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by dstein 16y ago
One trick is to not even try to learn everything . That makes programming seam insurmountable, and may actually slow you down. Instead, stay goal oriented, pick something to build, and learn how to build it, one step at a time. You will
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by dstein 16y ago
Technocracy. I'm not convinced that politicians, bankers, and lawyers can solve the problems our society will face in the coming years. The problem is, things haven't gotten bad enough for true change to be possible. They just keep kic
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by dstein 16y ago
I'm not sure if it's technically feasible, but there is probably a huge market for a game engine that can export JS/Canvas code to a native app code. I think now that Apple lighten up on their developer rules this is now a possibility.
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by dstein 16y ago
Drop the "Like". Just "A Little", it's clean.
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by dstein 16y ago
you have to trust the chip makers, the BIOS maker, the network interface card maker So, what you're saying is we might as well just give up, and purposely store all our data on Google's file servers and give up all data and information pr
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by dstein 16y ago
If you don't trust google, then that's another matter. What do you mean "another" matter? This is "the" matter. In an open computing platform I don't have to "just trust" anybody.
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by dstein 16y ago
The platform, is the web. Which is completely open - you can install and run any webapp you wish. The web is open, agreed. But you're going to have to explain to me how I can read or write a file on a ChromeOS without Google knowing what
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by dstein 16y ago
You can pick all, any or none of them. No you can't. In ChromeOS you cannot replace the filesystem, native applications, and web browser with non-Google alternatives. This is the exact opposite of an open platform.
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by dstein 16y ago
Google Apps, App Engine, Chrome OS, Chrome Browser and Android is a vertically integrated computing platform where: * my development is done on AppEngine * my operating system is replaced with Google's web browser * my information is stor
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by dstein 16y ago
Google is only fooling themselves if they think people want to live in a totalitarian computing paradigm. Network computing is obviously the future, but it will be democratized, decentralized, and multi-platform. Google may supply applica
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by dstein 16y ago
I have grown to really dislike how techcrunch passes off information-less blog posts as news.
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by dstein 16y ago
When studying a language, one does not typically start with an abstraction library.
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by dstein 16y ago
I was being facetious. I didn't really stop reading until I read this: understand that we cannot control the incoming information you will disclose to our representatives in the course of entering, or what our representatives wil
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by dstein 16y ago
I haven't used a Yahoo service since the 90's.
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by dstein 16y ago
However, by submitting your entry, you: are granting us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license I'll stop reading there. I can't honestly believe that competent programmers would be willing to work for free f
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by dstein 16y ago
I'm almost at the point where I should probably go bookmark-free. Inevitably, bookmarks start becoming a micromanagement nightmare. The ability of google to find the site I'm thinking about it is almost on-par with my ability to find it h
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by dstein 16y ago
Google is using the "spaghetti-flinging" strategy to try to enter new markets, and perhaps unconcsiously becoming a prolific shovelware producer.
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by dstein 16y ago
We are becoming the borg. Teenagers don't blog because they don't have the time, and are becoming incapable of thinking independently of their collective. Information streams into their brain at a rate they are unable to comprehend, and s
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by dstein 16y ago
"It missed not just Facebook but Google, YouTube, eBay ... There's only so many big deals you can fuck up." Not much else to say about it.
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by dstein 16y ago
But has it forgotten who its creator is yet?
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by dstein 16y ago
Write a video game using JavaScript/Canvas. Game programming is the fast track to becoming a great developer because of the mix of skills it requires (math/algebra, animation, graphics, sound, resource management, testing and debugging). A
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PBS Documentary: The Electronic Computer(youtube.com)
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by dstein 16y ago
Context? The website contains no information about who this person is or what type of project he is working on.
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by dstein 16y ago
(Let alone the fact that I'm busy enough with my own projects) There's no link anywhere on the site to the source code, or information about how to contribute.
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by dstein 16y ago
http://www.thumbalizr.com/
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by dstein 16y ago
A quick UI fix would make HN readible on mobile devices. The fixed width of the page is caused by the navigation menu. If the navigation menu was made wrappable (white-space:auto) then the page would more easily fit right on almost any si
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by dstein 16y ago
I don't really argue with that theorem at all. Perhaps manual labor and and raw materials will always go up, while energy, information and technology will always go down. But if nurses cost too much, once we start applying technology to th
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by dstein 16y ago
* The price of everything does not trend towards $0. I think you'd have to agree that any time you apply technology to a particular "problem", the cost of solving that problem goes down. As technology progresses, the problems become cheape
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by dstein 16y ago
Oh the amazing things I could write in JavaScript, inside Rhino, inside Java, inside JavaScript.
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by dstein 16y ago
* the hamgurger wont be free tomorrow, it will be mouldy tomorrow and you'll be more hungry. The price for that particular hamburger will be $0 once it's mouldy. It only reaches $0 when nobody will pay anything for it so it never actually

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