dhoulb

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by dhoulb 13y ago
Computer science is to programming as chemistry is to baking
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by dhoulb 13y ago
People see them, they just don't recognise them as that thing — and they certainly don't know what they're called. You're right that CS has tonnes of ridiculous terminology, that gets in the way of learning. In Mathemati
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Teaching kids to use calculators DOES increase their problem solving ability. They can produce the same result as someone using paper. If the problem's really advanced, they may have to use brackets correctly too. You teach the same lo
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by dhoulb 13y ago
This! This is the first comment I've read in this thread that's dealt with the core issue. We, the world, don't need millions of people who can write a good sorting algorithm. A few thousand will do. We need millions of peopl
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by dhoulb 13y ago
The headline makes a bigger deal of the Facebook thing than the interviewee does. On that point though: who's storing the most private details about their life on Facebook? Sure, they know who my best friends are and what films I like,
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Instagram photos printed on shortbread
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Not a bad shout. Not EVERY page, but if you have a five page site, you might as well pull in all five at the time, and save the other four requests later. The actual HTML is only going to add another few KB.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I've always assumed it's a kind-of safety net for people who don't want to take ultimate responsibility for their own decisions, or something. Believing in a higher power maybe gives them comfort that other things will get ta
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Yeah, the author seems to be coming at this from completely the wrong angle. I don't think anyone, the FBI, Lavabit, the NSA, or the non-technical public, is under any illusion that it's fairly simple to route around the at-rest e
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I presume his fee for the film will stand, and will go to his estate. Much more interesting question if you talk about an actor who isn't involved with a film at all, either because they passed away a while ago, or they're just bu
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Completely agree. If this is true, I'd never want to invest in the bunch of muppets who were wasting time on this. Conversely, it's probably now RAISED the profile of the competitor, made them look like more a threat than they rea
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Name five...
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by dhoulb 13y ago
jQuery has support for custom builds. You can drop loads of stuff you'll probably never use if you wish! I usually drop animations and the event shortcut functions. These seem pretty junky to me anyway.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
As long as YOU think yours is better, keep doing it! Don't tolerate crap :)
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I think he's saying, if in the future you want to route web traffic through a CDN, using a CNAME, instead of directly at a specific server, using an A record, you're going to struggle if you're using the root name, as you can
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by dhoulb 13y ago
You mean having both serve the same content? Yeah, the downside is SEO. Google picks up both versions and labels it duplicate content. You can put a canonical meta tag on each page, but as I understand you lose a few percent of the page&#x2
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I think the intention behind these agreements was to stop Steve Jobs throwing a pile of burning crap at your house. It's like sweet valley Fortune 500.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Pretty cool! Worrying about where you're going to keep your planes for a year - what a problem to have! I get pretty concerned about my cats if I go on holiday.
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I make it a required purchase for family members now. On any new computer, the first thing I do is symlink the desktop and the documents folder to Dropbox. That way, I never get support queries from family members wondering where they put s
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Exactly! It's kinda sad that unless a company has crazy hockey stick growth, it's not worth it. Everyone: the founders, the early employees and the venture people, we're all in it to make tens of millions, so while it was a v
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by dhoulb 13y ago
Would REEEEEEALLY like to see readonly properties in classes. They had a proposal a while ago to add getter and setter function support, which would be cool and would've allowed it (with some function overhead), but is probably a bit O
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by dhoulb 13y ago
I do run into this fairly regularly. The mb_ functions are solid, but I was hitting something the other day where a character, I think it was NBSP, was causing a string to output empty in 5.4 (but was working fine in 5.3). I think there&#x2