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by zarify 13y ago
I figured there'd be some traditional route planning already done. The problem with a lot of this is it's looking for the most efficient route, rather than the route someone actually wants (eg if I want to do a circuit from my hou
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by zarify 13y ago
Manual route planning for walkers/runners/cyclers. My idea was that there are lots of fitness style apps that track where you've gone, how fast and so on, but I haven't seen anything that lets you plan your route out bef
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by zarify 13y ago
I love PyGal. I went looking for a simple chart generator that looked good for a simple program I wrote a year or so ago and all the usual directions in got pointed in were far too heavy weight for what I wanted. This makes really nice look
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by zarify 13y ago
Has everyone made a Pokemon site as part of some rite of passage or something? One of the first things I did to teach myself Perl and HTML back in the day was write a Pokedex page. Maybe Pokemon can be the new Hello World.
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by zarify 13y ago
Mine will quite happily work from the other side of my house or if I'm outside gardening or something, so 15m or so. Far enough so that I can out my phone in its dock and do stuff pretty much anywhere on my block and still get notifica
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by zarify 13y ago
I really like the idea of squash scoring on the watch. Is it the version on mypebblefaces? I started out liking the alerts for using google maps, but ended up finding it intensely annoying when driving in the city since there ended up being
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by zarify 13y ago
I do like the course application requirements of ACSII or PDF (and no Word). I miss uni and all the lecturers who have to have things just so :) I also would have loved to have had a course like this when I was at uni. I might have paid mor
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by zarify 13y ago
I'd agree about the parallel with education (I'm a teacher and a number of my family are doctors). Both are fields where the metrics for success (lives/gets better/graduates/etc) come along a road paved with soft sk
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by zarify 13y ago
To be flippant it's starting to sound like you're describing the canned question list in a call center :) The computer analysis of photos was actually something I thought was quite positive. I believe they've been doing this
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by zarify 13y ago
I tend to agree about the accuracy of diagnoses when the data is good. Here's the 'but': I think my main reason for distrusting computer diagnosis is that computers are still pretty terrible at figuring out what we are tellin
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by zarify 13y ago
I basically stopped using "calculators" when Soulver and more recently Calca came out. Much easier to use and a lot more flexible. That said the graphing in this looks quite nice.
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by zarify 13y ago
But at the same time, the consequence for access of account information for cat pictures site on the site holding financial information shouldn't be discounted (passwords, social engineering info etc). To continue the (somewhat stretch
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by zarify 13y ago
To be honest I don't know how much scarier this is than the current overt clout wielded by entities like the gun lobby.
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by zarify 13y ago
No. The story I've gotten when I pursued this with the department is the update cycle is too rapid to bother and automated deployment too difficult to manage. The kids that use them tend to install Chrome themselves since it will insta
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by zarify 13y ago
This isn't strictly true. I work in education and for a large part of our state the network and operating environment is managed by the education department, but services are largely left up to schools. This means we're left with
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by zarify 13y ago
Had a play around last night. Not bad (even though I don't seem to be CEO material :P). Seems leaky after a while though, and the UI bug where the back button disappears until you switch tabs is pretty annoying. Look forward to an upda
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by zarify 13y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't learned the lessons of Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf :) ( http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc... )
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by zarify 13y ago
This looks awesome, I hope it's successful. Are you planning on keeping it slide-based or incorporating other types of media in there as well?
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by zarify 13y ago
Except this isn't really 'school', it's more of a technical college. Students are going to learn a specific skill. (I could be getting confused by how you folks in the US still call what we call university 'school&#
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by zarify 13y ago
Presumably it's the same where you are here where substitute teachers are paid at a higher rate due to lack of benefits, so that isn't that surprising. Although I definitely see the advantages of the stability of knowing who your
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by zarify 13y ago
I was at an EdTech conference recently and listening to a talk given by a guy who developed training simulators for a living, predominately for mining. That isn't gaming (although they do hire out of the gaming development pool) and is
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by zarify 13y ago
Oh interesting, not having lived in the NT or ACT I didn't know about that one.
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by zarify 13y ago
My favourite has been signing up for a couple of games - I think CubeWorld was one and some generic MMO I was trying out was another, where the account creation process handled a '+' email fine but the game client didn't hand
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by zarify 13y ago
I'd hate to use this for anything important - my entire regional area is reported to be 300km (~185 miles) away from its actual location :) On the other hand I'd be quite happy for sites to calculate shipping based off this since
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by zarify 13y ago
I don't know about the US, but in Australia post codes (our zip codes) regularly service more than one town (or principality) when you're rural, and if you're even vaguely familiar with Australia we have a lot of rural :) I
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by zarify 13y ago
Considering the bit about different European languages, it seems really strange that words would become links to applications. Sending instructions on how to do something from your home in <latin character set country> to your Russian
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by zarify 13y ago
Huh. Not according to the "What's New?" link on the site. Unless I'm misunderstanding what they're talking about (a distinct possibility)
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by zarify 13y ago
Multiway video chat removal in favour of more FaceTime seems like an interesting choice (well, not the consolidation on FaceTime), but it'd be nice to see Apple develop FaceTime along with iMessage to be better. Google has done a reall
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by zarify 13y ago
I was thinking about this a while back when a comic on convictions was posted here and one of the comments asked if we should trust someone in politics who holds strong convictions or someone who bends with the wind. If a politician holds t
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by zarify 13y ago
Actually I think that post-Game Center games are much better behaved. Remember what it used to be like to OpenFeint and whatever the other one was that I don't remember the name of? That was far more obtrusive before Apple put in their

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