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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Thanks for this. Do you know why the courses aren't all hosted on Standford.edu, though?
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Correct, the real headline was "58,000 Want Course." Kind of sensationalist of mhb to change it like that, unless NYT secretly updated the article, which I've heard they're fond of doing.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Okay, but why should I use your service? What are you doing for $50 that I can't do myself? I don't mean to be an ass, but these are questions I think everyone is asking. An 'About' link on your site would be really helpful. Also, I'm runni
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Why is this on the front page? There are so many problems... What's going on here? What are you trying to get me to pay for? $50? $75? What's the difference? 5, and 8 of what? Why can't I close this box once it's opened? (chrome)
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Nice creative idea here. I think its pretty fun. A few things: 1. Sometimes I have no idea what an image is showing. Text would be really helpful. 2. What is the purpose of hints? I know people could just google search, but why make it so e
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Hm, I think you forgot a colon.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
This still doesn't solve the problem of helping users discover what tags are out there. I didn't even know about tags like 'discussion' or 'support' until I read this post, and I wouldn't have thought about typing them in to see if other pe
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Now I feel like an idiot, thanks :)
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
But w3fools looks pretty, so it must be right.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
This is a bit off topic, but do you know a better resource than this w3schools page on Javascript and DOM? [1] I'm just learning now, and it's really frustrating me that I can't find a better resource. Java : Javadoc :: Javascript : ???? [1
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
I'm not sure why everyone on HN seems to be bagging on about.com. It's a legitimate website that pays authors to write content [1]. True, it's ugly and written at a 6th grade reading level, but it's sometimes useful. It's certainly not a sp
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Reporting a DoS attack to the CIA website on the frontpage of a newspaper is like reporting the egging of a bank as armed robbery.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
[To preface this, I'm assuming you're in or about to enter college] If you're really motivated, I would recommend looking through previous years' lists of participating organizations for Google Summer of Code [0]. These organizations post l
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Here I was thinking that a weekend project meant no more than 2 days of work. I hope the majority holds your opinion, or the people on HN really are 100 times more efficient than me.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Then we would have at least 12 billion years until they got here.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
They actually controlled for exercise and then went on to find that even the slightest movements are helpful. Here, I think this article actually explains the research better: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h...
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Ask HN: Advice for a newly grad, avoiding an intellectual rut.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
> As for who pays for all this, the ISPs and copyright owners will share the costs of operating the program, sources said. After reading this, I still don't understand how the RIAA/MPAA are convincing ISPs to get on board. What's in it
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Blehg, GNU Typist recommends putting two spaces after period. Someone needs a lesson from a typographer.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
I'm sure it helps to have the right parents too. When I was in elementary school, I showed great curiosity for how our old Macintosh worked, but the internet wasn't around, there were no relevant books in the public library, and my parents
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Really? Because the NSA could be doing it right now and you wouldn't have a clue. If someone steals your password though, chances are you'll notice.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
Are you telling me I get hit with aggressive ads every time I login to my bank account? :(
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
And they're filing a patent? So let me get this straight. Mr Band holds a venue and pays to install Apple's patented film-blocking technology. Then, all of the loyal Apple customers who paid good money for their phones get a feature disable
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
In that case, I think it would depend on the task at hand. For refactoring code and moving massive swaths of text around, stock Eclipse would win. For making small patches and writing new code from scratch, VIM would probably win.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
> I love VIM and nothing can come close to the speed I can edit in VIM, esp. not anything you have to drive with a mouse A contrived example, but I'd like to see someone edit a Java project faster in VIM than I do in Eclipse. Look, I kn
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
I think Karl meant infrastructure, not technology.
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by misuse-permit 15y ago
This is a decent analogy, but still I cringe whenever I hear someone comparing computer languages to spoken ones. They are nothing alike, and I would be honestly surprised if we even used the same part of our brain for processing the gramma