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by rchowe 16y ago
I took the AP computer science exam without any prep and got a 5. The issue is that classes aren't offered at the Honors level if there's an AP class that could replace it, and for the classes I'm taking (AP Stats, Psych, Physics, Calc, Eng
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by rchowe 16y ago
I'm currently a high school student taking five AP classes, and I can tell you that most of my AP classes just teach what people need to know on the AP test. I'd much rather take an Honors class than an AP class, but at my school Honors cla
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by rchowe 16y ago
What Git really needs is a few tools like Versions and Cornerstone were for SVN: simple apps that didn't require any command line use at all. Git Tower might be there, but I haven't used it so I can't say that 100%.
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by rchowe 16y ago
You actually can change the trackpad scrolling back; it's just under the appearance prefpane rather than the trackpad prefpane.
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by rchowe 16y ago
Open source no, but Google Apps does this very well, including sending email invitations to people not also using Google Calendar.
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by rchowe 16y ago
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10013322-37.html Supposedly there is some sort of kill switch functionality in the iOS app store, and I haven't heard about copyright infringement to the level of taking someone else's game and redistribu
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by rchowe 16y ago
Apple's response when they decide to take it down will be the interesting part. We'll find out if there is a kill switch or blacklist in the mac app store.
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by rchowe 16y ago
It takes a few clicks just to find out the technical details of how it does things, as soon as I clicked on the "solutions" tab chrome alerted me that the page contained some elements that were insecure and turned the https text in the loca
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by rchowe 16y ago
Well, what this means is that they expect the bump they get from being listed in the app store over using web apps to be pretty significant (which I believe it will be too).
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by rchowe 16y ago
Google already has some great native apps (the google app and google voice for iPhone). They seem to only use native apps in cases where some functionality isn't available in the browser, e.g. push notifications or accelerometer control and
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by rchowe 16y ago
Nokia makes a lot of phones. I think it's going to be Android, simply because of the hardware requirements imposed by WP7 would mean that Nokia's large amount of phones worldwide would all have to meet a fairly high bar, which isn't going t
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by rchowe 16y ago
I think that with the number of children who have internet, paying simply isn't an option. Before I had a credit card, I would have to have an awkward conversation with my parents about what I wanted to buy and why. If the abilities for chi
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by rchowe 16y ago
Heroku will probably still have the advantage of being git-based. I doubt Amazon will support git with beanstalk. Now, Amazon may start siphoning off python users that switched to rails just to use Heroku.
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by rchowe 16y ago
But aside from vacuuming up some talent, Microsoft Research isn't going to be a part of any startup or VC's equation.
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by rchowe 16y ago
The thing about WPF apps is that none of visual studio, expression blend, or the zune client use a standard windows UI – cocoa makes it fairly easy to create an app that looks like xcode, and WPF seems that it makes it easy to style control
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by rchowe 16y ago
The HIG is dead (at least according to gruber http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/uniformity_vs_individualit... ).
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by rchowe 16y ago
Pity there isn't an RSS feed.
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by rchowe 16y ago
The risk that they're taking in consumer apps is the games market -- existing games won't work (although arm isn't that popular for gamers anyway), so it's a kind of chicken-or-egg problem as to getting games developed for that platform. I'
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by rchowe 16y ago
I'm surprised he chose a 1TB drive for backup over a year of online backup - a physical drive fails a lot more easily than a company whose sole purpose is backing up your data, and if he/she already has a computer that has a disk of a size
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by rchowe 16y ago
I suspect this is because the algorithm measures word use and not grammar. HN tends to have people who follow the "simple is better" mantra and who write in a tone similar to either an executive summary or an online dialog, thus an accessib
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by rchowe 16y ago
More likely the software engineers were only moderately versed in chemistry (in a didn't do it since high school/college way) and just doubled the atomic number to get the atomic weight, not realizing that for heavier elements more neutrons
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by rchowe 16y ago
Prefixing attributes is the preferred W3C way to implement nonstandard attributes, which in my opinion is probably the right way to go, because it means there won't ever be a case where two attributes named the same mean totally different t
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by rchowe 16y ago
The question is, are you going to be using your GUI in addition to or instead of the command line. GitX fits into my thinking as a supplement to the command line (I'd never create a repository or commit with it, I just look at the graph and
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by rchowe 16y ago
I don't know, what he seems to want to do can be expressed in haskell as doesFileExist "file" >>= \exists -> if exists then ... else ... When he writes (do (>>= ... in his lisp example I don't th
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by rchowe 16y ago
You can view apps online.
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iOS is more polished and has more room for actual design. Android is a drastic improvement on what was running on smartphones before, but the built-in UI doesn't have the same fit and finish as the iPhone UI. For example, look at the iPhone
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by rchowe 16y ago
It's not hard to make an app, but it's very hard to make a great app. Most devs obsess about design the same way designers do and most designers can't code very well.
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by rchowe 16y ago
I never said it was going to do any better.
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I'd argue that if the competitors didn't have Android, the tablets would just run on x86 processors. And run either windows or linux. I believe that the presence of ARM early in this market is actually good on the OS side, because it doesn'
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by rchowe 16y ago
The first thing I thought of was this: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

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