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| bio | website | darenscotwilson.com |
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| location | California | |
| age | 53 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | 15 hours ago | |
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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 30 |
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Does being a Linux-only expert limit career choices outside academia? FreeBSD (and all the BSDs) are alright with me. I imagine anyone accustomed to Linux would just have to get used to a new kernel. It's not like a whole new paradigm such as moving into an all-Microsoft world. |
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Mar 30 |
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Does being a Linux-only expert limit career choices outside academia? So what about flying a helicopter running on Windows software? |
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Mar 28 |
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What strategy to landing an enterprise postion given a non-enterprisey past? Makes me think of musical performance or acting. Small mistakes are made but everyone must continue and keep the show together. |
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Mar 28 |
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What strategy to landing an enterprise postion given a non-enterprisey past? I have been in a PhD program, did enough credits and work for a Master's, but alas no actual degree. |
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Mar 28 |
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What strategy to landing an enterprise postion given a non-enterprisey past? That would drive me batty, to often have to get something in before a deadline when I know it is flawed. |
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Mar 28 |
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Why does DirectX use a left-handed coordinate system? Several 2D and 3D systems all derived their conventions from a common history. |
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Mar 27 |
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What strategy to landing an enterprise postion given a non-enterprisey past? FWIW, I use mostly C++, Python, a wee bit of assembly, Java and Ruby. A lot of IDL, but this is little known outside science and certain engineering fields. Learning Go and D. |
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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 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 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 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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Feb 24 |
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What is your favourite/ideal development environment? Wow! You for president. Or dictator. |
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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" |
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Jan 14 |
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What personal milestones can you use to measure growth in your programming abilities? The meetup website meetup.com helped me find local Python, Ruby and other software development related groups. |
