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by prawks 12y ago
This article reminded me of an NPR piece I saw a few days ago about "When Women Stopped Coding"[1]. The theory goes that without having prior knowledge of working with computers, people cannot compete in many introductory computer
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by prawks 12y ago
YikYak is similar to what you're talking about, though it's anonymous by design. IIRC it's limited to a 10-mile radius. http://www.yikyakapp.com/
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by prawks 12y ago
The article has been updated to reflect that it has been pulled.
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by prawks 12y ago
For people not familiar with Acme, I found this 20-minute video tour very informative: http://research.swtch.com/acme
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by prawks 12y ago
While all of those things are (apparently) possible in Skype and friends, they haven't been the focus, or what the product is all about. I use Skype on a weekly basis perhaps (not an expert, but a regular-Joe user), and replicating the
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by prawks 12y ago
Those are the 4 properties that make a strategy game great, which is completely fine. But you're kind of proposing that the best games are strategy games, which is like saying that oil is the best painting medium. Those aren't nec
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Hello, we are RealCrowd, and we use C#(code.realcrowd.com)
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by prawks 12y ago
Alternatively, you may be better at those hobbies if you specialize as such. If I have a penchant for being dexterous with my right hand, I will probably enjoy hobbies where I can exploit that to its fullest.
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by prawks 12y ago
There are a decent amount of developers making games in the Goldeneye-era style. Though most are more creative takes on the genre than clones of retro games (ex: Superhot, Screencheat).
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by prawks 12y ago
Great video, I was hoping it would be linked here. Jim's is not only an informative talk but an inspirational ability to teach.
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by prawks 12y ago
This is the approach I've always had in mind to take with my future children. I hope they can have similarly successful results. Any big learnings you found during the process which you didn't anticipate starting out? I'm alw
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by prawks 12y ago
> the original poster has utterly ignored the evidence of their senses to focus on electronic devices exclusively. I think given the pervasiveness of electronics and their popularity with youth, this is decently probable.
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by prawks 12y ago
I've got to say, this picture makes it look pretty good: http://static.squarespace.com/static/4fa14d3ce4b08a53fa26468... I think as with most watches, it's a piece of your outfit. It doesn't look good on
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by prawks 12y ago
I think looking for an offshore developer is a bit different than looking for an offshore team. You likely have a more intimate relationship with your developer than someone contracting out to a team does with each of that team's membe
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by prawks 12y ago
This has been my experience as well, very well summarized. Communication is huge in technical organizations, and small stumbling blocks like accents over shoddy conference line quality can have long-lasting impacts when (as you've stat
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by prawks 12y ago
These kinds of things have been happening to the human experience for some time now. I don't need to ask anyone how to get anywhere, or figure out how to navigate there with the rise of GPS on devices I have with me all the time. I can
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by prawks 12y ago
> You'd think that would be the easiest part of building a super computer that fit on your wrist. That's exactly why the watch faces aren't fashionable. As with other forms of art, fashion isn't as trivial as many peo
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by prawks 12y ago
A closely analogous problem which I have had to implement is the problem of drawing n overlapping events with varying duration on a timeline, coloring the event based on how many are underneath it. Personally I find that a simpler problem t
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by prawks 12y ago
This is pretty much the solution given. I've encountered a similar problem before (draw a bunch of overlapping squares with differing z-values) and done it similarly. The difficulty you end up having is that a stack doesn't give y
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by prawks 12y ago
Couldn't you solve this by tracking the version of Java (for example) used initially to develop the simulation?
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by prawks 12y ago
AFAIK it's always been one of the bigger gray areas regarding pirating copyrighted material. From what I've read it's still a "we have no formal proof that people are prosecuted based on it, but we also have no proof tha
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by prawks 12y ago
Yeah, Steve was crazy in college. Wonder what he's up to now...
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by prawks 12y ago
"Uber" is already a pretty non-descriptive brand name, I think they prefer catchy-ness to descriptive branding.
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by prawks 12y ago
Really neat visualization, thanks for sharing! Would have been nice if you could attach the camera to Rosetta or the comet to follow it though its path, but it's still great.
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by prawks 12y ago
This resonated a lot with me as a golfer. Golf is a very individual-focused activity, with a large amount of minutiae to consider. Each shot is a new opportunity, and no two shots are ever alike. Mechanics are massively important, but focus
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by prawks 12y ago
Nothing for Windows Phone, unfortunately. Though I suppose you have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to market share.
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by prawks 12y ago
A lot of it can also come down to pure fun. I really enjoy programming in vim, and I had fun learning a new tool. It's not always about pure efficiency metrics. I code better when I enjoy using my tools.
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by prawks 12y ago
Precisely my thoughts. I would summarize with being mindful of all of these things, and building with flexibility in mind so that should the need arise, these additional "complications" can be added. To put it bluntly, it just com
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by prawks 12y ago
One thing that bugs me at first glance is that after I pick a preset denoted with a "starting price", when it gets to the next page with the component breakdown the starting price is $100-300 higher.
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by prawks 12y ago
My mistake in wording, I didn't mean that it was prohibitively expensive by necessity. It seems that education costs are artificially inflated in the US at all levels. I agree completely that education doesn't need to be expensive

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