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hace 15 añosdiscuss

To be fair: That is actually #1 in the list.

hace 15 añosdiscuss

It's a commercial project, so yes, people are willing to pay to see it. They had more than a million visitors in 2009 [1].

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland (German language link)

hace 15 añosdiscuss

"Man builds" is not quite correct. The airport is part of the largest model railway in the world [1]. The thing is build by a rather large team with ten years worth of experience in building high-end models.

If you ever come to northern Germany, I absolutely recommend a visit!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland

hace 15 añosdiscuss

Haskell (GHC at least) has lightweight user-level threads, similar to Erlang.

hace 16 añosdiscuss

Please, please, pretty please: If you use charts, choose a sensible type of chart to illustrate your point.

A pie chart is simply wrong for representing a comparison of benchmark results. A bar chart would be the correct type, in this case.

hace 17 añosdiscuss

Can you talk about the metric(s) by which they measure productivity? I would appreciate it.

hace 17 añosdiscuss

I think Clojure is not a simple language. The reason is, that you have to learn about 1) Lisp, 2) Clojure's approach to concurrency (immutable data structures + reference types) and 3) the JVM. These are all fairly complex systems on their own. The combination of them is what makes Clojure interesting, and, in my opinion, you can't leave one out and still have a great language.

Depending on your knowledge, this may make it a bad choice as a first language because it's so much to learn at once. You could be better off, to start by learning something more similar to what you already know (possibly Python/Django or Ruby/Rails for web programming).

That said, Clojure is learnable, of course. It may just take more time. If it feels right to you, then go for it. Enthusiasm about the tools will help your learning. And either way, it's not like you are making a mistake.

hace 17 añosdiscuss

Could you elaborate, please? Or point me to a discussion of the issues with said functions? Thanks!

hace 17 añosdiscuss

Priceless! Thank you for making my day.

hace 17 añosdiscuss

I hope this will be included in future Shoes versions. Shoes is already awesome for making (portable!) retro-games. This will add another great deal of retro-ness. ;)

hace 17 añosdiscuss

Who can do numbers 3, 5 and 8 in six minutes? I guess they will make you a Better Programmer (tm), but will consume slightly more time. Or does the article claim to make me a Better Programmer by just letting me know how to become a Better Programmer?

On the positive side: I like the idea of automatic uglification of "bad" code.

hace 17 añosdiscuss

No matter what you do and how you do it: most likely it will work for some people and won't work for others. If you do what just works for you, that's probably sufficient to be successful.

As merrick33 pointed out, it will not hurt to listen to people like 37signals or Joel Spolsky and be inspired by their best ideas. Just don't blame them if goes wrong for you.

hace 18 añosdiscuss

For games, Hamburg (Germany) is great. Probably slightly more expensive than Berlin, but at least as great in terms of public transportation and culture.

hace 18 añosdiscuss

Nuclear power is not an option. There are about three companies in the world that have the know-how to build a nuclear power plant. And they are already at the limit of their building-capacity.

Also, some people argue that the nuclear fuel resources are rather limited and will support even the existing plants for less than 100 years. For a significant reduction (10%-20%. No idea if that is enough to fight global warming) of CO2 emissions, it would be necessary to build at least three times as many nuclear plants as there are today.

hace 18 añosdiscuss

I also thought, that these small "test" assignments might be a trick to get (some part of) the work for free.

In ten hours for free plus ten hours at five per cent, times the number of eager programmers, you can get a lot of footwork done.

> Not likely though, since then they'd offer to pay more than the minimum wage

The minimum wage could be helpful to get applications only from a certain type of programmers: Those who don't mind a low salary and care more about the Lisp experience and learning new things. I myself would probably like to have that kind of people on my team.

If anyone here takes the job, please let us know how it goes. ;-)

hace 18 añosdiscuss

I'd also recommend Ruby and suggest you take a look at Shoes (http://shoooes.net/) which makes it very easy to code GUI-apps with all sorts of fun-stuff in them like animations, downloading data from the web, videos.

The most important part in teaching a 13 year old programming is to let him have fun and a give him a sense of achievement. The rest will come.

hace 18 añosdiscuss

Why? It's often a good idea to google for an answer. See the second result for "number of gas stations in the us", for example:

http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/number-gas-stations-us-1995...

If you want the candidate to show his reasoning abilities by making good guesses based on reasonable assumptions, you should tell him to do so beforehand.

hace 18 añosdiscuss

A very important point is comprehensibility of any voice and readability of all the text in your video. Some demo videos I've seen are not too great at these.

hace 18 añosdiscuss

The joke wasn't too bad, was it?

hace 18 añosdiscuss

  or, you can just do like others and learn rails or python.

I suggest learning Ruby, not Rails. Unless you know Ruby, you will not be able to really understand how Rails works. Ruby is way more than just Rails.

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