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by briancooley 16y ago
I really like the books by Mark Murphy at commonsware.com. I have submitted some errata to Mark, and I think I have a spare coupon code you could use for a 6 month subscription if you want to take a look. My email is in my profile. Mark als
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Announcing the Android Parcel Project (commonsware.com)
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by briancooley 16y ago
Taking failure off the table out of excessive concern for hurting fragile feelings does everyone a disservice There's more at stake than students' hurt feelings. Your anecdotes aside, statistics show that retaining students is expensive a
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by briancooley 16y ago
But what is the message that students get from social promotion? How about that there is no incentive to learn An educational system that incentivizes learning via fear of failure (public humiliation in this case) is broken. This false di
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by briancooley 16y ago
Please don't put me in the position of defending BP. I have no affiliation with them, and I don't know all the details. However, your argument here either is ignoring elements of the decision-making process or isn't logical, and your number
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by briancooley 16y ago
I don't know anything about their design decisions and shouldn't comment on them. However, my understanding is that a secondary device is not mandated in the US. If that's true, I expect it will change before more deepwater drilling is perm
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by briancooley 16y ago
There is. It's a 450 ton device called a blowout preventer It didn't activate and they have been trying to do it manually for several days. I work in the oil and gas industry and live along the gulf coast. It's a heart wrenching situation.
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by briancooley 16y ago
The immediate health benefits of organic food might be questionable, but there is little question that the fertiluzer in the runoff is detrimental to coastal areas. The article mentions this.
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by briancooley 16y ago
The one thing I wonder about is disconnecting during the sync. A couple of times I have disconnected iPod Nanos during sync and had to restore them. It wasn't much more than a nuisance, admittedly, but on a slower sync with more data transf
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by briancooley 16y ago
It seems that they are eerily insistent on transferring the data through their servers. Judging from their job board, it's because they plan to mine the data. http://bu.mp/jobs#data
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by briancooley 16y ago
I have found the hardest part of self-learning to be finding peers and mentors, but I live in a technological wasteland. The internet has made it easier, but it's not the same. When I socialize with friends, they don't care to talk about pr
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by briancooley 16y ago
>A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, or it wouldn't be called a calorie A calorie in the form of serum glucose stimulates insulin secretion, which shifts the equilibrium of fatty acid transfer across fat cells walls by increasing the f
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by briancooley 16y ago
That's not my personal review. It's a review from the perspective of my wife and in-laws. They don't use smartphones and are the kind of users that like to do things in familiar ways. I think it's interesting that kids take to the device mo
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by briancooley 16y ago
It feels solid, but wouldn't call it durable. It definitely feels like the kind of thing you wouldn't want to drop. I'm constantly worried about the screen getting scratched, though I know it is inevitable.
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by briancooley 16y ago
My kid has a leapfrog, but that doesn't curb her curiosity about other devices. I don't know how it is with others, but my kid is fascinated with all my computers. My netbook, my MBP, my Droid, my Touch, and now my iPad. I don't discourage
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by briancooley 16y ago
My wife is dubious. She doesn't like the lack of Flash. She doesn't like trying to type on the software keyboard. Her parents, definite technophobes, were intimidated by it. The first thing they wanted to look at was a slideshow on smugmug.
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by briancooley 17y ago
Why? The iPhone has mobile Safari, and the HN clientele are certainly smart enough to know how to use it. Clearly the app has to deliver some value outside of the content. Think bottled water.
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by briancooley 17y ago
What this basically means is that you have to do more: read more source, learn more conceptions and tools, support more code, fix more bugs. I think the biggest advantage to Cappucino is that, if you already know the Cocoa framework, ther
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by briancooley 17y ago
Hooray! The children are saved!
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by briancooley 17y ago
Even though I agree the device is overhyped, I'm very excited about it because real, live end users are excited about it. That includes a lot of people like my parents who aren't tech savvy at all. As someone striving to develop on the plat
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by briancooley 17y ago
This one, maybe? http://cn.androlib.com/android.developer.stefan-rusek-qpAq.a...
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by briancooley 17y ago
At the risk of telling you something you already know: I was having trouble with Eclipse running painfully slow on my MBP until I discovered it was using the 1.5 JVM. Switched it to 1.6, and now it's bearable.
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by briancooley 17y ago
I can't imagine they'll be putting down their Windows PCs in favor of iPads. They won't be putting Windows PC's down in favor of iPads, they'll be picking up iPads in addition to using using Windows PC's. I agree with pg's suggestion that
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by briancooley 17y ago
This one is my favorite, for obvious reasons: http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=oDUyz8lGw58&feature=relat...
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by briancooley 17y ago
Check here: http://android.processing.org/
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by briancooley 17y ago
I agree that the imperative nature of, e.g., "Don't use negative keywords" is confusing when the item is something you shouldn't do. Maybe a title like "Are you wasting money with these common Adwords mistakes?" with items like "Neglecting
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by briancooley 17y ago
The never fire, never layoff policies make it critical to hire the right people. Wonder if that causes stress. It would keep me awake at night.
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by briancooley 17y ago
I worked for a client that used this exact method, plus comments in the source to indicate who changed the code, with old code commented out. I was one of several developers working remotely. It was a mess. When I suggested version control,
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by briancooley 17y ago
I like this so much. $99 is a drop in the bucket for most weddings, it's a big market, and this seems so much less intrusive than the traditional "Aunt Ethel with a camcorder" approach. One thing that stuck out to me was that the guy in the
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by briancooley 17y ago
The points about board games and the device being easily shared are nice observations. Using the device for board games would save on storage, solve the problem of missing pieces, and save time setting up, all while maintaining the immediac

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