ByteMuse

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@ChrisPolis College student, programmer, wannabe artist/musician, audiophile, daydreamer

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Comment · 14 years ago

This is great advice - I would like to add a bit of philosophy that someone once gave me:

Experience is more important than achievement.

Comment · 15 years ago

HN, Quora, Stack Overflow, Twitter

Comment · 15 years ago

sortable tables in HTML are nearly impossible to implement.

This is definitely a solvable (and solved) problem.

and where do you sort? front end or back end? how much data are processing?

If you have all the data loaded clientside, sort it there. Otherwise, just make a call to the server to query for data compliant with the new sort order. Both methods are fairly low cost.

Comment · 15 years ago

Also, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead

Comment · 15 years ago

I recently worked on a friend's macbook and this is the first thing I noticed; I'm a linux guy. After a less then ten second explanation, I got used to it.

Personally, I thought it was a nice touch - there's almost no added cost to the user, more importantly, it cleans up the interface and frees up a few px of width.

Comment · 15 years ago

At my school, there are only a few classes that are different between Software Engineering and Computer Science majors. CSC students have a little more focus into theoretical computing and theory, whereas SE tends to be more practical with classes on things like the software development process.

I'm currently taking computer engineering and I really enjoy it. It is a mix of CSC and EE and unlike our CSC or SE majors, it requires taking higher level math and physics courses which are needed to analyze complicated circuits. I've grown to like developing software more, but it is valuable and interesting to learn about hardware as well.

Take whichever sounds more interesting to you, but in the long run, there isn't much of a difference. Also, you should be able to take some technical electives to learn specific skills.

Comment · 15 years ago

This is great. The level design is fantastic - a fair difficulty and fun progression.

Comment · 15 years ago

There's a grain of truth in every joke...

Comment · 15 years ago

It looks like jQuery versions get updated occasionally in that repo, but you'll have to check and see when 1.7 gets put in.

My recommendation would be to maintain dependency versions yourself, i.e. download the version of jQuery you want to use and //= require jquery in application.js - then grab a new version of jQuery whenever you want it updated

Comment · 15 years ago

This reminds me of one of my favorite philosophies on learning, the four stages of competence:

Unconscious incompetence -> Conscious incompetence -> Conscious competence -> Unconscious competence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence

Comment · 15 years ago

I have been using Backbone for a while and love it. It is lightweight, is as flexible as you want and helps to organize code.

Here is a good HN post on Backbone and Sproutcore, with a great comment by the creator of Backbone: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119704

Comment · 15 years ago

GitHaven.com is down for me. I would be a lot more interested if a demo was up; I have been looking for something like this project.

Comment · 15 years ago

This is fantastic - I loved the ant simulation!

It was a bit cryptic to get some of the content; perhaps you could have an alternative and more straight forward navigation system.

Comment · 15 years ago

It’s not very common to actually code anything in Ruby. You pretty much only see people coding Ruby while using the Rails framework which governs the whole thing.

This seems like an unfair generalization. I have come across many large non-Rails Ruby projects, e.g. Homebrew, CloudFoundry, Fog. A lot of reasons why Ruby and the like are good for web development also extend to other types of development.

Comment · 15 years ago

Thanks for the advice! I definitely want to work with startups and small teams, so this seems quite applicable.

I am pretty active on Stack Overflow and Github, so I think I'll put those on my resume as well.