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by nzmsv 17y ago
This is even more true if you make the d stand for debugging.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
OK, I get the point about being nice, but the AA.com design is ugly. I'm sure as a giant company AA is used to criticism. There are many big companies with sites not only ugly, but unusable. For example, Rogers.com (Canada's cell phone almo
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by nzmsv 17y ago
He says he doesn't have to know who used Trac in order to use it. Well, I disagree, and I'm with Joel on this one. Whether or not a project has users is one of the things I look for when picking software. More users often (but not always) m
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Well, sooner or later the Internet will go the way of radio and TV: megacorps only. Once there's a critical mass of people using a medium who don't really care about it, and just consume what's available, it is only a matter of time. The qu
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by nzmsv 17y ago
It's pretty good. Definitely better than Adobe's tools for code. The art still has to be made in Flash though. Unless there is some compelling reason to use Flash though, open tech (like AJAX) wins every time.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Yes, but only to an extent. Some of the boring stuff ends up being the foundation for something interesting (it just doesn't look that way at the time). Before giving up on something boring, try to find out what it's useful for, then decide
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I ran a robotics design team. I learned that managing people is not trivial, and I learned it the hard way. I also learned a lot about Linux, embedded systems, and putting electronic circuits together. Another thing I learned was that I str
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by nzmsv 17y ago
There's probably a way to teach almost anything using a computer. The problem is in how to present this to the kids. In school, computers are an afterthought, and aren't really part of the curriculum in any meaningful way (except those coup
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I was referring to the Criticism section on the website that was linked to in the previous comment. And yes, the author claims that Africa's problems "are caused by development".
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by nzmsv 17y ago
His response to the criticism is not very well thought out, but takes an amazingly popular viewpoint. Namely, that life used to be so much better in the "olden days". Just because believing this makes many people feel warm and fuzzy on the
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by nzmsv 17y ago
My mom was also a homemaker while my brother and I were kids. And being a homemaker it is definitely not a free ride. Neither is it an occupation which you can do half-heartedly. And I'm not arguing with you, by the way. There was just some
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I'd argue that saying "I'm free" and then continuing with "I've been doing lots of house-sitting" and "find a partner who will support you" isn't exactly something to be proud of.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
His advice makes sense, but only if you believe what he believes, namely that it's ok to mooch off others, and call that "dropping out". Now, the article explicitly bashes self-sufficiency, so I guess it's just a matter of which viewpoint y
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I don't know how many people do this (invent word forms), but I definitely do. Here's a sample: freak out > froke out > froken out the plural of house is obviously hice , and toothbrush becomes teethbrush . Of course, I have