This comment by coffeemug is the most relevant advice I have every found for anyone wanting to become a competent programmer/hacker : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713
I find articles like this on how to date a female / male geek very aggravating unless they are meant to be satirical or in plain jest . Analyzing some of the things mentioned in this blog post:
"As opposed to their male counterparts, many female geeks are into hygiene and looking nice for public viewing. But that’s where similarities end."
Really? What is similar between geeks regardless of gender is their geeky interests and hobbies. Some kind of sad generalization
about appearance and hygiene is just pathetic.
"Female geeks have very particular needs, and if you can’t meet them, consider yourself pwn3d."
The usage of pwn3d makes it hard to take the author's advice seriously.
"Tell her she’s pretty"
Hard to grasp how the author managed to figure out the golden mantra to woe all female geeks.
In conclusion the person who wrote this blog post needs to change the title to : "How to date me".
These days I find this comment by coffeemug (lists three things) relevant when it comes to advice regarding programming as a career : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1747713
I personally find the 'cyberpunk' sub-genre of anime fascinating.(According to wikipedia entry: "Plots often centered on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations")
The prime example would be the "Ghost in the Shell" anime series and movies. The Wachowski brothers, makers of "The Matrix", have mentioned this series as an influence.
Notifo is awesome! I have been using it for some toy projects like: http://github.com/himanshuc/macanator. Also, http://push.ly works great with notifo for twitter notifications. Overall, I am a satisfied user and think you will most definitely be away from the deadpool.
Not bad for $380 I think! Also Ubuntu 9.10 runs fine on it except the wifi driver which has to be manually installed but only involves an extra minute or two.
I am currently reading the beta ebook version of "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages" : http://www.pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-sev...
My expectation from the book is to get a brief but fun tour of seven programming languages and the different paradigms that they embrace.