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| bio | website | darenscotwilson.com |
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| location | California | |
| age | 52 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | 2 days ago | |
| stats | profile views | 99 |
Bit tinkerer, electron tweaker, photographer and artist living in New Mexico (formerly Colorado, Michigan, Florida).
Software expertise is mostly with bits, pixels, science numbercrunching, and teaching cats to do my work for me. Regrettably, the latter endeavor has been a total failure.
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Mar 27 |
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What strategy to landing an enterprise postion given a non-enterprisey past? Ah yes, a friend mentions Android. Maybe I should go get one... |
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Mar 26 |
asked | What strategy to landing an enterprise postion given a non-enterprisey past? |
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Mar 26 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Mar 25 |
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Reinventing the Wheel, why should I? Not fully understanding things is common in all professions. Doctors prescribe aspirin even though no one knows how it works (last time I checked anyway). We install lightning rods though physicists still don't fully understand lightning (a lightning expert told me that a few days ago). The challenge for intelligent people is not to understand, but to make things work despite not understanding the inner details. |
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Mar 25 |
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Career strategy for those of us who *like* re-inventing wheels? "how deeply you mean scratch" - well, i started off with shoving tiny DIP switches and watching LEDs. Ah the good ol' days... |
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Mar 25 |
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Career strategy for those of us who *like* re-inventing wheels? Which organizations? Mostly in particular industries? |
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Mar 25 |
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Career strategy for those of us who *like* re-inventing wheels? Yeah, been there and done that. In such a job is where I discovered that many off-the-shelf libraries are crap, failing to be designed for one's particular situation. But then, that was back in the 8086 days. |
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Mar 25 |
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How (and where) to organize a team to make a website? "who assures me he will not steal my idea" - mostly a social convention called "professionalism" but the answer about the NDA is the practical thing to do. |
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Mar 25 |
asked | Career strategy for those of us who *like* re-inventing wheels? |
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Mar 23 |
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The limitations of non-OOP languages -1 This is a bunch of questions, and a broad topic. This could make an interesting book, or prolonged debate, but is too big to be a question here. I'd like to see this dissected apart into single-focus questions. |
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Mar 16 |
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What is programming like in the Japanese language? @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner: Yes, there are. I've used Greek letters for variable names in Go. As a physicist, I like lambda for wavelength, rho for density etc. Go should be able to handle letters like the German ö, Japanese characters, etc. But I don't know about keywords like "for" and "if". These might be stuck in English for now. |
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Mar 13 |
accepted | What's the idea behind defining rectangles with two points? |
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Mar 6 |
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Is there a programming language with not a tree but tags idea behind OOP? Two answers should be two posts. But +1 anyway; I like the 2nd answer. |
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Mar 5 |
answered | Animation languages (or tools or libraries)? |
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Mar 5 |
accepted | Is there a measure of code rot? |
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Feb 27 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Feb 24 |
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What is your favourite/ideal development environment? Wow! You for president. Or dictator. |
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Feb 23 |
asked | Is there a measure of code rot? |
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Feb 22 |
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Have programmers at your work not taken up or been averse to an offer of a second monitor? "I hated having the crease between the two monitors" = three monitors are better. With front, left and right it's sort of like driving a car with main windshield, left and right door windows. |
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Feb 22 |
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What mistakes do language writers often make which doom their language? At least Google doubled the name length for "Go" |
