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by webjprgm 13y ago
> #edit: also, how exactly does one get as familiar with a closed source OS as an open source one? Work for Apple.
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by webjprgm 13y ago
If you use iCloud backup on your iPhone/iPad then you can set up a new iPhone/iPad quickly with all your personal data and settings without connecting to a computer or the old device. So you can already drop your hardware in a lake and not
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by webjprgm 13y ago
I stopped reading at: "Ironically, in starting a video game studio to fight these issues and prove that games can be made with sane schedules, Boucher-Vidal has had to put off getting married and starting a family. “Luckily, my girlfriend i
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I didn't catch the "peer-to-peer" part from the article, but that's interesting. (I'm not good with French.) I understood that it would be based around doing a bunch of projects with peers and learning how to find information on the interne
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Yuck. I like the simplicity of the old menu. I don't use all those fancy shmancy DropBox sharing features and I don't want them slowing down my computer every time I try to open the DropBox folder. Can I choose to not upgrade? For how long
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by webjprgm 14y ago
It occurred to me that just as type setting has caused some standardization in written letters, and the written form of language has caused standardization in spelling, that the necessity to speak clearly to a computer could cause a similar
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by webjprgm 14y ago
The sinning function was the product of a human mind. Is it not the human mind always that is the sinner? So vigil must always delete the human. In order for the human to produce a valid function that human must mentally execute the code
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git commit before running, then git diff to see what code was bad.
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by webjprgm 14y ago
"The network is the computer." Who uses a computer without the internet? I suppose the same thing is possible using local wifi synching, like how Dropbox shares content over a LAN when it can vs. downloading it from the cloud.
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by webjprgm 14y ago
This is a cultural thing. By selecting a personally-meaningful name (unique or not) you give a person some form of self-expression. This self-expression can be related to online presences. It could become culturally common to do so. But it
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by webjprgm 14y ago
What you need is to separate components of a name that can be used separately. If your app wants to say "Welcome John" in some places and "How can I help you Mr. Smith" in others, you need to have FirstName and LastName fields. If you als
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by webjprgm 14y ago
This isn't a problem if you check the type of data you get from a user before you use it. You should be doing that anyway. The article says a work-around is to use .to_s or .to_i on user input. My standard practice is to cast to int for a
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Or wireless tesla-coil charging. Or just inductive charging, but put the inductive chargers in desktop and office chairs so that it's a fairly automatic and invisible process.
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by webjprgm 14y ago
So what's the difference between having cloud-based accounts and documents that sync between phone, tablet, and desktop? Then you can go to work and without even taking your phone out of your pocket (or even if you forgot it on your bed st
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I personally think CoffeeScript is ugly. I don't know why so much of the HN internet seems to disagree. Consequently I don't think being nearer to plain CoffeeScript is helpful at all. (CS leaves out too much and has the oddest tricks to s
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by webjprgm 14y ago
HTML is great, it's just a little more verbose. I like PHP because I can wrap logic around HTML so that documents are described in document markup and code is in code. I like Mustache because I can write a document in document markup and th
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by webjprgm 14y ago
If the 3D model file is too large, then can it instead be a piece of software that converts any given song into a record as it prints? Perhaps a 3D model of the record + software that knows where to put the grooves and takes an audio file
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3D print the record then laser engrave the song on it?
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Some languages are the same just with different vocabulary and syntax (different key words, library function names, differing ways of indicating statements and function calls) but have the same set of concepts for programming. It seems to
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I don't really know what you're talking about, but the mental effort of expressing an algorithm in English seems similar to the effort of expressing some thought in Spanish. (I learned Spanish as a second language.) Part of the effort is tr
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I've had several dreams where I've been trying to code the world around me. Sometimes this involves seeing scrolling source code, other times it seems to be an abstract relationship of programs to the environment I'm in. I usually can't r
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by webjprgm 14y ago
ESC is used to exit a mode in VI. So it could be good for "I'm doing editing this text" in that sense.
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I tried to propose an idea where I work of having a threaded chat room to mimic conversations in the hall. It could get even better by having some intelligent gleaning of conversation keywords and showing those visibly by each chat room, so
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by webjprgm 14y ago
To hazard a guess, I would say it's setting up min/max/preferred width/height or margins on UI components and then dynamically computing the best way to lay them out at display time or when the window size changes. Java has a GridBagConstr
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Can we get congress, or at least state congresses one by one, to pass a law that says, rather than filing their rates, they must provide a web API for accessing them. That would make the records much more accessible to everyone and solve
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I think this is awesome in and of itself. I don't care if it turns out to be super cheap and green. $20 just seems entirely unrealistic to me. Half of that cost (at least) would be the tires alone (at least it looks like he's got tires on
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by webjprgm 14y ago
The "callback hell" example is a rather tame one, since the code is readable in a single location just with some nesting. So when I see the FRP solution which is the same amount of code I'm not certain that in a complex example this actual
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by webjprgm 14y ago
He says you can't revoke existing software patents legislatively, so abolishing the ability to get NEW software patents would take 20 years to fix the problem (for the existing ones to expire). By saying those existing patents can't be enf
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by webjprgm 14y ago
Please everybody remember that inherited assets are not all money. Some things have sentimental value, like the home you grew up in or 100 year old furniture made by a great-great grandpa. Those things should stay in a family and not be r
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by webjprgm 14y ago
I just went to Quora.com and see nothing that would convince me to spend more than 30 sec. there. They need a better home page to engage potential users who are curious about what that site is. A one sentence blurb about solving all my pr

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