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by Legion 14y ago
> How long will there be English departments? For however long there will be people willing to pay tuition to enroll in one. Really, that's the answer to all questions in that form. No matter how worthy of independence a study might be,
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by Legion 14y ago
I upgraded my local Ubuntu install to PHP 5.4 solely to take advantage of this. We write Rails apps at work mostly these days, but still have some PHP apps floating around. Now, instead of having to configure something like Apache just for
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by Legion 14y ago
Someone like that, except imagine that half the pages you end up landing on from Google searches are "marked for deletion". Literally over 50% of the SO pages I end up on are closed questions. If I'm lucky, some kind soul got off a good buz
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by Legion 14y ago
What this tells me - and it's what I expected even as I put down the money for the iPad 3 - is that in a couple of years, hi-dpi screens will be a stock feature even on the cheapest commodity tablet. That's an amazing thing, if you ask me.
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by Legion 14y ago
Well, there are some projects still going. But the joke is: Q: Why hasn't Oracle ruined Virtualbox yet? A: Because they're going in alphabetical order.
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by Legion 14y ago
I'm not too up on the Java world, but starting to poke my toe in with my interest in JRuby and Clojure. So forgive me if this is a dumb question: what is the nature of the Oracle closed source extensions? Are they anything I'm going to care
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by Legion 14y ago
At my company, we've switched from a wiki to Google Drive to lower the barrier of contributing. As a programmer, wiki syntax seemed pretty obvious to me. But it was a block for some of the non-coders.
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by Legion 14y ago
Or, more charitably, "Get a free CS education".
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by Legion 14y ago
All the things you like about the "traditional desktop UI" were once "the latest UI fads (...) attempt[ing] to appease casual users".
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by Legion 14y ago
This is where someone posts the Joel on Software link about Netscape (I'm on my iPhone else I would). Also, developing a new implementation of PHP allows site development to continue in the meantime.
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by Legion 14y ago
80%? Every attempt I make to use a Vim emulation mode doesn't get 20 seconds without failing to replicate Vim behavior on even fairly basic things.
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by Legion 14y ago
I think it's a Vim rite of passage to write these posts. Just reading this one now makes me want to write my own, even though I know everyone has seen them a million times and has little interest in my Vim special flower.
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by Legion 14y ago
They get paid. (Some do, at least)
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by Legion 14y ago
> Do you have any examples of Microsoft throwing away their codebase and starting fresh? I believe that is what Apple did with the OS9 to OSX transition. Even that wasn't "starting fresh". The starting point was a complete operating sys
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by Legion 14y ago
I downvoted your original response, but your point became better articulated as you went. The value is in replaceability. It comes down to the question, "if I take this away from you, what will you do then?". Textmate was valuable because i
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by Legion 14y ago
Please let the iPad version be next. Everyone at our company has embraced Trello and there are a lot of iPads floating around. You can view boards on the web fine, but lose the drag-and-drop niceties in the iPad browser.
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by Legion 14y ago
> All of your work gone in moments! Your work should never be dependent on a single device staying functional.
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by Legion 14y ago
If you didn't revoke the application-specific password. And you should be revoking them when you're no longer using them. If you weren't using application specific passwords, of course, it would have been your actual Google password in that
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by Legion 14y ago
CrashPlan has swooped in and knocked every cloud backup system I previously used to use out of contention. They've made an awesome product and they provide it at an awesome price. Previously, I was a user and big proponent of Jungle Disk, b
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by Legion 14y ago
What on earth is the purpose of the "August 1, 2012" date in the title, other than to be confusing? EDIT: And I mean the title of the blog post itself. I understand that the link here is just echoing the post's title.
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by Legion 14y ago
Which helped further train my brain on the wrong name, as that's exactly what I've been typing in for a while now. I get to the right site, but I continue to call their service the wrong name to everyone I talk about it with.
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by Legion 14y ago
I still cannot read that name without my brain auto-correcting in the missing "a". I wish they would change the name to something more distinct from Code Academy.
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by Legion 14y ago
I have the 50/5 plan from Time Warner as well, and it's definitely best option around. But 5Mb upstream is still pretty chintzy. Go up to Dallas and you can get 50/25, 75/35, 150/65, and now they're rolling out 300/65. It gets expensive on
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by Legion 14y ago
Sometimes I'm not sure which side of the "at all usable with a mechanical swap disk" line OS X is on. It certainly tested the boundaries of my personal threshold of "usable", at least. Spinny beach ball, spinny, spinny ball. Switching to a
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by Legion 14y ago
There's no good reason why I shouldn't be able to participate in lifelike HD video conferences from here in Austin with my team back in CA, along with our other remote members. But, of course, the problem is that while all of us easily have
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by Legion 14y ago
Man, was I pissed when Austin lost out to Kansas City for the Google Fiber for Communities pilot project. The lack of FIOS in a city like Austin is painful. Austin is "AT&T territory" and AT&T's UVerse service isn't even worth talki
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by Legion 14y ago
As a former Android user, I say that a history of responsiveness issues on Android devices makes me particularly sensitive to issues like this popping up on the latest hot new Android device. Responsiveness is a big feature that pushed me o
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by Legion 14y ago
That's funny, because reused assets have been a big part of some of gaming's biggest leaps forward. We call them "mods".
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by Legion 14y ago
PHP is still usable, sure, but there's just not many compelling reasons to do so, except in certain cases where it does offer a clear-cut advantage (low-friction, newb-friendly development and deployment of simple dynamic sites, for exampl
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by Legion 14y ago
To me, it's not even about that. It's about one person feeling they have the right to carry on as a noisy nuisance in that environment, to the detriment of everyone else's experience. If the person's activity was silent, making the only soc

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