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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
SizeUp looks like a paid-for version of https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt .
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The issue that I have with desktop switching on my shiny new MacBook is that OS X switches focus between applications , not windows . Here I've got vim and Firefox open, with the focus on vim. I switch to another desktop to glance at som
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
BitBucket's popular in the Python community, and I see a fair amount of stuff on Google Code. Open-source projects who want to use git but prefer a FOSS forge tend towards Gitorious. Some people even use Launchpad, although that tends to
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Indeed. When I started a new job that required me to use MooTools, I went looking for the philosophical differences between it and jQuery (which I was familiar with). I found this wonderfully-written overview: http://jqueryvsmootools.com
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Dijkstra died the year I was entering 8th grade, a few years before I began experimenting with HTML. I'm now a 4th-year university student. I'm so sorry, sir. I'll get off immediately.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
I've heard that introductory courses that use Scheme go over pretty well, but most people's heads explode when they take Programming Languages I (in Scheme) at my university. It seems that after 3 or 4 years of Java, C and C++, their minds
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Dijkstra's algorithm? Postfix notation? A slew of other algorithmic things I don't even understand?
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Wait, why? > Why are U.S. children so far behind in science and math compared with those in other developed countries? > >Because the US has fewer high performing Asians and more low performing Blacks/Hispanics than other devel
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
You could just make it a refund, then.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
When working in Django (which uses a similar builtin webserver for development), I can do a `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()` in the middle of my code to drop me down into a Python shell. If you're used to working in a REPL, it's insanely help
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
I think he's indicating that the value of the information has decayed over time - it seems that less and less people are employees now, as the robots have been steadily taking over.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Much like the Zen of Python.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Pay's not a great motivator for most people in our field, once it gets past a certain low level. There's a summary of an interesting RSA talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc ; I'd appreciate links to the mentioned studies i
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
As runjake points out[0] elsewhere in this discussion, the actual question is different: If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be? Given
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
http://placekitten.com/attribution.html
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Similar arguments go for using a distributed VCS.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The problem I have with people who claim that "all languages are the same" is that they aren't . You can't use that bit-shifting trick in some higher-level languages, and any lisp fan will regal you for hours with descriptions of clever s
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
The dorms filled up before I got a room, so I spent my first year off-campus (but not at home); as a consequence, I missed out on getting to know people until, well, even now in my 4th year. Being an active participant of a club helped cou
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Really? My family's donated many books to our local library, and they didn't seem to have any issue with that.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Huh, that looks like it would've been cool. Sad that I didn't hear about it until it shuts down.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Another favourite is typing "shutdown -h now" into the wrong terminal: I know a few people who have admitted to doing that. I do that less now that the machine's hostname is prominently displayed in my prompt.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Providing forms of communication other than IRC and mailing lists (and issue trackers) is probably the first step towards getting designers participating.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
While those may be commonly agreed upon as being wrong, it's hardly an encompassing definition.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Most people seem to say that it works just fine. In my limited experience, it was just like git on Linux. Given that git was created for hosting the Linux kernel, it should be obvious why it's not a first-class citizen.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
It'd be a hell of a lot easier for the rest of us to deal with if you upload it to a more collaborative code hosting site instead (GitHub being the prominent example). Even Google Code wouldn't be bad, though; SourceForge is dead and gone.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
This has nothing to do with either performance or stability, but the big header saying "Downlowd link" spells download incorrectly.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Not any more: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Esoteric_programmi... Also, yes.
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Actual link: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-E...
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
At this year's Global Game Jam (a rather fun event where participants create a game in 48 hours), most of the people from our site used Love, despite having no experience with either it or Lua. You can view what my 5-person team created on
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by xiongchiamiov 16y ago
Warnings about crossing the road tend to be more lax in places where there aren't many cars.

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