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Using Robotics to Teach Computer Programming(nytimes.com)
22 points by mcgwiz 12y ago|6 comments
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Ashton Kutcher's A+ viral content site accused of plagiarism(theguardian.com)
4 points by mcgwiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
Er, or be skeptical, raise the moral issue, and build pressure on Facebook to proceed in a socially responsible way.
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
Do you mean people should stop working toward a more equitable compromise the moment a short-term solution is on the table?
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
Fair point about citizens in developing countries being forced to focus on the short-term. But does that mean it's right for Facebook to take advantage of them in a way that, in the long-term, is questionable at best? This is about mor
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
Because the people that live in those developing countries are fellow human beings, and generally have no economic/political power relative to Facebook and other MNCs.
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Alcohol Test: Does Eating Yeast Keep You From Getting Drunk?(npr.org)
47 points by mcgwiz 12y ago|34 comments
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
> The things that take off are usually created in a short time. Fair enough, but that's totally anecdotal. A helluva a lot (<-- carefully imprecise) of systems created in a short amount of time also flop. Is a short amount of a t
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Calling Back a Zombie Ship From the Graveyard of Space(nytimes.com)
82 points by mcgwiz 12y ago|2 comments
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Google Offers New Encryption Tool(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mcgwiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
Very cool. Did anyone else notice that the direction of many of the gestures were reverse of the "natural" motion. I.e. to scroll left, the hand gestures to the left, rather than to the right as if you're dragging the viewpor
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
It's a complex problem, but with a "training/welcome period" (explained below) for new users, these specific issues can be addressed: - experts (users having rep above EXPERT_THRESHOLD, say 5000) want "interesting&q
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
Nothing special about my current home office (which consists of a desk in my bedroom), but back when I lived in Brooklyn, I had a makeshift standing desk with a nice view of Manhattan. http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2011&#x2
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by mcgwiz 12y ago
A lot of commenters disagree with the "no dating" and "no alcohol" recommendations. But how many of these commenters are men and how many are women? For men to reject a recommendation put forth in the interest of women m
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Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks(bbc.com)
5 points by mcgwiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Rather than all the engineers and tech-minded people here naysay the idea into oblivion, I think it's worthwhile that we encourage designers to take an earnest stab at this problem. The complaints here are basically "w.o.t. is not
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
But that's the problem. Upvoting and approving/moderating are different things. Upvoting is a subjective exercise, whereby you signal substantive agreement. Approving/moderating is an objective exercise, whereby you signal th
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Facebook can afford not to provide an better user experience because it has no competition. Should Google Plus one day threaten Facebook's usage, Facebook may pull this design out of it's archives. Until then, they will provide th
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I feel my previous comment [1] on the design of this feature is still valid. The word "endorse" carries the wrong connotations and increases the risk of subjectivity and groupthink. A better link label might be "tolerable&quo
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The word "endorse" mischaracterizes the aims of this program, and counter-productively provokes groupthink. Renaming the "endorse" link to "tolerable" (where it becomes a kind of flag) would go a long way to mi
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Hmm, aside from the distaste of a "guilty until proven innocent" formula being injected, this suffers from a critical flaw. The word "endorse" symbolizes something different than "substantial and not nasty". It
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Seems a bit extreme. Two of the stories currently on that list made it to the front page.
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Facebook Is Still Failing Marketers(blogs.forrester.com)
2 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
As with all programming practices, theory and application do not always align, especially when the application achieves cargo cult status. The details of how MyClass calculates due dates should be irrelevant. The test in your example violat
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Agree that structure-specific CSS is unwieldy. However, it's robustness is still a worthy benefit. If you use a white-space sensitive CSS preprocessor, it is not unwieldy, and actually quite maintainable and elegant, since it's st
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Totally agreed. And more generally, specificity is by far the most difficult challenge in large-scale CSS. Without discipline and some well-defined conventions for selector construction, you will end up with the equivalent of spaghetti co
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Fair point. "Abstract" might be better. It embodies the information-/implementation-hiding goal of this technique. Abstractions still require names, and the names should be meaningful (not easy: "naming things is one of
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
So? Asking earnestly, what exactly is your point? That the title offends you because it uses the phrase "work around"? Adding a relative path to a *PATH variable is clever, elegant, useful, and uncommon. It resolves a problem not
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
This is perplexing to me. > 1. Bad search ranking and Twitter/Facebook previews This problem is patently obvious to the most cursory examination of single-page applications. If SEO is important, and you want to do an SPA, then you m
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I had an incensed reaction to their email, which had only stated that the passwords were "encrypted". Not until I searched these comments here for the text "encrypt" did I learn that they actually hashed with bcrypt. I h

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