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Programming Throwdown

Logo Scratch Lego

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2015

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This show covers several programming languages we used as kids. Book of the Show Jason: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid http://amzn.to/1LWYOpJ ; Patrick: Leviathan Wakes http://amzn.to/1HjpfAo.

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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:15.8

Programming Throwdown, episode 44, Logo Scratch Lego.

0:20.6

Take it away, Patrick.

0:22.5

I need to have an answer to how many monitors should I have at work?

0:27.3

How many monitors does it take to get to the center of a tutzi problem?

0:33.7

So I feel like I need more. Right now I have, or maybe I need bigger monitors. Oh, maybe that's the difference, the size of the monitor or the number of the monitors. So what do you have right now? So right now I have two 24-inch monitors. Two-twenty? Okay. And like side-by-side, and I have them on like adjustable arms, and I have them both in landscape mode. In land, okay, right?

0:55.0

And so that's pretty good because the way I have it set up is like, so I run Ubuntu,

1:00.0

so I have like the virtual desktop side by side.

1:03.0

I only use two.

1:04.0

And on the first one I have like email and like docs and stuff, you know, kind of on two windows

1:10.0

so I can have my email up all the time when I'm on that window or whatever.

1:13.8

And the second one, I typically have like a browser in one window,

1:17.6

documentation, console, command line,

1:20.1

and then the other one, my IDE.

1:22.3

So the second monitor is like a split screen,

1:25.1

and the first one's just email or something like that so well so like

1:28.2

on my second virtual environment yeah the first one the left side is like eclipse and then the second one is like

1:33.8

my command line or like documentation in the browser or whatever gotcha got so i have two but then yeah like you

1:41.0

pointed out now i don't have space for my email and so maybe that's good

1:44.9

because i don't look at my email but i feel like i need four monitors like i feel like i need two more

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