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by Legion 17y ago
I never used Hypercard, though I am aware of it. I've noticed a couple of things, though: * Many people howl for the return of Hypercard * There are dozens of Hypercard clones/reimaginations/etc out there that no one seems to be using. Wha
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by Legion 17y ago
It depends on how you read "non-technical". Your personal example is the story of someone who was extremely sensitive to what they didn't know, made very careful allowances for it, and in the end found out that picking up some technical k
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by Legion 17y ago
You seem to have a list of things you want to learn, but you don't seem to have a real clear concept of what to use them for. JavaScript doesn't tend to "stand alone". It is primarily used for client-side scripting for web applications. Whi
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by Legion 17y ago
In terms of reading a complete body of code in one style or another, I agree. What is annoying and distracting is having conflicting styles in the same single chunk of code. Sort of like how I would not want a book to randomly change line s
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by Legion 17y ago
I would argue that closing the post with a caps-lock'd rant that kicks off with "A PHONE IS NOT A GENERIC GAMING PLATFORM" is implicitly saying a little bit more than just "not every game works on phones". Perhaps it's a bit of reading betw
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by Legion 17y ago
The parts in quotes above are taken directly from the body text. What's not to understand?
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by Legion 17y ago
It's not that hard to understand. MySQL is a popular RDBMS starting point. Therefore, almost by definition, if you run into someone using a RDBMS but not really knowing WTF they are doing, they're quite often using MySQL. If it wasn't MySQL
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by Legion 17y ago
I agree with the author's distaste with Apple's pulling of the game. But that's about the only part of the article that I don't find inane. * "If I'm a scammer for charging $399.99 for a stupid app, Apple is a scammer for charging a startin
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by Legion 17y ago
Does it really matter what you call it? At the university I attended, the Computer Science program shifted from the Engineering department to the Science & Mathematics department during the course of my studies. Incoming freshmen were s
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by Legion 17y ago
For an alternative point of view, Blue Train is probably what got me into jazz in the first place. But seeing as my tastes went on to become enamored with highly abstract, noisy, wall-of-sound, drone-for-40-minutes sort of stuff, I might no
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by Legion 17y ago
No. What it speaks to is how listening habits have changed. And since a musician's goal is to be heard, a large shift in listening habits unquestionably changes how much is produced.
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by Legion 17y ago
Yes, but it will redirect. It won't be canonical.
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by Legion 17y ago
Indeed. It's QUITE annoying to read HYPERTEXT where every fourth WORD or so is a BOLDED link to some silly TOPIC map.
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by Legion 17y ago
>> The gushing letter he wrote predicted it's going to be a commercial success. I like the movie too (well, not the terrible theatrical release) but that doesn't mean that letter isn't somewhat nuts. It may not have been a commercia
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by Legion 17y ago
And it is perfectly within everyone else's rights to frown upon it. The liberal licensing of Free software/content does not mean every use of those freedoms is a good and positive thing. And nobody is being inconsistent by treating it as a
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by Legion 17y ago
I've never been tempted to type "LOL WUT" until now. I have been willing to pay for printed copies of freely-available digital material. I bought Dive Into Python 3. I even bought a pair of Lulu-printed copies of Why's Poignant Guide to Rub
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by Legion 17y ago
In other words, Steam DRM comes with some carrots, instead of just extra sticks. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere... I'm a fan for the same reasons you listed. Also, their aggressive sales and price reductions on older archival
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by Legion 17y ago
It was the backlash that was "unexpected". As usual.
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by Legion 17y ago
I don't know. I think any holy war in which people aren't killed is pretty good as far as holy wars go.
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by Legion 17y ago
I quickly got distracted by the F-16 flight manual in the "More from this user" sidebar. Downloading...
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by Legion 17y ago
I'm not sure which arguments are worse: Calacanis's cheerleading of Buzz, or this guy's inability to make a point without resorting to calling someone an idiot multiple times.
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by Legion 17y ago
But cars, power tools, and firearms have significant potential for severe bodily harm. Computers, assuming you're simply using the machine and not trying to stick objects into the power supply, don't. It's ridiculous the fear some people ha
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by Legion 17y ago
So it's not just about the iPod's output, but the inclusion of "stock ear buds...designed to be placed deep into the ear canal rather than over the ears, which increases the danger of hearing damage". I always thought it should be a crime t
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by Legion 17y ago
That is the part I'm not understanding. What does using one of these "static site compilers" save me from? I guess being able to use layouts that get "baked" into each of the final static HTML files would be handy.
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by Legion 17y ago
That's clever and I feel stupid for not having come up with it myself (the keeping separate revisions and symlinking part). Thanks for sharing.
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by Legion 17y ago
Probably, but I think the overall zeal would have been much less intense.
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by Legion 17y ago
Jamie Zawinski said to shut up, stop what you're doing and make a back-up. Jeff simply spread Jamie's message to a wider audience, rather than claiming it as his own.
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by Legion 17y ago
s3sync is great. I'm using it for automated backups for a number of work projects. Thank you for writing it and sharing it.
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by Legion 17y ago
So when are people going to start poisoning their search histories by collectively performing mass searches for "bad" content? I've been expecting that to be the eventual reaction to Google disclosing search history.
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by Legion 17y ago
Describing what the Word engine does with HTML as "rendering" is probably being charitable.

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