pgcj_poster

7 ms·

31.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
Most computer programming is still borderline clerical in nature.
32.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
It's fairly likely that you've met a trans person and didn't realize they were one.
33.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
A line of text should be about 60–90 characters long. Higher than that, and a lot of people will have trouble keeping track of which line they're on. However, that's only the width of the body text . If you have sidebars or figur
34.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
I'm not convinced that most kids need High School either. For smart kids, High School is basically just a grade-grubbing competition to determine who gets to go to the best college. This mostly gets in the way of actual learning. I thi
35.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
That's my preference as well, but I can understand how someone might want a more complex design while still using hand-written HTML. Perhaps a good compromise would be to put a link to a navigation page in the sidebar, but when availab
36.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
The options available to the author are: 1. Manually add a link to every page on the site each time a new one is added. 2. Give up on hand-writing HTML and use a server-side templating system 3. Give up on having navigation on each page 4.
37.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
The United States abolished slavery later than most other Western countries, including the British Empire, and at its founding was "free" only for a minority of white, land-owning males. While the Bill of Rights protected local el
38.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
People working at certain big companies aren't allowed to use AGPL software on their work machines, which some people might consider a feature.
39.
by pgcj_poster 4y ago
> https://twitter.com/prafdhar/status/1511863583906275328 As with most of Dall-E's output, it looks fine at a glance, but is just gross when you look closely. The kids ear is deformed and blends into their
40.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Pretty much every Western democracy is sanctioning Russia, causing severe shortages that are felt most by ordinary Russian people -- but it crosses the line when a Russian expatriate makes an anti-invasion message show up for Russian visito
41.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
You can assess their comedic and social value, but you can't assess their argument about car insurance, because there isn't one. They're trying to manipulate how you feel, not convince you of some point. It's like if,
42.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Most ads have no content that can be subjected to critical assessment. Geico's terrible comedy sketches are not designed to convince you that they have a good product – they're designed to rattle around in your mind and influenc
43.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I applied when applications opened in November. They were upfront about the fact that they would only look at the first 300 applications -- which they received in the first week. They had engineers review the resumes, which were allowed to
44.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I applied, and was not accepted, to this program. I did a 5th-year Master's program in CS, had a part-time dev job in undergrad, developed a full-stack web app that has thousands of free users, and have been applying to jobs, without s
45.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
In addition to a forum, I think blogs should have a built-in video chat, so that people can have real-time conversations about the posts.
46.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
It seems like most of the skills measured in the studies referenced relate to spacial skills or memory/recall. That's not surprising, since those are fairly easy to measure. However, I bet if you could measure artistic, musical,
47.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Use xhtml with no css.
48.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I get the impression that memorization fell out of favor in education because in the past, it was used as an ends in itself rather than a tool to generate insight. In school, my dad had to memorize a lot of dates with precision down to the
49.
The Static File Startup(memex.marginalia.nu)
3 points by pgcj_poster 5y ago|0 comments
50.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
> I'm a 33 year old straight male and you could sum up my design sense as pretty "basic." Err— sorry, "cheugy." It's a joke. Straight men are stereotypically less sensitive to fashion trends than women or ga
51.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
> CGI is deemed as inefficient because every incoming request is handled in a new process. This is why I keep every program I use on my laptop running in the background at all times. Imagine having to wait for a process to start before y
52.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Test
53.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I've taught kids both Scratch and JavaScript. I think Scratch is much better for pre-teens, for the following reasons: - Scratch has an integrated 2d game engine, sprite editor, and asset library. This makes it easy for kids to make so
54.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
So if you hand in the first assignment a day late, you fail the class?
55.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
A coffee table made of wood can only be used by a couple people at a time, and it can only be in one person's living room at a time. There might be more than a couple people who want to use it, and they might all want it in their livin
56.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Damn, if it's so crowed over there, I hope y'all aren't having any babies.
57.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I wish that some reputable, long-lived service (like the Internet Archive) would offer free subdomains that users could set DNS records for and point to anything. Alternately, one of the TLD could provide free, low-value domains, like 20394
58.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
How long ago was this? If you had freedom as a child, it might have been because of the time rather than the place. I was a kid in a rural area in the 2000s, and there was exactly one time in my entire childhood when I saw another kid that
59.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
> They come up with names like 'shade' and 'lucius' for their supposed 'alters' all of which have assigned functions like 'the gatekeeper' and 'the emotional supporter' and can of course
60.
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
- Republicans will make big gains in the midterm elections. - Someone will become a billionaire from NFTs. - Joe Biden will die. - Gay marriage will be legalized in at least one African or Asian country. - Gas prices will go up. - The UK wi

More ›