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Ask HN: Why do many startups use app.*.com
2 points by cycomachead 10y ago|1 comments
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GP (by YCR HARC)(harc.ycr.org)
3 points by cycomachead 10y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 10y ago
I miss John Siracusa's reviews. This is a fine review, but not a Siracusa Review.
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Newly Announced CSforAll Consortium(csforall.org)
1 points by cycomachead 10y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 10y ago
I skipped over the first paragraph as was semi-confused to see "Resist Abstractions" as point #1 in a HN article.
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by cycomachead 10y ago
I think there are plenty of startups working on valuable things, but since you mentioned education... Typically, the largest group of students in open online courses like MOOCs are those from privileged backgrounds, like white males, and th
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Count me as another sad user...I started using it towards the end of writing my MS thesis, and was bummed to not know of it sooner. The sharing was definitely a good feature, but the overall experience felt thought out, and was enjoyable!
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by cycomachead 10y ago
Gosh this is awful. I'm glad Penny was able to get out when she could, but I can't imagine being in that experience. And the marketing...if "wrkriot" is really the new site, this is just sad. The latest post on "Goa
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by cycomachead 10y ago
I'd say somewhere in the middle. Disney has gone through some _really_ rough periods both in the '90s and '00s but now they seem to be on a pretty good upswing. Interestingly, it seems like a significant part of that upswing
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by cycomachead 10y ago
My understanding is that VP who was championing CDG at SAP left and they didn't have the support they wanted or needed to do research.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
I had to STFW to figure out what STFW meant...TIL.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
From Scratch you should checkout Snap! and snap.berkeley.edu John Maloney (co-inventor of Scratch), Jens Moenig (who was on the Scratch Team and develops Snap!), along with Yoshiki Oshima (who may also have been on the Scratch team), are de
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Adding 'Beauty and Joy' to Obama's Push for Computer Science Teaching(npr.org)
25 points by cycomachead 11y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 11y ago
I don't think it necessarily needs dismissing... It's basically saying sitting isn't so bad as long as you exercise and take breaks and move. Which...yeah...duh...? This one of the things activity tracking devices are good at
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by cycomachead 11y ago
UC Berkeley does accept earmarked donations, but there is a limit to how specific they can be. I'm not sure what that particular level is, to be clear, but I've heard it's above the "it must go to this lab / group &
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by cycomachead 11y ago
Yeah, it's designed for perhaps middle-school to high school aged students, and perhaps a bit younger, but also potentially intro university classes. BeetleBlocks is built on top of Snap! (snap.berkeley.edu) which is a re-implementatio
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by cycomachead 11y ago
Dear lord. This is so simple and a great idea, even if it temporarily breaks a few sites! THANKS!
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by cycomachead 11y ago
Same as the above, but i have actually pushed code changes from the Github web UI before. I at least appreciate that github gives this option.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
Yep, it's an algorithm site authors have no control over. It's definitely useful, but not something to rely on as a dev.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
As someone who is visually impaired, I care more about being able to READ the site than I do about nice scrolling. I mean, I like nice scrolling / etc., please have it, but being about to read the content is a prerequisite.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
(A Berkeley student who went to Aki's sections -- Hi!) One thing I've seen is that when you're first learning a langauge and pick up bad habits, they can be really hard to break. I've heard lots of students talk about th
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by cycomachead 11y ago
Speech Recognition and Synthesis are in Safari -- though I don't know to the extent that it's as complete as Chrome. Safari definitely lagged behind though...
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by cycomachead 11y ago
This is the solution... Even 'zoom' on fixed elements as dastardly as it looks is easier to read than text that is too small.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
The reader option is awesome when it exists, but there's currently no way to set a site to always enable it. Safari itself makes the determination on a page by page basis. Or at least that used to be the case.
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by cycomachead 11y ago
As some who also has terrible vision -- dedicated text sizing is awesome, but being able to just pinch-zoom makes ALL the difference for me. So many aspects of a web page are hard to use other than just text as well. (Those "X" cl
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by cycomachead 11y ago
In SF, aside from the great coffee there are many who love the startup aspects of Blue Bottle. They went from selling at local farmer's markets to small kiosks to full shops. I think that, in addition to what others have said, Blue Bot
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by cycomachead 11y ago
Yeah...it's a known issue, but a solution is apparently in the works? (low priority though.)
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A JavaScript Optional Argument Hazard(wirfs-brock.com)
4 points by cycomachead 12y ago|0 comments
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by cycomachead 13y ago
It's mostly (entirely?) a joke about secret societies as a response to a DailyCal article. There's a post by FooBar which gives an explanation for the site.
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by cycomachead 13y ago
I don't know how much I can say, but 1 section of any class is 10 hours of TA paid time. Period. Doesn't matter if you work less or more. Though, often times, most TA's I know put in far more than their required time.

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