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by pflats 14y ago
>This was Marco and other iOS developers' mistake. How so? Instapaper is literally one developer; isn't it better to be a market leader on one platform than to spread yourself across two platforms and dilute both applications? It sounds
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by pflats 14y ago
A (somewhat blunt) rule of thumb, not just for you, but for anyone in this endeavor: In the future, if you are making a graph like this, and the differences are so small that they don't show up when your y-axis starts at 0, they probably ar
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by pflats 14y ago
When you don't start your y-axis at 0, you skew the interpretation of your data. At best, this is a significant mistake, and at worst, this is intentionally misleading. Take this graph: http://i.imgur.com/bBzCK.png It looks like women are
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by pflats 15y ago
I haven't played bughouse in over a decade, so I've got to ask: what's with the openings in this video? Is bughouse strategy so different that there's a whole new opening book, are there some openings I'm completely ignorant of, or am I jus
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by pflats 15y ago
They don't exist (yet). Lion supports HighDPI mode, but the Airs have about the same DPIs as the iPad 1/2.
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by pflats 15y ago
A company already makes these at http://www.theipadframe.com/ . My wife got me one for Valentine's Day; we keep it in the living room to charge the iPad when we're not using it on the couch. I love it; it's a nice way to give the iPad a h
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by pflats 15y ago
Teaching is a skill, just like anything else in this world. You can be a natural at it or have no innate talent at it, but if you want to get better, you will. The teachers everyone remembers are experts both at their subject and at teachin
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by pflats 15y ago
Definitely. In my experience, it gets a lot worse when you start re-assigning variables ("But x = 3, you can't say it equals 5"), and worse again when you have to start using == and = concurrently. And then weak typing vs. strong typing vs.
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by pflats 15y ago
I teach computer programming to beginners for a living, and I love the idea of a prose-like book aimed to be accessible to them. However, it's much, much harder than it sounds. You do an excellent job of addressing the programming concepts
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by pflats 15y ago
One of the things the article doesn't point out (but the linked case law does) that I was curious enough about to look into: The "beeper" was essentially a short-ranged RF transponder used as a tracking device. The officers were actively fo
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by pflats 15y ago
It's pretty amusing to take the half hour or so and at least skim the Overt Acts section (it goes from a. to yyyy.)
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by pflats 15y ago
For whatever little it's worth, I just logged into my dropbox account on IE9 here at work with no issues; downloaded and uploaded .zip files without it complaining. Our settings are managed by policy, though, so I can't say what security fe
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by pflats 15y ago
This article is a little hyperbolic. First, the item in question was Overt Act #28 out of 103. Case law is not going to rest entirely on this French Sopranos episode. Even then, overlaying a copyrighted work with translated subtitles isn't
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by pflats 15y ago
7 glasses of wine in two hours is just under one full bottle of wine an hour. That's a significant amount of wine. edit: What I'm trying (probably poorly) to get at is that almost anyone who kills a bottle of wine in an hour knows that they
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by pflats 15y ago
I think the fact that they do a week devoted to reducing technical debt is just as awesome as the WOW week (and giving the innovation time right after code improvement is probably the best way to do things.) I'd be concerned, though, that h
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Tell HN: Thinking about making a K-12 app now? Know how education pricing works.
8 points by pflats 15y ago|3 comments
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by pflats 15y ago
This is an outstanding value-add for iPads. There are a ton of school administrators/school boards out there that love to try new technology in the classroom. They've been chomping at the bit to buy iPads for a while now, just waiting for t
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by pflats 15y ago
I assure you, high school texts are not much cheaper.
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by pflats 15y ago
This is interesting, but looking at the NYC one, your "Xpert Tweeters" really distort the idea of "local". I'm seeing tons of national news from the WSJ, the NBA, and a score of other media outlets that are based in New York but not coverin
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by pflats 15y ago
Aside from the humor of this, Fark probably has the best annotated bibliography of links to check out. A number of other sites have more links, but Fark's are actually curated and more worthwhile overall.
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by pflats 15y ago
With all the talk about learning programming and the article regarding CodeAcademy's shortcomings, I thought this course was a nice introduction for the non-programmer. For the education-minded out there, this also serves as Berkeley's pilo
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CS 10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (login as guest)(sage.cs.berkeley.edu)
1 points by pflats 15y ago|1 comments
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by pflats 15y ago
Apple's goal with iCloud and Air* is not to compete with Dropbox. iCloud, in general, seems poised so that no matter what device it originated on, you can find your data. Take a look at PhotoStream. Yes, you can't delete individual files, a
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by pflats 15y ago
I suspect there's a significant number of iPhone users who have never once shut down their phones, and don't even know how to do so.
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by pflats 15y ago
Definitely understandable. To me, "Oh Hai" comes across as unprofessional, not laid back (which is what I assume you're going for.) The "Hi; I'm Tim." seems to work a lot better in that regard.
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by pflats 15y ago
Agreed. If I were an HR guy, I'd reach for the X in the corner the moment I saw "Oh, Hai!".
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by pflats 15y ago
Also, you don't have contact info in your profile, but check out CS4HS if you haven't already ( http://www.cs4hs.com/ ). It's a great resource with great networking.
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by pflats 15y ago
It's a hard call; I'm doing the same thing, especially after my Intro Programming class was cancelled. I had students develop some serious programs, and at the same time, had a student go from, "What do you mean by a computer program" to, "
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by pflats 15y ago
Indeed. They see Jesse Eisenberg, and assume he still does a good 5% of Facebook's coding work, easy.
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by pflats 15y ago
These aren't just school policies, they're usually state laws. Education policy is a huge political topic, and one that the general public often feel qualified to provide input on, regardless of their actual expertise. That said, why should

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