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Ask HN: Recommended Online Coding Courses?
8 points by jeffool 14y ago|6 comments
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by jeffool 14y ago
Oh... This was it. Nice!
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by jeffool 14y ago
I hesitantly vote this up, not because I'm buying it, but because I love the topic, and would love to see HN talk about the concept of colonizing Mars. My understanding is that the biggest problem with terraforming it is the lack of magneti
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by jeffool 14y ago
He says "The arrow of time in our universe would therefore be inherited, through torsion, from the parent universe." I think that implies that any child universes, if they are parent->child and not a swirling cycle of interconnectivity
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by jeffool 14y ago
Yeah, but there could be a new parenthetical, "likelihood of an alien living in another universe, multiplied by all the effects of Fermi's Paradox itself, and multiplied by the likelihood of that alien's ability to traverse universes."
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by jeffool 14y ago
The easy thing to do is say "visit seomoz.org", particularly the blog. I'm thinking of one entry in particular, but I can't find it offhand, sorry. I'll come back and comment if I can find it.
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by jeffool 14y ago
A little Googling tells me this has been around since at least January 2010. Anyone know if this caught on anywhere, or why not?
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by jeffool 14y ago
I can't recommend Psychonauts enough. It's by Double Fine, who recently had the $1M Kickstarter campaign many of you will remember. Tim Schafer, founder of, and designer at, Double Fine, is celebrated at his craft, and Psychonauts is an exc
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by jeffool 14y ago
The Social Network was good about it. Someone online actually reedited the scene where he was grabbing images from frat sites and edited in scenes from other films, like Hacker's "virtual skyscrapers", and suddenly it was like a real Hollyw
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by jeffool 14y ago
Yes, that's what's at trial here. But in the post I replied to, I was taking issue with the insinuation that "OF COURSE that's what was happening here!" As if to imply online storage with easy download is inherently about piracy.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I'm down voting you because, to be fair, it was me that started it. In the post he replied to I compared it to guns, and file storage (not piracy) to killing. He was going with my analogy.
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by jeffool 14y ago
... Oh! I did not read it that way at all!
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by jeffool 14y ago
Yes, that's the allegation. However, the post I replied to seemed to be saying that "what's the big deal? This service can only be about piracy." I'm saying "no, we don't all agree that this service inherently exists to serve piracy. There
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by jeffool 14y ago
I get what you're saying, but if the tech is left untouched, any advancement gained in a few decades time will likely be less impressive than a few decades of commercial and niche amateur interest. No one is saying let's shut down factories
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by jeffool 14y ago
I don't know how to convey the opposite opinion in a way you've likely not heard before. I'll go to extremes. And a handgun is made to kill people. But we generally agree there's a limited context in which that is acceptable, so we allow it
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by jeffool 14y ago
Oh no, I get you, and it sucks.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I can only hope that someone signed their name without actually using the Internet that much; without realizing what this was. It was bad enough when they ruined a legit hip hop music site. MegaUpload actually has a name, and a willingness
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by jeffool 14y ago
But the complaint (and a legit one I feel) is that this page is the opposite. This page has very little information that techies want (as seen by all the complaining here.)
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by jeffool 14y ago
I think joestink could've instead said: When web-app DEVELOPERS finally get the whole offline thingie working, a web-first option will become much more of a real option... /edit: Then again, I'm not positive if Google Chrome's "intalled web
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by jeffool 14y ago
>Looks like there's major spin on this on that page. To be fair, it is Google's page. I don't expect anyone trying to sell me anything to tell me the negatives unless they're legally obligated to do so.
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by jeffool 14y ago
That's not by accident. Exclusive partners gain that status by agreeing to help subsidize the product in some way, shape, or form. And they want their money's worth, so they (the partner) make sure the contract lasts just long enough for yo
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by jeffool 14y ago
As much as I wish you were right, digital does nothing toward stopping region coding/DRM if we're talking completely legal means. Though, the licensing fees, sure. As much as I'd like to say you're right, I think there are still too many pe
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by jeffool 14y ago
That's okay, I'm the only person I know who's talked in support of the idea too. To me a guaranteed minimum income just... Makes sense to me. That's the closest we'll get to each person getting the opportunity to pursue happiness. I'm way c
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by jeffool 14y ago
I'm 31 and the one thing I wish I knew was the utter and complete lack of limitations on you as a younger person. Crazy, right? Let me make a metaphor. Imagine boxing (or MMA if you prefer). Life is like that. Your entire life, you train an
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by jeffool 14y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that you're right. That said, isn't it fair to say that "sooner or later" could, in some casees, mean "after you've decided if you've got a worthwhile venture"? I mean, yes they got the .com eventually, but didn't eve
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by jeffool 14y ago
You mean a single place where customers can complain about issues, and vote on what they hate most? Intentionally ask people what they hate, instead of asking what they want? ... I like the way you think. I very you could get more actually
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by jeffool 14y ago
I don't see "buy stuff" in there? Am I missing it? Or did you mean by "Users are reported to start with 80 points - they gain more by taking part in promotional activities, but lose points if they break any of the rules."? That could mean s
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by jeffool 14y ago
The thought of eschewing productivity makes me cringe instantly. But that said, I worry he's not wrong about some things. Our economies don't seem to be growing fast enough to negate the downsides of things like automation. Rather than slow
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by jeffool 14y ago
I did, thanks! That's the one I'm not sure if I like. The previous one mundane, but functional. The new one trades in the conversational flow for ease of interaction (+1-ing, sharing, more options from the stream.) It's an interesting take,
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by jeffool 14y ago
Twitter is, for me, very much a "right now" tool. I used to read up on missed posts, but now I just follow too many people. So I look at the recent history of a couple of lists, then look at even less of my main stream for interesting conve

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