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The biggest change in programming over the last twenty-five years is that today you manipulate a set of useful, flexible data types, and twenty-five years ago you spent a disproportionately high amount of time building those data types yourself. Thinking about how to arrange ready-made building blocks into something new is a more radical change than it may first appear.
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In our San Francisco chapter of GirlDevelopIt, we have an increasing number of members that are attending our web development classes because they actually want to get a job in our industry. They come from all sorts of backgrounds... but the important thing to note is that many of them do not come from a computer science background. They are learning web development skills and computer science concepts by attending classes like ours, going through online tutorials like Treehouse or Codecademy, taking online courses like Coursera's CS 101, and generally taking the DIY approach to learning. So, they can do all that to learn the skills that they need for the job, but the question remains, can they actually get a job? What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
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I am entirely self taught, worked in the industry for 24 years, won industry prizes for software I have designed, written and implemented.
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most days you don't need what they teach in school, problem with education is, it's taught (and curriculum as well) by *Academics* with no industry/real world experience
I don't think this is true for everyone but for *many* school is quite irrelevant.
This said, quant finance, CAD/graphics engineering software, gaming ... all uses a lot of linear algebra/matrix mathematics
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What's the best way to show skills and get a job without the degree?
Write a program that people want to use.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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We’ve become great at curating our lives for the sake of our audiences on various social media services. We post what benefits our reputations, leaving out the parts that reflect poorly on us. Instagram is filled less with interesting photography and more with pictures that makes the photographer look like they lead an interesting life. Foursquare check-ins seem less weighted towards grocery store visits and gas stations and more towards coffee shops, music venues, and other coolhunting hotspots. Facebook is filled with posts that exhibit the wit and witticism of the poster. Pics or it didn't happen.
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Did you know... If you listen to CLOUDS.MID backwards, you will go to sleep and have an amazing dream. In it, one by one, you meet the Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team. Finally, you get to Mr. Gates. you reach out to shake his hand, but instead, he puts something in your palm. He smiles. You wake up... Welcome to Windows 95. Here are some features you may not have seen before.
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In real life (off the internet), pretty much everyone I meet seems to be using the Raspberry Pi or other Linux embedded system. The use of an actual microcontroller seems quite rare with people I’ve met. Even Arduino seems less popular in my city than embedded Linux. In a way this makes sense — why would someone buy an Arduino when they can get a Raspberry Pi that does so much more at the same price or less? Linux offers a large amount of software out of the box and allows people to program in simpler scripting languages. What is a microcontroller actually good for in comparison to a system on a chip?
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Power consumption is a major factor. Many microcontrollers can run on a few µA. Keep in mind that the microcontroller is just the chip, not the board with all the accessories. When designing a purpose-built system you're designing around 100mm² of space, as opposed to 4000mm² or more for all the gadgets.
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Thank you Yvan, that's a very educated response for those/many of us who don't come from background in Electrical Engineering!
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I've heard many say that Sinofsky is responsible for the death of Silverlight and that it's absence on Windows 8 is a shame. I hear a lot of Silverlight enthusiasts (or apologists) that Silverlight, while being a great technology, was killed because DevDiv and Windows couldn't get along. At last year's build, it was big news that Sinofsky actually said the word Silverlight made news. While the idea that Silverlight ran on a Mac certainly caused waves in the Windows team, it's not the reason for it getting pushed to the pile of technologies that are now in 'sustaining engineering' mode. If any executive is responsible for the current state of Silverlight it's... Steve Jobs.
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Windows Phone 8 has been official for two weeks now. Handsets hit the stores just days ago, and we’ve been busying our fingers learning all the ins and outs of Microsoft’s newest mobile OS. There’s a lot to love about Windows Phone 8—slick user experience, bright live tiles, and unique hardware—but it takes some time to get to know new software. And since we’re already elbow-deep in it, we thought we’d bring you a quick cheat sheet on some of the more common questions about Windows Phone 8. Bonus tip: it's a phone, too!
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Apple (AAPL) launched the iPhone 5 about seven weeks ago and the sleek smartphone still isn’t easy to find on store shelves. It's big, whether we like it or not.
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Bit of an old story, but still mostly true. One thing that has changed is the ship time (now 2-3 weeks rather than 3-4 weeks).
I'm still waiting to buy a factory unlocked iPhone 5. I'm hoping it comes out soon, as I need one for my car's remote starter to work to its full extent. 
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Bit of an old story, but still mostly true.
Well, you're right. It's a week old now. I must not have been paying attention when I looked at it. 
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LAPTOP Editor-in-Chief Mark Spoonauer on the bandwidth capabilities of the U.S. networks. All I can say is "WOW" 
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shot down talk on Tuesday that the struggling chip maker is exploring a potential sale of the company What? I was just getting ready to party 
modified 14-Nov-12 8:20am.
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Countered 2-Vote.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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Shouldn’t years of Web development and advocacy about performance by Yahoo and Google and many others have born fruit and made us aware of how much each HTTP request costs? If you look at the final products, it doesn’t seem that way.... There are a few reasons why our Web is on the chubby side, and most of them actually are possible for us as developers to change. Death by a thousand plugins (and libraries, and HTTP requests, and...).
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Minimalism has become the latest trend in many web designs, particularly in the area of online business and service professional websites. However, unlike many fads, this trend has more than a few practical benefits that make it ideal not just for the short term but also for long range website decoration and appearance. If you’re wondering about how to best keep a minimalist framework in mind for your site or just want to find out a bit about the pros and cons; see how they compare, then read ahead. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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How many times have you wanted to send a project to a friend or upload it to a web site like MSDN Code Gallery only to find that your zip file has lots of stuff that you don't need to send in it making the file larger than it needs to be. Clean Project is a utility that cleans Visual Studio project directories so you can quickly upload or email a zip file with your solution. All the code that's fit to share.
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In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to experience the Web on Windows. With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7 consumers can now enjoy a fast and fluid Web with the updated IE10 engine on their Windows 7 devices. The release preview of IE10 on Windows 7 is available for download today. Modern browsers everywhere!
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Not sure if I'm ready for IE10 with that unknown bug on the loose.
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For me there was a time that can only be described as adolescence in the field of programming and more specifically JavaScript. This period was characterised by a certain laziness and hubris. I thought I was right. I thought others were wrong. I could see no path but the very strict one that I had boxed myself into through a process in which I longed for certainty and the expulsion of realistic doubt. Today I present a short list of JavaScript practices that once seemed right but I now deem foolish.
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