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by mtogo 15y ago
FWIW, duckduckgo has a feature that allows you to jump to any site from your search bar. Searching for '!so Hello, world' will pull up a stackoverflow search for 'Hello, world', and searching for '!w Hello, World' will pull up the relevant
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by mtogo 15y ago
Drew should really be handling their PR. I'm not sure why they still let Arash post anything publicly.
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by mtogo 15y ago
If it was prohibitively expensive for you to view (as it is for me), it's not really transparent, is it?
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by mtogo 15y ago
I see, i read your question too fast. Using scratch/alice/nxt/what-have-you as a tool to show what compsci is and how it can be exciting is fantastic, i just wouldn't use it as a method for teaching programming. My bad. Another thing to loo
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by mtogo 15y ago
The best way to teach programming to middle/high school students is to teach them programming. Forget things like alice and scratch. Just hand them a python prompt and a book or tutorial, or perhaps Hackety Hack. Middle school students are
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by mtogo 15y ago
Funny, a typography article written in one of the most distracting fonts i've ever seen. EDIT: Obviously i have no idea what i'm talking about. I just thought that the widely varying heights and odd shapes of the letters was distracting fro
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by mtogo 15y ago
The problem is that the message doesn't make anyone feel better. They apologized for the problem, but i still wonder if Dropbox fails open. If their login servers go down for a few minutes or get DoSed, can anyone access my account? That do
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by mtogo 15y ago
It's not clear because it does not explain what happened and why it will never again. Users expect something like "There was a solar eclipse that caused a bit flip on our login server which caused strcmp to give the wrong result ...". We ex
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by mtogo 15y ago
Your reccomendation is hilarious because it still does not give the user any privacy. Neither private browsing mode nor SSL will give the user any privacy from google, which is the real concern. You still log searches and IP addresses for a
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by mtogo 15y ago
A much better alternative is https://ssl.scroogle.org , which doesn't have personalization since google can't tell scroogle users apart. It also has benefits like having a bit of privacy while you search.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Bitbucket somehow manages to maintain a service of similar or greater quality or reliability and has free unlimited private repos. Github is charging more because they can, not because it costs that much to maintain.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Hmm, testing it out it constantly confuses weather it should be encrypting or decrypting. I've tried to enter a message and had it request a decryption password. That combined with the poor crypto practices makes it rather unusable, but it'
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by mtogo 15y ago
People have been predicting things like this since the beginning of time. Outsourcing is going to kill software developers. Computers are going to write the software for us. Click-n-drag software development is going to kill software develo
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by mtogo 15y ago
The chromebook. Now that everyone's iThing can sync and back up, what need is there for this cut-down web browser OS?
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by mtogo 15y ago
Remember that HN is a blatant ripoff of Reddit and was created because the founders of Reddit wouldn't give pg his own installation (this was before it was OSS). Even Reddit was a "rip off" of Slashdot. Just because it's a social news aggre
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by mtogo 15y ago
Wait, seriously? We're getting to the point of submitting decade-old programming languages (that i'd bet 99% of programmers on here are aware of) as news, without even some kind of news related to them!? Cmon, at least write up a short blog
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by mtogo 15y ago
Here's a link to the actual comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
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by mtogo 15y ago
For my own sanity i'm going to assume that you are joking and that you are not this elitist or rude usually.
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by mtogo 15y ago
It's Windows, there isn't going to be a change in userbase no matter what MS does. Windows users will not switch to Linux (but it's the year of Linux on the desktop!) because of the usual issues, but serious (non-VS-using) developers will n
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by mtogo 15y ago
It's not an iPad-with-a-keyboard. The iPad is much more powerful; it can actually run client-side apps so you can do things either offline, or without the slow, bloated feel you get from web apps. You can SSH from it with reasonable speed (
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by mtogo 15y ago
Thanks! Hopefully Ghostery/Disconnect will start blocking this soon, too.
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by mtogo 15y ago
I don't use any of the services you pull info from, so it's not much use to me but it looks quite good. If i did use SO/Github/Bitbucket i'd definitely give this a try.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Cool site, but how does it help me 'stand out' more than my own site does? Also, it's not very clear from the homepage what the pie charts are and what a score is indicative of. After reading the blog post it seems like that score is pulled
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by mtogo 15y ago
iCloud: Instant win in buzzword bingo.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Exactly! Just use what you like the best. There is no contest, there is no winner. Saying git is the "clear winner" over hg or svn or what have you is like saying that ruby is a "clear winner" over python or c++ or whatever. It makes no sen
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by mtogo 15y ago
| It has always been difficult for programmers to organize and work on projects across a variety of locations, computers, and devices – especially when you work in teams. When you store your code on one computer at one location, you become
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by mtogo 15y ago
| This almost goes without saying these days, but Git is the clear winner in the battle of the source control versioning systems. It is? How so, exactly? It has a small lead over other systems as far as number of users goes, but i'd hardly
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by mtogo 15y ago
I thought everyone knew this. Pastebin hasn't been used seriously for pasting code snippets for years, everyone's moved to one of the ( much ) better pastebins. Here's just a few i can think of off the top of my head: http://paste.pocoo.or
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by mtogo 15y ago
Just to clarify; I actually didn't vote JeremyS down, but rather up, because he was receiving downvotes and didn't know the etiquette. I thought i'd let him know the etiquette so he doesn't get downvoted in the future.
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by mtogo 15y ago
Generally, the etiquette on HN is to use the upvote button to register that you like something, rather than to post a comment.

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