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by patja 13y ago
The TechCrunch article shows a photo with one of your stickers next to an Arduino and breadboard. Is Arduino part of your curriculum as well?
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by patja 13y ago
What are some big poster-child success stories for running MVC on Mono in production?
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by patja 13y ago
This serves as good evidence for anyone who wonders if Portland is truly as idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, or just plain insane as it is depicted in the television series Portlandia.
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by patja 13y ago
What I find more insidious is the new FB app permissions that allow it to read all of your private calendar data. Maybe no big deal for many people, but I put a lot of stuff into my calendar entries that I consider pretty private info.
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by patja 13y ago
How about user profiles so a family can share an ipad?
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by patja 13y ago
Isn't this a William Gibson invention from the Pattern Recognition / Blue Ant series?
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by patja 13y ago
Why hide the price? I realize that landing on a blog post like this first and going from there to the signup process may not be the primary flow they designed to sign up new customers, but I was a bit irked at how many clicks/page loa
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by patja 13y ago
I don't get the controversy. I don't see this as being about making everyone into a professional programmer, no more than having every student take music class will make them a professional musician. I believe it is more about t
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by patja 13y ago
A discussion on an EconTalk podcast about trends in college education resonated with me. They discussed college as being an extended adolescence for many students: today many students treat it as an expensive way to find one's way in
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by patja 13y ago
I've always been fond of the label "living the dream."
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by patja 13y ago
"Unlike Visual Studio, MonoDevelop is free and open source." Probably many are aware, but there is a free Express version of Visual Studio. I stopped paying for Visual Studio a couple releases ago and have been getting by quite n
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by patja 13y ago
It is called a moonlighting policy, and I suspect they do hold up. Microsoft had that policy in place for decades. They didn't outright ban moonlighting, but you did need to have a formal agreement with your manager. I think they so
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by patja 13y ago
I'm wondering why states were allowed to build their own systems and opt out of the federal site. From the Washington state site we get passwords emailed in clear text, a failure to even allow people to enter all components of their i
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by patja 13y ago
Be prepared to know them by a different name if the BSA gets its way: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/19/bsa-to-hacker-scouts-change...
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by patja 13y ago
What are the hoops you think you have to jump through to get a subsidy? The way I understand it is that the exchange website where you shop for plans already has your 2013 income tax return's MAGI figure and will automatically present
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by patja 13y ago
It is interesting that the subsidies are based on your Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI). A nice example of tax code naming conventions: it is both Modified and Adjusted! One of the items you deduct from your income to get your MAGI
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by patja 13y ago
It takes a certain amount of life experience to arrive at the conclusion that many challenging work problems are solved by an insight that hits you in the shower, or while jogging, or during other seemingly idle moments that an 80 hour work
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by patja 13y ago
If it is anything like in the US, old stuff is grandfathered when things tighten up. This is why it is often advisable to look for property that already has a dock or other permanent structures on or near the shoreline. It is quite likely
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by patja 13y ago
I am curious about how and whether building or environment impact codes come into play with this kind of remote private island in Canada. Things like septic systems, building a dock or anything near the shoreline, and even putting in a moo
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by patja 13y ago
The font rendering suffers greatly from the widely-known Google web font rendering issues in Chrome for Windows.
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by patja 13y ago
Totally tangential: I'm curious as to why the author included Shutterstock attribution links on all of the images. Is the author getting some deal where they get images for free if they supply an attribution link?
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by patja 13y ago
I've read Swarm and the others in that series. They are fun pulpy summer time military-adventure-scifi reads. Good page turners without a lot of depth or complexity. I felt a little guilty for enjoying them, but they must have some
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by patja 13y ago
That would be cool. I've been enjoying how much I can accomplish using VS Express for Web and Desktop. It is a little annoying having to install both of these, but beggars can't be choosers, right?
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by patja 13y ago
Those are interesting sites but I didn't see Digital Ocean in their benchmarks or lists of offerings. Seems like a big omission.
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by patja 13y ago
Does anyone have experience with the free VS Shell mentioned in the article as the foundation for putting together a free of cost installation? How does it compare to VS Express? Why would there be two different free Visual Studio offering
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Former Xbox manager: To save Microsoft, Ballmer and thousands of others must go(bizjournals.com)
3 points by patja 13y ago|0 comments
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by patja 13y ago
The title on this submission is much more narrow than the changes announced and the original article title "Windows Azure: Announcing New Dev/Test Offering, BizTalk Services, SSL Support with Web Sites, AD Improvements, Per Minute Billing"
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by patja 13y ago
Early on I recall reading a lot of comments saying there were audio playback glitches with the rpi. Are these resolved now? I have built 3 or 4 Halloween-related audio projects on Arduino using Adafruit's wav shield and the somo-14d modul
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by patja 13y ago
The Swerve is an excellent read if you are interested in learning more about the history of losing texts to the ravages of time and religion.
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by patja 13y ago
They should make more of the lack of multiple user accounts on the iPad. Most families I know share an iPad among the whole household. The lack of separate user accounts is a major pain point.

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