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by cycomachead 9y ago
Oh man, I 100% agree about color! I've worked on Snap! (which looks a lot like Scratch) and it has a feature called "zebra coloring" that's very similar. I've seen it be very effective with students. Hacking up a fr
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Syntax errors can be a large impediment to learning to program, so that's one big advantage. Frame-based editing has some other advantages, some of which you'd see in more complex IDEs like being context aware of what the user is
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The future of querying json in PostgreSQL(gmile.me)
2 points by cycomachead 9y ago|0 comments
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Should Your Company Be Profitable?(avc.com)
3 points by cycomachead 9y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 9y ago
Not that I recommend this, but if you want a (US) school to fix a grading security issue, you threaten to sue because exposing grades is a FERPA violation and schools could lose funding.
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by cycomachead 9y ago
In addition to the aforementioned fraud, I think it's also about the fact that this was a lie, not necessarily that it's about the lack of credentials. Most people do not like being lied to.
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The Knives Come Out for Phil Schiller in Brian Merchant’s New Book(daringfireball.net)
2 points by cycomachead 9y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 9y ago
I ran into this a lot with propType validations, which don't seem to be changing. But I'm in the camp that are "warning" should be displayed as a warning, so this is a welcome change. :)
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by cycomachead 9y ago
There's (pretty much) always a more egregious example though. It also seems like, given the context of the remarks, the (probably little) harm this causes him, and the potential for a new board member who's hopefully more inclusiv
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What Founder Friendly Actually Means(blog.ycombinator.com)
2 points by cycomachead 9y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 9y ago
I've listened to all of them so far, but the jingles are pretty grating. They take away from the actual moment and become a distraction.
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Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software (2012)(michaelnielsen.org)
4 points by cycomachead 9y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Engineers, and especially the hardware kind, are a limited resource. Not that Apple couldn't spend even more than they currently are on growth, but they're reaching some limits, and until later this year office space is/will
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"Jill Watson, Round Three" (AI TA)(news.gatech.edu)
1 points by cycomachead 10y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Publishers provide style, content/grammatical editing, domain experience and pedagogical review. Most professors don't have strong backgrounds in pedagogy and even those that do benefit from having others edit their work.
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by cycomachead 10y ago
The problem with these lifetime subscriptions is that you never know if you're going to actually use them. Textbook prices are definitely a problem, but it's usually much easier to rent or resell textbooks than the equivalent of s
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Maybe 5-6 a month? Sometimes a bit more. (Excluding one company who would spam me all the time but stopped.) But my resume is public, my email is my screenname@gmail so it's not like anyone has a hard time guessing who I am. I also rec
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Apparently, there are quite a few of us who enjoy the idea of a coffee shop. I doubt I'll ever do it, but a year ago, I did a cost analysis spreadsheet of opening my own shop, but now a coffee cart seems like a fun side project. :)
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by cycomachead 10y ago
On the whole, I think a lot of us really do enjoy coding and it's hard to overestimate how freeing financial security is. It's that security that enables other hobbies, too. I personally enjoy having at least some interests (mainl
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Caution warning is very necessary! That thread is fascinating; thanks for sharing!
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by cycomachead 10y ago
It's not clear to me whether the curriculum work as all his vision or whether that was a fight, or he simply felt that others didn't view it as something helpful to his tenure case. It's not even clear whether it was all his
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by cycomachead 10y ago
I don't think this piece is that bad, and it doesn't sound like he is fighting his department. I think you're right that viewing public pieces like this as "bad" is generally not helpful to anyone, but there seem to
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by cycomachead 10y ago
As sad as it is, there are lots of places where these things are met with skepticism and argument. I know people who specifically waited years to redesign courses until they had tenure.
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Wherein "serverless" basically means more computers in more places just doing different tasks.
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by cycomachead 10y ago
There is a mix of stuff, but the two interesting components are OnlinePythonTutor[1], called "CodeLens" and Skulpt[2]. OPT actually sends data to a server and has a program inspecting a debugger which sends data back. The other ex
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Yeah, they're mostly made by CS educators, but the content is generally well put together. :)
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How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps(medium.com)
14 points by cycomachead 10y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 10y ago
I saw "drug" and "ec..ma" and my mind first jumped to "ECMAScript Drug". I have no idea what that says about me...
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by cycomachead 10y ago
JavaScript, admittedly, has a few more quicks than the average language but I quite like it. I know a lot of people who also feel the same way. (And as many how, of course, hate JS.) It still feels to me like we're in the early days of
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Slightly related, but if you're helping someone start out learning to code, it's worth reading this: http://pgbovine.net/programmers-talking-to-beginners.htm You don't _need_ react to build a cool site in 201

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