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by bphogan 12y ago
Thank you for doing this. And for saying this.
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by bphogan 12y ago
This article only did one thing for me - demonstrate that the author himself doesn't understand Angular or the problems. I don't know Angular that well myself, but the author knew anything more than I did, he'd be able to spe
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by bphogan 12y ago
Wherever I've worked, the IT people protect their turf because they deal with end users who get MS Access or Excel, and then those end users get data from the company through force of management. They then create their own computer sys
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by bphogan 12y ago
I agree with this. And as an author and teacher, I really want to use iBooks Author for that reason, but it's incredibly limited in both what it allows and who can use the books. There's an opportunity for an authoring tool for th
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by bphogan 12y ago
I love how history repeats. When I was a kid we had a big 50-foot antenna tower outside of my house so we could pull in stations from 90 miles away. And now we're back to talking about outdoor antennas again. :)
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by bphogan 12y ago
I can't tell you in words how awesome this is. http://www.jriver.com/ But I have used it for 10 years and it's the only reason I still have Windows machines in my house. It's that good.
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I'd like to just see them fold in one of the existing ones myself :)
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All of these third-parry mod systems require a modified version. Bukkit did, and so does CanaryMod. Right now there's no official way to do modding so I suspect that this is their issue. And not releasing it allows them to generate a l
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by bphogan 12y ago
Learn to do your job correctly by experimenting. Read other people's code. Write other people's code. Learn by doing. Learn by failing. One of the things that I believe is incredibly important is a feedback cycle. Do a thing. See
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by bphogan 12y ago
Dave, I'm still in love with Skeleton, and 2.0 looks very nice. And it's great timing as I'm including it in the update to our web development recipes book. Keep up the awesome work.
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I think the point you make about an editor is incredibly important. I've gotten quite a few books from self-published authors - including some pretty big names in the programming world - who are adamant that they can do it all themselv
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by bphogan 12y ago
I've written for PragProg numerous times and will continue to do so. Full disclosure: I also edit books for them. The royalty rate is 50% of the profit. The other 50% goes to pay the editor for his or her time, and other production fee
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by bphogan 12y ago
He taught me how to deploy Rails apps, and with his help I figured out what I needed to get a production environment running on Windows. Then he asked me to contribute what I know to https://pragprog.com/book/fr_deploy&
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by bphogan 12y ago
Maybe I don't understand what you want to do, but for at least 3 years I've been able to load a video clip in, set up the settings, add to queue, load video, add to queue, repeat. Then process the whole queue overnight.
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by bphogan 12y ago
I'm pointing a camera at you when I read the messages on my phone too. After all, the camera on the back is facing you. Doesn't mean I'm using the camera. The "camera in my face" is just an excuse. You're ac
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by bphogan 12y ago
I have low vision. The Glass is a wonderful tool for me. The heads-up navigation that helps me walk around in areas I don't know well is great. I can't read the street signs very well and having the audio tell me and help me &quot
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by bphogan 12y ago
It wouldn't be called "Human Resources" if that department were on the side of the worker. They wouldn't be calling the workers "resources." My wife's studying to go into this field and that's basical
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And this is really important to remember. For a good time in the 2000s I worked on software that only worked in IE because the "tech people" thought that "Windows Integrated Authentication", where you would just automa
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In old IE it was the default. If you didn't use a proper doctype it would behave that way. It's fun how history repeats.
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That's really interesting to me, because my daughter (6yo) asks Siri that question about 10 times a day on the 5S and the answer comes back in about a second. Whether we're on LTE or wifi. I wonder if there's other factors at
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by bphogan 12y ago
It's my understanding that the vector for end users would be DHCP in a coffee shop, but I could be wrong.
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by bphogan 12y ago
DigitalOcean uses mirrors too, so you have to change your /etc/apt/sources.list file or wait.
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by bphogan 12y ago
It's for that reason that I just ignore anything that's not an LTS release. It's never worth the hassle for me.
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by bphogan 12y ago
In a completely unrelated matter, I liked the Dave Matthews Band before they were cool. Seriously though, the revelation that the "unwashed masses" now dominate a platform is pretty much commonplace. Twitter has, for me, become
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by bphogan 12y ago
It's a shame how little the authors of the books see from that service.
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This is just my advice - I teach, and must provide transcripts for my videos for students who are deaf, blind, or with learning disabilities. I write my scripts out when I do my videos. It helps me prepare the lesson plan. I place all the c
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First, I'd argue that none of that would be "beginner" things. Programmers always seem to forget what it is like to not know how to program. A beginner would never use something like that. Second, when you bring class-oriente
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I think one reason is that lots of people know it. And if you already know something, you don't have to learn something new. Sometimes that's bad. For example, someone trying to make a super performant iOS app who only knows JS an
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by bphogan 12y ago
Help me out. I love the idea of Python as a first language. But do you think there's an issue teaching a whitespace-sensitive language as a first language? When students eventually move to Java/JavaScript/C#/Swift/w
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Oh, I don't know, it's kinda handy when you need it. How often have you wished for that in CSS?

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