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by tomku 14y ago
As a programmer, I wouldn't fund it. However, it might appeal to people who want to become programmers and don't know about the alternatives.
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It's probably not a good idea to use a "popular game character" in your example images, even if you don't name him. The sprite itself is copyrighted by Nintendo, and using it in your game like that is probably not going to fall under fair
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Engineers have a tendency to view everything as an engineering problem, when most of the "really hard" problems are about people, interactions and relationships. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail - and we have an
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Bitcoin seems to be teaching people exactly what they wanted to believe in the first place, what a coincidence!
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This is nonsense. Do you need the courts to tell you that you shouldn't be playing Angry Birds while driving, or posting on Facebook (it's technically not texting!), or reading your email? It's common sense that if something needs your atte
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by tomku 14y ago
I can understand the argument for supporting AAVE in schools, but at the same time, I strongly feel that this kind of split is exactly what leads to less diversity and more segregation in the long run. In an ideal world, we'd all be neutra
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Many of us are hesitant to join in discussions like this, because the narrative is dominated by people who have clearly either never used Win8 or had decided that they would hate it based on ideological grounds (ZOMG MS TURNING MAH PC INTO
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No, square brackets in Clojure are vector literals. They are equivalent in Racket, though.
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For most people, fsck and filesystems that rely on fsck are a known quantity. They understand that a filesystem does what it can to keep itself consistent, but that sometimes outside assistance is necessary in the form of fsck. When you s
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The headline is entirely speculation. The article itself is heavy on the ideology and light on facts. Edit: The edited headline is STILL inaccurate. It's not a "law proposal". It's one tax lawyer's speculation.
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Skim the IE stuff, and use the book as a reference manual if you need to implement cross-browser functionality yourself. It's important to have a general idea about what won't work if you need to support IE in the future, but you don't nee
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If you spend a lot of time making a good deck full of programming language facts, I'm sure that it works well enough. I don't think that it's any kind of substitute for sitting down and coding. I think that the core issue is that there ar
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SemVer is great for versioning APIs and the libraries that expose them, but very poor for versioning complex user-facing apps that are composed of many parts. Do you increment the major version when you have a backwards-incompatible change
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It's also worth noting that most current MOOCs were designed and implemented before there was any chance of getting college credit through their platform. Many of them chose to dilute their content in order to make it more approachable, an
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My impression of it is that it's a front-end MVC library that's patterned more after the traditional MVC used in desktop/mobile apps than the Rails-style MVC that's ubiquitous on the server.
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You chose to respond to the tone of the post while ignoring the content, while simultaneously claiming that you aren't actually responding. That's both annoyingly passive-aggressive and exactly the opposite of what the Discourse guidelines
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I can't help but feel that you're doing an excellent job of proving that a single short, civil post can do more damage to the community than any amount of slight sarcasm. If "absolute civility at all costs" is the basis for Discourse, I'd
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The problem is that he did respond, to tell the user that they were too uncivil to deserve a more helpful response. Not responding at all would've been completely understandable, for all the reasons you gave.
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I truly believe that you had good intentions posting that, but what you said makes it look like you're prioritizing being the civility police higher than helping a frustrated user.
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Crunchyroll[1] is the big name in streaming nowadays, and they simulcast a substantial portion of each season. Funimation licenses for retail, simulcast and library streaming, and I believe they do their streaming via Hulu. Anime on Deman
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by tomku 14y ago
I think your knowledge might be a little outdated. Now that streaming (and less frequently, retail) rights are being sold before the shows even air, there's very little mid-season dropping due to licensing - the groups that sub airing show
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Paying them yourself isn't enough when it comes to file lockers. Their goal is to get not only the original uploaders paying to keep their files online, but also some percentage of downloaders as well. That's why sites like this have coun
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It's important to remember that the business model of file locker sites like RapidShare and Mega is to convince you to upload your files to their site so that they can monetize access to them. Your access as the original uploader is no exc
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I tried Feedly after posting that, and I don't like the minimalist styling of both the web app and the Android app. I could probably get used to it, but I think I'm happier with Newsblur for the moment. I'll keep an eye on Press's plans,
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The article makes mentions mobile clients, but could anyone here give a slightly more mobile-centric review of the alternatives? Since I've gotten a Nexus 7, I've found myself using the Google Reader Android app rather than the web app, an
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I get the impression that most or all of his sales were due to the "controversy" surrounding the C&D letter from Jack Daniels. He got a bunch of short-term publicity from that, and the book's popularity faded along with the media hype.
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The difference between his book and "Gone Girl" or "Fifty Shades of Grey" is that he sold a couple thousand copies in a week and dropped off the radar, while those books are numbers 12 and 9 on the list almost 9 months later. Being a best-
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I don't have JoC 2e yet, but I've read several other Manning books (including the first edition of JoC) on my e-ink Kindle and they looked good. You lose a little formatting and sometimes particularly wide tables or code samples get screwe
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Seems like they've had a recent push to do MEAPs in ePub/Mobi as well. Out of the 10 MEAPs I'm following at the moment (addict ;;), eight have full PDF/ePub/Mobi and two are only available as PDF.
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Joy of Clojure is about understanding the philosophy of Clojure, and using the language's built-in abstractions in an idiomatic way. It's not really a "first book on Clojure" for someone that doesn't know the language at all, but if you kn

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