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Net bad. Too many degrees reduce their value in the market with poor job prospects. The extra years of education does not create an enlightened utopia.

I love books in markdown. I can read it with emacs, and automatically ferry the code snippets to a javascript buffer.

I wish more authors would publish the markdown or asciidoc. I'd pay for it.

Lot's of books throw recursion at beginners and expect them to understand it as intuitively they would a loop. But it's not intuitive at all (at least it wasn't for me).

I like the book "The Little Schemer" to learn recursion. Yes, a whole book to learn something other books briefly throw at you. You will not regret the read.

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They are probably following a process on autopilot. Maybe just being extra safe, covering all their bases.

Just ignore it until they offer money for your supposed IP.

Reading a book is a recipe for procrastination. I just don't have the willpower to read upfront.

Build an easy 2 hour project in the technology. Like a basic bug tracker. Dive in knowing nothing, no learning first. Consult google as you go.

I need to build something first, then read little bits here and there. Eventually sitting down to learn the "proper" way to use the technology.

College bubble will pop. Prices have been sustained longer than normal due to special laws for school debt. But even with the extra protection of wage garnishments and no bankruptcy option, it cannot keep going up. People are starting to get their money underground in a homeless lifestyle or leave the country. It's going to burst and hard.

> I also work remotely (1 of 5), and though the company constantly says this makes no difference, I am not so sure

This is probably it.

As long as heat/cooling/power is an issue, the desktop is relevant. The desktop is far superior for cooling with fans, adding accessories, cannibalizing parts, upgrades, graphics cards, etc. With a desktop you don't need to compromise for battery life.

If you're a serious developer you probably have a permanent work station. With big monitors, a nice chair, a proper keyboard, etc. Sure you can dock a laptop into that, but why not have your cake and eat it too? Use a laptop on the go, and a desktop for the fixed workstation.

This is the git age. It's trivial to share work across a fixed desktop and a laptop. No need to sacrifice power for portability. Go for the superior space/cooling potential of the desktop at your workstation.

reddit, craigslist.

This article is good to get an idea what lisp is all about.

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

It compares lisp to XML. In that you are programming in a tree. Other languages must be parsed into a tree by the compiler, but with lisp you are already there from the get go.

Programming in a tree is the "magic" that's unique to lisp. And it is a big deal.

Compare:

pay + benefits - cost-of-living

Even if your biases about each company are generally accurate, they may not be accurate for the wing of the company you will work in. I'd give priority to your personal wealth.

> just doesn't sit well with me.

Your point of concern should be with management, not the developer. But you only talk about the developer?

They are wishing everyone a non-offensive, culturally nuetral Kwanzchristmachaunika. Duh!

I feel like the author hasn't experienced the part after the ellipses. Where he discovers all his thoughts are recorded even outside of facebook.

> have some sort of mental disorder.

I'd step off that high horse.

I bet you use a credit card on the regular. All your purchases permanently recorded. And can be looked up on demand.

I bet you talk on a phone everyday. Every convo permanently saved and can be brought up on demand. Your face-to-face conversations can be listened to even when you turn off your phone, although that does not happen passively.

I bet you use the internet in such away that identifies yourself. Having your porn preferences permanently saved so they can be brought up on demand.

I bet you use google search. Everything you ever looked for permanently saved and can be brought up on demand.

I bet you use gmail, or some other email service.

Almost everyone gives up freedom for convenience. Unless you're living like a medieval monk you're just as mentally disordered.

Rockin' the desktop.

Plug into your brain, so it looks more like reality.

> disadvantage for not being on github ... mindshare seems to be

Just have a mirror on github and they'll be none the wiser. Judging by how many people think linux is developed on github.

> last release was from June 2015 ... no longer maintained

Dude. I'm using software that hasn't been maintained since 1983. You're worried about 2015?

Checks are not secure either with demand drafts. Sorry.

This probably isn't cool, popular, or what you want to hear. But for client-side software, use the native GUI library for each platform. Write the core in C or C++. Abracadabra. It's cross platform, no issues, no bloat, no extra fees. With experience it can be fast to develop too.

It's an issue even with console gaming, where noisy fans, and fire risks on carpet floors hamstring advancement.

With the move to mobile gaming, very possibly. Programmer convenience may not be as important as battery power.

Yes, you're crazy. Keep your high paying job. Learn computer science on the side.

The really interesting stuff usually requires deeper knowledge and skills. For problems worth solving, 15 years experience as a CRUD developer is no better than 15 years experience as a project manager. Making this career change won't necessarily help you gain the skills you want.

ditto.

For a while google displayed real estate for sale on google maps. I can't quite put my finger on exactly why (maybe that it was google maps), but it was much more useful than the standard real-estate sites. Was sad to see it go.

Countless solo-made phone apps, with decent sales. Sort of a like a return to the 1-man video game shop.

And although you're talking about solo... There's was a 2-man dream team in the DC area. Not sure if they're still working. They would tackle any project and get it done fast. Any language or tech stack. Design docs, requirements, working project, everything. They tackled in-distress projects where a large team and multi-million dollar budge failed.

If you count a coffee spill as a "horror story" then you're doing pretty well so far on guests.

I'm just a guest, not a host. No horror stories on my side. All the hosts have been awesome.

luajit. Better than things like V8 javascript with millions in funding.

Make the lower back more resistant to chronic injury.

And maybe some sort of "steroid" release with no negative side effects. To improve regeneration. Steroids are a "Jesus" level miracle of medicine. They have literally cured the blind. If this sort of regeneration was built into our bodies it would be pretty cool.