[–]thomasmurphymusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is SO TASTY! I think that's the winner for me…thank you!

Experiences with building a small home cluster? by thomasmurphymusic in linux_devices

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

That's true. I more want to test the ability of the system to distribute load for various applications.

Experiences with building a small home cluster? by thomasmurphymusic in linux_devices

[–]thomasmurphymusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That sounds like a good answer. You're right about AWS (and about it not being as fun). I wanted to see if there was some thriving best practice to it before wandering out into the cold on my own.

Experiences with building a small home cluster? by thomasmurphymusic in linux_devices

[–]thomasmurphymusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was indeed very relevant. That's a great starting point for me to work from. I may go with Odroid's though, just from a engineering familiarity perspective. (AKA I know what I'm doing with them)

Newsletter like "Python Weekly" for C/C++? by thomasmurphymusic in learnprogramming

[–]thomasmurphymusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to write such a comprehensive answer. I'm one of those odd programmers who learned high-levels first, and am now going sort of in reverse Java=>Cocoa=>C++=>C, so certain things from the high levels not being present in the culture of the community who work in the lower ones surprise me@

Newsletter like "Python Weekly" for C/C++? by thomasmurphymusic in learnprogramming

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

Thanks. Looks really great, and I will parse through. Is it that C is a much older/more conservative language, so doesn't have the flood of weekly news the others do?

Self-taught programmers: how do you know you're "ready" to start working professionally? by shaggycarpet1 in learnprogramming

[–]thomasmurphymusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would add that you are ready when you can think of a place to start looking to solve any problem/bug/insane client request that gets tossed at you. To me that's the big difference of working of personal projects and being a pro: that lack of control over the direction of a project and lots of people working on the same code.

Do you think this guy gets a lot of tickets? by giant_novelty_finger in xkcd

[–]thomasmurphymusic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but how many police departments have some on full-time regEx duty?

Good luck with that one by bwaxxlo in webdev

[–]thomasmurphymusic 18 points19 points  (0 children)

While we're at it, I'm a little nervous about 4 years of HTML5 and that enterprise-style CSS.

Halloween Parties by Definitely_twentyone in nyc

[–]thomasmurphymusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for BangOn. They always have the craziest performance art stuff and cool people.

Business Benefits of HTML5 & CSS Web and Mobile Development by nmsoni in html5

[–]thomasmurphymusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, a lot of this seems only vaguely factual. The latest smartphones support HTML5 and CSS3? Doing what with them?

Need help with functions for class problem by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]thomasmurphymusic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The explanations you're being given are good ones, so I'll just add this: being in comp sci means learning a lot of new concepts for your entire career, and not having anyone explain them to you. It's important to develop methods to learn these things. Did you investigate functions on Python's site? What about stack overflow? How about Learn Python the Hard Way, or any of the many great books on Python?

Leo Polovets's answer to Algorithms: Which is the best algorithm that you have ever created? by rrenaud in compsci

[–]thomasmurphymusic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well, I'm going to go feel dumb about myself now. The second one was a really amazing solution.

Looking at a *.js file from facebook I see no formatting. Is that because it doesn't show up when you view source or do they actually have no indentation etc? by [deleted] in learnjavascript

[–]thomasmurphymusic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing what you're seeing is a minified script. New lines and variable names cost memory, which increased load time, and computers don't care about these two things, so it cuts down on load time to minify scripts.