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by tsurantino 14y ago
Based on the comments I've read and reading a bit of the preview - I am curious as to how polished this version is. I'm hesitant in buying the paperback copy especially, if there are errors. Otherwise, this looks incredible. Exactly what I'
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South Korea Elects First Female President(theglobeandmail.com)
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by tsurantino 14y ago
While it's good that building technology is becoming so much more accessible at a young age, you can see the ramifications and consequences of funding this early when the entrepreneur in question says that he doesn't really know how to buil
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I think this is really a consequence of the effect that Facebook is having on the web. Facebook is a looming spectre of sorts. Normally, we would use a web browser/computer to view the web and network, but Facebook has such a broad mission
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by tsurantino 14y ago
One thing that has been really interested about the discussion of social logins has been the re-emerging critical outlook on online identity. I think that social logins are a double-edged sword, where they give us the ability to easily conn
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by tsurantino 14y ago
Learn both. A lot of people say Ruby & Python are very similar, I disagree. They are similar in that, they look at similar problems (domains - although Python is applied in much greater variety by its community, ie. sciences, web, gui,
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I like how this happens after his reddit IAmA where he espoused in a specific answer that he would work in the interests of internet users to maintain a free internet and not enact, support or enforce policies/legislature of this nature. Th
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by tsurantino 14y ago
The only real problem with this website is the navigation. I usually just get very lost on which parts of the site I am on because there is very little of indication of such info. Other than that, this site seems pretty neat!
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by tsurantino 14y ago
Not frantically keeping up with all the blogs/sites that I would read, and not force myself to comment regularly. I eventually realized that it's impossible for me to be a catalogue/archive of the latest news (it's like swimming upstream),
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by tsurantino 14y ago
It's not donations that are meant to sustain open source software. The idea is that it is not the software itself that is meant to sustain itself (because information ought to be free) but rather things like support, maintenance and other t
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I don't think there needed to be so many bullet points to explain why the adoption of Linux as a desktop operating system has been extraordinarily slow and generally unsuccessful. In my opinion, it would fall under these two reasons 1) The
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by tsurantino 14y ago
The site is incredible. I love the design and the extraordinary simplicity in functionality. To make a side comment, this seems like an ideal MVP. It gets all the core functionality well-implemented, with enough polish to make it captivatin
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I like how from 1980 to 1981 it was not Microsoft but really a front for Metallica to make it's big step in disrupting the corporate technology industry.
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How The Navy Taught How a Computer Works (1962)(youtube.com)
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How Powerful is Facebook's Advertising? (Infographic)(facebook.com)
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by tsurantino 14y ago
It's an extraordinary improvement. Does anyone know if it was written in native Objective-C or if this is a very optimized HTML5 version (or hybrid, like the LinkedIn app)
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by tsurantino 14y ago
The argument is that Amazon controls 30% currently, so 70% is "fair game". It's a pretty weak argument considering that Amazon has the infrastructure muscle out someone like Bufferbox, if there is no distinct competitive advantage for the s
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I think it would make so much more sense if they just said "From now on, FreshBooks does cloud accounting." Yeesh. Good on them though - it is quite a feat to break the stranglehold on that industry. They struggled a lot, and it paid off.
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I don't understand why Facebook got rid of so many features that made Facebook as targeted as it was. For example, I'm in university right now and I would love to have a course application that was in one of those powerpoint slides. Instead
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I'm curious. Zed Shaw writes that forcing beginners to learn these things without having them critically approach the alternatives is equivalent to indoctrination. IE. Python coders "must" write explicit code (although they have the means t
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by tsurantino 14y ago
.each as a concept of "iteration" is transferrable, no? Also, I think there are some serious consequences when programming is taught in such a "diluted" way. As a programmer who is constantly learning new concepts/languages, I am continuall
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I just spent the last two weeks learning the Ruby language (but I come from other programming languages). I'd argue that learning .each vs. normal looping has numerous benefits. First, this is the way most people loop most things in Ruby. M
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I also forgot to mention - one might also make the argument that you are more likely to "own" your identity through anonymous registration (vs. Facebook/Twitter/Google). I'm not sure how valid that is - or whether that's even appropriate fo
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Founder of 4chan on the importance of your online identity (2011)(youtube.com)
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Ask HN: Anonymous vs. real identities for your communities?
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Implementing a command that I've always typed: gti(github.com)
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I don't know if red herring would be the way to call it, but the general summation that the "success" of App.net is due to marketing (particularly the out-pouring of Dalton Caldwell to the internet masse) is spot on. Most people, especially
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by tsurantino 14y ago
For a commercial application, you use .NET with either Winforms, or if you are looking for something more flexible & sophisticated, WPF.
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by tsurantino 14y ago
I like how in their first chalkboard mock-up "Oldmail" looks identical to Gmail.
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Darpa extinguishes fire with sound.(noisemademedoit.com)
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