elangoc

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The next trend: reclaiming your autonomy from Web 2.0?(ribbonfarm.com)
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by elangoc 15y ago
It's done randomly. They do a controlled test of a feature by turning the feature "on" for a window of time, and measure users' reactions in the control vs. experimental groups in real time. Experimental bias is minimized by the traffic b
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by elangoc 15y ago
I just had an idea: is it possible to move the voting arrow(s) down to the end of the post, e.g. next to the "reply" link? From a user UI flow standpoint, it would be nice to be able to read a long post and then think, "After reading throu
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by elangoc 15y ago
i was also thinking about using Google Code Jam problems to practice from. anyone else tried this or has thoughts?
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by elangoc 15y ago
Ever since I heard about "dirty energy" emitted from CFL bulbs, I've become wary of fluorescent bulbs and pro-LCD bulbs. Especially because I'm an asthmatic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS5ogZxoZ2Y http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/12/0
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by elangoc 15y ago
I think most people agree that Eclipse is the best IDE for Java. Granted, it's not scriptable, per se, if that's what you were wanting to know.
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by elangoc 15y ago
Hopefully this doesn't become abused as the new disposable-AOL-CD of our decade... How would you use this for something that seemed cost-prohibitive before? (E.g., I can see this being useful in testing server/client systems or learning ne
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by elangoc 15y ago
Can you elaborate on that?
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by elangoc 15y ago
Exactly. Why is it that the smaller national highways and a few of the biggest airports only got nationalized recently (i.e., the past 2 years)? It's most likely that that the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi temporarily broke the spell o
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by elangoc 15y ago
This thread might help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2247560
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by elangoc 15y ago
When it comes to great screencast videos for Python (+ software engineering), I think Software Carpentry ( http://software-carpentry.org/ ) is really nice. and funny. This might be a different from Khan Academy and thenewboston, which seem