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by asolove 16y ago
I agree that something should be done to improve education, but am not convinced by this proposal. We want creative adults. The solution is not simply to "nurture expression" in children. Most of the creative output of world history came fr
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by asolove 16y ago
Computers store information in parking lots. Each space has a number. Most cars fit in one space, but some RVs and busses take up two or four spaces. If two cars are parked next to each other, one might be in space 4, and the next in space
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by asolove 16y ago
This is something I've wanted to do, so let me share the random ideas I had: - Horizontal space is at a premium, so don't show line numbers. When scrolling, show the line numbers hovering over the lines (so I can find my spot in a long file
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by asolove 16y ago
Are his billions in cash, or is his net value based on stock holdings, private investments, etc.?
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by asolove 16y ago
I think this approach is self-defeating. You could use it to teach your daughter (or son) to take math quizzes well, but you will never use it to inspire them to appreciate the beauty of math. In my experience, most of these "make-learning-
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by asolove 16y ago
The most important point in here is: UX methods like the ones above give concrete form to gut decisions and help you defend them against pointless changes and management decisions. When you just go out and design a UI, people start wanting
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by asolove 16y ago
We're talking about Google, a company who wrote their own cleanroom Java implementation and reverse-engineered ActiveX to create a ChromeFrame implementation still compatible with anything that ever worked in IE. I think they could speed th
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by asolove 16y ago
If you're interested in improving your skills and you read HN a lot, you're probably saying to yourself: 1. I wish I could improve my Lisp and 2. I wish I knew more about compilers. Read Norvig's "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Progra
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by asolove 16y ago
Thank goodness, the web font debate is now over. Now we can go back to revolutionizing typography through interaction and social text, without the annoying sneers about Georgia and Arial.
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by asolove 16y ago
Keep in mind that this is not pure engineering, as you're not just trying to solve a problem, you're trying to solve a problem against a living, reacting adversary. So strategy ("game theory") enters into the picture. Edward Luttwak's book
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by asolove 16y ago
The article describes the apps as themes and pictures, but then says they "spread hate." While actually agreeing with the policies of the Third Reich is hideous, making your phone have a swastika on it (for a costume party, perhaps?) seems
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by asolove 16y ago
Would like to convey some belated but serious gratitude for this. When I was working on some heavy-duty LaTeX academic publishing a year or so ago, this was one of the few available resources for full source code of a serious, professional-
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by asolove 16y ago
IANAL, but in the US the relavant date is the invention of the patented item and not the date the patent was granted, so B&N would have to show prior art from many years ago.
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by asolove 16y ago
Agreed. The neurological basis for the relationship between what English grammar calls subject and predicate is a really interesting subject, and verb voice is obviously very related. My background in all this comes from a few classes in Ch
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by asolove 16y ago
What is "basic" grammar? The only details provided in this article discuss active v. passive constructions. An excellent question then is: does "basic" English grammar include passive constructions? Certainly we all expect that children spe
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by asolove 16y ago
"Dear the internet, I know that serious companies have used certain cool languages to do amazing things. However, my benchmark of a trivial HTTP server demonstrates that BASIC is still the language of the future."
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by asolove 16y ago
So let's say you write a web app in Rails or Django. Of course all sorts of magic happens behind the scenes, but ultimately the whole thing boils down to a function, ( def handle_request(request) { return ... } ); which is given the request
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by asolove 16y ago
I guess what I don't understand is why thought this was good news. Look around the world at countries whose economies depend on non-labor-intensive natural resource extraction. Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. These resources form a natural monop
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by asolove 16y ago
Tablets are going to expose all sorts of new ways of interacting with hypertext on the client side. Supporting html5 is nice for authors, but the real revolution comes when readers can compare multiple hypertext documents, naturally browse
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Tabbed browsing should remember my history
5 points by asolove 16y ago|6 comments
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by asolove 16y ago
Uhm, did you visit the site? I browsed two pages and saw only one suggestion that had both punctuation and was not obviously a troll.
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by asolove 16y ago
Although the troll comments are funny, the seriously-meant ones are even funnier: "both dems and repubs need to gain the trust of the american people both sides have lied to us robbed us and i think both sides are about the money not freedo
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by asolove 16y ago
"Winsome" is not an adjective I have ever heard applied to the design of a website. I need to use that more often.
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by asolove 16y ago
I have a functional, attractive, cheap options. I bought an IKEA bookcase, used the very highest shelf and the bottom half for tech and design books, and two shelves for the monitors and the keyboard/mouse. - I can adjust for my eye and arm
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by asolove 16y ago
Yes, you are. Web Sockets have only been available in Firefox and Chrome in the last few months. Etherpad is written with Comet: http://ejohn.org/blog/etherpad-real-time-editing-with-javasc...
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by asolove 17y ago
It isn't just the structure of social interactions that is missing, but also the structure of educational options. Someone who is already intelligent and motivated can pick the right courses and do well, but if you're trying to reach people
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by asolove 17y ago
Consider also the wider moral questions. Apple sources their components more carefully than other vendors when it comes to child labor, fair trade, and environmental degradation. Not as well as one might like, but certainly much better than
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by asolove 17y ago
Really? I am not aware of a way to do this (other than just making the line longer relative to the font size, which statistically makes the breaks more even)
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No Break: A web design anecdote(adamsolove.com)
1 points by asolove 17y ago|0 comments
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by asolove 17y ago
How so?

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