KevinMS

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by KevinMS 16y ago
I also have issues with the "box model." Judging by the popularity of grid layout systems like blueprint and 960 I think others also do. The box model is fine when you just need to "flow" things around things, like text around images, and
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by KevinMS 16y ago
I cranked out something similar to this years ago called in Lua and C called moonfall, actually more powerful because it was extendable, even got on smashing magazines "best of the month" or something like that, and I'm pretty sure it didn'
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by KevinMS 16y ago
Well you have to sign up before you use it. And it doesn't require verification of email, thats why it says it ok to use a fake email address.
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Ask HN: My website is useful to me, but what would make it useful to you?
1 points by KevinMS 16y ago|2 comments
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by KevinMS 17y ago
It was a quote from Futurama. But I have no regrets about the rest. I don't want to see this guy going in the wrong direction, and the suggestion of learning about chip design was just way beyond bad. But why bother. Hacker news is becomi
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by KevinMS 17y ago
This is probably one of the reasons they experimented with removing the down-voting on comments. Some people, rather than vote on relevance or insight of the comments feel they should be enforcing their own arbitrary standards.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Sounds like you dropped out of academics, were successful in website development, are arguing for a hands on learning approach where it "makes your view of an issue much more complete", and even successfully used compsci books, you write "m
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by KevinMS 17y ago
The guy wants to build complicated websites, not be a hacker snob, so I'm giving him the honest truth and getting modded down for it. "While I agree about your points I still maintain that a couple of courses in data structures and algori
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Style over substance? Another reason down-voting is a disgrace for this website and should have stayed removed.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
This advice is so bad I think it just gave me cancer. The OP is asking "what abilities are required to effectively build complex web apps and services?" 99.9999999999% of data structures in web programming are arrays and hashes. Look those
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by KevinMS 17y ago
If you think this debate is about oil you are very wrong. Oil is a transportation fuel, we can find away around that, maybe expensive, but its solvable. This is about coal and natural gas. Much of the industrialized world runs on those. S
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Wikipedia’s climate doctor(network.nationalpost.com)
12 points by KevinMS 17y ago|17 comments
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Web development is almost all "construction", which has little to do with computer science. Look it up in Code Complete. I've worked in web development for many years, doing some pretty complicated stuff, and I've never needed to remember
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Sounds good, I'll take it. Considering how we're either warming or cooling (your only 2 choices if you're an atmosphere), and cooling has repeatedly been a disaster for human civilization, we should be relieved.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
From programming erlang by Joe Armstrong: At this point you might be wondering how it’s possible to program with- out variables. How can you express something like X = X + 1 in Erlang? The answer is easy. Invent a new variable whose name ha
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I've done some programming in Erlang and I found the immutable variables to be a total pain in the ass that gave no benefit. Your code ends up littered with var=1 var2=var+1 type idioms. Also, the immutable variable have nothing to do with
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Looks like somebody is recovering from an ice age, good for you little blue planet!
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by KevinMS 17y ago
"The vast bulk of the ice sheets predate human civilization and weathered the warm period comfortably; the modern melting situation isn't really comparable." What is your evidence that, this time, the ice wont "weather the warm period comfo
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I bought a couple 1U servers from dell. Since none of my credit cards would go over a few thousand for a single purchase I called Dell up to ask if I could send them a check. I got transferred 12 times! I'm not kidding you, I was countin
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by KevinMS 17y ago
and very energy efficient too with all the common walls rather than outside air.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
normally you couldn't get a loan because banks would be worried about the resale value of a "underground" house. But maybe recently you could have because they were just giving loans to anybody. But now you probably wouldn't have a chance
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Ok if you like toy houses, but the points made are moot. This is just feel-good hippy shit that distracts from real progress. Already been done- called mobile home, trailer parks, etc. Next time you dry past a mobile home park in a relativ
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Isaac Newton was an alchemist. Any more examples?
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Looking for feedback for my new web app w3frm.com
2 points by KevinMS 17y ago|0 comments
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by KevinMS 17y ago
Ok, I found this video linked from their site, and I'm not sure if its a joke. Skip to when he turns the fan on, about 1 minute in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ZcpCY2O6k&feature=playe...
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I'm not going to play that game. If I gave you a list of papers to counter man made global warming, you'd say "they are sponsored by big oil" or "those scientists are shunned by the scientific community". How about this, I think the burden
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by KevinMS 17y ago
"The whole "science has been wrong before" angle has been answered very well by lots of scientists. The answer basically boils down to, "Yes, but it's usually wrong in a continuous cycle of refinement, not wrong in a 180-degree direction ki
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by KevinMS 17y ago
"Seems to me he's just searching for arguments to discard the scientific consensus and not trying to further the debate at all." A frightening, ignorant statement. If this subject wasn't so political then "searching for arguments to discar
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by KevinMS 17y ago
I got it from another posting right before mine. I'm sorry I offended you and your beloved coding sensei.
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by KevinMS 17y ago
"As a general view, they have excellent memory and strong attention to detail. They are persistent and good at following structures and routines," he says. In other words, they're born software engineers." Wrong, completely totally backward

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