Learn Ruby. It's what Perl 6 should have been — the good stuff from Perl, but cleaned up.
Then you can either go the devops/sysadmin route — both Puppet and Chef are written in Ruby — or you can go the Rails or Sinatra route and head towards web services development.
I agree wholeheartedly. Sadly, the handwriting for this has been on the wall for some time. I can only hope Debian's Iceweasel port of Firefox does not adopt this "feature".
This makes me start to wonder if there is a reduced capability browser -- something leaner and meaner, focused militantly on privacy and even going so far as to deliberately not support portions of HTML5 (e.g. DRM).
Coders of the world, here's a niche you could fill...
While I only code as a hobby, I started with TRS-80's running BASIC (yeah I was the guy hogging the computers on demo at the Radio Shack near you!), did an official BASIC course at my high school before PC's went mainstream. Then I got into ASM, COBOL, Pascal and C, all self taught. After that I got a life.
But if you think about it languages are just different ways of doing exactly the same thing. If you know how what your code is doing to the machine, then you can program in any language - it's just a case of learning the new syntax. Unfortunately too many people think a language is like some arcane spell where the words have to be said just right or the Computer God gets angry.
and how many young people were betrayed by their institutions and communities at the very start of their programming careers.
That knowledge of Pascal will last you a lifetime son.
This StackExchange question has a nice answer showing why you have to be at the equator to have a geostationary orbit...
The question is, would he have done this even if not running for president?
The answer is obviously yes, based on past behavior. Rand Paul has been one of the few people willing to go on record voting against things he does not agree with, instead of not voting at all.
So while of course some element of it is PR, that is not the core reason as to why he did this.
researchers say that's up for interpretation
What good is a law if it cannot let the government arrest Sandor silence anyone arbitrarily based on the prevailing political winds?
The one on the right looks practical for a parent with two kids. The one on the left looks expensive.
What, you buy cars purely on aesthetics?
Ok, no. I just realised my own misinterpretation.
Damnit.
Apologies, I blame someone else.
No.
If you walk one mile south then you walk one mile south, not half a mile south then half a mile north.
Had the wording been, "You start walking south and continue for one mile" then I would agree with you, but it does not.
Don't post cascades to rec.humor
You may find the code used to check prices here; it is only known to work for the first 31 years (the limits of a signed long on my architecture).
This is slashdot, we can do (2^n)-1 in our heads.
If you're a mile north of the South Pole, the '1 mile west' description ceases to be possible.
If you're less than a mile north of the South Pole, the 'walk 1 mile south' description ceases to be possible.
For the scenario in the riddle, you're sure as shit nowhere near the fucking South Pole.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
