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by stratospark 16y ago
If you want a more "guided" approach to Python webdev, try looking into Django. There's a large community that has built up around it contributing tons of plugins. I say this as someone who is working on a Pylons site. You can do anything w
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by stratospark 16y ago
Great username. Did you get that from a book?
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by stratospark 16y ago
I wonder if it's a beneficial thing to add extrinsic motivation to view a work of art. Shouldn't most of the value come from the work itself? I imagine some people thinking: "This show sucks, but if I watch 3 more seasons I can get the badg
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by stratospark 16y ago
So would be allowed on iOS given the 3.3.1 clause forbidding alternative languages?
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by stratospark 16y ago
Having read Carr's book, he also mentions the fact that so much of our social lives has found its way online, that people can feel disconnected if they're away from their Facebook, or Twitter stream, or IM, or on demand email. You're point
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by stratospark 16y ago
By definition, these bio hackers will come up with things that are literally life changing. The modern computing era started out with hobbyists, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs some of the most famous examples. This started less than four decades
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by stratospark 16y ago
Disney has made a fortune modernizing classic fairy tales. The reason that such tales have lasted so long in our shared culture is that people have been free to evolve them into their own works. Who gave Disney permission to create stories
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by stratospark 16y ago
View the Javascript source: function convertLatLngToPx(lat, lng)
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by stratospark 16y ago
Definitely learn Javascript, it's the language of client side web (becoming more popular on the server side with projects such as node.js). It only gets more interesting as browsers become more capable (local storage, WebGL, web workers, et
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by stratospark 16y ago
Your mom was teaching you more about responsibility than anything else.
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by stratospark 16y ago
I think it's more like both sites have passionate users. Good for everyone.
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by stratospark 16y ago
There are some good slides about this: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBayAreaErlangFact...
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by stratospark 16y ago
Facebook developed the Thrift API to facilitate cross-language services: http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ I imagine they could use anything as long as it consumes Thrift. The extent to which they do that is a question.
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by stratospark 16y ago
What do you think about all of those other IDEs? Did you learn anything from using them? I'm sure you found things you liked and other things that you hated. The key is, did you take something away from the experience that you can apply to
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by stratospark 16y ago
Every tool is an extension of the human mind. Play an instrument, drive a car, swing a bat... Sure you're using your fingers, legs, and arms, but once your mind adapts, you're thinking and reacting more directly about the new inputs and out
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by stratospark 16y ago
Watch out for the carpal tunnel.
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by stratospark 16y ago
Carbon tablet? Hasn't updated to Cocoa yet? =)
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by stratospark 16y ago
A recording of a song, performance, or play is totally different from the real live thing. Recorded media is just over a century old (excluding books). Creativity flourished in the past, it will continue to do so in the future. Perhaps we c
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by stratospark 16y ago
The 20th century is considered the most violent century in terms of sheer number. Death rates are a weird thing to think about in per capita terms. If you look at it that way, then an individual life is worth less now than it used to be. Wh
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by stratospark 16y ago
Interesting, but unusable on my Macbook at around 1 FPS. I'm hoping WebGL + V8 Javascript is successful in bringing 3d innovation to the web.
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by stratospark 16y ago
I'll need to take another look at Hawkins book. In any case, Kurzweil is promoting the idea we can have AI equivalent to human intelligence in a few decades.
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by stratospark 16y ago
I've skimmed through that book and looked at the API over at Numenta: http://www.numenta.com/ . They are focused on practical pattern recognition applications. Kurzweil has always been about strong AI and almost sci-fi type scenarios in h
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by stratospark 16y ago
Right, the idea is to transition newer JVM languages in. A lot of legacy code would be in Java, so the Scala or Clojure interop would let them build on top of all that. Maybe start with a more or less self-contained component, like a web se
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by stratospark 16y ago
PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
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by stratospark 16y ago
Java the language is stagnating, but the JVM ecosystem is stronger than ever. Attract some smart folk with Scala or Clojure, chances are good that they know Java as well.
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by stratospark 16y ago
Emacs 23 has anti-aliasing. http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/01/emacs-23.html
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by stratospark 16y ago
Try "The Concentration City" by J.G. Ballard. Fire and brimstone may be a lesser hell.
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by stratospark 17y ago
Sorry, but your reasoning is just plain wrong in a number of ways. I saw news about plans for Creative Suite being able to export to HTML5 months ago. Adobe knows that that Flash is going to lose market share, they're smart enough to see th
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by stratospark 17y ago
I'm currently refreshing myself on linear algebra by going through his book and video lectures. It's making a lot more sense to me this time around. I think watching him go through his thought process on the board cements the reasoning in m