"Mossad agents are caught involved in the recruiting of Palestinians for suicide bombings"
Can you please source this? I'm an Israeli and it's the most outrageous claim against our government that wasn't published inside Israel (or maybe it was and I wasn't paying attention at the time?). It'd be a good thing to know and to be able to tell people here if it's something our government is trying to hide form us.
But reading this whole discussion, many of you guys are accusing me - as an Israeli citizen - of much more blood-sucking and howling-to-the-moon than I deserve being accused of. For example, if we'd stop our side of the violence one-sidedly (been tried a few times) they'd just use that opportunity to stock on weapons and then restart their attacks more viciously.
I also used to think that way: "After you've learned a few, learning more is all the same".
I knew BASIC, C, Pascal, 80x86 assembler, C++, VB...
A look was enough to learn PHP, Python, Lua or any other of many languages that I learned for a single project and forgot.
The easiest to learn was Ruby, but it had a catch: it introduced me to the world of languages that aren't as easy to learn.
You see, learning PHP when you know C and VB is trivial because they're practically dialects of the same execution model. That's why when you learn another one, it doesn't feel like you actually learned something.
Learning LISP was like learning to program all over again.
Brainfuck too.
I still haven't found myself in Smalltalk (I have problems with trying to do too much too soon - I can write simple programs, but the GUI systems, both MVC and Morphic, I couldn't fit my foot in).
I'm still dreaming of looking at APL, but I already know that it will be something TOTALLY different and mind expanding, with all the beautiful function math there.
SonOfLilit
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Good programmers aren't "good" because of their knowledge -
They are "good" because of their will to learn. Because of their appreciation of code beauty. Because they like to code.
Bad programmers don't care about coding, they see it as some sort of accounting-like job where you have to crunch symbols and get paid for it.
I didn't meet many bad programmers. I am only 18 and am only in my first programming job and programmers here are selected very carefully.
I only met bad programmers at school. They were the people who tried to copy what the teacher said just to get their grade, and didn't think about coding again until the next lesson.
While the good coders were busy trying to understand why what the teacher said works, what else can be done with that knowledge...
While bad programmers looked at the teacher, the book, or the neighbor good programmer (if they were lucky to have one) for answers, good programmers hacked and hacked until they found the solution/themselves/, enjoying the process.
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I bought yesterday a poetry book by Charles Bukowski. It cost me a lot of money, more than I could afford, and I could have bought two great SF books by Orson Scott Card for the same price. Why did I buy that book? I read the first poem.
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"Mossad agents are caught involved in the recruiting of Palestinians for suicide bombings" Can you please source this? I'm an Israeli and it's the most outrageous claim against our government that wasn't published inside Israel (or maybe it was and I wasn't paying attention at the time?). It'd be a good thing to know and to be able to tell people here if it's something our government is trying to hide form us. But reading this whole discussion, many of you guys are accusing me - as an Israeli citizen - of much more blood-sucking and howling-to-the-moon than I deserve being accused of. For example, if we'd stop our side of the violence one-sidedly (been tried a few times) they'd just use that opportunity to stock on weapons and then restart their attacks more viciously.
I also used to think that way: "After you've learned a few, learning more is all the same".
I knew BASIC, C, Pascal, 80x86 assembler, C++, VB...
A look was enough to learn PHP, Python, Lua or any other of many languages that I learned for a single project and forgot.
The easiest to learn was Ruby, but it had a catch: it introduced me to the world of languages that aren't as easy to learn.
You see, learning PHP when you know C and VB is trivial because they're practically dialects of the same execution model. That's why when you learn another one, it doesn't feel like you actually learned something.
Learning LISP was like learning to program all over again.
Brainfuck too.
I still haven't found myself in Smalltalk (I have problems with trying to do too much too soon - I can write simple programs, but the GUI systems, both MVC and Morphic, I couldn't fit my foot in).
I'm still dreaming of looking at APL, but I already know that it will be something TOTALLY different and mind expanding, with all the beautiful function math there.
SonOfLilit
Good programmers aren't "good" because of their knowledge -
/themselves/, enjoying the process.
They are "good" because of their will to learn.
Because of their appreciation of code beauty.
Because they like to code.
Bad programmers don't care about coding, they see it as some sort of accounting-like job where you have to crunch symbols and get paid for it.
I didn't meet many bad programmers. I am only 18 and am only in my first programming job and programmers here are selected very carefully.
I only met bad programmers at school. They were the people who tried to copy what the teacher said just to get their grade, and didn't think about coding again until the next lesson.
While the good coders were busy trying to understand why what the teacher said works, what else can be done with that knowledge...
While bad programmers looked at the teacher, the book, or the neighbor good programmer (if they were lucky to have one) for answers, good programmers hacked and hacked until they found the solution
--------
I bought yesterday a poetry book by Charles Bukowski. It cost me a lot of money, more than I could afford, and I could have bought two great SF books by Orson Scott Card for the same price. Why did I buy that book? I read the first poem.
It started:
*so you want to be a writer?*
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
rest here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16549