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by bprater 18y ago
Heh, did you see the kids playing Super Mario Brothers?
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by bprater 18y ago
Getting folks on an email list to announce the bat-time and bat-channel might be the way to go. Otherwise, everyone will completely forget. Anyone have a quick service that allows folks to create a very simple and small email list of folks?
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by bprater 18y ago
I would suspect a good IDE might be better than a headful of little things a kid has to remember. ("Hey buddy, see how you missed the ; here, better add that!")
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by bprater 18y ago
Let's keep rehashing how a language creates terrible code and how none of it has anything to do with the guy sitting in the chair pushing buttons. Seriously, can we just nuke this argument?
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by bprater 18y ago
I think many of you have completely forgotten what sucked you into hacking. Here's how to get a kid hooked on programming: 1. Programming should be fun. 2. Programming should be fun. 3. Programming should be fun. Who really cares
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by bprater 18y ago
This is not a bad idea. Interfacing with hardware can be really fun, but basic enough that they can be creative. "Hey, see if you can make those 8 LEDs do like the KITT car!"
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by bprater 18y ago
I've given this question lots of thought over the years. I really started loving programming when I found Garry Kitchen's GameMaker. It wasn't very elegant, but it was damn fun. I'd push him toward PHP. The goal isn't to make him a great pr
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by bprater 18y ago
It has always been a well-known fact that the founding fathers of Perl had only a passing interest in all things web. It shouldn't be completely surprising, because of this, other technologies have slowly displaced the language. For the lon
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by bprater 18y ago
Well, shoot, I wanted to see the little guy walking around!
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by bprater 18y ago
Same deal with me. We go through this on nearly every review. I think that instead of a day of coding, the team should sit around the table and bang out a list of reasons why people should sign up to their service right now. This is critica
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by bprater 18y ago
I did the same thing. So either there is some merit or we are two dingbats.
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by bprater 18y ago
Matt, white on black is really tough on the eyes.
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by bprater 18y ago
Widget, maybe. I was specifically talking about something akin to a "native" app. You need hooks to the OS, period, for developers to be happy. Maybe we need a new word for HTML/JS/CSS apps that have OS-specific hooks. Widget is a horrible
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by bprater 18y ago
How many hooks do you really need to get a developer up-and-running? File system access? Ability to play sounds? AIR has a very limited set of extra javascript commands, but it is enough to give the developer the feeling they are definitely
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by bprater 18y ago
I love my iPhone. But giving developers the option to cook up apps in HTML/JS is a very slick move. I don't know how it'll play out, but any average web developer will be able to immediately pump out an app without breaking open a iPhone SD
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by bprater 18y ago
The government is great at not letting folks go!
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by bprater 18y ago
Speaking of painful, most of the video is about using PuTTY. Egads.
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by bprater 18y ago
Should we come together as a community and give out hacker awards? Would it be fun? Someone like _why is a real inspiration to me personally.
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by bprater 18y ago
Great tips, thanks for taking time to post them!
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Fastest hard drive ever?(i4u.com)
1 points by bprater 18y ago|1 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
What do you guys think of the language?
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by bprater 18y ago
Why better than a conference call? It has to be it's mobility. (Although, didn't they mention it needed to be tethered? It has to be because it lacks batteries.) I think that in situations where data needs to be sucked up in a mobile way bu
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by bprater 18y ago
"Do not seek pleasure for its own sake." What do you think he was trying to say?
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by bprater 18y ago
Accepting doesn't mean standing in the corner picking your nose for the duration of your life. If you are really interested in this concept, I highly recommend reading Katie Byron. All her work is about accepting life as it is.
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by bprater 18y ago
Does he actually want to know more about the command line? If he's not, I wouldn't waste your effort. Some people aren't learners, they just want to accomplish a task. If he is, definitely hook him up with a tutorial. I like the idea of let
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by bprater 18y ago
For years now, I haven't traveled with a spare battery. As battery times are extended, the need for spares decrease. Apple appears to have squeezed a ton of run-time out of this new configuration. If this gets you from New York to San Franc
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by bprater 18y ago
I don't know. You are right, the kids do need basic stuff we take for granted. No question. So do we stop every initiative until those things are righted? By putting a computer in the hands of a child, it could give him a future he might n
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by bprater 18y ago
Often, I wonder if this kind of public news hurts them (or any company) overall. Would you be less tempted to use Engine Yard for hosting knowing that they just laid off some folks? Even slightly? And if so, would it be worth keeping these
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by bprater 18y ago
Don't forget to nab the UJS plug-in for it: http://remi.org/2009/01/06/using-firebug-to-debug-unobtrusiv... Now you don't have to guess what events were bound to which elements!
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by bprater 18y ago
Hardy har har.

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