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by etler 13y ago
First of all, I think it's vital for web designers to know HTML and CSS. Even if they don't know it well, they should still know it enough to get the basics. The reason I strongly believe this is that the web is an interactive med
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by etler 13y ago
>Despite hours and hours and hours of work, getting to that “next level” with Javascript feels literally impossible. Heh... Oh dear... Hours? Um... Not sure how to break it to him but that's orders of magnitudes off...
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by etler 13y ago
I don't consider being a mechanic to be a menial job necessarily. I was thinking more about boring jobs where you do the exact same thing over and over again, like working fast food or factory work. A mechanic has to solve new problems
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by etler 13y ago
>The big challenge here is how does society get someone to do the menial jobs that cannot be done in an automated manner. Are there examples of menial jobs in the Star Trek universe? I would imagine by then there simply are no menial job
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by etler 13y ago
When I double click on the canvas it selects it. You can fix it by adding: user-select: none; user-drag: none; With appropriate vendor prefixes.
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by etler 13y ago
If that's the case, I don't believe dumbing down the curriculum to the lowest common denominator of teachers is the solution to the problem.
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by etler 13y ago
We have neglected our blog. Thanks for reminding us. I need to make that more of a priority.
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by etler 13y ago
Our site, http://slant.co is for the subjective style questions that stack overflow closes. We're certainly not against fun content though :) http://www.slant.co/topics/413/~funniest-programming-re
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by etler 13y ago
So much tunnel vision. Why is there a huge fixed header and footer?
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by etler 13y ago
The downloads stat is no longer true[1]. Revenue is still much higher on iOS, but the trends have been clear, and cannot be ignored. Before, it was "Android is open, but there are way more iPhones", then it was "Android has m
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by etler 13y ago
It's great that they're being taught algorithms. It gives a context and reason to math and fights the "when am I ever going to use this" problem. Math should taught alongside algorithms to give the techniques context thr
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by etler 13y ago
I agree with you for a middle or high school level course, but I would hope a teacher could wrap their heads around a 5-7 year old level explanation of algorithms if they're capable of teaching math.
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by etler 13y ago
What basis are you using to know what Paxman was thinking? I agree there's room for potential mis-understanding (although I still think that sequence was horribly executed), but do you know that? Or is it just conjecture on what his me
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by etler 13y ago
"Unique users per month"?
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by etler 13y ago
I think the major problem here is just poor branding. npm can refer to any number of things. It can refer to the client, the server, the hosting provider, the public package registry, and now npm Inc. They all sound like the same thing but
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by etler 13y ago
I don't think it needs to be widespread. I bet if you put this in a central vending machine in the food court of a college campus, everyone would know about it in no time.
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by etler 13y ago
Some vending machines take credit cards now. Also, what year are you in? These cost $78 on amazon (312 quarters), not $187.50! :)
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by etler 13y ago
I doubt it would be the best distribution method :) But it would still be a good idea to put it in some high profile vending machines even if nobody buys it from them. If you saw an MP3 player while you were off to buy some Mike n' Ike
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by etler 13y ago
GitHub is another example of a company that caters to the open source community while still having a business plan. Right now npm is at the core of every project using node.js, and businesses have more complex needs than open source project
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by etler 13y ago
Makes sense. One obvious power feature, that not only doesn't affect normal users, and would be well worth the money, is a locked down priority server. With npm being an open registry, any author can overwrite any release at any time.
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by etler 13y ago
It's silly how angry people can get over nothing.
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by etler 13y ago
New frameworks are getting simpler and easier all the time. They try to avoid the pitfalls that old ones fell into and thus become easier to learn than the last generation. It's far far easier than learning a new language, and it'
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by etler 13y ago
Computer science concepts build on each other, but technology and frameworks don't necessarily get more and more complex. If you fall behind, you could always skip a generation of technology, and pick up the one after just as easily. I
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by etler 13y ago
I did not interpret the article as being git should be a primary source of documentation at all. I have a hard time seeing which part of the article implies that. I think he's just pointing out how it's another tool you can use.
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by etler 13y ago
The point of the article has nothing to do with the code snippet. My point has nothing to do with the code snippet. It's just about code in general, and it's never as easy to understand as you want it to be.
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by etler 13y ago
"Code happens". In reality, there's code that should have been commented all the time and even in the best codebases. I don't think there's a coder in the world who hasn't had a time when he's looked back
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by etler 13y ago
It doesn't matter if it should have been commented or not. The reality is it wasn't. If you get in the habit of explaining your changes in git messages, every line change will have documentation, or at least an owner so you can as
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by etler 13y ago
This is exactly why I'm such a bastard when it comes to git history. A clean history isn't something that just gets filed and disappears forever. Unfortunately, lots of people think it's ok to use a message like "fixed s
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by etler 13y ago
Run and avoid games are nothing new at all. Jetpack Joyride is practically the same thing, and it also did very well. It has 50,000,000+ downloads just on google play. This is not a new genre. The helicopter game is one of the first flash g
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by etler 13y ago
The software and experience could easily be worth the price, but the promo page does a poor job explaining its features and differentiating it from a normal Chrome OS hangouts experience. Is this special software that's only available

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