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The overall idea is that our educational system was designed for a world that no longer exists and is unsuited for what our world is becoming. Essentially, he's saying that our educational system is designed to produce people that can opera
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I just bought Galcon Fusion ( http://www.galcon.com/fusion/ ) today. I wouldn't have had it not run on Linux.
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It would be very difficult to fit labels in for all of the smaller circles and have this not feel very cluttered. That's another 41 labels that have to go somewhere.
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AutoHotkey ( http://www.autohotkey.com/ ) - It's an extremely powerful, scriptable hotkey application. It's one of the few things I miss on Linux. The other thing I use a lot is VirtualBox, because I can no longer bring myself to do actual
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The point in specifying fonts that you might consider "generic" is visual consistency. Different fonts end up being very different on the screen, and, as a designer, your goal is to make your site look good across browsers and operating sys
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I'm very happy to see programs like this happening and succeeding. My high-school offered college-level courses through a few local universities. Those and the few AP classes my school offered were the only worthwhile classes I took in high
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You can make something beautiful and well-designed without color at all. Black and white can be beautiful. The same cannot be said of typography. And Georgia is actually very readable at small font sizes. It was specifically designed for
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I really don't like this headline. You'll never learn anything if you try to fail. Failure should not be a goal. You are very probably going to fail at some point. It's important not to let the fear of failure prevent you from acting in t
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Thanks for this! I've used 'Better CSS Font Stacks' as my primary reference for a while. It's nice to have another, and it's extremely nice to be able to see some numbers about font presence on OS X/Windows. (Better CSS Font Stacks: http:/
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Once upon a time people felt the need to lobby their government because they were being killed by their medicine. It's easy to paint a rosy picture of our past. Do government regulations go too far some of the time? Definitely. But they do
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"Turning off safe search doesn’t mean, I want to see irrelevant results at the front of my search results." If you went through the trouble to turn off safe search, presumably you don't think that the results there because you turned off s
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I had similar speed issues in an evolutionary computing class last semester. I took it as an opportunity to learn Haskell and Scala, and noticed that in addition to getting dramatic speedups, I also had a lot more fun writing the code in th
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I'm a junior/CS major at Wesleyan University looking for a paid internship in the northeast. My current big project is in Rails, but I'd be happy to be doing pretty much any startup-related development/UI design. (I also know Python/Java we
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The "I find a way to use list comprehensions for everything" Python programmer: def fact(n): return eval('*'.join([str(x+1) for x in xrange(n)] + ['1']))
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In public browsing (in Firefox) I'm unique. In private browsing I'm 1 in ~17000. Interestingly, removing some of the non-standard fonts I have installed made me unique, even in private mode. This surprises me, because I have some pretty unu
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The TN panels they're being compared against there are terrible, though. My Eee (which is otherwise fairly similar: a 10" display at 1024x600) looks fine at those angles. I have seen laptops with displays that are that bad, but it's not t
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For me, too. I learned Scala for a project last semester and named/default arguments were the one thing I missed the most.
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It's not so much that their cost structure has changed--it's that their revenue streams have dried up. Fewer people are reading physical papers, and web ad revenue has been on the decline for the past couple of years. You can't compare the
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I have, yes. Thanks for the link though--I had lost it.
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Not every dollar spent on music is money donated to an evil cause. There are plenty of people making and recording and supporting music who are worth supporting. If you're looking to avoid music released by the RIAA http://www.riaaradar.
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I'll second Intro to Algorithms, which has been mentioned. It's what I used in my algorithms class and it's quite comprehensive. (It will also take you a while to get through.) I've also heard The Algorithm Design Manual recommended, alth
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I like the new site better than the current one, but it still needs work. Some general comments about both: Width: To accommodate (almost) everything, most designers keep things to a maximum width of 960px. Your site is 1100px wide. On most
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That still seems really slow to me. I just tested my Eee, and it was loading in about 2s (in both Firefox and Chrome). Granted, I am in the US right now, and that might be helping, but my connection is not particularly good at the moment ei
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Having Git be a distributed VCS doesn't mean it can't have a centralized server though. If you want you can use Git as something very similar to Subversion--you just lose out on a lot of the nicest parts of Git. I think the biggest challeng
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I think Scala is more of a Java and Haskell/ML love child than anything else. Having used both of those, I found most of Scala pretty easy to pick up. The main thing I found is that there are a lot more syntactic constructions you have to
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I have no need for babysitters, so I can't comment too much on the idea. However, I think you could make it more general (usable for types of jobs other than babysitting) fairly easily too and then it might be more useful to a larger number
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There's a ton of overlap here. 3G (or equivalent) on four devices. (And if you have 3G on four devices, there's absolutely no reason to be paying for mobile WiFi hotspots). And then there are five different services for streaming video. And
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It can be used by another program directly though--it has a command-line interface (decibel-audio-player-remote) that can do remote control, and it can output information about its current status to a text file. (It's not as good as most Un
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This was the first thing I noticed, too. I'd recommend having a 'sign up' link at the top right where the 'sign in' link is--that's where people expect it to be, and that's where they'll look for it.
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My solution is to make my first project in a language too complicated to be able to search around and find code snippets to incorporate. That's not to say I don't spend a ton of time searching around for tutorials or things like that, it's

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