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by SiVal 12y ago
I think Apple's only priority for Swift is to make sure future products using future versions of iOS and OSX are more attractive to buyers than other companies' future products using future versions of Android and Windows. I think
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by SiVal 12y ago
Many technologies are older than people think. Fax machines, for example, have been in use by the US military since the Civil War.
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by SiVal 12y ago
I think Apple's internal policies regarding employees use of Swift for Apple's own software dev should be published as part of the Swift documentation. If it's not good enough for them, it's not good enough for me, but a
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by SiVal 12y ago
The Olivetti-Underwood Programma 101 was the first computer I ever programmed before graduating to the "big iron" of Fortran on punchcards fed into a mainframe. There is a Programma 101 on display at the Computer History Museum a
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by SiVal 12y ago
Is the plan that you develop apps for this thing using C# (or any .Net language) plus special libraries? Or will the somewhat real-time nature of 3D imagery integrated with the real world using a lightweight mobile device require something
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by SiVal 12y ago
I teach my kids that the systems they are programming should be considered onions of abstraction layers. They need to understand how to choose from among the options available at each level and to realize that those options are constantly c
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by SiVal 12y ago
I appreciate your warning. It seems worth keeping in mind. Your "eat only before midnight diet" (which I've never heard of) is related to what I expected to read when I saw the title of the article. I thought this article was
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yes, I lived there, too. I lived in the Rocky Mountains for several years, and my comments are just as true of the suburbs of Denver (say, Boulder) or Salt Lake City (Provo/Orem) as they are of the coasts. Of course, if you get far eno
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by SiVal 12y ago
I don't know what places you are referring to as "much of Suburbia", but a large number of us who read HN live in Silicon Valley suburbs where you see people walking around all the time. Kids on skateboards, groups of young,
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by SiVal 12y ago
In rural Asia, cast iron tends to be--relative to flimsy aluminum--too expensive, too heavy (a large percentage of those doing the cooking weigh less than 100lbs/45kg), and too poor at conducting heat and too good at absorbing it (ther
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by SiVal 12y ago
No, it's that people who exercise more tend to eat more, even when their primary reason for exercising is to lose weight. They either don't think about it or overestimate the calories burned by their exercise and allow themselves
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by SiVal 12y ago
I don't agree. I have a one-man online business, which means I can operate from home to save a lot of money, making it possible to charge less to my customers while still making a profit. I really would rather not have people who are a
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by SiVal 12y ago
I would be interested to know Google's plans for selling SSL certs, if any. They have been quite vocal that sites should switch from HTTP to HTTPS at the risk of having their Page Rank downgraded if they don't, but this requires p
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by SiVal 12y ago
Thank you very much for sharing this info. It's funny how often we read articles about the "future of work" that express skepticism about almost all careers except for the one sure thing: IT skills will be in huge demand. The
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by SiVal 12y ago
Any that you recommend?
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Oops. That's "tall tales", not "tall tails", of course, but too late for me to edit.
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by SiVal 12y ago
When the English first began settling in New England in the 1600s, they were astonished that the local Indian men and boys wore only a loincloth during most of the year, even in snowy weather, adding leggings and a small shawl on the should
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by SiVal 12y ago
Chinese characters aren't what speakers of Western languages would consider "words". Like English words, they are symbols combining both meaning and pronunciation (one or slightly more of each), so sometimes they are like Eng
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yes, it has definitely been published in academic journals in the education field. I apologize for being lazy about looking it up, but if you're interested, go to scholar.google.com and search for cursive writing and whatever else make
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by SiVal 12y ago
Reading levels have been a feature of literature study for centuries. Literary works have been "graded" (assigned levels) and sequenced for a very long time. Also, even a single, significant work, such as a work by Shakespeare, wo
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by SiVal 12y ago
This has been measured by researchers, and cursive provided no speed advantage over printing. That's why it's so easy and common for people who know how to write in cursive to revert to printing all the time even after years of cu
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by SiVal 12y ago
I believe the failing American education can be explained by the decline of handwriting. Handwriting isn't declining; cursive handwriting is. I strongly believe that writing things by hand (handwriting) is an aid to learning, but I d
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by SiVal 12y ago
Yeah, at the risk of being "middle-brow", I didn't really learn much about "How to be an expert" from this. Maybe, it's just a title issue, and "How to be among the first investors to spot an exploitable c
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by SiVal 12y ago
What you're describing is often referred to in education debates as the "mastery approach" to education. It is a system that used to be commonly employed by private tutors teaching the children of aristocrats and by master cr
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by SiVal 12y ago
Well, since he's upset that Americans don't give Russians enough credit for their WWII contributions, such as the gift of a Stalinist government to the Korean Peninsula, he's probably blaming the US for "creating the cur
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by SiVal 12y ago
If I can get what I want more cheaply from Vendor A than from Vendor B, the question of whether Vendor B is charging me more as an agent of the state or on its own behalf is unlikely to be relevant to the decision.
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by SiVal 12y ago
You're right that effective B&M shipping cost is not always free. The brick 'n mortar cost of shipping is anywhere from a lot ("I'd have to drive into the city just for that and pay exorbitant parking garage fees, an
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by SiVal 12y ago
Tipping is a nuisance, something that goes in the "Con" category in a Pro & Con analysis. The vendor is implicitly warning you that you shouldn't count on getting good service included just because you officially paid for
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This is why I love the idea of a Chromebook-like device that essentially has a browser as an OS. You have the security features of the browser model without the additional "security" restrictions of "we won't let you ins
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I fell in love with Perl 3 over twenty years ago and loved how it took the best parts of both awk and sed and added extra features while making the overall syntax more consistent. Ironically, the consistency of Perl's syntax in those d

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