krupap

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by krupap 17y ago
I think change can be great if it's coupled with effective user management. On a site that people use daily, this means giving your users some advance notice, explaining major feature changes, and having a "how-to" page to show users how to
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by krupap 17y ago
Oh man, that's rough. According to Pahalial, above, they had to restart apache so it may be worth trying again in a while when they have things sorted out more and when the blank screen frustration's worn off...a bit.
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by krupap 17y ago
Honestly, for me it was just refreshing every time the connection crapped out. Nothing else seemed to work. I bet they're getting hammered now though so it may take longer than the hour I got away with at 11am.
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by krupap 17y ago
The page went blank for me too after pressing "yes, I want free stuff..." but refreshing that blank page 10-20 times got me to a "congratulations" page with a SparkFun guy wearing a crown and an order email in my inbox (though my order tota
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by krupap 17y ago
It looks like I'm one of the fortunate few who managed to place an order. I had an account set up beforehand but didn't have my cart full until 10:45am or so. SparkFun was, indeed, exceedingly slow but my tactic of pressing "refresh" every
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by krupap 17y ago
I was a Cave Specialist/Physical Science Tech for the National Park Service for several years. I built GIS models, led cave surveys, mapped surface hydrology, and hiked up high ridges at night with night vision gear and a computer to ID bat
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by krupap 17y ago
See also Alice, a Java-based collaboration between CMU and Sun Microsystems ( http://www.alice.org ).
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by krupap 18y ago
Excellent message - the safe path is the truly dangerous one. Challenge leads to growth and growth staves off the true dangers of passivity and stagnation that bog us in the deepest of physical and intellectual mires.