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by steverb 15y ago
--John Lennon
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by steverb 15y ago
Very cool. Thanks!
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by steverb 15y ago
Slightly OT Is there an open source platform similar to DotCloud/Heroku? We really need something just like this for our private/internal use. Or alternatively, does anyone license such a thing? I'm sure I could find the $ for the right pro
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by steverb 15y ago
I'm getting flashbacks from the heyday of CD-ROM publishing. I suspect the end story will be the same.
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by steverb 15y ago
The solution is on that page although the way the puzzle is worded on xkcd is better I think. The key piece that xkcd adds is that each islander keeps a count of how many people of what eye color he/she sees. It's easier if we assume there
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by steverb 16y ago
To paraphrase Erasmus: In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a super-hero.
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by steverb 16y ago
Oddly enough, the microwave is the least used appliance in our kitchen. If it weren't for the fact that they are so cheap now as to be virtually free we probably wouldn't have one. When the iPad gets to that same price point we'll probably
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by steverb 16y ago
I think it is under-rated as well, and I'll buy one as soon as they get one on Verizon. But I still don't know any non-developers that have one, and only a few of those.
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by steverb 16y ago
Wow. I'm surprised that WP7 has 10%. I still haven't seen one in the wild except in the hands of developers.
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by steverb 16y ago
I suspect you may come to regret posting that.
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by steverb 16y ago
It wasn't a troll, but you're correct. The word order apparently caused my brain to spasm.
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by steverb 16y ago
Who is a subjective pronoun. Whom is an objective pronoun. First hit off the Google: http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html Doesn't matter really, just made my brain twitch when I read it.
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by steverb 16y ago
I can't decide if the "Whom" in the title is a troll or not. At least the article gets it right.
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by steverb 16y ago
Looks interesting. We're doing something similar for internal development. My only question is how well does the suto generating of client libraries work?
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by steverb 16y ago
I don't think MS ever bought into it. I think MS realized that what Apple had been saying about Cut/Paste and multi-tasking was true. They're hard problems to solve on a small touch interface. MS chose to release earlier without those featu
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by steverb 16y ago
Having done both iOS and WP7 development I will tell you that I found WP7 enormously easier to develop for. If you can handle writing a Silverlight app, then you can program for WP7 with no problem. I have not written any games for either p
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by steverb 16y ago
You version. Move the old version to url/oldversionnumber and tell that client that they can keep using the same old same old at that url.
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by steverb 16y ago
True. Which is why the Netflix app is basically just an HTML app with a thin native wrapper. When native means only iOS then it make sense to just write a native version instead of a mobile web app, but when it means having to write a versi
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by steverb 16y ago
Lord, I'm old. Don't know when that happened.
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by steverb 16y ago
Might work. They all have USB sticks to keep their stuff on.
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by steverb 16y ago
By hand. Can't really install anything on the computers, and I'm old school like that. Plus, most tool produced html makes me throw up a little.
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by steverb 16y ago
One hour a week until the end of the school year. I figured I couldn't REALLY complain about what the kids are learning in computer class if I'm not willing to help fix it. I like your idea.
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Ask HN: Teaching Web Development to Middle Schoolers
7 points by steverb 16y ago|9 comments
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by steverb 16y ago
I agree with your assessment, but it is an interesting try at presenting the information, and the linked png did at least have template for a link to the plain text version.
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by steverb 16y ago
Or yourself. Stitches aren't that hard to do. If you can get a hold of a medical stapler they're even easier.
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by steverb 16y ago
They do. It's brilliant, because you pay a surcharge to participate in the buy back program when you buy the device, and when you bring it back in, they give you store credit for the trade in value.
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by steverb 16y ago
Principle of Least Astonishment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment Applies to code every bit as much as UI.
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by steverb 16y ago
They are separate. Yes, the UI and the service both validate the data, but they do it for different reasons. One is concerned with the user experience, and the other is concerned with data validity. There may be some functional duplication
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by steverb 16y ago
We've taken the view that the server side code and the client side UI are two different applications and should be developed as such. We write all the server side stuff as "REST-like" web services and then use whatever makes sense for the U
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by steverb 16y ago
http://bugs.jquery.com/milestone/1.5

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