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by milesf 11y ago
This will hopefully inspire others to see "boring" applications in a new way. I've always wanted a double-entry bookkeeping system inside of a game engine. Internet, please make it happen.
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by milesf 11y ago
I believe that in the future we won’t have to code as we think of it today. Coding will be replaced by designing, structuring and working with available technology to create new solutions." I remember thinking something sim
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by milesf 11y ago
I had my first computer at 13 (Commodore 64), ran a Bulletin Board System as a hobby, never did my assignments until the last minute, dropped out of college, and I'm either earning a lot or very little. I certainly fit the profile. I w
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Study Reveals Traits in Youth That Signal Future Profession in Computer Science(businesswire.com)
1 points by milesf 11y ago|1 comments
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by milesf 11y ago
Okay, I confess. I really didn't understand most of that post. It sounds really smart, but someone will have to vouch that it's legit, because the picture of Kadanoff cuddling Cookie Monster trigged my baloney detector https:&#x2
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The Man Who Grows Chairs(makezine.com)
2 points by milesf 11y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 11y ago
I'm using fightin' words, not logical reasoning. Intersparse all of what I'm saying with IMNSHO. I'm looking for a discussion on the matter. I have spoken to, interviewed, and worked with many, many software developers.
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by milesf 11y ago
Code reviews are where the rubber really hits the road. They are a bit scary, can lead to arguements, but at the end of the day they are really the only way to learn and teach coding at a professionally competent level. I know there are man
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Antipattern.io: Every Code Review Is an Opportunity to Learn and Teach(antipattern.io)
1 points by milesf 11y ago|4 comments
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by milesf 11y ago
Lots of little gold nuggets in here: - technology hasn’t made it any easier to concentrate, and actually write. - If a computer is a “bicycle for the mind,” then a computer connected to the internet is a bumper car for the mind. - The most
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4 sucky things about this $19 piece of junk that make it amazing for writing(kadavy.net)
14 points by milesf 11y ago|4 comments
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by milesf 11y ago
Absolutely amazing achievement, and sickening all at the same time. I never realized the scale and magnitude of WWII, or how distorted the view of our world is according to mainstream media. Well worth the ticket price to support future wor
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by milesf 11y ago
Uniregistry.com provides privacy at no extra cost, along with other useful features. I moved all my domains over last year and have been pretty happy with them.
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Can Drones Deliver Hope to War-Torn Syria? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by milesf 11y ago|0 comments
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The NSA named one of its top-secret programs Skynet(theverge.com)
3 points by milesf 11y ago|1 comments
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by milesf 11y ago
I'm using iStat Menus5 and Little Snitch, and am not experiencing the same issues. My MacBook Pro is the penultimate 17", and although I still lose Wifi randomly (under Yosemite and Mavericks) my machine's running acceptably,
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by milesf 11y ago
Well, not jets, but propeller craft might be within reach: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/power/siemens-e...
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by milesf 11y ago
Today is a big deal. Open sourcing the patents to build fully solar-powered electrical grids around the will be a paradigm shift in the power structures of the world. I expect from today onward there will be a full-scale attack from those w
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by milesf 12y ago
It ought to be a felony for the School District to use such weak passwords. Sadly, having worked in a school district myself as a tech, this is par for the course. Many educators seem to love teaching, but hate learning. Not all of course,
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by milesf 12y ago
Looks like iFixit has multiple A1 jokes today: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Watch+Teardown/38659 https://www.ifixit.com/ifaxit
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by milesf 12y ago
Does anyone else recoil when they read the work "toxins" as it pertains to our health? The word has been so overused as to have lost its meaning.
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by milesf 12y ago
Cannot express how excited I am to hear he is back. Welcome back, Ryan. We missed you!
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Ask HN: How do you read Academic Papers?
140 points by milesf 12y ago|71 comments
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by milesf 12y ago
I know Christianity is a very touchy subject for many people. It's easy to find lots of examples of the gulf between orthodoxy and orthopraxy in many people's lives. But I'm not so much interested in where a person is at in t
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by milesf 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation#Christianity
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by milesf 12y ago
I pray for the same reason the late C.S. Lewis prayed: "I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God, it ch
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by milesf 12y ago
Heard this quip somewhere: If, on appropriate occasions, the members tell, enjoy, trade, and/or devise transgressively funny jokes about their denomination, it’s a church. If such jokes reliably meet with stifling so
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by milesf 12y ago
What a terrible article! Writing code is not about good vs. bad, incompetent vs. incompetent, great vs. garbage. It's about communication between people. The best programmers I've known are never happy with their work. We ALL writ
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by milesf 12y ago
Ever notice how companies like General Motors & Microsoft like to make "concept" stuff like this, while companies like Apple and Tesla don't bother? Who's actually delivering on great stuff? Companies that talk about
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Tech designer, 91, lands her dream job in Silicon Valley(today.com)
12 points by milesf 12y ago|0 comments

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