I've talked to some people who use Riak as an S3 and reported that their reasoning for sticking to it is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude faster than S3. This blew my mind, but then they showed me 20ms response times from their Riak cluster and 2-second response times from S3. Now, I think these aren't standard, and in my experience, I'd say Riak is more like a single order of magnitude faster.
This sounds like a fantastic book. I only wish that I had thought about this before. I want one for my kids and for my niece and nephew.
It is sad that both sides of the gender gap here have decided to make this book about gender. No one made this article out about people and they great things we can accomplish. I'm disappointed.
You are comparing a college student to a professional...
First, you can't "force" yourself to love programming. If you came here for the money and not the challenge, then you will fail. I spent a lot of time in college learning about programming outside of class, but I also spent a lot of time avoiding programming.
The experiences in other parts of your life also help shape you as a programmer. Practicing 14 hours a day 7 days a week is not going to make you the best programmer. Problem solving skills come from all aspects of life.
If you truly want to be a great programmer then you are going to have to practice. The best advice isn't really about programming:
-If you program 14 hours a day, and have no other life then it is time to find something else to occupy some of your time. It will change the say you think and help you solve problems better. You need some knowledge of people too or you will create horrible solutions to people's problems, and you will never be successful.
-If you never program outside of work/school you need to find a side project. You won't get great without practice. Take at least 4 hours a week to work on something that someone is not forcing you to work on. This can be some OSS project you have been hearing about. It can be a new OSS project you want to build. It could even be the next big thing that will have you buying yachts and race cars for the time you aren't coding.
Why are they continuing the app catalog? I really want to write apps for a shrinking market of people who still own a pre (I'm one of those people). I really hope this canned response is followed by some amazing announcement. Right now it just sucks.
It is amazing to see how far we have come. I'm so glad that I picked the right industry to get into. The world changed all around us, and we were a part of it.
My only fear is that this will flood the market with crapy developers. That is how this change WILL be like the DOT COM boom.
I wish that my customers would read this. I just don't know how to suggest it to them with out sounding like I hate them. The big problem is that most of the pain outlined I will go through. The customers I have work for the guy that will feel the pain Peter felt.
It really wasn't stupid for their business moves. Software was not their market, and they don't have the market share to compete with Android and iOS.
I loved the webOS platform. I'm still using my pre +, but that doesn't make it a right more for HP. I do wish they would have open sourced it. I would like to see it as a desktop os someday.
I do think this guy messed up in handling the marketing of webs, but that is more him trusting advisors. The CEO doesn't do everything, but is responsible for it.
So many complain that sometimes it is this or that shortcut. That shortcut seems to only change in IDEs and common dev tools. Usually changing because the C-f is used for some other more common coding task.
In programs used by the general public I have a hard time finding when C-f(cmd-f for mac users) is not the standard for search.
Schools should have a class on finding data. When I was in school we had to have at least one electronic source in our papers. This was supposed to help kids learn how to look up data electronically. They should take one day every year to teach kids how to mine that data with google, and things like c-f. This would allow the kids to find the data they need much faster, and may actually make them enjoy finding and learning more.
Classes and ids should describe the data that you are marking up, and not the structure of the view. It is really hard to continue to work with something like this. It increases the number of classes on each element and causes the developer and designer to fight over which classes go where. Now we have separate classes for style and functionality.
If we describe the data then it is easy to describe the view of that data in different ways, and with the same html.