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Thanks for those details, it makes more sense. People usually talk about the cost, which I don't buy – it's worth $10/unit, and these aren't super-low-cost units anyway. And in this case consumers of the Rex aren'
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I always wonder with these boards why wifi isn't just built-in. It seems like a delightfully simpler interface than any wire, and means the base system can integrate with anything else over the network. Sure you can always add wifi,
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It's not clear to me that Guido actually wants to spend more than 50% of his time on Python. Stuff like the async stuff he's bringing into Python come from his time spent developing things with Python during the other 50%. Also, i
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"Google will now be digging deeper than ever into your e-mails and literally modifying the contents." This is a silly fear, all email clients already do this, as you don't display raw unmodified HTML from emails, you have to
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by ianbicking 13y ago
Did you notice there appears to be an overline for caps? At least that's what it appeared to signify to me.
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It's unclear how accurate this is. I searched my area for a random item (something respiratory) and there was one hospital that was $10k and another that was $30k. The $30k hospital probably has inflated prices, but not by 3x – it&#x
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by ianbicking 13y ago
If it was just some additional characters like ñ (which is considered a letter of its own, not an accented n) then it wouldn't be a big deal – but e and é are the same letter with different accents, which adds some subtlety that Englis
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Live Programming, Walkabout.js(ianbicking.org)
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Why must Mental Floss always tease with these under-informative articles? Looking at Wikipedia, B batteries were 45 volts! No wonder they didn't sick around. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(vacuum_tube)
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Yeah, a constructor would largely handle that. And if you use a closure/module pattern, you could put a little "console = window.console.stream('moduleName')" at the top of the module as a quick way to customize th
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console.stream() seems super fishy to me: https://github.com/jbail/lumberjack/blob/master/scripts/lumb... Here you are just changing a global default stream name, but it looks like you have some kin
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These comments would be a lot more interesting if people identified what was cool rather than just bitching about ego or syntax or licensing. I'm not going to be using the Wolfram Language, but I'd love to identify the best ideas
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I do wish there was something akin to S3 to allow for larger amounts of storage, without necessarily being bundled in complete package that gets upgraded together (and there would be no SSD required). Obviously using S3 is still an option,
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by ianbicking 13y ago
Not Firebase, but you might enjoy: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs/
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There are apps that use Canvas to such extent that it's kind of like a distinct UI layer.
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Another factor people take into account when deciding whether to take a job is what the effect is on their total benefits. Higher taxes for instance decrease the amount of benefit in taking a job (relative to the value to your employer of
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by ianbicking 13y ago
Someone enlighten me: when the Surface speaks for itself what does it say?
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Sounds like the managers didn't realize the weight of their "occasional misses" – if they had, they might have made a stand at the time of the evaluation.
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"stack ranking works at the team level, not at the company level. If a team is full of morons and the next one is full of awesome developers, stack ranking will keep 90% of the morons and cull 10% of the good devs." That may be a
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It's more similar to an experiment that preceded TogetherJS, Browser Mirror: https://github.com/mozilla/browsermirror In TogetherJS both people are basically browsing like normal, but it communicates what's g
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If you are curious about XPath and CSS you might want to play with http://css2xpath.appspot.com
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This is like a placebo, intended to trick you into perceiving cold or less-cold when it isn't there. But when there's a real matter at hand placebos only work very temporarily – then eventually reality catches up to you. So if i
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TogetherJS as a Postmodern Programming Tool(ianbicking.org)
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I thought this was going to an alternative to a physical lock, which seemed impossible, but on my way to click on the link it occurred to me you could setup the Mac so it sounded an alarm if moved, unless you unlocked it with your password.
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Does MathML? (Excluding imaginary screen readers – imaginary screen readers can support anything.)
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"How about Smalltalk as a basis or the foundation of what you want? If somebody pursues the approach, how hard would it be to develop a layer that takes care of the safe-unsafe issue?" I don't feel like Smalltalk is going any
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Safe object traversal: if you can traverse objects you can start to create search algorithms (which is what Prolog's solver really is) that work across different domains and objects. I think this is a path towards goal-oriented progra
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Node.js is just full of Worse Is Better. I think there's a danger for more pure/forward-looking environments to look down on that, because there really is some Better in it – I think the work done to get us forward is going to
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Smalltalk, what of it? I've never used a Lisp Machine, but I did go through a Smalltalk phase. Smalltalk doesn't identify between safe and unsafe method calls, for instance. So sure, you can safely get the underlying instance v