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what's a good pet for the working programmer? | sdave: i recommend a frog, specially if it can talk too.
because a talking frog is cool.(in case you give up programming ,you can kiss it & turn it into a beautiful princess)
;-) |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | jawngee: Cat for sure.Kittens need a lot of attention though, as do strays you've adopted. But they are the lowest maintenance of any pets.Dogs are great but are like having developmentally disabled children; they require a lot of attention, patience and forgiveness.And it is possible to find a cat with a lot of dog l... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | yason: Long walks are definitely good for a programmer who works quite long hours smoetimes. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | novum: Hamsters are the best. I had several growing up.They're personable - you can "cage-train" them and they learn not to bite. They're hilarious when they roll around in their ball -- and remember to cover your stairs! They do the cutest thing with stuffing food into their cheeks. You can easily build elaborate livi... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | thechangelog: If you're getting something small and furry, like a rat or rabbit or hamster, be sure to get two and give them some living space. If you're not able to give them a lot of time, at least let them socialize with their own kind.We had one rabbit, then two, and the difference in the original rabbit's (OR) pe... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | jonke: Well I don't think that you really should get a 'pet' (yet).
Maybe you could use setup a Cichlid Aquarium
http://cichlid.infocrux.com/Cichlid-Aquarium.html,
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/cichlid/first.phpIf you need something more fury there always are hamsters.
http://www.hamsterific.com/SelectingAHamster.c... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | CaptainMorgan: Given your parameters, I highly suggest a cat, fish or both. When programming, I've found that my companion of a cat (two tiger striped male and female, 6 yrs and 4 yrs old) are fantastic mood enhancers, that is when they're not crying like babies for food. Barely any maintenance when compared to a dog... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | df: I have a python named Sid. A beautiful and surprisingly affectionate critter. Low maintenance and a great conversation starter ... "my kids came back from school with it one day, they were all like: it followed us home Dad can we keep it!?" |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | frossie: I have rabbits. Note that keeping an animal in a cage as a pet seems kinda besides the point, so my rabbits are house rabbits. Rabbits are trivially litter trained (see www.rabbit.org) and are active mainly at dawn and dusk, so are good for working people as they are most active when you get home. If you rescu... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | GeneralMaximus: I have an English Cocker Spaniel. Needs a walk twice a day, but I don't really mind that. Very affectionate, very intelligent. Also, the ears.The one downside of Spaniels is that they steal socks and underwear and hide them. Ah well. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | cromulent: I'm a working programmer, and we have a dog. We used to have 2 but one died recently after a long and happy life. Dogs are great, and very rewarding. There is effort required, but it rewards you, like with many things.We have boxers. They suit us. If you take a dog, you should research the breed before decid... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | jordyhoyt: I have my girlfriend's family's 13-year-old cat, and she fits my lifestyle perfectly. She's fine while I'm off at work, and is always there to greet me when I get home (usually because she's hoping for some milk). She's cute and cuddly (to a point, she also likes her space) and is a great friend to have ar... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | klaut: By reading your post and all the requirements you have for a pet i think you're not ready. i mean, it looks like you are buying a gadget or something. a pet is a living being and thus requres love and attention. you should get a pet guided by your hart and not by the specs written on a box. just pop down your lo... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | zzkt: ferrets. several. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | jlees: Another programmer. He doesn't need feeding that often and he's quite well toilet trained... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | andrewljohnson: Get a dog. Take it for a walk. Leave your desk. Better programming will ensue. I have a golden retriever.Nothing like a good walk to get over a tedious bug in your code. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | maxklein: An African grey parrot. Then you can teach it to say things like: "Don't rewrite, refactor!" or "Should you REALLY be doing that?"They are expensive, but they are low maintanance and quite intelligent. |
Learning Javascript & AJAX | gtani: http://fecklessmind.com/2009/02/09/top-5-javascript-books/http://www.reddit.com/comments/6y1km/ask_reddit_good_javascr...http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9gy1e/askproggi...http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ptt5/ask_reddi...usual suspects: Flanagan, "Good Parts" and Crockford's Videos, Res... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | axod: Fish are pretty cool and relaxing to watch not too cuddly though, Rabbits great fun to have about, and Guinea pigs good for petting. They're all awesome (We have loads of fish, 2 Rabbits, 3 Guineas).Here's a pic of one of our cute rabbits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rollered/3896940499/She's called 'Poppy', but... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | henriklied: My girlfriend and I are basically pondering the same thing, although we've more or less decided: The Hungarian Vizsla (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizsla). Very smart and playful dog, requires absolutely no grooming. In many ways it's very much like a cat: Long claws, licks itself clean, loves to cuddle in... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | kniwor: Duck. Rubber duck actually... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging ) |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | chanux: squirrel. My Girlfriend has one. And I envy her for that. Apparently the squirrel loves to hang with the master when (s)he works. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | edw519: I'll tell you what I'll get, man--Two cats at the same time.Damn straight, man. I've always wanted to do that. I figure if I were a hacker, I could hook that up. Cats dig guys who can code. |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | andhapp: One thing that I spotted. The validation error messages cover the Was it up? logo on the right. Perhaps move the error mesages on the left. |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | uggedal: I created this service mainly as an exercise to help me learn more about distributed applications. Behind the simple interface sits a multi-node setup with multi-master replicated Tokyo Tyrant instances for persistence.I'd appreciate any suggestions or improvements. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | csomar: A dog, but not any dog.It's a white one, I found it lost when he was 2 weeks old and took care of it.They are loyal and make lot of fun when you are alone.NB: I have a garden |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | scotch_drinker: If you think any pet is low maintenance, you are confused. Even cats, the lowest of the cute and cuddly variety, are notoriously high maintenance. You have to change litter boxes regularly or they will find new places you can't get to. They are mainly nocturnal and will often want to be fed at 4AM. ... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | Devilboy: Axolotl for the cool name and '+1 regen' ability.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | jacquesm: this sounds like it fits your description perfectly:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218or maybe a mechanical_fish ? |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | icey: I've been working on something similar to this in my free time; yours is very nice :DThe only thing that I looked for that it doesn't seem that you've got right now is the ability for me to see the sites that I have registered - it'd be nice to be able to enter my email address and have the site tell me that you'... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | kiba: Time for some anarkitty! http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/10/15/lapsteading/Well, it does fit the hacker culture's disdain for authorities. |
Anyone here do Web mining/harvesting/scraping? | truiu: I have done some webscraping with twisted and BeautifulSoup. But it was just for a few small sites.That was when I found http://scrapy.org/ , a complete python framework for writing webcrawlers. It looks promissing, but I haven't used it so far. |
Learning Javascript & AJAX | bgnm2000: I just wanted to add, that I don't plan to stop using JQuery or MooTools,I want to understand javascript better, so my implementations of mootools and JQuery tools could become more impressive. |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | datawalke: Very nice, pretty straight forward. The error messages are somewhat oddly placed, but overall good job! |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | jasonlbaptiste: I've actually been looking for something for this for a while. Very cool app! |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | niks: I have a couple of websites but one primary email account. So when I tried to add the second site I got this message: "We only allow one monitoring per email."Is there a specific reason for that? I'd like for all my sites to come to one email since its the only one I check regularly.Other than that I really like ... |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | mark_l_watson: I have a small Myers Parrot - he is most of the time pretty cool, although he occasionally de-evolves into a miniature raptor. I usually work out of my home office, and he is usually happy enough sitting on my shoulder while I work.Parrots are not low maintenance though, requiring lots of attention. I to... |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | chanux: Good idea. Neat implementation. Kudos! |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | Sidnicious: Tiny UI gripe: If I select one of the contains/doesn't contain radio buttons, there's no way to go back to "neither". Nothing selected is also a forbidden state for radio buttons. There needs to be a third choice. |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | access_denied: I was too lazy, but the idea is cool. If hassle-free this is something I would pay for (1 thing cam to mind: how can I trust your site is always on? explain this to your prospects). |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | ooorrr: This looks great - perfect for the site that doesn't need 1-minute monitoring. Montastic has been ok for this purpose but I'm happy to try something else.My feature request - 140-character SMS messages when you're down. |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | colbyolson: Looks great, I love the simplicity. Although you chose an interesting color scheme.How are you determining when a website is down?
What are you using to create the error message on the right?
What's your website running, if you dont mind me asking. Python? Ruby?On a side note, your blog is just as beautifu... |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | heyitsnick: Love it.Minor suggestion - in the email, change the text in the email from "To unsubscribe from this service, go to:" to something like "To manage all your monitorings, or unsubscribe, go to:". It isn't clear this link does more, and I wouldn't have thought to click on it as it may unsubscribe me without co... |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | xinsight: I wrote a similar tool for monitoring my own servers. Besides being "up", I find that it's important to track slow responses (>10 secs) and to differentiate between DNS problems and web server problems.(I also find that it's useful to check for load, disk space, mysqld is responsive, etc. but that's would tak... |
Perfect budget PC for software developers | matttah: we picked up Dell Poweredge 840 boxes earlier this year for around $600. we're running 2.4ghz quad core xeons, 4gb of ram, and two 150gb seagate drives. I think the only thing I would change is maybe drop in a SSD or a 15k drive to make the system a bit more snappy. |
Perfect budget PC for software developers | gtani: Laptops: you can find plastic case Macbooks for $600 or so on craiglist. Generally, we're talking 2G RAM, no option to purchase additional 2 years of appleCare.I would try to get one that's expandable to 4G RAM and was purchased new last year, or this year. If i were going to buy a used laptop, I would insist t... |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | madebylaw: Nice UI. Seems similar to pingdom.com, so you could check them out for feature ideas, etc. |
Perfect budget PC for software developers | riobard: I guess that depends on what kind of programming you are planning to do on the machine -- coding some web apps has quite different requirements than coding some 3D games.But in any case, GET AS MUCH SCREEN ASSETS AS YOU CAN AFFORD! :) |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | anigbrowl: For the same reason your address doesn't go 'USA, California, San Jose, 1297 Fray way'. |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | jacquesm: This is widely considered to be a mistake. |
Perfect budget PC for software developers | aw3c2: You need to be more specific. What OS, what programming, what other hobbies?If you want to use virtualisation make sure to get a CPU that supports Intel VT-x or AMD-V.I would suggest an Athlon II X2 240. It is very cheap and has a lot of power.If you want to go into CUDA or OpenCL get an NVIDIA GTS or GTX.SSD is... |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | bajsejohannes: (Just to clarify...) I know what you mean, but I don't think your question makes sense without comparing it to something. That something would naturally be the path.www.google.com makes as much sense as com.google.wwwbutwww.google.com/root/sub/subsub makes less sense than
com.google.www/root/sub/subsub o... |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | qeorge: The "contains / doesn't contain" feature is a killer, great work. I've been wishing someone would add that for quite a while.One thing, under the 3rd input the text reads: "We only send email when your site goes down. 2 click unsubscribe."That last bit doesn't make sense. |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | aristus: It's just a convention, and one that took a while to work itself out. Some older mail servers used to route (and even rewrite -- shudder) domains the other way round. Like little- and big-endian numbers, the merits of either method are less important than having everyone do it the same way.http://catb.org/jarg... |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | spidaman: I think everybody that has to write applications that deal with URLs as core identifiers have asked this. It's also hairy 'cause leading part of a URL (protocol and hostname) is case insensitive but the trailing part (path, query string and fragment) isn't. At my last job I created a framework for normalizing... |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | jws: I think it comes down to history. Host names existed before domain names. When domains were bolted on they used the idea of a default domain for each host and that made sense to be on the end.Consider: telnet hosta # established way
telnet hosta.abc # domain bolted on back
telnet abc.hosta ... |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | s3graham: I have no idea. UUCP (Usenet) addresses used to be (are?) "backwards" and ! separated. Maybe some historical references related to that would point you to more info.If I were to guess though, I'd guess email addresses. me@machine being originally valid makes me@tld.machine harder to parse? |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | ooorrr: One other suggestion -One problem with these sorts of services is that when they're working, nothing happens, so if I don't get mails for a week, I don't know if that's because everything's been working or if you've stopped running the service.There are lots of complex answers, but an easy one is just to have a... |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | timf: Has anyone written a browser plugin that makes it seem like everything is reversed (or 'correct' if that's your view)? |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | jkuria: I say fish! I used to have a small acquarium with a couple goldfish |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | sammcd: Interview with Tim Berners-Lee where he says he regrets this:http://www.impactlab.com/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berne...Looking at what he accomplished, I forgive him. |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | joshu: com.google:http/80:/path/to/the/file perhaps? |
Perfect budget PC for software developers | yan: Whatever you end up getting, make sure to maximize your RAM and your display real estate. |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | huhtenberg: Do you uniquely identify your polling agent to the server being polled ? Do you check for robots.txt ?If you don't, you should in case if people are trying to monitor sites that are not theirs. |
what's a good pet for the working programmer? | codnik: Cat. I have five. No need to go for a walk, won't disturb you, will use the litter box on their own (you don't have to teach them to do that)... Just adopt an adult cat. Two of my cats were adopted already grown and they're just as affectionate as the others (which is greatly affectionate, btw). It really comes... |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | drewp: I don't love it. The users of such a site want to use your UI as rarely as possible, but be full of trust and understanding of what it's going to do for them.Before I'm going to do anything, you need to tell me about the requests you're going to make (frequency, user-agent, robots, etc like other people have poi... |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | philwelch: If it was ordered com.google.www, you might not even need to use different characters for path separators than domain separators.com.google.www.path.to.the.filecom/google/www/path/to/the/file |
Startups looking for volunteers? | jacquesm: Maybe you should list some track record / qualifications ? |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | jbert: Because the US internet won out over the UK JANET?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRSWhich caused no end of problems in mail relay at the time. |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | jacquesm: I was wondering just the same thing after those evolving block creatures that were posted yesterday, "what would happen if you let that stew for a couple of years?" |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | etherael: You're in one. |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | reg4c: Not feasible in capitalism. |
why are domain names reversely ordered? | gojomo: Why? Independent invention of the domain name system, and the URL-path system, at different times by different people.URL-inventors did not think it important enough to break the already-established convention for domain names to acheive hierarchical ordering consistency. With hindsight, nearly 20 years later, ... |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | modelic3: I'm not sure how feasible this would be or what you are technically thinking about. The whole thing with genetic programming is to have the population converge onto some optimal solution but in real biology this optimum is constantly moving around. |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | idlewords: This may be fanciful, but I think this is a likely outcome of the spam/malware vs. filters arms race. At some point this kind of code may become sufficiently self-modifying to evolve on its own, with interesting results. A kind of virtual cockroach. |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | bh23ha: I believe the problem is with ever advancing hardware. The new chips are much faster and would "overtake" an experiment that's been running.This problem is sometimes described as putting colonists on a space ship and sending then off. They travel for generations but before arriving they are overtaken by another... |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | vinutheraj: A similar question and its responses - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396938/computer-simulatio... |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | TeHCrAzY: I think you are missing a critical point. Computer simulations can have iterations that are several magnitudes faster than anything you would likely see with bio evolution. |
Upvote after login bug? | jacquesm: Yes, PG has explained that he's experimenting with which votes count and which do not. |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | JimmyL: Why? We do long-term experiments in biology because genetic evolution is slow - whereas with genetic programming we can speed it up limited only by the computing technology.Let's say biological evolution has been going for 4.5 Billion years, at an average of one mutation per second for all that time. A quick se... |
Upvote after login bug? | redorb: perhaps an idea would be to relate what votes count - to a time decay of when the last karma was score'd VS how much total karma the user has / length of membership. |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | ganley: I feel obliged to point out a friend of mine's really great short story: http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/ |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | abecedarius: Tom Ray of Tierra fame started a project like that: http://life.ou.edu/pubs/reserves/node1.htmlI remember downloading the source code sometime years ago; but if they ever published any results, I haven't seen it. |
Do you use project management software, which one? | makecheck: The only one I've ever willingly used is Trac[1], which is a simple but extensible system that does as much as I would want. Its "out of the box" setup is pretty reasonable.[1] http://trac.edgewall.org/ |
Should I go to Startup School? | suber: I think after you look at your budget and you can actually afford to spend $2k, go for it. There are alot of cheap eats in the Bay and you can always take public transpo, or check out the deals at fox rent a car: https://www.foxrentacar.com/Default.aspx .If you can't make it, I would love to take your place, and... |
Do you use project management software, which one? | waleedka: I use PivotalTracker. I didn't like it at first, but then it grew on me. |
Where to go in Portland | theschwa: I've heard Powell's Books technical bookstore, just to start it off. |
Where to go in Portland | slimdixon: I live in Portland and Powell's Technical Books is a good suggestion. It's a branch of the main Powell's store which is located a couple a blocks up the street.I always recommend that people visit Pittock Mansion early in their trip. It overlooks the whole city and the surroundings of the city (Columbia Gorg... |
Where to go in Portland | zkarcher: Books: Powell's Technical BooksTech meetups: http://calagator.org/Retro arcade: Ground KontrolNature: 10 zillion wonderful beautiful waterfalls and hikes nearby, I recommend a place called Angel's Rest for starters.Coffee: Crema, Extracto, StumptownTea: Townshend's Tea House, Tea Zone, Tao of TeaFood: Pambich... |
Anyone here do Web mining/harvesting/scraping? | lazy_nerd: I would recommend hosted crawling/scrapping solutions where you don't need to dedicate your own hardware resources. Also monitoring and maintaining the scrappers/harvesters can be a pain.
Shameless Plug: I work @ beevolve (www.beevolve.com) and we provide hosted crawling and scrapping solutions. PM me if you... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | bluebird: I am in the market for such an application and my budget is up to $150 per month but I find the 'action based' pricing model a huge turn-off. If I am paying $50 upward, I want to be able to automate tests freely and run them nightly without ever thinking how many 'actions' I have left.The UI is decent, it lac... |
Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | roundsquare: I'm not sure I see a purpose. Even if you aren't looking to product "intelligence" but just something interesting, I don't think its likely. The ratio size and complexity of the environment (fitness function, domain of the chromosomes, degree of mutation, etc...) compared to the size of each creature (i.... |
What do you think about new Yahoo ads? | zeynel1: Live links:http://zeynel.posterous.com/new-yahoo-adshttp://zeynel.posterous.com/yahoo-ads-2 |
News Website without the 'Silly News'? | jacquesm: Tell me when you've found it.Seriously. I'd love a site like that. |
News Website without the 'Silly News'? | Mz: I"m guessing you likely won't get any suggestions and that this is one of those cases where, if someone wants to act on it, this might be a good business idea because the solution probably doesn't already exist. |
News Website without the 'Silly News'? | kierank: I was thinking about starting a site like this (perhaps based on this source code). The only issue I thought of was that people would just have to accept that I was going to be the dictator in what goes in and what doesn't. With topics like politics that can cause a problem and also if I don't know enough abou... |
News Website without the 'Silly News'? | pg: On paper, it was always The Economist. |
News Website without the 'Silly News'? | ComputerGuru: BTW, my fallback is global.NYTimes.com - it doesn't have as much "news" as CNN/BBC but it does update fairly quickly and with less Bull. |
News Website without the 'Silly News'? | tokenadult: What has been your experience with customizing Google News? Google will never have the fastest coverage of a breaking story like the balloon boy, because it is aggregating other people's content with a time lag, but I have tweaked my preferences a lot on Google News to where I can rely on it for a lot of in... |
Where to go in Portland | henrydall: It's been awhile since my wife & I lived in Portland, but if it's still there try the Heathman Pub downtown. Really good pizzas! |
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