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by davegauer 11y ago
And I completely understand the desire for these tools. I really do. Further, I'm okay with having maybe, say, one of them in my project's ecosystem. But I've seen way too many tiny, tiny JS projects recently that are co
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by davegauer 12y ago
I hadn't noticed it either. But I know I use it. So...I'm probably part of the problem.
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by davegauer 12y ago
I'm a little late to the party, but I had to pipe in: my experience is identical to yours. I used the Kinesis for about two years. Further, I did NOT use my Kinesis for eight years (it sat in its box after a move) and then I plugged i
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by davegauer 12y ago
I've had a _great_ experience using KeePassX on both Windows and Linux. I use a sometimes-synced copy of the database on KeePassDroid on my Android phone. Actually, the user experience of KeePassDroid can only be described as vile, b
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by davegauer 12y ago
I assume you were down-voted for going on a tear about Agile methods. I can't speak to that since I've never been in an Agile shop (read about it plenty). But I think what you have written is applicable to most developers in gene
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by davegauer 12y ago
I haven't tried the new build system yet, but from perusing the new site, the additions to Picnic CSS 3.0 look to be exactly what I would have asked for if I had bothered to ask: flat default style, modularity,...and the option to have
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by davegauer 12y ago
I am so torn about this. On one hand, I think that information should be available to the technological lowest common denominator. I hate apps that should be websites. I hate having my browser use 100% of my CPU for 30 seconds while trying
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by davegauer 12y ago
For anyone interesting in learning more about this computer system, I highly recommend _Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight_ by David A. Mindell. The hardware limitations! The incredibly low bug count! The memory hand-woven by
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by davegauer 13y ago
I would like to second the suggestion. More people live outside the Bay Area than you might think. :-) Edit: Great idea, by the way. I would love to use this service here in Phoenix.
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by davegauer 13y ago
While the rest of the article has some really great points, what I really love about this is all in the beginning and is perfectly summed up with this quote by Professor Daniel H. Cohen (in which he is conceding victory to a hypothetical op
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by davegauer 14y ago
I think you make a really good point about the power of mathematical notation and conventions. However, I completely agree with the article. Do mathematical formulas have to use Greek letters rather than useful variable names like "distan
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by davegauer 14y ago
I agree completely! Though I'm not AT ALL trustful of companies, they simply don't have the power that governments do. It's a heck of a lot easier to switch the company that hosts your email than it is to switch governments.
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by davegauer 14y ago
Beyond just the importance of understanding how computers work, I deeply believe that learning to program can be a huge aid to understanding (really understanding ) mathematical concepts as well as other fields of science, language, etc. I
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Show HN: A JavaScript browser for RESTful JSON APIs(bitbucket.org)
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by davegauer 14y ago
The mail client built into the Opera browser has an Attachments filter which allows you to see all messages by attachment type. After that, you can sort the messages by 'From', 'Subject', 'Size', etc. No thumbnails as in his example, thou
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by davegauer 14y ago
I recognize the irony of this, given the 'Less Video' portion of the parent article[1]. But my first introduction to using Python in a truly 'Pythonic' way was Peter Norvig's free CS212 class on Udacity. (It will be starting up again June
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by davegauer 14y ago
> Inman is going to be held accountable for his actions. Seriously? Am I suddenly living in a world in which people can be 'held accountable' for drawing a picture of someone's mom seducing a Kodiak bear? When did this happen?
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by davegauer 14y ago
Ha ha. I actually have a running joke now. I log into Facebook about once a day with a hearty, "time to check Facebook!" About 30-40 seconds later when I've skimmed the latest posts, I quit with a boisterous, "well, that was great!" I'm
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by davegauer 14y ago
The picture of the bear is reasonable and appropriate, given the circumstances. Mature, even.
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by davegauer 14y ago
CSS was clearly designed with typography and text layout in mind - and it works wonderfully for that purpose. But it was not created flexibly enough to be well suited for anything else. You CAN make graphical interfaces with it (and we d
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by davegauer 14y ago
What Android hardware catastrophe? I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious.
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by davegauer 14y ago
Couldn't agree more, the subscriptions API is so well designed...and surprisingly complete. Every time I think of something I need to add, the API already has a simple, logical method for dealing with it. Top-notch work.
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by davegauer 15y ago
"We tend to build our own libraries simply because much of the functionality of open-source code is locked up into monolithic frameworks and not easily re-usable." Wow, I couldn't agree more with this concept of library vs. framework. Whil
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by davegauer 15y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. "Semantic Web" was the first thing that came to my mind after reading the first couple paragraphs of the article. I thought he was going to head that direction as well. I was sorely disappointed! Ther
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by davegauer 15y ago
Over the last fifteen years, I have taken full responsibility for my own education. Reading has played the most fundamental role in my education. I have always loved learning from well-written books. At times, it might have been a disadva
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by davegauer 15y ago
I don't think it has to be an either/or proposition. I read some things and skim others. You'll be happy to know I read your entire comment word-for-word. :-)
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by davegauer 15y ago
"If a reader had time to get used to reading syntax-colored prose..." Ha, that's exactly what I thought when I saw that example, too. Wouldn't written English be much easier to learn (for both children and for ESL learners) if we always wro