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by agscala 15y ago
The Zune software is so good, I know many people who use it even though they don't have a Zune, myself included.
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by agscala 15y ago
It's hard to estimate the power of distraction for students. Having interactive textbooks would be really awesome, but what does it matter if kids are just playing Angry Birds instead? Also the cost benefits aren't really all that great.
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by agscala 15y ago
My guess is the value of you seeing the ads is probably worth more to them than whatever you're willing to pay to stop seeing them.
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by agscala 15y ago
I'm very interested in the point made regarding interactive children's education. High schools across the country seem to think that giving students iPads to use as text books is a good idea. I think that if I was in high school and I had
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by agscala 15y ago
I know this isn't directly answering your question, but unless you actually need to learn Django, I'd recommend sticking with Rails. I've done several projects with Django, and while I enjoy writing Python more than Ruby, Rails is by far
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by agscala 15y ago
What if the same person is in both my "allow to call regularly" and my "straight to voicemail" circles?
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by agscala 15y ago
Rivalries between programming languages are silly. Certain languages are better for certain things, and these debates come from people trying to shoehorn one language to do everything. I haven't seen much Python vs LISP, usually it's Pytho
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Z - Switch directories very quickly (bash/zsh)(github.com)
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by agscala 15y ago
If that's the case, that makes sense on google+. On GMail though, I personally am used to clicking on the logo to refresh my inbox. Now I have to click on the navigation tab "inbox" to do that. It isn't a big deal really, but I find it odd
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by agscala 15y ago
The article mentions it already, but if this style of programming piques your interest and you don't know about underscore.js, it's absolutely worth your time to check it out: http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/
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by agscala 15y ago
Looks great other than the transitions jittering a bit (on ubuntu chrome)
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by agscala 15y ago
People were lobbying for IE to change in order to make it consistent with the rest of the browsers, not necessarily because it was worse.
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by agscala 15y ago
Will this work with older browsers? Where can I expect support for this?
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Gource: Software Version Control Visualization.(code.google.com)
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by agscala 15y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I'm under the impression that once these new keywords are introduced, everyone will encouraged to use 'let' exclusively and 'var' will be suggested as an advanced feature for special cases.
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by agscala 15y ago
The extra keywords aren't going to reduce the "errors and weird behavior", the fact that they will be block-scoped and not function-scoped is what will eliminate the confusion.
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by agscala 15y ago
This violates Mechanical Turk's ToS, unfortunately.
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by agscala 15y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I really don't mind paying with paypal. It's rather convenient. I don't think that the offered payment methods have ever impacted whether or not I actually buy from a particular merchant.
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by agscala 15y ago
It's pretty incredible that this website fell on it's face so hard that users couldn't even sign in. What I don't understand is why they're now requiring everyone to reset their passwords too. What exactly are they doing over there? This
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by agscala 15y ago
The article title is very misleading. He spent at least 8 months developing a product, and he "got lucky" and was featured near the top in the app store in multiple countries in order to make the $30,000.
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by agscala 15y ago
Android doesn't really get it right either. Sometimes I get a notification for two new text messages with google voice. I tap the notification which opens up the google voice app and lets me read the first message. How do I read my 2n
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by agscala 15y ago
Also if there was a way to permalink a button, that would be amazing. I like sending links around to people for opinions
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by agscala 15y ago
Is there a goal of some sort? I feel like I just completely wasted my time
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by agscala 15y ago
Vim isn't only about movement, it gives you some very efficient ways to actually manipulate text. Take this example line of code: #define test "Some magical string." Say the cursor was at the beginning of the line and you wanted to
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by agscala 15y ago
Or you can can just appreciate that you get to use one of the best input models only while you're coding, and settle for regular inputs the rest of the time. It's not like you'll forget how to use the arrow keys after learning Vim. I don't
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by agscala 15y ago
The laziness level that can be achieved with vim's modal editing still surpasses that of most editors. When you're used to vim and you have to use something else, you even become disappointed when you have to reach for the arrow keys . hj
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by agscala 15y ago
I don't think that programming is going to be a required skill like a lot of people here say it is. As much as I love programming and machines and computers, I don't think I want to be serviced in every area of my life by a machine. I don
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How Do You Look When Merging Fails ;-)(andialbrecht.wordpress.com)
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by agscala 15y ago
While I think the idea of this article is true, I think it's a bit unfair to compare the number of mobile apps to the number of web sites. Yes, there may be 350 million websites, but how many of those actually offer a valuable service? I t
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by agscala 15y ago
One quote from the article which I found interesting: “it works so well that the rare occasions when it can’t read my mind are annoying!” I interpret that as, "While it's great being able to search for commands, it's an absolute pain in the

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