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by prawks 12y ago
In my (somewhat limited, I don't have kids, but went to school in towns with many options for private education) experience, private schooling in the US at every level is prohibitively expensive for all but the upper-middle class, and
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by prawks 12y ago
You have to pick your poison: build up subscription costs, or build up support costs to maintain your own deployments. Depending on your budget, the number of users, the need, the support contract with the vendor, and your priorities, the c
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by prawks 12y ago
Ah, very interesting perspective, thanks for clarifying.
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by prawks 12y ago
From what I hear, it is. It's a lifestyle choice; I'm surprised that the tone of your response seems to imply it is a necessity. It's not surprising that for this group of people who loved their work so much (see Einstein&#x2
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by prawks 12y ago
Indeed, they've received very positive critical reception. Having played a handful of them, they're very well produced and pretty decently written as well. The genre is definitely not gone, just not in the mainstream.
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by prawks 12y ago
I suspect that's how it came to be chosen at my alma mater. Lots of theory-heavy professors. Was a great experience learning in Scheme, btw.
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by prawks 12y ago
Seconded, although they're rarely as concise as xkcd.
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by prawks 12y ago
Speaking as someone with minimal 4chan experience, /b/ is probably not "the good bits," but is only a subset of the rest of the site. There is often good discussion on music and movies, for instance.
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by prawks 12y ago
With seemingly more emphasis being placed on complex pub-sub architectures, has there been any equivalent development of tooling to assist in visualizing/grokking an existing pub-sub application? In my experience at least, pub-sub arch
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by prawks 12y ago
"add___" might imply mutation of the stream, which it seems to me (just reading this tut for the first time) isn't the mindset the framework wants you to be in.
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Aereo CEO and Founder on United States Supreme Court Decision(blog.aereo.com)
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by prawks 12y ago
I like this description. I don't know that you need to explain hashing to laymen, though. Hand-waving is acceptable when communicating to people who aren't skeptics (laymen). If they're really interested in fact-checking you,
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by prawks 12y ago
Sounds very similar to the things I've done with web.py in Python-land. Very small, lightweight services that had no need for the power of Django. One such example was a GET/POST/DELETE service to vote on submitted items (ide
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by prawks 12y ago
Agreed, it sounds like this game breeds interesting stories.
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by prawks 12y ago
It sounds like "fun" to me. I think that's something that Snapchat was able to capture very well, and it looks like Slingshot is looking to actually improve on. It's just plain fun to see what your friends are all up t
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by prawks 12y ago
"Senior Code Janitor" would be a fun title to hold.
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by prawks 12y ago
But if you don't shuffle you get the same ordering of songs every time (which bugs me, at least).
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by prawks 12y ago
> EcoSpheres have an average life expectancy of two years. Very interesting, I had thought they were sustainable for much longer than that. I suppose even the most tightly controlled starting conditions will lead to unpredictable results
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by prawks 12y ago
Bluetooth (at least in my experience with XBox 360 controllers) introduces a larger amount of input lag than wired controllers. This is important for FPS and other twitch games.
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by prawks 12y ago
I wasn't presenting the be-all, end-all criteria for determining which features to implement, just that there needs to be one in order to make a decision. Your example is likely better, and I'm sure Microsoft's taskbar team u
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by prawks 12y ago
You need some sort of cost/benefit to go off of to make decisions on which features get included and which get cut. One way: consider how many Windows users would switch OS's or not chose a Windows computer as their next purchase
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by prawks 12y ago
It could match on c1, but I believe since most (all?) regex parsers parse left-to-right, it will match the a, look for another a-z character or a digit, find b, repeat, find c, then find 1 which completes the pattern.
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by prawks 12y ago
Plus, Gamecube controllers are very well designed, especially for people with smaller hands.
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by prawks 12y ago
Still makes a similar OCD remark in the image halfway down the page. Not to nitpick :P
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by prawks 12y ago
It's very angular and bold, which I agree is unusual considering their goals and message. First thing I thought of for some reason when I saw the images of people with the logo imposed over them was a company similar to BP. Not 100% su
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by prawks 12y ago
The FIFA equivalent (which was how I learned the game with my roommate who was very good at it) is that the more skilled person picks a lower-ranked team and the new player gets their pick of any team. The difference in maneuverability betw
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by prawks 12y ago
> You're pretty much SOL if you can't find a replacement quick. Everyone who seriously considers moving mission-critical software or infrastructure to the cloud should (if they don't already) have a contingency plan at the
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by prawks 12y ago
Any examples of isolation of small groups? Sounds like it would make a fascinating case study.
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by prawks 12y ago
One alternative take on it is that being continually engrossed with what you're doing can often stave off biological needs like food and sleep. When I was younger and would indulge in quite a lot of video games, there were nights where
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by prawks 12y ago
I always find it awesome that setbacks in science are considered "exciting" and not "disappointing". I think it speaks volumes about our pursuit of scientific knowledge.

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