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Videos from CascadiaJS(2013.cascadiajs.com)
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But the plan should be structured so that what you earn is in line with the benefit you provide to the company. Making it arbitrarily harder to benefit from what you've already earned is unnecessarily cruel. This is a big difference be
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I understand this, but it doesn't solve the problem. Imagine if someone said: "the developers of grep have come out with an SDK so that other text-oriented programs can integrate text matching!" The idea of grep-as-library is
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Ooh, truly good news. I will be very interested to see how it works on other apps in iOS.
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This is wonderful and beautiful. I don't want to knock it. I'll probably buy one and love it. If you like this, also look at the demo video for Adobe's project Mighty/Napoleon, a pen and drafting tool combo that is prett
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Your point is very important. The key to requirejs is to insist that all code after requirejs is on the page will have absolutely no manual work to handle dependencies. To do this, you need to not use globals, and instead get clever about m
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In English, you can change the relative lengths of syllables in a word and it's still the same word. In Greek this isn't the case: the relative lengths of the vowels is part of what defines the word. Maybe you don't believe m
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NeoVictorian Computing(markbernstein.org)
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Our culture of change (JSConf and inclusiveness)(voodootikigod.com)
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No, I don't think the author does. About society I won't try to defend any opinion. The author would, I think, agree with me that the purpose of life is independent of "success" by any visible metric, and that a deep ded
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You're welcome! I'm glad whenever being broadly-read on the internet comes in handy, as it justifies the reading-broadly habit.
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Necessary reading material: "Solitude and Leadership" [0], an address by William Deresiewicz to the United States Military Academy that discusses the importance of forming your own ideas through careful reflection. As important to
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by asolove 13y ago
I really wanted to love Pixelmator but this update finally makes it usable for me solely for baseline support in text.
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Constraint programming in the browser [video](adamsolove.com)
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Amazon Mechanical Turk has an adult-content marker specifically for this purpose. Lots of people have done the paperwork to qualify for adult-content jobs and the cost of having humans do it at scale is very low: https://requeste
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Constraint programming in the browser (JSConf 2013)(youtube.com)
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See, that's the beauty of the whole situation. Instead of arguing philosophy about the causes of gender imbalance, we can decide that what we're actually worried about are concrete people who should get a chance to do what they&#x
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I think "few social structures...that prevent women from doing [programming]" is the assumption you make that most people on the other side of the issue would disagree with. The example you provide, men in nursing, is a poor one f
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It's important not to oversell the touchy-feely/what-looks-good side of this. Font design is certainly about planning and calculation, it's just that those calculations need to be based on optics rather than geometry. Instead
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What? Due to the Curry-Howard Correspondence, mathematical proofs are in fact very precisely executable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspond... There may be lots of room to improve the "UI
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While there is no "royal road" to mathematics for programmers who don't care about proofs, there is a programmer's road to proofs for those interested in Math. In fact, the book is even called "The Haskell Road to L
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One way to make the game harder is to remove clips that have obvious references to proper nouns tied to one country. Many of my correct answers came from hearing the name of a person or place associated with one of the languages.
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What? Listening comprehension is absolutely measurable. Take the same passage, have subjects in different groups listen to it as read by various speakers, and test them on how much of the content (and its implications) they understood. Of c
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This may or may not be good, but I stopped reading as soon as I saw the labels "Your flight" and "Passenger name" right next to each other. Writing is design, too.
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As good a time as any to go re-read "A mathematician's lament" [0] which begins: A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory. “We are he
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Presumably being likable is important when you're trying to make business deals. Plus, if you are doing well and earning more money that is necessary, you can probably afford to optimize for other things, like enjoying the people you w
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"US court rules opening a door violates law" (... if you were ordered not to come onto someone's private property)
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A somewhat different response is found in "The drama of the gifted child," which argues that gifted children, having been singled out for attention because of their impressive abilities, become dependent on validation from authori
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Webs: Washington DC (Silver Spring) Webs is the rarest of all birds: an actual consumer web company in DC. We don't do contracting, work for the government, or apply for grants. We sell a product to real people that makes them happy an
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DC Beer.js this Wednesday(github.com)
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