It still boggles my mind that Anthropic would invent the MCP protocol but not fully implement it.
Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, tools) is easily done in harnesses that don’t ship with MCP but allow good extension / modification like Pi.
Claude not being able to see its own usage or self invoke slash commands is also very frustrating.
The print statements to debug was a constant in "Coders at Work" too. Also in that book I found interesting that everyone interviewed was asked what the most difficult thing they had to debug was, and almost all of them said something to do with concurrency.
Without meaning a personal dig it's clear that you're quite ignorant about drugs. Anyone who's ever done any knows they're the original augmented reality. There are few drugs that one would take to escape reality entirely; the vast majority of drug use is social in nature and rooted in reality by definition.
master>pip install pcap
Downloading/unpacking pcap
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pcap
No distributions at all found for pcap
Storing complete log in /Users/bob/.pip/pip.log
Richmond, VA INMUnited is hiring. We do Ruby on Rails and iPhone development mainly, and are looking for a senior developer with experience delivering large projects, although we'd love to hear from any devs who read Hacker News :D
I'm Bob, you can contact me at the email address in my profile.
It works for me, pretty cool. Suggest you find some way to let one person be the photographer and the other the subject. Let the person with the webcam just sit there and the other person click when to take the picture and add effects. Maybe add basic paint functionality so they can add horns / moustache. Then share. Have to make it web 2.0 after all ;-)
I also have a history (and now CS) degree. If you want to get into programming, do some programming. Don't worry about what language or what project, just grab something and do something.
That said, I found http://www.processing.org/ to be very useful in my transition. Nothing like a little visual feedback to keep the motivation high :)
Clean syntax, great documentation, active community. Fantastic starter language, a great way to dip your toe in the pool and see if you really want to do programming before you buy a bunch of expensive books. Attempting to use one of the more masochistic languages (c/c++/java) can break your spirit before you even get going.
I expect you'll pick up discrete math pretty easy, and a lot of the analytic skills you developed in history actually will translate pretty well to CS.
I wish I had more time to reply but I have to run, final 2 tips, install linux and write a compiler. Have fun and good luck!
No, I asked. I told them my experience was mainly with Linux and C++, and asked what sort of environment I would be working in for them, and they said most of the projects are on windows and use java. :(
Well the IBM position sounds like it would be kind of an easy transition, that I would not be thrown into anything too tough right away. NOt that there aren't challenges there, but I would be able to ease into it a bit. Bug fix here, documentation there, slowly and steadily work up to more difficult problems. Which is fine by me. But ultimately it sounded like their main stack was windows and java. I'm sure they've got *nix boxes and python doing things, but the main stuff would be in java on windows.
Now this may be stupid, but to me, right now, I would rather learn more about linux and python than java and windows. In 3 - 5 years I would like to be a python wizard, not a java wizard. Is that short-sighted?
First of all, I don't know anything about python, my first experience with it was doing the django tutorial last week.
The small firm said they use python specifically because they found PHP programmers to be so different in level of skill, and that python programmers were consistently pretty high. I can't vouch for any of that, but to me, it does say that they're concerned about hiring good people and not just anybody. The owner/founder has an active development role so I'm thinking he's not too much of a "clueless wantaprenuer". Hopefully :)
Especially when fully implementing it (prompts, resources, tools) is easily done in harnesses that don’t ship with MCP but allow good extension / modification like Pi.
Claude not being able to see its own usage or self invoke slash commands is also very frustrating.