briancooley

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by briancooley 9y ago
> The right way to fix the imbalance is to increase the supply of white onions. In the real world, farmers would begin switching to white onions and the supply would increase. I think you've got it backwards. In the real world, supp
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by briancooley 14y ago
Maybe not, but Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, and the other institutions offering courses via Coursera grant degrees. From the update: State law prohibits degree-granting institutions from offering instruction in Minnesota without obtainin
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by briancooley 14y ago
"The response was tremendous, running more than 14,000 comments and garnering the attention of Spotify, which gave him six months of free membersion and a 13-hour playlist that covers a huge range of music."
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by briancooley 14y ago
I agree that it would have been nicer to see that issue addressed head-on. I think Karim is conflating the words unscripted and unprepared. From what I understand, Khan keeps the videos unscripted so he can maintain more of a conversational
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by briancooley 14y ago
Yeah, since iOS4, any app can run in the background for 10 minutes. Certain apps may be approved to run in the background longer. It's covered in the iOS App Programming Guide. Here's a link to the pdf (you might need a developer account to
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by briancooley 14y ago
The official dashboard is http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html and has been updated fairly often - maybe once a month or so - since ICS released. According to that chart, about 84% of devices that have accessed Google
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by briancooley 14y ago
It's been a while since I looked at the Clojure source, but from what I recall, the initialization problem is almost wholly related to loading all of clojure.core, not garbage collection. If you're hitting slowdowns after initialization, th
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by briancooley 14y ago
In my experience, the best way to test Android is on device(s). You're going to want to test on device anyway, and it's very easy to do, so just skip the emulator. Keep in mind that the iOS Simulator is a simulator, not an emulator. You'll
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by briancooley 14y ago
There are much better mechanisms for dealing with harassment than a conference organizer. It doesn't sound like she had any problems handling the advances at the bar. To wit, " I told him he should be ashamed of himself and walked away."
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by briancooley 14y ago
Doesn't everyone by definition have the same risk of death? It's risk of death over a specified period: "The participants were followed until the date they died or Dec. 31, 2008, whichever came first."
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by briancooley 15y ago
I'd guess that on average, men work more hours per year than women with the same jobs, because women tend to give birth and take care of children more than men. I can't help but wonder if this is significantly influenced by an imbalance i
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by briancooley 15y ago
Marco's "what will be different in 6 months?" question gave me a chuckle when you consider that native development for the iPhone is only about 3.5 years old and the rapid pace of change in the industry. Anyway, Schmidt enumerated some diff
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by briancooley 15y ago
You are forgetting about existing phones upgrading. Admittedly, it can be a long process for the hardware vendors to certify ICS for their phones, but 6 months is probably a reasonable time frame. One thing that has changed about the relati
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by briancooley 15y ago
The hardware acceleration opt-in is just one line in the AndroidManifest.xml file, so it should be widely adopted.
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by briancooley 15y ago
I think hasanove is talking about destroyallsoftware.com, which is a pay site, but it's hard to tell from the landing page. I also think it's the response (i.e., railscasts.com/pro) that is being called awesome in the root comment, even tho
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by briancooley 15y ago
Hi, Laurent. I don't use CCW much, though I do have it installed. Mostly I hack Clojure in Emacs. Nevertheless, I sent a few bucks your way because I think it's a great thing to be able to introduce Java developers to Clojure via Eclipse. Y
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by briancooley 15y ago
One of the things that Reto Meier talked about at Google I/O this year is building apps that are "Psychic," e.g., using things like Contacts on the phone to make the user experience less painful. However, he cautioned against being too psy
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by briancooley 16y ago
I don't understand why anyone would call the XOOM heavy in comparison to the iPad. The comparisons I have seen list them both at 730g. I have them both, and I would say that the XOOM is more comfortable to hold. The two big factors are the
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by briancooley 16y ago
I love my iPad, but I think memory is a pretty big deal, especially if you want to do real multitasking. The numbers might not matter to the average consumer, but the experience will. Open up several tabs in your browser and look at the mem
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Clojure Conj 2011 Nov 10-12 in Durham, NC(clojure-conj.org)
62 points by briancooley 16y ago|31 comments
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by briancooley 16y ago
He's recommending to read/watch SICP and do the examples, which are in Scheme. I think it's good advice to have a Scheme REPL to follow along so that you don't have to worry about the additional overhead of translating to Clojure.
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by briancooley 16y ago
Probably the biggest two features are the dual core processor and the front and rear facing cameras (5 MP camera, 720p HD video capture). Reportedly the memory is upgradable as well.
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by briancooley 16y ago
A short synopsis is that Clojure 1.2 works out of the box, but startup time is poor. According to the author of the REPL app, this is due to bootstrapping the Clojure runtime, specifically the clojure.core namespace. ( http://www.deepbluela
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by briancooley 16y ago
The final paragraph resonates with me. Of all the reasons I have ever considered for finding a more enjoyable but potentially less gainful way to make a dollar, the idea that my four-year-old is watching me both frightens me and builds my r
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by briancooley 16y ago
Yeah, it's a portable keyboard layout in autohotkey. Here's the link (you can get to it from colemak.com): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkl/files/Standalone%20Layou...
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by briancooley 16y ago
I switched to Colemak, and I am also forced to use qwerty on a lot of keyboards. Colemak is very similar to qwerty, so its not that big a switch. Mostly the r/s location is the biggest issue. Besides that, it's worth mentioning that there i
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by briancooley 16y ago
I've seen a lot of mentions of the Pomodoro technique lately, so I thought I'd share a link that helped me start using Pomodoro without leaving emacs org-mode.
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Org for GTD and other Task managment systems(orgmode.org)
1 points by briancooley 16y ago|1 comments
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by briancooley 16y ago
You need to read the next rest of the sentence and the next: that person would probably prefer you just dump it all in the trash. Because finding fragments of your private life on people's yards and scattered on the street, in the shrubs a
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by briancooley 16y ago
I know that it's the go-to solution for small, simple storage, but why on earth do mobile platforms have schema-driven data stores by default? There are a few other easy ways to store data[1] on Android. For example, you could use SharedP

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