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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Since nobody's mentioned it yet, StarLogo TNG - http://education.mit.edu/projects/starlogo-tng StarLogo TNG is similar to Scratch, perhaps a little bit less intuitive, but it's 3-D and lets you do some pretty cool stuff. I'm a bit biased
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Huh- that seems weird to me too - my experience is that programmers generally love to share their knowledge and talk about their field. My tendency when newbies ask me about programming is to share as much info as possible, possibly too muc
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
We totally exist in real life. My e-mail address as a kid was programmingprincess. ^_^ I no longer wear so much pink, but I still happily occupy both sides of the "girlie girl"/"techie girl" divide - and in fact, I've found that most wome
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
I'm all for girls learning how to program, but the negativity in this campaign is rubbing me the wrong way. There's male-bashing - her brothers are "mean" and "brats", and woman-shaming (the photos of the "gold diggers" - perhaps not a lif
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
It is possible! Go for it! From the FAQ: "Do I have to be an MIT student to participate? Nope! Non-MIT students are welcome." (www.battlecode.org)
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
It is 3D. In recent years, both a 3D and 2D view has been available - the 3D view (complete with the "circle of awesome", an automated camera which analyzes the match to figure out where the action is - at least, they had that a few years
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Ah, the mythical man-month. Or student-month, as the case may be. You can't measure productivity in klocs, and you're also not taking into account the distribution of effort across those 350 contestants. Plenty of people sign up, poke aro
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
This assumes that you're somewhere with wifi (or 3/4G, I suppose). I do a good chunk of my iPhone media consumption during my commute via the subway - there's no internet underground, so everything needs to be pre-downloaded.
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
My team does attempt to simulate this online, at least w/ one of our remote folks. We occasionally have "game break" on Fridays, where the team gets together for an hour to play a board game or video game (popular favorites have been The Re
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Regarding #18, how come nobody's called CPS?
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
I use Air Display (app that lets you use an iPad as an external monitor, and to control that monitor w/ touch or the mouse) on a regular basis, mostly just as a chat window next to my MacBook so Adium isn't taking up valuable screen real es
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
This is very worrying to me. Not because of the actual ruling itself (which seems fairly unenforceable, unless they're going to get Minnesota-based ISPs to block Coursera), but because of the precedent it sets. What else can states ask th
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
That may have been exactly what the group owner thought they were doing. I'm not sure when Facebook switched over to "Add People to Group" instead of "Invite People to Group," but I vaguely recall that Facebook groups used to do the latter
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
I'm not a Rails dev, and I admittedly never made it all the way through this book (more out of lack of time than lack of interest, though), but I was very impressed with the first few chapters of http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rail
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Aha! That explains why for some users, I'm seeing them listed as having my own e-mail address.
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
This. When the iPhone 4 came out, I hung out in the queue for two hours even though I wasn't planning to purchase a phone (I was keeping a friend company who was in it for the long haul). It was a lot of fun and we met some cool people.
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An Evening with Pirate Amelia, the Youngest Member of the European Parliament(vlad.ursulean.ro)
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Cool. Reminds me of http://www.hackasaurus.org/ - though that seems to be more kid-oriented.
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Yext ( http://www.yext.com/ ) offers a paid solution for exactly this issue - they sync local business info across 35+ different sites (Bing, Yahoo, Yelp, etc.) Disclaimer: My significant other works there. But I wouldn't recommend it if i
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Where do you live?!?! I spend around $200/mo on food, $250 tops, in Manhattan. Mostly yummy healthy stuff from Trader Joe's. Or did you mean $500/mo for two people?
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Kind of useless if everyone puts in bogus numbers, though. $10*pi million annually? Really, guys?
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
"Does your server really care how the first few bites are?" On first pass, I read this and thought he spelled 'bytes' wrong. ^_^
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https://www.hackerleague.org/
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
"have no set purpose" - you can't code without somebody else handfeeding you a purpose? God forbid we hold an open-ended event and let the programmers decide what to build! And I'm sorry I didn't realize there was a minimum time limit fo
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
"Non-programmers?" Where are you getting that from?
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
I think the true filter here is "You are going to get [blablablah] per month, to spend on beer." Non-drinkers need not apply. Ah well, at least they're up front about some of their priorities.
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by nicolethenerd 15y ago
"... Durkin decided to shut down the Australian site and give the US market a go — So she applied to Y Combinator, and got accepted. ..." Doesn't it bother any of you that she abandoned her entire Australian userbase?
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Why are programming languages so formalized and structured?(nicolethenerd.com)
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