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by bphogan 13y ago
I have app/services and just add that in application.rb to the load path.
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by bphogan 13y ago
One solution I advocate for is more widespread adoption of Chocolatey ( http://chocolatey.org ). I can cinst putty and get what I need automatically. Sure, I have to trust the maintainer, but you know, if more people used Chocolat
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by bphogan 13y ago
I've long argued that we, as tech folks, are not the target for tablets. The target for tablets are the Facebook Messenger folks. the people who want to watch videos and surf the web, chat with others, etc. You know, the same folks Del
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by bphogan 13y ago
It's not really hard to figure out. Read it as "99% of the students we chose to survey and who answered our survey said they had jobs." Survey your good students. Then throw another in there so it's not 100%.
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by bphogan 13y ago
One thing I do with my beginning programming students (since their programs are tiny) is make them write out "test plans" on paper before they can write their program code. They have to write the inputs and then the expected resul
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by bphogan 13y ago
This is really right on the money. If it's too hard to test then you've already found something really valuable - a problem with your design that will cause you friction later on. That itself might be worth a ton to you.
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by bphogan 13y ago
Exactly. This is the whole purpose behind the "spike" - make a branch, write a crap implementation of some code to help understand the problem, put it aside. Then go write the production version TDD style. Once you understand the
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by bphogan 13y ago
Our school switched from bb to Edvance360. ( http://edvance360.com ). I have no further comment to offer on this.
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by bphogan 13y ago
I agree with this. I currently teach beginning programming using JavaScript in HTML, and we currently just provide pre-made web pages for the students to write their basic programs in. They come in already knowing basic HTML as they've
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by bphogan 13y ago
Seems to me that the smartest thing to do is write your application independent of any framework. That way you insulate your stuff from the framework and it doesn't become the app. That's sort of the big lesson I've learned o
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by bphogan 13y ago
Not to mention the fact that you're allowed to deduct the cost of your health plan if you're self-employed.
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by bphogan 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. I am going to subscribe to this. I've been hearing nothing but wonderful things about Elixir but have been struggling with making some mental connections. Your videos look like they'll help me make those c
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by bphogan 13y ago
I agree with you 100%. I teach online and hybrid (part face to face, part online) courses. My students tell me they actively choose one or the other format. Some students cannot learn online and appreciate the ability to interact. I try to
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by bphogan 13y ago
You're really missing out. Subsonic is amazing. You should at least look at it a little bit.
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by bphogan 13y ago
I'd always used Ctrl-a in screen because it was the default. When I moved to tmux I just moved it there, but tmux lets me send the Ctrl-a key sequence through to those apps. So if I want to go to the beginning of a line in Bash, I just
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by bphogan 13y ago
Author of that book here. Thank you for the kind words.
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by bphogan 13y ago
You can disagree if you want, but I think that someone who chooses to act like a raging asshole has a definite lack of social skills. I'm sick of these two types of assholes, really. The first type is the "I'm an asshole onli
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by bphogan 13y ago
That's how you get around the passthrough proxy in IPCop.
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by bphogan 13y ago
I got mine on Amazon. Believe it or not, it worked first try and it turned out to be a Microsoft one. Drivers were not an issue once I figured out that some of my USB ports were powered and others were not - it needs a lot of power to work.
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by bphogan 13y ago
Not to me. But then, I used to read audiobooks on my Palm Pilot in 2001.
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by bphogan 13y ago
I think the people who need to hear the advice in PP aren't in the startup world. There are a lot of programmers in the world who are not in SV startups.
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by bphogan 13y ago
Yup. G+ is a much better community for online and hybrid class than anything the Blackboard monopoly can muster up.
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by bphogan 13y ago
No, probably not. Most likely there's an uncomfortable process disabled students have to go through to get their disability documented, and then the student brings documentation to the instructor or professor who makes the accommodatio
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by bphogan 13y ago
This is where web workers will come in handy. I did a little promo video tutorial on loading data with Flickr using web workers. You can watch that at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eDl1UOkp18&feature=c4-overvi... I ca
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by bphogan 13y ago
Hi. Are you me? :) That's exactly how I learned this stuff. The damn game wouldn't play, so I had to make a boot disk. Then I learned to make a bootdisk with a menu system called from the autoexec.bat - cos I realized that severa
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by bphogan 13y ago
Not an option to not sell on Amazon. As you said, that's where people look. Any sale is better than no sale.
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by bphogan 13y ago
Sure but hey, if you buy the version from Amazon, you're only getting 1/3rd of the product, too. I can't guarantee you get updates I push to the book, and you also don't get the epub and PDF formats. But yes, I get more
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by bphogan 13y ago
If you're in copy mode in tmux - prefix [ then you can use emacs or vim keybindings to do your selection and copying, and then it's just prefix ] to paste into an editor. If you're comfortable selecting a few pages of text wi
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by bphogan 13y ago
So I wrote a book on tmux and use it every day, but I use i3 on my Linux box. The main difference? tmux is a terminal multiplexer. So it's not going to handle the web browser stuff at all. Other than that, it's like Screen. A lot
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by bphogan 13y ago
Thank you so much for the plug.

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