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Quasimofo
16y ago
Australia has BPAY which works great for me. From my online banking site I have all of my utility bills appear automatically and I can add any other bills that are still snail-mailed to me. (I have about 20 merchants listed - everything fro
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Quasimofo
16y ago
I don't know about "next", but I can't wait for extremely intelligent personal software agents. I don't have the time to browse dozens of RSS feeds, check Facebook and other networks. An agent that can browse everything I'm connected to,
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Quasimofo
16y ago
Perhaps I'm a little biased from studying computer science rather than something more vocational, but as you say there are already dedicated classes for the technologies that you suggested so I think the syllabus is still well-suited for a
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Quasimofo
16y ago
Outdated? It seems pretty good to me. I would protest the teachings of API and framework-specific topics without having some fundamentals down first. E.g., Teaching someone jQuery without teaching them bare-bones JavaScript first would be a
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Quasimofo
16y ago
Do you mean a universal encoding format for any printable glyph? Well, it's a helluva lot of language research to start with. I guess you could cheat by just copying the Unicode code pages, but then you haven't really accomplished much. Or
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Quasimofo
16y ago
Some additional comments on my survey submission: I've begun rolling my own small leaderboard & badge/reward component for my (unlaunched) site and I'd be very interested to see what your API is like. I'm a fan of the "serious game" ele
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16y ago
This is a startup? Your About page freely admits there's nothing special about it, so what are your plans? With no focus/theme for the questions other than tagging, I can see the front page having a very low S/N ratio if this gained even a
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17y ago
As a hobby only at the moment, ultimately to give it away free/cheap, but it consumes my head so much I do ponder about other potential for it. One of those is its K-12 educational potential (in an alternate non-game mode) but I currently