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Carlos Macasaet




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Carlos Macasaet's Life List

  1. 1. Read more
    8,785 people
  2. 2. Choose Wedding Tattoos
    2 entries
    2 people
  3. 3. learn Haskell
    115 people
  4. 4. Get an MBA
    678 people
  5. 5. learn to play golf
    504 people
  6. 6. take car racing classes
    1 person
  7. 7. Design a Domain Specific (Embedded) Language
    1 person
  8. 8. start exercising
    443 people
  9. 9. Volunteer
    5,499 people
  10. 10. learn sign language
    8,464 people
  11. 11. improve my French
    1,467 people
  12. 12. autocross with my car
    7 people
  13. 13. own a franchise
    1 cheer
    15 people
  14. 14. Design and Build a House
    263 people
  15. 15. Buy a sport bike
    7 people
  16. 16. learn ruby
    1,850 people
  17. 17. Learn about mid-century modern architecture
    1 entry
    1 person
  18. 18. learn to play chess
    1 entry
    294 people
  19. 19. Drive the Nürburgring
    1 person
  20. 20. Visit all the Breweries in and around Austin, TX
    1 person
  21. 21. brew my own beer
    646 people
  22. 22. Own a Lotus Exige
    6 people
  23. 23. write an iphone application
    9 people
  24. 24. Learn Objective-C
    138 people
  25. 25. Learn Echolocation
    14 people
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Learn Java
Java Is My Least Favourite Language

But that is probably because it is the language I know the best. If you’ve never programmed before, I suggest learning a functional programming language like Haskell or Scheme first. It will make you a better programmer in the long run. It’s too bad those languages haven’t taken off in enterprise environments.

-Los



learn to play chess
I Know How to Move the Pieces

... but I don’t know how to play.

-Los



learn .NET
Not a Fan

I’ve always been very negative on Microsoft, however, I thought .NET would be different because it seems like more of an open standard. However, I was very disappointed with C# and ASP.NET. It seems like even the simplest tasks require you write or generate needlessly complex code. I don’t think that Java or PHP are the greatest languages in the world, but I much prefer them to C# and ASP.NET.

I am a huge fan of functional programming so maybe when F# matures, I’ll revisit .NET. But, until then, I will stay away.

-Los



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