walexander

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by walexander 14y ago
The font is basically unreadable for me in chrome.
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by walexander 14y ago
>Last year, these were replaced with "help desks" This was my main problem with IO last year. The informal developer gathering office hours from previous years were the best part of IO. I convinced some colleagues to go last year on the
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by walexander 14y ago
Does anyone know offhand what kind of minimum system requirements this thing has? Is it similar to Firefox OS?
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by walexander 14y ago
Since you seem to be informed about the books out there that are attempting what the OP's book is, what would you suggest in place of it? Seems like even with the problems you've listed, it might still fit a niche that I haven't seen filled
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by walexander 14y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss certifications. Having an A+ cert at least reasonably signifies someone could format a hard drive and install ram. These tests do not have to be on paper alone, either. Look at the CCIE from Cisco. That has
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by walexander 14y ago
No, there are only a million Japanese in America. Also, I highly doubt any Koreans would support removing a monument dedicated to Korean victims of WWII. At 1.3Million, sure, it's possible, but I don't personally think there are enough righ
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by walexander 14y ago
Are non-US citizens allowed to petition on the "We the People" site? The top signed petition here is by some right-wing Japanese history revisionist to remove monuments to Korean sex slaves abused during WWII [1]. Maybe it's a good thing th
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by walexander 14y ago
Does money really have any affect on issues like this? It's great Bezos is taking a stand, but what good will this do? What harm can really be done by Chik-Fil-A's CEO? Here in NC the amendment to ban same sex marriage passed with something
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by walexander 14y ago
Just remove DoD certs from your trust list if you don't want to accept them. This might not be a laymen solution, but it's a very simple procedure in most browsers.
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by walexander 14y ago
I like the informal agile model versus the heavily formal Agile. It's too bad I've never really experienced anything except the latter in practice. Might I ask what tools you guys are using to manage this?
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by walexander 14y ago
Bad advice, in my experience. Anecdotally, I did a website recently for a carpet cleaner. Standard wordpress job with his services and things. At the top of the home page, he wanted a link to a form for redeeming living social coupons, whic
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by walexander 14y ago
>Android is no problem because of the Dalvik byte code engine I work for a device manufacturer that went with Intel for a product - and x86 is a huge problem regardless of Dalvik. The fact is, most popular apps out there, and essentiall
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by walexander 14y ago
> Jedi Knight was my first real exposure to programming. Yeah, I was in middle school at the time. I think between hacking that game, HTML on angelfire, and the TI-83 calculator, my trajectory for life was set.
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by walexander 14y ago
> we're a bit intrigued by the potential for the "Cheaters Pool" to evolve into a new mode of play that some players might actually prefer. Unregulated cheats and hacks led a friend and I to inadvertently invent a proto-minecraft over a
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by walexander 14y ago
This is fairly trivial to break. The number of puzzles are low and they repeat. I could refresh til I get a desired puzzle (shoe matching). Then write a simple cursor controller program (say using Java Robot API). It would scan across the s
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by walexander 14y ago
How is this different from WebEx or any other conferencing service?
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by walexander 14y ago
Absolutely other fields use their "abilities to make their abilities easier". As a coders we live in abstractions and you should be seeing them everywhere. Writers work with words, but some smart writers invented sentences as tools to help
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by walexander 14y ago
> So, to minimize losses caused by piracy, make your movie not suck. Yes, but it doesn't work exactly like that. s/not suck/profitable. This just means that instead of taking chances on a film which is a big risk (think Inception), we w
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by walexander 14y ago
It's very relevant to this particular article because it's nerd linkbait. I, personally, can't see a reason why a CS program would not be a priority for a university. I, personally, am also not an administrator at UF and don't need to have
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by walexander 14y ago
I think this implies "We already can sell Office on x86, but we're not even sure we can sell Windows on ARM".
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by walexander 14y ago
I know I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but... with all the photoshop, comics, and general editorializing on this article, I'm just going to have to wait til someone with a bit more candor decides to write about it.
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by walexander 15y ago
The Turing Test was a very clever way of describing an AI without having to get into dead end philosophical arguments about what is or isn't intelligence (Ants have very complex social structure and engineering abilities - but are they inte
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by walexander 15y ago
I would love to see this guy succeed, but can anyone enlighten me as to why Kickstarter won't allow his project to be funded? His pseudo-kickstart page is unlikely to generate anywhere near the amount of funding it would on the KS site. I'm
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by walexander 15y ago
I actually find issues with the "best" comment sorting, in some cases. I think it generally is the "best" sort, but in very popular posts it tends to break down.I often find comments with 5x or more upvotes buried down below the top few com
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by walexander 15y ago
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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by walexander 15y ago
I'm an emacs coder myself, so I'm wondering.. why no mention of cscope?
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by walexander 15y ago
The freebies last year (Galaxy Tab 10.1, Chromebook, verizon hotspot) more than outweighed the ticket price and airfare. Depending on which session you went to (which meant more freebies - arduino kits, more phones, etc), you could make a s
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by walexander 15y ago
I believe this is still contested in some respects, but there has already been one case which decide it was not copyright infringement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com,... . "The court held that Google's fram
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by walexander 15y ago
My guess is he was being facetious. I'm going to assume this guy has been picking up the phone on this issue non-stop for the last week and is tired of hearing from opponents. He was probably just entertaining himself.
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by walexander 15y ago
How is this fraud? These are essentially live commercials. They can do whatever they want. I'd wager half the products at CES are running canned demos in flash. It's an open secret and everyone does it.

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