jacktoole1

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by jacktoole1 14y ago
I believe you need 2 karma to post links (to avoid bots probably). I've upvoted your comment so I think you'll be able to post links now.
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback; I will.
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'Steam for Schools' is a free version of Steam for students(i.joystiq.com)
50 points by jacktoole1 14y ago|11 comments
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Stanford Teams Up With Piazza, Apple To Bring Social To iTunes U(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jacktoole1 14y ago|0 comments
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
CodeAcademy.com currently redirects to CodeCademy.com (I suspect CodeCademy bought the domain now that they have investment money).
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Thanks for posting this! This is exactly what I needed.
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Show HN: Coding Spellbook - Learn CS Interactively(codingspellbook.com)
7 points by jacktoole1 14y ago|4 comments
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
The countries that perform well on international standardized tests generally spend much less money per student, but a teaching job is much more prestigious than it is in the U.S. I personally think that explanation fits both the "cost is o
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Good point; I agree this makes code much more naturally machine graded than essays, and a statistical classifier for source code sounds disturbing (although it might do better on grading style than the usual autograding does).
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
I upvoted you for the interesting line of thought, although I disagree with the premise that acceptability of grading algorithmically implies acceptability of writing algorithmically. In CS, we often grade assignments automatically, althoug
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Thanks, I didn't know there was such an easy way to do that!
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
I agree, banks having this flawed security is quite frightening! My bank used to have an 8 character password limit policy, but recently changed it (without announcing it), and I was able to use a 20+ character password. It's worth re-tryin
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He’s Uneducated: Rethinking Our Models of Learning(laurissawolfram.wordpress.com)
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Here's the initial thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618082 My impression was it was more a feature of clickpass's implementation being outdated and requiring maintenance than OpenID not being useful, although there was sentime
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
I didn't know that was possible - thanks for the insight!
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Unfortunately, I think most mobile devices still forbid JIT (aside from integrated javascript implementations). The technical limitation was removed in iOS 5.0, but I believe whether Apple will accept apps using JIT is still an open questio
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Personally: 1. I run as a standard user (without sudo access), with a separate administrator user (not named admin). I like Jeff Atwood's post on this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/the-windows-securit... To sudo I have to firs
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Working for me in Chrome/Mac (not disagreeing, just adding this if the author is trying to debug it. Or maybe he already has :) ).
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
You should be unbanned in about a day. I had this happen to me (and learned that Ctrl-R in Chrome has little to no delay between sending millions of requests), and was unbanned about a day later.
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Heartily agree on Lua. Embedding lua was one of the best library experiences I've ever had. The implementation and language is small and simple, and I think many people undervalue that. Compiling it was as simple as dragging the source file
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Next launch window Tuesday, May 22. They seem to have a good process for handling the failure though, which is probably more important than how they handle success (although less exciting for viewers).
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
I'm not sure why Microsoft wants to exclude other browsers from Windows RT. Since many people hate IE, wouldn't having more browser choice be a benefit? Mozilla or Google could probably offer a better browser on Windows RT than Microsoft. D
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
Right click on the shape, and you can choose to delete it.
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by jacktoole1 14y ago
I keep a list of my favorite (vaguely) CS-related quotes. At some point I stumbled upon this: "I think Microsoft named .NET so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing." (It was attributed to "Oktal", and I believe it was from the St
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
The second paragraph of this is the best piece of advise I've seen in this thread. I disagree with the conclusion, but the action is spot on. Talk to him. Explain to him that you think he's onto something, but that you believe your team wil
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
I can't respond on technical, as I haven't used TLC. As to Apple's TOS (I can't seem to find TLC's), I'm pretty sure you can write a full-blown iOS app in Lua. You can already write a complete iOS game in Lua: http://www.anscamobile.com/co
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
One of the Lua authors responded to your Lua bug request now: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/90101 The response gives me faith that the problems you discuss do not plague all projects :). It may be that other responde
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
An education is what you make of it. I think you could do well at either. Congratulations for getting into such highly ranked schools! That said, in terms of CS, I think Stanford is the clear winner in terms of name brand. Harvard is a big
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
I personally run chrome and block all plugins by default, and enable them when I think I have a good idea what the plugin is doing. You can then set specific sites that may always run plugins, so it's not overly annoying when on a few flash
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Neat. Not currently seeing it in Urbana, IL, USA, though (perhaps it has already been removed).

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