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Not a chance. I stick with the paper, thanks.
Books: Bits vs. Atoms
I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...
A bit more about my point of view:
http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/05/12/about-class-attributes-semantics-and-microformats/
Microformats: Boon or Bane?
I recently added microformat support to the free public CVs at careers.stackoverflow.com by popular demand. Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. The official microformat "elevator...
I hear your point. I'm programming in academia, totally and completely alone. It takes a lot of discipline to make things happen. Programming is a collaborative effort. If you take that away, it's rather dull, because you don't learn anything. it's just you, your problems, and your documentation. On this regard, StackOverflow had another great advantage: it made me feel less alone in my work. As a developer with a problem, not having any colleague to talk with, but having the SO community at a quick click of a button was precious.
On Working Remotely
When I first chose my own adventure, I didn't know what working remotely from home was going to be like. I had never done it before. As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards. All the same, I was worried that I'd go stir-crazy with no...
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