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   by phillco 16y ago

   Ooh, I like the pulsing glow effect on those buttons ( http://dtrejo.github.com/aristo/ ). Wonder if that could be ported to the linked jQuery UI theme.
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   by phillco 16y ago

   Sorry. It's Java. The GunShotWound has to come from a GunShotWoundFactory.
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   by phillco 16y ago

   If you're burnt out on using Java for introductory courses, consider using Groovy. ( http://groovy.codehaus.org/ ). It takes a lot of the pain and boilerplate code out of java, making it easier for students to focus on what they're actually
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   by phillco 16y ago

   Person is shot.
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   by phillco 16y ago

   Actually, browsers do have network effects. If you're not important enough that web developers test their sites against you, you are going to suffer. See Opera.
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   by phillco 16y ago

   Aha! ie7countdown.com and ie8countdown.com are still available!
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   by phillco 16y ago

   > Windows is the only OS lacking a good client Git Extensions ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/ ) is actually really, really, good. The UI is well-designed and fast . Wish more people knew about it.
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   by phillco 16y ago

   Briefly ?
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   by phillco 16y ago

   See, I didn't even know that.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Yes! I noticed this in Chrome, too, while trying to debug our web application. Turns out it's a Webkit bug. Tore my hair out trying to figure out why middle-click wasn't working, until I opened the same page in Firefox and voila, worked pe
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    by phillco 16y ago

    And, perhaps, food.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    [This comment has been approved by the Hacker News Review team] Great article!
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Hell, I remember what life was like before iPhones !
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Hell, Google is the new IBM.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    ISOs are pretty useful in the future.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Hacker News is the new Reddit :OOO
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    by phillco 16y ago

    That's why I really like Chrome: it's all but impossible to use an old version without going way out of your way. If I give somebody Chrome, I know they're always going to have the very latest, standards-compliant version. As a web develope
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Survivorship bias. Pretty common. "Look I failed" posts are much rarer.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    I noticed this a lot when I tried blogging a couple of summers ago. The articles I thought would be hits bombed, and the stupid ones I wrote just for fun [1] ended up being huge successes. Inevitably, I just resigned myself to the fact that
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Right. But that's how Gmail is marketing it. "Undo send" gives you the impression that Gmail is reaching through the tubes and yanking your message back for you, but in reality it's just cancelling a launch that didn't happen yet.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    "LAUNCHING MISSILES (click here very quickly to undo)..."
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    by phillco 16y ago

    If profiles and e-mails are public (like at GitHub), it's not revealing anything new. Does make it easier though.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    They had the guts to say "this isn't working, we're going to throw it away and start over". That was crucial.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    I don't know why this is such a surprise. This was all explained in the first chapter of Brave New World.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Exactly. It's even worse if you add the crippling behavior later on, i.e. in the upgrade from v1.2 to v1.3. All pirates notice is that the new version is really unstable.
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Brilliant, but be careful about this. There was an article here years ago about an indie game developer who put tons of different piracy checks all throughout his game. He was pretty clever, and made it so that several didn't activate until
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    by phillco 16y ago

    I aim for the best of both worlds - blast through the coding when you're at the top of the world; then, once it all works, go back and clean it up and make it pretty. IME, unless you're never ever going to see the code again, it's well wort
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Very nice!
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    by phillco 16y ago

    Thank you!
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    by phillco 16y ago

    I don't have 20 karma yet, but could I get phillco.ww.com -> phillipcohen.net? Thanks so much!