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by thetabyte 14y ago
The good news is, if you're doing Ruby in order to do Rails, there is such a thing. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book (Include every section labeled optional) For general Ruby though, less so. I've heard good thing
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Bruce Schneier: Our Security Models Will Never Work — No Matter What We Do(wired.com)
2 points by thetabyte 14y ago|1 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
Yet, different, and sometimes more complex words can have entirely unlike connotations, that much more effectively describe the message the author is trying to convey. Sometimes, simpler words are just that—too simple to properly describe t
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by thetabyte 14y ago
You can say that again. It was definitely disheartening for peers of mine I knew to be frequent cheaters get accepted into a college I was rejected from. This is made worse by how absolutely rampant it is—to the point the reporting it seeme
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by thetabyte 14y ago
I have to agree with you there. That comes back to the biggest problem when dealing with any group of people: No two people are alike, despite whatever label you give them. There will always be exceptions, and no list of simple statements w
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by thetabyte 14y ago
The list is practically innumerable, but a particularly relevant pair: Trace Wax and Obie Fernandez. They took on a 17 year old intern with no web development experience outside of HTML/CSS, who could only work remotely, from out of state,
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by thetabyte 14y ago
While I agree with you completely, I think what you are saying isn't at odds with what she is saying. While most pieces of writing about getting more women in tech seem to propose the problem as "How to Add Women to Tech", the real issue th
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by thetabyte 14y ago
Sadly, as long as our education system is incredibly test-focused in the push for "teacher accountability", no "soft" curriculum like this will ever be a reality—despite how much better it would be for learning.
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by thetabyte 14y ago
Yeah, I have to give you that, the Finder UX isn't fantastic for moving files around, and I often use the terminal like you. However, I never found Windows Explorer any better. Even on Windows, I wished I had a UNIX terminal to move things
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by thetabyte 14y ago
I myself am rarely in Finder (or Spotlight, for that matter). Alfred ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alfred/id405843582?mt=12 ) has been an absolute dream. I find every program, file, and everything else through Alfred, with just a few ke
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by thetabyte 14y ago
When I switched to Macs, I abandoned the concept of toggling maximization state altogether. Each window gets a workspace, and four fingers in a direction takes me back and forth, or shows me all windows. No toggling, no alt-tabbing, etc. I
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U.S. government invites hackers to work on 'Civic Hacking Day'(news.cnet.com)
1 points by thetabyte 14y ago|0 comments
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Confessions of an ex Geek Squad Agent(tapenoisediary.com)
2 points by thetabyte 14y ago|0 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
The prevalence of #1 on your list (among other reasons) are why I always have and always will believe that improvements to education yield by far the most return on investment vs any other allocation of resources. Improving education throug
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by thetabyte 14y ago
I'm genuinely interested—is this the consensus opinion of most of the developed world outside of the US? I'm a US citizen, and generally consider myself liberal and progressive. I favor much stricter gun control laws. But I'm not sure I do
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by thetabyte 14y ago
I find community proliferation like this very entertaining. People learn to identify so well with one community or its content, that they replicate it inside other communities. For example, I was bemused recently to learn that Reddit has an
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How to make CS courses better(blog.sophiechou.com)
42 points by thetabyte 14y ago|55 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
So, am I the only one who finds Facebook ads...actually kind of good? Sure, they're horrifying in that they have the necessary information to target me that well, but I'll get advertisements for a local comic shop, or for a game that at lea
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Zapd: Social Websites in 60 Seconds From Your Phone(zapd.com)
1 points by thetabyte 14y ago|0 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
I understand that. But not everything the government funds fails. I am instead disproving the case presented to me—the failure of Solyndra is not evidence of a failing government effort.
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by thetabyte 14y ago
I agree. Which is why government making the risky investments that more conservative businesses won't in order to create the empowering innovations that will save our environment and improve our economy is a major positive for me.
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by thetabyte 14y ago
So you're telling me risky investments in possibly revolutionary startups can fail? If we go back to writing by PG, failures like this are proof we are making risky a enough investments to actually make a big difference.
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Reasons Apple has peaked—for real, this time(qz.com)
1 points by thetabyte 14y ago|3 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
Dumb question, as I literally know nothing about stock or savings: isn't it generally a bad idea to put 100% of your long term money in any one place?
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by thetabyte 14y ago
No. No no no. Yes, arithmetic math does benefit from repetition and memorization, is useful, and your comments on why getting good at arithmetic is hard are spot on. But math is so much more than arithmetic. Math is about learning to apply
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FIFA 13 Wii vs FIFA 12 Wii – The shocking truth(nintendo-gamer.net)
2 points by thetabyte 14y ago|0 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
So, I'm at the University of Maryland right now. All three mirrors seem to be down, so I couldn't check if my information was on the list. The article suggests this was done with SQL injection? God, I really hope my university is better tha
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Key set available for $150 on eBay provides an all-access pass to NYC(nypost.com)
40 points by thetabyte 14y ago|16 comments
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by thetabyte 14y ago
"had it certified" Bam. I have no idea quite how intensive the review process is (I'm no Windows programmer, so the requirements don't mean much to me) but any additional barrier is something that holds back the finnicky and decentralized i
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by thetabyte 14y ago
What people here aren't getting with the references to XBox and iOS is that Notch's objections aren't to closed platforms. He objects to PCs as closed platforms . Minecraft was originally an indie game developed for PCs due to their open e

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