The Programming Thread

[LoneMateria]

Awesome link A|P.  My gf's, mom's, bf uses that site to learn new stuff (he is Indian [dot not feather] but a Christian from India).  Heather's mom recognized the voice from the video.  I'm definately gonna watch these half hour lectures in my spare time ... which I still have lots of.

Hey A|P do you know any good places to look for contract work for programmers?  Or, hell, any job really?

[AlP]

I haven't looked for contract work in years. I do the exempt employee thing.

When I'm looking for work I update my resume on linkedin.com and get some recent colleagues to add recommendations. That's useful because there are recruiters actively searching resumes on linkedin and because it's helpful to be able to give someone a URL with all that information. I used to do the same thing with monster.com but I think it's dead now. Then I start emailing and making calls to companies I'm interested in working for. Sorry, no easy answer.

I have a very strong feeling that this company might be hiring (like rabid software engineer hiring maniacal lunatics that really want to hire software engineers). Just a strong feeling that they might be mind you.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/

They have an excellent paid internship program too.

[LoneMateria]

thanx for the help.  I'm checking out the google jobs you listed.  I'm already on Linkedin but I got nothing.  I may need to update my resume .

[AlP]

This is the cheesiest version of this song I could find.
[youtube:2ekuv017]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S1fISh-pag[/youtube:2ekuv017]
Write in Java!

[Tom62]

That reminds me of another Beatles song:

Yesterday (based on Yesterday, The Beatles)
      Yesterday,
      All those backups seemed a waste of pay
      Now my database has gone away
      Oh, I believe in yesterday
     
      Suddenly,
      There's not half the files there used to be
      There's a deadline hanging over me
      The system crashed so suddenly
     
      I - pushed - something wrong
      What it was I could not say
     
      Now - all my data's gone
      and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay
     
      Yesterday,
      The need for back-ups seemed so far away
      I knew my data was all here to stay
      Now I believe in yesterday

[AlP]

Code Select Expand

#!/usr/bin/perl

APPEAL:

listen (please, please);

open yourself, wide;
    join (you, me),
connect (us,together),

tell me.

do something if distressed;

    @dawn, dance;
    @evening, sing;
    read (books,$poems,stories) until peaceful;
    study if able;

    write me if-you-please;

sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);

        do*not*die (like this)
        if sin abounds;

keys (hidden), open (locks, doors), tell secrets;
do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.

                            accept (yourself, changes),
                            bind (grief, despair);

require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;

select (always), length(of-days)

# listen (a perl poem)
# Sharon Hopkins
# rev. June 19, 1995Link

[Tom62]

Some other silly stuff:

There are 10 types of people in the world
Those who understand binary and those who don't

There is no place like 127.0.0.1

Why did the Integer drown?
Because he couldn't Float!

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package MS.pickpocket.utils
 
public class MSUtils {
  public static C# getC#(){
    return ( C# )new Java().clone();
  }
}


[LoneMateria]

http://www.thinkgeek.com

Those of us who read this thread would probably enjoy stuff from that site.  

Some of the fun ones are
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/car/2898/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/a282/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/b34a/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance/on-sale/bd09/

[theTwiz]

jokes

Why do geeks celebrate Christmas on Halloween?
Because Oct. 31 = Dec. 25

[joeactor]

How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None.
(it's a hardware problem)

[Tom62]

A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air.  His girlfriend becomes irritated with the smoke and says, “Can’t you see the warning on the cigarette pack?  Smoking is hazardous to your health!”  To which the man replies, “I am a programmer.  We don’t worry about warnings; we only worry about errors.”

A computer science student is studying under a tree and another pulls up on a flashy new bike.  The first student asks, “Where’d you get that?”
The student on the bike replies, “While I was studying outside, a beautiful girl pulled up on her bike.  She took off all her clothes and said, ‘You can have anything you want’.” The first student responds, “Good choice!  Her clothes probably wouldn’t have fit you.”

[LoneMateria]

http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/

I just happened to look on reddit's front page and this was up there.   can teach you python.  So if anyone was interested in Python and just haven't learned it (like me) then this might be good.

[LoneMateria]

I saw this comic and I figured you all would appreciate it.