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by rauljara 14y ago
I agree with you that opera should support web sprockets, and I sympathize with web developers making the decision to develop for new technology and browsers that don't support it be damned. But the actual message myspace displays is prett
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Thanks.
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I found "The slow student’s despair" truly uplifting. It applies to so much. I'd love to read the original Koan (Koans?) it was modeled after.
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The "roller coaster" effects in the 3-d view are my favorite. They've got some smoothing algorithm going, or it wouldn't curve the way it does, but the elevation data must not have a high enough resolution. Google has made this sort of thi
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My own experience with watching lectures is that I feel I understand everything as I listen to them, but once a week passes I have trouble explaining anything but the basic gist of what I learned. My experience with assignments is that the
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The BMGF operates through endowment, which a lot of organizations do. Basically, they don't expect many regular small donations (like a lot of smaller charities do), they expect just a couple of very big ones. Because the donations don't
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by rauljara 14y ago
>The person also set up a bit of a race for Romney: first to pay the sum will receive the goods. If the person sent the letter to multiple offices (presumably some democrats) they are guaranteeing that the story gets out. If the story
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by rauljara 14y ago
35K tuition + 15k room and board is not all that pricey for a private school. I work at Notre Dame, where the 50k figure is a couple of years out of date. Goes up 5% each year, like clockwork. Typing that out literally made me nauseous.
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by rauljara 14y ago
So, this is the first I've heard of Google Surveys. Here is Google's information on them: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/how From what I was able to gather, they only ask a participant a single question in exchange to be a
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I updated my profile. Many thanks. You are a scholar and a gentleman.
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Explanation for the site being invite only: "Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems tem
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> The only “best practice” you should be using all the time is “Use Your Brain”. This is true, in that very few best practices are universally applicable and you should never stop thinking. The author is also totally right about people
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> Therefore Ubuntu represents a greater achievement relative to the resources invested than OSX does. Certainly. However, I think most people looking at benchmarks like these are deciding which operating system to actually use. An ent
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Let's say you were a web developer hired to design some part of Apple's website, and by some miracle Apple let you open source your code. You, as a web developer, have no special way to contact or pass information on to Tim Cook, or any ot
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by rauljara 14y ago
"Since the Fukushima meltdown - as a result of which, not a single person is set to be measurably harmed by radiation - we know that nuclear power is safe." It seems to me like the primary danger from radiation like that leaked from Fukushi
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This is by far the most important comment on the page. Very frustrating that, when I read it, it was nowhere near the top.
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To clarify, I don't think my original post implied that you were against teaching people how to learn each. Nor do I want to start out teaching beginning rubyists everything all at once. It was more to point out how important the mindset
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Zed is making a number of points, so I don't want to sound like I'm arguing against all of them. But particularly on the matter of each... if all we were talking about were each I think Zed would have an excellent point. But wrapped up w
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I mostly agree with you in that there are perfectly valid reasons for learning similar languages. The quote is too strong, too absolute. But I still have a weakness for the quote because learning languages that alter your thinking is so m
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Obligatory Project Euler plug whenever anyone posts a collection of puzzles for programmers. http://projecteuler.net These sorts of puzzles are great for when learning a new language. Take a bunch of problems you've already solved in on
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by rauljara 14y ago
I'm someone else who refrains from commenting in order to protect my average karma. The thing is, that it isn't as irrational as you are making it out to be. Posts from users with higher average karma are sorted higher. Presumably you are
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Study: Japan nuclear distaster caused mutated butterflies(worldnews.nbcnews.com)
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This is a really cool concept. And no, I don't know of any other languages that have something like this -- but I'm not convinced it's actually a good thing. Promising to never break old code means that your language can never really fix
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by rauljara 14y ago
The best[1] advertising is the kind that informs people that a solution to their very real problems exists. The worst[1] advertising is the kind that convinces you you have a problem you don't really have. It aims to make unhappy with what
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Note the lack of stretching; it just increases the amount of space in between the rows of icons. I'm kind of sold on the idea that apple is sold on the idea that old apps should work on new screen sizes either without any scaling, or with i
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The course is on how programming languages work. In order for an interpreter/compiler to interpret an programming language it must first parse all of the statements into a parse tree. Lisp is rare among programming languages in that its s
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by rauljara 14y ago
Memrise (under the languages section) is pretty amazing. Or, at least seems amazing from 15 minutes of going through the Chinese stuff. I hate memorizing things, but the interface and visual cues for learning characters, and way they trac
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by rauljara 14y ago
I do think Apple was right to remove support for their crappy reader. In any domain where you have tons of options (like rss readers) I'd rather have no feature than a poorly executed one. No feature means I'll go out and get a good versi
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If you have a full time job, and any pre-existing side projects at all, that is not practical advice. Even if that isn't the case, some people would rather just do one for whatever reason. Everyone has that right. To answer parent's origi
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Going through school, I felt like I received a ridiculous pro-european level of propaganda, as though every innovation that was worth anything came from that continent. And the propaganda worked. Even though I now know better, I am still

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