humpt's comments

male obviously, the alpha kind. Haven't you ever git-checkedout that big master branch, always git-pushing and git-pulling. Or maybe it has never git-shown it to you. Also straight: it likes pussy cause git-cat-phile, or is it git-cat-file? HAHAHA, are you git-init?

I love BT Sync! The current client is not so bad, it's easy to use. I like how it's easy to port your config from one computer to the other with dumb text file. I'm just curious, what do you think is missing in it?

> the top of the programmer food chain

I'm not sure what that means :) can you explain or give examples?

Thanks! I had no idea something like asciidoc existed. It seems to be a fair balance between markdown and tex

this is theses other forks which can be nicer on mobile: - html: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ - epub/pdf in the repo: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp

This is a bit off topic but does someone know how this book is generated, which tools are used?

When I started this about 8 years ago or so, i used [this book](http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/). It's structured as a case study, a coffee shop owner who wants to make a small webpage.

It's amazing how it's well written and fun to read. I like it puts some effort in showing you quickly the benefit of what you learned, you never get the impression something is pointless. (NB: it's big but you don't have to read it all. I read say the first half, than used it more like a reference book.)

urgh... pixels ? The color palette is kindda violent too.

Have you considered using a [kimsufi](http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/). It's basically a cheap dedicated server. You can get a decent configuration for a less than $10/month.

You will need to admin it yourself but this depends more on the size of your website, I don't think you should worry about it so early, especially given the fact that you're not sure if you website is actually going to take off.

yeah :) a safe bet!

I am a 25 years old student from one of the top CS engineering school of France. People who enter there usually have a heavy math background, but are fairly new to programming.

The first semester all the students are introduced to basic programming concepts, and the language that's used for that is Ada. Then Ada is used to teach algorithms and compilation class. In fact in the second year, we had a full-time project where we wrote a compiler for a language close to Java (in terms of syntax and features), in Ada.

I remember being in my python phase at the time, and bitching at Ada's verbosity. But I realized how comfortable it is to let the compiler do most of the debugging for you, especially on very large projects that are structured as a pipeline (eg. a compiler, every part depends heavily on the other). When it compiles, it works 99% of time. Static typing/subtyping, generic package, all the time spent in the console with GNAT yelling at you really teaches you how to structure, secure and bullet proof your code. Ada really is a great teacher!