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by spoondan 16y ago
It's now deployed in most if not all California State Universities. Most of the CSU campuses are still using Blackboard. MOODLE is used by around 6 of the 23 campuses and is being piloted by a few others.
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by spoondan 16y ago
If you must conclude that every public speaker who is visibly nervous and unpolished is a liar, you should avoid tech conferences.
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by spoondan 16y ago
That's his point: the vast majority of Android distributions are likely to be binaries installed on devices, not source distributions including the allegedly infringing code. This changes the discussion at least with respect to Oracle's rem
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by spoondan 16y ago
How do you assess your effectiveness at proofreading your own code? I know that I find more mistakes in my code when time reveals the code as it is rather than as it was intended . But I can't say this makes me good enough at proofread
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by spoondan 16y ago
I like Gruber, but he's almost insufferable on issues like these. These questions are "simple" in the least flattering sense. Let's dispatch them: If H.264 support is being removed to “enable open innovation”, will Flash Player support be
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The Problem with Home (on Mobile Devices)(azarask.in)
5 points by spoondan 16y ago|0 comments
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by spoondan 16y ago
It being used makes it a word. Words get added to dictionaries often. Where do you think they came from to begin with?
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by spoondan 16y ago
Why aren't these LINK tags with appropriate REL extensions?
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by spoondan 16y ago
Lucene is great but I wish schemas were an optional part of Solr. They add complexity and take away flexibility. If you have a photo database where you want searchable metadata describing the subject of the photographs, you can do this easi
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Chromeless: Build your own browser(mozillalabs.com)
80 points by spoondan 16y ago|16 comments
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by spoondan 16y ago
The feature isn't bad, but there are several warts. The '$' is not a prefix operator on strings. The following is a syntax error: $"test"; It turns out that '$' can only operate on an identifier or another '$' expression. The '${..
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by spoondan 16y ago
I'm annoyed by the belief that consistency is ipso facto good. Consistency is a tool for attacking a particular type of problem. Consistency for its own sake will often make things worse. I see this fallacious reasoning all the time in de
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by spoondan 16y ago
No, actually, it is not, and you surely know this. People may be asymptomatic yet still have an illness. People may have all of the symptoms of a particular illness and yet not have it. And lists of symptoms are not (cannot truly be) exhaus
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by spoondan 16y ago
No. Consider these as symptoms. A cough is neither necessary nor sufficient to prove you have a cold. You may have a cold without a cough; you may have a cough without a cold. Yet, you wouldn't assert that a cough is a useless piece of evid
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by spoondan 16y ago
The list consists of signs that indicate when you might want to evaluate the basis of your opinions. It is not claimed that the list items, taken individually or collectively, are necessary or even sufficient for self-identifying your biase
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by spoondan 16y ago
I missed this reply, but in case you come back to see it: the common approach to this issue is denormalization. That is, instead of needing to join comments to todo items to todo lists to get the project_id, you duplicate the project_id on
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by spoondan 16y ago
You may need to spell out what you're trying to say. Why should one expect the spending per student to decrease solely (or even primarily) as subsidies decrease? Aren't tuition and enrollment far more important?
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by spoondan 16y ago
Calling TechCrunch's reporting a "bullshit superangel conspiracy theory" is, if nothing else, a prime example of defensiveness.
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by spoondan 16y ago
I'd say Coi, Quince, and Kokkari. There's also One Market, Boulevard, and Perbacco. Really no shortage of fine dining in the area, many of which could easily be "incredible" according to an individual's taste.
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by spoondan 16y ago
Looking at just comments on items in todo lists: comment's have an item_id, items have a list_id, and lists have a project_id. You want to get all comments across all projects a user is a member of, so you end with a small handful of joins.
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by spoondan 16y ago
You're imagining files belong to comments, comments belong to items, items belong to lists, lists belong to projects, and changing the list's foreign key re-parents the whole hierarchy. Now consider that Basecamp allows comments on messages
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by spoondan 16y ago
He's not arguing for URL shorteners to be permitted. He's arguing that the prohibition should be made upfront.
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by spoondan 16y ago
In 1911, Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in radioactivity. Chemistry is the study of matter, as much as (but distinct from) physics.
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by spoondan 16y ago
Belatedly: While "owning a market" is a serviceable definition of a monopoly, it's not what I wrote about and it has no relationship to Apple's position in the smartphone market (or, really, any other market). A "market segment" is not a "m
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by spoondan 16y ago
Could you reduce the noise by having the accumulator ( W in the below) support HTML generation methods? @weby.template() def index(W): with W.html(): with W.head(): W.title('Hello, world')
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by spoondan 16y ago
Winning a particular market segment does not a monopoly make.
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by spoondan 16y ago
I like "queueing" for its long run of vowels. It's not terribly difficult to guess, but does tend to confuse people.
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by spoondan 16y ago
Dragging and dropping files is an interaction that people already know. Nobody needs to "discover" it, they just need to assume it works.
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by spoondan 16y ago
The reporting isn't so bad. But the headline writing is atrocious.
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by spoondan 16y ago
They will if we don't treat them like delicate children. That's abject nonsense. Intentionally offending people doesn't make them grow up. It makes them feel aggrieved.

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