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Why Smokers Still Smoke(nytimes.com)
37 points by stevekinney 13y ago|60 comments
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by stevekinney 13y ago
I suspect the developers are taking the hit in the name of free publicity. I know that when Marco Arment allowed Apple and Starbucks to give away Instapaper, he didn't receive any compensation. When I saw this link, I expected that App
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by stevekinney 13y ago
Oh yea, it's totally the socialization aspect. There is a similar study (I don't have a link off-hand, but it was something covered at length in an Introduction to Sociology textbook I had years ago) that points out that people in
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by stevekinney 13y ago
I started getting comfortable with Node as a sort of New Year's Resolution and, I have to say, one of my favorite parts has been the helpfulness and openness of the Node community. A few months ago, I pinged Isaac on Twitter for advic
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by stevekinney 13y ago
That's a good point. There was a study back in 2006[1] that showed that people who drank made more money (about 10-14%) at their jobs than non-drinkers and social drinkers. So, it can me argued that drinking may actually help the econo
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Hangovers Cost the Economy $224 Billion, Says CDC(reason.com)
7 points by stevekinney 13y ago|7 comments
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by stevekinney 14y ago
I'll begin with the standard disclaimer that I'm a bit out of touch with the Perl community (but that won't stop me from commenting). Technically, this has been done before with the abandonment of ECMAScript 4 in favor of skipping from ECMA
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by stevekinney 14y ago
As a New York City public school teacher, I am incredibly excited about Clever. When I started working at my current school, we had an "inquiry team", whose job it was to download spreadsheets from the myriad of different services and datab
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by stevekinney 14y ago
That's Clojure (or—in this case—ClojureScript, which compiles down to JavaScript), which is a Lisp derivative that runs on the JVM. http://clojure.org
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by stevekinney 14y ago
Looking over the commands, I thought, "Wow, this is really useful." Then the creeping dread hit. It's the kind of dread that comes along with having worked with computers for a long enough period of time: What happens when the project is ev
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I’m Starting a Programming Camp for Middle and High School Students(stevekinney.net)
2 points by stevekinney 14y ago|0 comments
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by stevekinney 14y ago
The demo shows PHP and the feature list mentions "Improved Ruby," although I am not sure what that means. It's been years since I used Coda and I wasn't doing a lot of hacking back then.
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by stevekinney 14y ago
Direct customers (e.g. not the Mac App Store) can upgrade for $75. Recent purchasers (via the direct channel and after April 10, 2012) can get it for free. In addition, every one can get it for $50 (half-off) for the first 24 hours, which i
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I Suck at Testing(robots.thoughtbot.com)
2 points by stevekinney 14y ago|0 comments
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by stevekinney 14y ago
A quick and thoughtful introduction with links out to other great resources.