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by koide 14y ago
Yes, Google Maps interface comes to mind every time I get reminded about this issue: "Still loading? Use the basic HTML version or click here for help" Although I wonder if this really is the best solution. Problems: User has to explicitly
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by koide 14y ago
That wasn't my experience. It would be interesting to arrive at the bottom of the problem. I take it I'm being served a different page than you are, maybe due to location (I'm not on the US, but then, neither was the article author)
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by koide 14y ago
It's 2012, and I'm using a lousy hotel wi-fi shared by 503 guests that takes me back to 1997 connection speeds. No wonder PDF is the solution. Sure, sites should be optimized to the fullest extent possible and probably even detect connectio
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What-If and What-Is: The Role of Speculation in Science(nytimes.com)
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by koide 14y ago
You are absolutely correct. I should have thought a bit more about it before writing about my irrational fear. Thanks.
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by koide 14y ago
At least the companies now will save the small fortune, they'll just point the duds to Codecademy/Udacity/Coursera. People like the ones you mention will always exist, but they are not Codecademy's responsibility. It's even likely they woul
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by koide 14y ago
The polish guys got .pl. <Insert your pun related to polished code and Perl here>
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by koide 14y ago
Two things: 1.- What do you want the .js TLD for? 2.- Do you really think a letter of this type will convince anybody? Reads too much like "we want this because we want this and thus we deserve it" If you get it, good for you, I wouldn't ac
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by koide 14y ago
I'm aware of many of the names you mention, but I haven't the slightest clue if they were reusable or had a reusable launcher. And more to the point, I have no idea if the reusable capsule or launcher had an engine to drive it instead of us
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by koide 14y ago
Why does the captcha allow infinite retries? And why it lets you keep trying once you solved it? Not that any of that would really fix the captcha, you'd just need to improve the code accordingly.
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by koide 14y ago
Come on, I'm just ignorant, not a fear monger, it really gave me the creeps in my ignorance. I was not aware of any of the marvellous feats you mention. Thanks for the information. I was merely wondering if a propelled launcher would be a h
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by koide 14y ago
I was thinking about the launcher falling on a skyscraper for example. My number was off by an order of magnitude, sorry. The problem is: making sure the launcher lands where it has to or else falls on an unpopulated area. I expect this to
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by koide 14y ago
Indeed, I had missed this point too, but it is too true. Algorithmic literacy is important. More important than mere computer proficiency. Now, is it more important than the purported alternatives? Hard to say. But maybe there's no need t
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by koide 14y ago
I don't understand this. Doing a couple hours a week learning Javascript and you will now change careers? Or, inversely, learning Javascript on Codecademy will get you a lucrative job on frontend programming, if you are not talented? Yes, o
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by koide 14y ago
Jeff is having too narrowminded a view. Whatever takes people off TV and Facebook to acquire a skill is a net win to society. They could do even better things? Probably, but that's not the point. If you had a similarly structured online cou
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by koide 14y ago
That video gave me the creeps: "One hundred thousand dead after engine of spacex launcher fails." Do you have any clue about how they intend to solve this problem?
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by koide 14y ago
On the other hand, I can't wait for the next 15 years to pass by. Every day I feel more like I'm an extra in a science fiction novel: Private space exploration Brain controlled robots Free ivy-league education for all Single atom
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by koide 14y ago
The project is not the fundraising, the project is what's being funded. Just see Kickstarter's emails: "Projects we love: <project name>." They are not talking about the fundraising there. Additionally, the fundraising status is ort
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by koide 14y ago
I'm flabbergasted that you take his offense as if he drowned two babies and an old lady with her cat. It certainly was unethical, but his action was immature, not evil. I really fail to see an intent to cause harm. Now, he shouldn't get a p
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by koide 14y ago
Or not... stop worrying that much until you actually see a consequence. By the way, all AOL has to do now is to chastise a bit the security people and to make sure the security rounds do cover the whole floor plan. Nothing more, nothing les
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by koide 14y ago
It's a mixed bag, on the each project page you clearly see "FUNDING SUCCESSFUL". On the search page you see "and the thousands of other successful projects!" I believe this to be a mistake. http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/successful
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by koide 14y ago
I've read at least two of those, and, in particular, "Switch" is not an awful read. "The rider and the elephant" is certainly not a new idea (buddhists have been saying a similar thing for millenia), but it gives you a modern framework arou
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by koide 14y ago
How do you plan to solve the problem of, say, Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky receiving tons of job offers?
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by koide 14y ago
Ideas should be free, implementations shouldn't. As long as I'm not using the actual implementation of whatever I created for my employer, I should be free to use the idea of what I created for any otherwise legal purpose. After all, isn't
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by koide 14y ago
Please write a post about it when that happens and link it from HN.
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by koide 14y ago
I agree what you say, but chess is not only who is the better database, though. Analytic reasoning (and home preparation) is still what defines who wins among similar "databases".
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by koide 14y ago
They don't even meet interesting people/new opportunities? I truly have no idea, I live far, far away from the valley in a different world.
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by koide 14y ago
I have read a book on a similar vein. "Do the work" by Steven Pressfield. Although he starts from the point where you know what you want to do. Incremental improvements. Do one thing until you are convinced you can do it, do not listen to t
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by koide 14y ago
I doubt the customer will blame apple if all that's changed is the new $3 charger.
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by koide 14y ago
I'm willing to bet that if Google releases their AR Goggles, Apple will wait a year and then release the iGlasses which will actually work and revolutionize the masses.

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