Tom, could you try plugging your Mac mini into a TV you might already have for a while? I don't know how long term bearable it would be but it is something.
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
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Gris - Jan 28, 2019 11:59:55 am PST #25255 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Gudanov - Feb 03, 2019 6:13:57 am PST #25256 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Oh man, I'm sorry about all the electronics luck Tom.
Tom Scola - Feb 03, 2019 6:39:16 am PST #25257 of 25496
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My monitor came back to life, but I'm afraid to post about it because then I will jinx myself.
Laura - Feb 07, 2019 8:27:05 am PST #25258 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
Need some advice concerning security type credentials. #1 son is thinking of doing some study and testing on security areas but there are a multitude of paths. We have SonicWall in our cloud environment, so he can access that easily and work on it, but getting SonicWall credentials seems limiting. There is also Cisco, ,Microsoft/Azure, CompTIA, and more! He already has a good deal of knowledge and competency, but nothing formal.
He'd like some initials behind his name, but I'm not sure what would be best. Any thoughts on that field of study and credentials?
(as I hit the road for the next few hours, so more later)
Gudanov - Feb 07, 2019 8:52:34 am PST #25259 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Tom Scola - Feb 23, 2019 8:58:24 am PST #25260 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Good thing my monitor didn't straight out die, but gave me enough time to calm the fuck down. I hauled my monitor to the Apple Store, dropped it off, and then went over to Best Buy and bought a cheap $100 monitor, which will tide me over for the time being.
Gris - Feb 23, 2019 11:51:50 am PST #25261 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Coder folks: I am a teacher by trade but a casual programmer as a hobby (and I teach computer science starting next year!). I am a pretty good javascript programmer for a casual, but as I don't work in the field I've never really learned any of the many application frameworks out there (Angular, react, etc). I'm interested in learning more about treating javascript as a functional language. Is there a framework/library I could learn through an online course that might push me to learn more about functional javascript?
Gudanov - Feb 23, 2019 12:47:59 pm PST #25262 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Javascript is a functional language. So courses in pure Javascript might be useful. Classes are kind of an artificial construct in Javascript at least until ES2015/ES6.
Gudanov - Feb 23, 2019 12:51:02 pm PST #25263 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I'm a fan of codecademy courses (which are free, but sort of limited) and pluralsight (which are not free, but more extensive).
Gris - Feb 23, 2019 4:11:54 pm PST #25264 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I think most people use javascript in a semi object-oriented (prototype-based traditionally, class-based since ES6) way, though. I read a lot of cool articles about that. But the move toward more pure lambda-calculus style functional programming seems to be happening.
I think I'm going to take a free course in react/redux as a starting point. If I like the functional enough, maybe I'll then try to learn Elm. I already know Dart pretty well, so I have a strongly-typed OO language that transpiles to JS under my belt, why not add a purely functional one too?