ilovecomputers

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by ilovecomputers 12y ago
I think this the first Angular article I read that actually showed a functional difference between Factory and Service: factory can return a constructor function, service can't. Personally, I have my factory be an actual factory by ha
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by ilovecomputers 12y ago
What the hell? I never knew they had a Q&A site. Their Coda help page told me to ask question on their Google Group.
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by ilovecomputers 12y ago
> I see this misconception time and time again, especially among smart people who like to reduce the human body to merely a physical machine, often ignoring the whole biology thing. Like the people behind Soylent?
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by ilovecomputers 12y ago
This is exactly why Google' "Made with Code" campaign is so good: https://www.madewithcode.com/ Look at the message, it is about how computers are fun and empowering. Even with this general message, they stil
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by ilovecomputers 12y ago
That strategy lead to quite the run-on sentence. You have much work ahead of you friend from that appearance alone.
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by ilovecomputers 12y ago
That bias came from the necessity that engineering work is mostly invisible and you can't completely generalize every concept to fit every project. You need to put in extra work to visualize a graphic that would respond to the state of
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
That's why the team behind the Paper app were smart to make it a separate app instead of a redesign. They know the consistent negative user reaction when facebook redesigns.
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
The ones who create and like the "IF THIS PAGE GETS 500K LIKES, FACEBOOK WILL CHANGE BACK THE NEWS FEED" page.
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
"This is a strange one to me and can indeed be a sticky situation. I am NOT judging people who use Firefox, work at Mozilla, or even support Brendan’s right to his opinions. It’s fine that you think I shouldn’t judge his opinion. (This
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
You're missing the point. From this story alone, it seems the company is run by individuals who never mentally developed out of high school. Those incidents you mentioned are merely a red flag of the immaturity of some of these people.
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
Even experienced developers don't want to wad through unnecessary crap when they first get started with a project ;)
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
Care to share how you use Require with Angular? I know it requires you (hehe) to manually bootstrap Angular.
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
> with any shared dependencies lower down in the directory structure Heh, I'm just imagining code bubble up :P Though that's definitely a wrong way to think of it since it's a call tree, but it always bugged me that in JS,
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
The Angular Seed's way of organizing a project does not scale well as it organizes javascript files by type instead of grouping the types into different modules [1]. My team has found it successful, especially among new devs, to organi
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
Polycode looks remarkable! It's like Unity3D for creative coders.
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
Just when you think you've found all the environments for creative coding, you discover new ones and wonder who are these people outside of my clique who use them?
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by ilovecomputers 13y ago
Except it is turning into that, like r/cringe. r/tumblrinaction was great in pointing out the ridiculous beliefs and lengths others would go to in the name of "social justice." However, I've seen a surge in activity of making fun of overwei
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Storms and Teacups(acko.net)
105 points by ilovecomputers 14y ago|19 comments
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by ilovecomputers 14y ago
> Are you implying that these panelists prefer pageviews over progress? If not, who are the boogeymen you are invoking here? My guess it was a stab against Gawker Media?
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The First Software Patent(youtube.com)
2 points by ilovecomputers 14y ago|0 comments
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by ilovecomputers 14y ago
I'm a student, with afternoon and evening classes. I don't have these freedom and perks. If anything, I look forward to getting a job so I can stop worrying about studying for a test.
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by ilovecomputers 14y ago
Curses, I wish I knew about this when writing up the inventory to our budget. Here's their inventory: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtIlZyLn99e6dGR... Leave it up to MIT to push Maker culture. If you're a student there, che
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by ilovecomputers 14y ago
Well those innovations were all thanks to AT&Ts monopoly status where they didn't have to worry about quarterly reports: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-... Also Unix was a rogue project because Bell Labs d
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
Is this based on Scratch? http://scratch.mit.edu/
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
The article states "A small amount of programming concepts had to be taught at the start and some single-concept examples are given, but the chapter always centers around a complete game." But besides, getting to the point of premature succ
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
The article did make a very generalized statement that "nobody wants to learn programming, they want to learn how to make programs" when your curriculum is an exception. With your rhetoric, you were able to get people to learn by trotting o
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
I've programmed an Atmel microcontroller from scratch. It wasn't fun adding all those components together just to bootstrap myself. Luckily I messed with Arduinos before, so at least I knew what I was doing and was getting to barebones of e
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
I tutored a friend who was in those OOP, Java, Intro to CS class. It was her second class of the series and she was so overwhelmed by all this stuff that was made for professional software engineers, that she just dropped that class. It was
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
As someone who went through Intro to CS courses. I must say that including the object oriented paradigm of Java in an intro class really confused me for a good three years. It wasn't until I learned how data was organized and executed insid
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by ilovecomputers 15y ago
I wish this service would allow me to write my own personal message instead of appending it. The provided text, which I cannot change, has a line that I feel is too dramatic for the rhetoric I'm trying to keep: "provide cover for totalitari

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