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by teyc 13y ago
Here's an anectode in support of Excel. My 12 y.o. son was doing a project on seasons and climates, and he asked me whether it rains more in cold weather. And he gave me a certain line of reasoning. Since real teaching moments can be h
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by teyc 13y ago
Java was invented as a full fledged vm with libraries that provide disk access, start and stop processes, taking screenshots etc. In contrast, Javascript didn't even have these ideas. The only file access it has are through APIs like r
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by teyc 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment. The swing over to statically typed high-performance languages have come at the expense of being able to experiment and play with a system.
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by teyc 13y ago
Forcing is not the right word. The arc of learning music is like any other. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/the-startup-curve.html There is initial novelty, then it wears off, and you hit the through of sorro
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by teyc 13y ago
They also have very little marketing budget, and then when used was spent ineffectively. Apple reportedly lavished 700m on advertising the iPhones teaching people how to use it. Not only that, Apple figured out how to get free press for the
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by teyc 13y ago
it's cheaper than most per-seat licensing schemes.
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by teyc 13y ago
Peter Baskerville has the most detailed coffee writeups on Quora http://www.quora.com/Coffee/What-are-some-tips-for-making-a-...
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by teyc 13y ago
This is business. Microsoft would do exactly the same if the situation was reversed.
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by teyc 13y ago
For any detractors of Excel and Access, I've news for you: "Software is eating up programmers" Programming as a fundamental activity, simply doesn't scale. The level of training required to get competent requires many ye
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by teyc 13y ago
A plane with auto-pilot may be still a plane, but the pilot's ability has been heavily augmented. Incidentally, I spoke to a guy who had been developing Java on EMACs for 12 years. He tried Eclipse a month ago and was won over. Large l
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by teyc 13y ago
yes, thanks!
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by teyc 13y ago
Modern IDEs are not text editors. They are heavily augmented with syntax highlighting, completion, code-folding, refactoring, squiggly red lines. This requires an IDE understanding your language and is effectively parsing the tokens as you
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by teyc 13y ago
There's an Australian company who's got a land based positioning technology. It does not rely on satellites and I think it holds a lot of promises especially for airports.
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by teyc 13y ago
This is classic disruption at work. There are many procedures e.g. cataract surgery costs have come down but they are such cash cows that the prices were held high. India is doing this because skills can scale if there is a system of traini
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by teyc 13y ago
I'm astounded. Is this really a web-app. Did you roll your own client-side framework? My mind is blown. And there are rulers as well?! Where did you learn to code like this?
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by teyc 13y ago
Enginetron looks like the better approach compared to Neon Control Panel http://neonpanel.com/ which is a ground up rewrite of a control panel for nginx. Incidentally, what the general value of these control panels? Isn&#x
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by teyc 13y ago
I wonder if it is feasible to hide messages in spam. e.g. pretend that your machine is spewing out ads when it is sending messages. It probably one of the first things that will get filtered out by the NSA.
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by teyc 13y ago
The IE box model actually made for sense if you wanted your fluid layout to look good.
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by teyc 13y ago
This article misses the overall value of teamwork and devalues face-to-face communication. Talk to other professions and see if people work this way. Do doctors work on their own if they encounter something they don't know? How about e
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by teyc 13y ago
This is so timely for me. Thanks. Do you do credit card only? What about recurring charges?
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by teyc 13y ago
A BetterPlace is an infrastructure company rather than an IP company. The odds are never good in the first place, and I wondered who'd actually invest in this thing. It didn't take long and it looks like the Israel Corp - who owns 28% - is
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by teyc 13y ago
CSV isn't standardized. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Lack_of_... There are a lot of questions regarding use of quotation, new lines etc. JSON's standard is that it should be able to be eval'd by javascript interpret
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by teyc 13y ago
Parse is a distraction for FB. You are not even in the same business. Regardless of what you say, you are unable to override the CEO if or when he decides that Parse is to be shut down. The alternatives are more appealing because their busi
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by teyc 13y ago
The figure was negative 0.1 percent (contraction) vs 2.2 percent (growth). Furthermore, Reinhart and Rogoff were careful to not link correlation with causation. Neither should we.
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by teyc 14y ago
Taking inspiration from Star Trek, a new impact factor could be invented to teleport the reputation of a known publication to an alternate publication based on the editorial board. If the board of mathematics reviewers agree to move their e
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by teyc 14y ago
Summly as a technology play is only moderately interesting. What I suspect though is Yahoo desperately needs new users. We know that most Yahoo visitors use Yahoo out of habit from the 90s. Where are the new users? Having a young man with p
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by teyc 14y ago
Just like one can have safe_parse() and unsafe_parse(), there could be an elevated API that could be safely used when vetted. For instance, when the SMTP server rejects a request it could put it in a special queue which requires manual conf
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by teyc 14y ago
A modern mail server should have features to prevent too many users from being present in the To: field. This will also prevent a lot of the Reply All problems we see regularly. This can be implemented as part of a Quota management system.
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by teyc 14y ago
This guy should give a TED talk.
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by teyc 14y ago
How can this ever be a good fit? MailBoxApp is a radical take on email while DropBox is gunning for the main stream.

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