Goladus

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by Goladus 15y ago
Market leader in this market means the brand that has the most users or most potential value to partners. That is, if a business is going to use a discount service to acquire new customers, the market leader will be able to bring in the mo
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by Goladus 15y ago
Groupon wants to be THE site for deals and coupons. If they acquire enough end users, the cost of acquiring new partners will go down. The benefits will be common knowledge, businesses will approach them , and lots of salespeople will ge
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by Goladus 15y ago
Not an open source remake, rather a rebalancing and increased difficulty patch of the original, is Final Fantasy Tactics 1.3: http://www.insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/forum/13-fi...
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by Goladus 15y ago
> IANA cryptography expert. Is this feasible in the way the author predicts? Could SHA256 be cracked quickly, a la MD5? My gut is that it won't be able to, but I can't back up my argument. IANA cryptography expert either, but my underst
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by Goladus 15y ago
I agree, although I still like having a hard copy reference. The biggest problem is that books are harder to keep current.
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by Goladus 15y ago
In the long run (and often even in the beginning) I find well-written, well-organized reference material to be more useful than a tutorial guide. I did not use Lutz to learn python, for example, I used David Beazley's Python Essential Refer
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by Goladus 15y ago
I don't really see much blame in that post. Comcast shut down searchyc. That's the simplest true explanation for what happened. It's sad. That's the extent to which they dwell on the issue.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I don't understand why they have to go from zero breaks to four per hour. Why not just one or two? A break every hour is not too bothersome and sometimes convenient or even welcome. A break every half-hour is sometimes disruptive but not
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by Goladus 15y ago
The author is not suggesting to cram a substantial paragraph into the subject line. That comment comes directly after a suggestion to limit the subject to 72 characters or less. If your blackberry cannot handle 72 characters that's a mail
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by Goladus 15y ago
You can make sure the candidate knows it's a basic question by simply saying so. If the point really is to make the person feel at ease, that reassurance will be even more helpful. Say: Don't overthink this one, I just want a solution.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Capability and usability aren't entirely unrelated. Applications with limited capability have no need to distinguish between initial usability and advanced usability. Applications with lots of capability must make tradeoffs, as ease of us
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by Goladus 15y ago
People used to buy books and magazines or go to the library. The great thing about the internet was that it replaced the hassle and expense of doing that. It works pretty well even with the nearly-content-free sites clogging up the system.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Emacs is very usable if you can make a few reasonable assumptions about the user. Obviously it's not perfect (see the discussion of changing fonts in the originally posted blog) but making those assumptions about the user allows for a grea
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by Goladus 15y ago
Design means more than just visual design and graphical interface. For example: M-x <function_name> Executes any interactive function. Any gui-based editor will ultimately be limited by the knobs and switches that can be
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by Goladus 15y ago
Most of my emacs customizations are pretty simple. M-x [ and M-x ] start and end macros. f5 runs a macro instead of C-M-x e. f6 copies the entire current line. f7 is line-goto. f9 is replace-string, f10 is replace-regexp. M-x g is who
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by Goladus 15y ago
My typical responses is that replace-* modify+isearch macros are good enough that I don't miss having refactoring tools that parse my code on the fly. My projects are usually not large enough that it matters. If they were, I suspect my typ
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by Goladus 15y ago
Why should an emacs article mention vim? The author probably isn't qualified to fairly compare them and so doesn't bother trying. The focus is also writing prose rather than coding or basic text-editing. The differences between vim and em
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by Goladus 15y ago
Sorry, poor choice of words. By random I mean someone whose opinion is informed only by their impression of the care received, which was specific to them. Sites like www.ratemds.com are encouraging patients to review their doctors like the
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by Goladus 15y ago
Very pertinent. The last also makes me think, though, that the sites encouraging people to post random doctor reviews online to sell ads are the biggest culprits. I don't want my doctor focused on winning internet popularity contests. Mos
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by Goladus 15y ago
So which is it? Is programming a hard-earned skill that should be paid well, or is it just so easy that a (presumably non-technical) idea guy can just pick it up and run with it? You're sending mixed messages. He's suggesting the idea guy
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by Goladus 15y ago
That sounds like a large-scale version of what happens every summer weekend in New England as Boston and its suburbs head to the cape.
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by Goladus 15y ago
See that really isn't the main use case for dropbox Of course, but the user was clearly taken by surprise.
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by Goladus 15y ago
So far, I've only had one experience with dropbox, and it was mediocre. Someone('s dad) was trying to share a ~1.5 gig file with up to 50ish people (mostly artists and musicians). The free account used up all its bandwidth and the person
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by Goladus 15y ago
Knuth, the guy who wrote The Art of Computer Programming ? I'm not sure I can make sense of that question. No one can know everything, but if your specialty is, for example, virtual memory paging algorithms you should be able to write prog
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by Goladus 15y ago
Yeah the MIT approach seems oriented towards fundamentals that will be useful in both EE and Computer Science. To me, the beginning of 6.01 looks like a thorough review of most of the standard programming concepts using Python. I get the s
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by Goladus 15y ago
I agree with your point that making inheritance, polymorphism and OO design the focus of the second course is not a good idea. But I think you're still trying to put too many disparate concepts into it. That's very probable. I'm in the m
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by Goladus 15y ago
Programming is a fundamental tool of computer science. Sure, you can learn how paging in a virtual memory system works by reading wikipedia, but a computer scientist should really be able to write one of their own if they had to.
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by Goladus 15y ago
The 15 week expectation is aggressive, perhaps too aggressive, but not entirely absurd. The problem is the follow-up to the introduction, not the introduction itself. CS 2 should not be dealing with inheritance, polymorphism, or object-or
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by Goladus 15y ago
There are many reasons why people resist the idea that carbs are worse that fat. For one thing, no one has proved that "carbs are worse than fat." It's a silly, over-simplified assertion. Also, fats are the most calorie-dense macro-nutrie
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by Goladus 15y ago
It's not really a contradiction if you think in terms of equilibrium and system dynamics rather than an over-simplified quote from USA Today.

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