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by xyzzyb 14y ago
That included applications to places like Toys-R-Us.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
What does that have to do with it? Adding more quality submissions or comments wouldn't have prevented this submission from being upvoted.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
By interactive do you mean you made a webpage for your resume? That's been a good idea (for tech/programming jobs) for years now. Shameless example, mine: http://stephenballnc.com/resume/
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I completely agree. When you have a family with serious (but treatable) medical conditions health insurance is not an option. Even if starting a business or doing freelance work would lead to a bigger paycheck: it wouldn't offset the loss o
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
How about the despecialized edition? http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-...
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
You should actually try out iOS 6 maps: I find them to be much better than the original Google maps. They're faster, use less data, and are much smoother. The directions are also a lot easier to follow since it adds turn by turn and you get
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I switched to vundle from pathogen and I'm much happier for it. They're both great, but pathogen requires that you setup the plugin directories yourself which makes keeping the plugins updated a pain since you either set them up as their ow
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Wow. I remember when my older brother introduced me to /. when I was a teenage nerd just starting to run Linux in 1998. There weren't even user accounts. Now I feel like reading a Jon Katz article for nostalgia.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I was the same way. Then I got a case/battery pack for my iPhone for a conference trip. Wow, now I just love the ability to flip a switch and get another 5 or so hours of battery life. Sure it's practically doubled the weight of the phone b
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Zero. .001 of 1 year is just under 9 hours of downtime. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.001+*+1+year
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Worked fine for my FF 15.0.1
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Because it's as easy as going to a subreddit (r/linguistics is pretty interesting). It's a free and open website: the barrier to entry is practically non-existent.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Why in the world would you think that Emily Short is a pseudonym? Their games and code are quite different.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
It's not my work, but I was highly impressed with the build and the computer interface to the ignition timing.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Humans can also eat and drink while still running. Horses and most (all?) other animals would have to stop.
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Rebuilding a 1981 Accord(imgur.com)
5 points by xyzzyb 14y ago|2 comments
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Oh, and Computer Science Unplugged has a ton of fantastic exercises for kids in that age group: http://csunplugged.org/
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Hackety Hack! comes most quickly to mind: http://hackety.com/
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
"A normal person would have told her computers are for nerds, and not to waste her time with one." I doubt that would actually be the case these days.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Give Vimperator a shot. I found it to be 100% compatible with my usage of Pentadactyl (bmark bookmarklets, etc.) and it's working just fine with FF15.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
It is absolutely comparable to Pentadactyl. I switched from Chrome to pentadactyl and then to vimperator after getting fed up with all the bugs. http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Pentadactyl_vs_Vimperator
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
My favorite (useful!) ASCII terminal animal is the Nyan Cat RSpec formatter. I love that little guy. http://mattsears.com/articles/2011/11/16/nyan-cat-rspec-form... He makes the tests slower, but I still have him check my entire suite of
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
hzy has it right on the money. It's rock solid and reliable. The built in issues/pull requests/wiki are fantastic. Adding in a collaborator is easy. It's credentials I already heavily use. Plus, I like github tons so I'm happy to pay.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I find github compelling enough to pay them for private repos. $84 a year gets me five private repos. If you want to win me (and others like me) over you'll have to sell me an improved experience.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
No! It's not terrible at all. Not to me anyway. I'm always pleased to find another bootstrap app because I already know the UI conventions that it'll be using and it looks great.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I completely agree. The browser surrounding these fancy web applications hardly changes at all, I don't mind coming across bootstrap wrapping a cool application in the slightest. Nor do I mind finding yet another default Octopress blog. Whe
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Oh for sure. As soon as my code will be touching multiple, disparate parts of an application I'll look to events. But I'm be wary of code that uses events for everything.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
That's where I'm coming from here. It's great Backbone encourages event driven objects, but don't hammer everything with it.
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
I actually prefer the second (complicated) example: everything that happens on the success of the call is right there. If it were to grow more complicated than that I'd move it to its own function and perhaps break it into a few functions:
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by xyzzyb 14y ago
Exceptional Ruby is indeed fantastic. If you like it, you may be interested in Avdi's current book project "Confident Ruby": http://devblog.avdi.org/2012/06/05/confident-ruby-beta/

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