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by alayne 17y ago
I think there are some great opportunities for online instruction of special needs children in post secondary education, and too a lesser extent special coursework for motivated students. It does take a certain amount of self-discipline to
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by alayne 17y ago
It's keyboard driven.
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by alayne 17y ago
DHH has talked before about his opposition to ad-based businesses. It is bread crumbs on a per user basis. That means you need a huge number of eyeballs to profit. Building a system so large and popular that it gets that many users is diffi
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by alayne 17y ago
This is not the first time I've heard this bait and switch tactic. The critical point that is muddled is that the web is not the Internet. Furthermore, an iPhone is a general purpose computing device and not limited to web applications. I d
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by alayne 17y ago
You shouldn't sit on a small chair in your living room while you drive either. This guy and his family seem terribly confused, like they are living in a metaphor.
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by alayne 17y ago
Slashdot was great back in the first few months and years. Like many other aggregation sites, it degraded in forum quality as the user base grew exponentially. See Usenet's Eternal September. The Well has intelligent discussions, but it can
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by alayne 17y ago
Bogus site and bogus submitter who only submits links to one site. The article appears to be from an anonymous Slashdot post from 2002. It's too full of trollish comments to bother discussing.
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by alayne 17y ago
They are probably under more pressure now that Opera has come out with a fast Javascript engine in 10.50.
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by alayne 17y ago
Yes, nonstandard. I apologize for my sloppy wording. By all means play with closures. I don't mean to discourage the original poster from experimenting. I am just pointing out some irony in the context of gcc and clang. Clang is forced to i
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by alayne 17y ago
So many people aren't even talking about the content. It's a glimpse into iPhone development which is an interesting alternate universe for me. I don't think she was going for a Pulitzer. I think we need to celebrate the fact that there are
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by alayne 17y ago
Proprietary extensions are one reason that gcc is so hard to unseat. You're always better off writing standard code if you want it to work in ten years.
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by alayne 17y ago
We're all parasites of society in some sense. If we didn't have a technologically complex world, Ars wouldn't have an audience. Maybe they should be paying us for having anything to write about at all! I think community sites and subscripti
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by alayne 17y ago
Now you have three problems. The fundamental problem is SMS.
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by alayne 17y ago
I think many of your criticisms apply to current Javascript UIs also. I have seen so many UI quirks, even in the stuff you'd think would work right like YUI/JQuery UI. However, its saving grace is its composable nature. The biggest problem
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by alayne 17y ago
We looked at some of Jessica Hische's lettering work in a typography class I took at a local art college. I believe it was some Tiffany & Co displays she did. Her designs are obviously of unusually high quality and beauty. That type of