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biaxident
16y ago
If this is the case, then how is it any different to distribution through the Android store?
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biaxident
16y ago
This really needs to be at the top of the page!
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biaxident
16y ago
Are there any new features with this incarnation? I was really hoping people would take the original Etherpad and run with it, but instead there have just been numerous sites running the original code base.
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biaxident
17y ago
Really enjoying the features coming out of Heroku. By far the easiest way to deploy a Rails app. However, their pricing is rather high, are these high costs worth the time it takes to set all this on up your own VPS?
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biaxident
17y ago
But the web is worldwide, how many readers of BBC news are from outside the UK? And not every UK citizen has to purchase a license. They've recently been trying to encourage everyone to make the switch to digitial TVs. I'm sure it's a lot e
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biaxident
17y ago
I can understand why backwards compatability is important for an organisation such as the BBC. But at the same time it would be really nice if these larger organisations were encouraging people to upgrade their browsers where possible.
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biaxident
17y ago
"5" * 2 == "55" You're calling a method on a string, so you got the string doubled. Seems to make sense to me. Obviously in this case the order of the arguments matter.
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biaxident
17y ago
Maybe if students find it necessary to take these drugs to succeed in exams it highlights something going wrong there! Are we pushing these kids too hard? Or letting in students who don't have the capabilities to succeed?
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biaxident
17y ago
Coffee is still a drug.
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biaxident
17y ago
They've provided very little evidence for their conclusion. For a far better criticism of powerpoint check out Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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biaxident
18y ago
Why not link to the actual TED talk? ( http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_s... ) And this was on HN a few weeks ago...but it is kinda awesome.
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18y ago
Whilst this is nice, some of the gestures are far too complicated. Moving between pictures is intuitive (similar to iPhone etc) but the other actions aren't necessary. I don't look forward to the day where I have to remember four gestures j