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by ruddzw 17y ago
My bad. I hadn't considered that for some, it was an emotional experience. My relationship with HN is purely informational: I go here daily to find some interesting technical stuff and read interesting discussion. But the names behind the s
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by ruddzw 17y ago
In a sense, yes, it does work that way. There's no way to say "Please block all popcorn from entering my vicinity." You can keep it out of your house, but you're still going to have to consciously not reach for it in the grocery aisle or
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by ruddzw 17y ago
Do people really have such little self-control that they need to block a particular internet site via a tool like this? Just don't type news.ycombinator.com or click your bookmark for it. Simple as that.
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Programming made Simple(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
5 points by ruddzw 17y ago|1 comments
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by ruddzw 17y ago
"Basically, if some HTML/CSS works on Safari, the chances are very high it will work on Firefox 2 and higher, and on IE 6 and higher (with minor tweaks)." I don't get it. A lot of the hardship that comes with web development is that stuff t
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by ruddzw 17y ago
But they're both true, aren't they? With open source software, it's all there for you to see and use, in all its awesomeness. No pure-marketing limitations. Yet despite that advantage, it doesn't always rise over paid competitors because it
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by ruddzw 17y ago
Or would have no chance of passing without him. Since it's an open-book exam, it's likely going to take a lot of thoughtful work.
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The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate(secretgeek.net)
14 points by ruddzw 17y ago|23 comments
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by ruddzw 17y ago
I stopped using Firefox as my main browser when I got a mac a little under 4 years ago, and started using Safari. I was using adblock prior to that switch, and while I don't have any ad blocking now, except for the fact that pop-ups are blo
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by ruddzw 17y ago
The character separating the date and username (♒ if it shows up here) looks a lot like equals to me, and confused me for a while. Just a small weirdness.
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by ruddzw 17y ago
I'm currently taking a web design course, and we're supposed to be using XHTML. Strict. We lose points if we don't have all our pages validate as XHTML Strict. :) So yes, some people are still using XHTML, and thinking it's better.
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by ruddzw 17y ago
Congratulations on getting Cornell -- I'm graduating from there this May. Though I'm clearly biased, I'd recommend Cornell all the way. Definitely speak with the financial aid office to see what they can do for you; they're trying to get be
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by ruddzw 18y ago
Programming is extremely interesting to me, and a lot of fun to do. In the same way, grammar is interesting to me as well. What do you think linguists study? I think there's a certain kind of mind that would rather figure out how to do some
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by ruddzw 18y ago
You're definitely right. I'm not so familiar with Canvas at all, so I assumed that since it didn't render, it wasn't supported. My main point was about the graceful degradation.
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by ruddzw 18y ago
It took me a while to realize that my default browser, Safari 3.2.1, doesn't support HTML 5 Canvas. I'm seeing a bowl and a logo. Graceful degradation, not so much.
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by ruddzw 18y ago
One opinion on which of these to read: Number 3 is funny when read directly after reading number 2, but not so much otherwise. Number 9 actually made me laugh, so I recommend reading that one. Skip the rest if you're on a time budget. Note
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by ruddzw 18y ago
Android is a worthy competitor that's ahead of the iPhone OS in many ways (behind in others). A comparison between the two is not a bad thing.
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by ruddzw 18y ago
There have already been links here to the free html paper, but if you're more into PDFs, it's also available for free at http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
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by ruddzw 18y ago
This is what happens when your research leads you down one path instead of checking the obvious sources first. These people are on the list of suggested users: http://twitter.com/invitations/suggestions Twitter is suggesting people follow
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by ruddzw 18y ago
They actually know about the use case: it's one of their 5 suggested use cases: http://etherpad.com/ep/about/product#uses5 But you're right, marketing specifically to software shops could be a good way to make a profit.
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by ruddzw 18y ago
I had the chance to use EtherPad as part of a job interview while it was in private beta. It was supposed to use Skype and EtherPad to get the full effect. Skype broke, but EtherPad worked great. The ease of getting code to the interviewer,
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by ruddzw 18y ago
It's up to the employers to pay their interns. Why? Because they are the ones who demand that their new hires have that internship experience. If you're not going to get hired unless you coughed up the bucks to get "industry experience," t
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by ruddzw 18y ago
Here at Cornell, the general consensus among students is that it's really hard to get good grades, especially among some majors. Cornell started a few years ago releasing "Median Grade Reports" so that students would see what classes were
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by ruddzw 18y ago
For my last winter break, I'll be working on completely re-doing a web-based game I made. I'm thinking I might also work my way through a simple book on NLP ( http://www.nltk.org/book ).
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by ruddzw 18y ago
It's possible that they'll just hold more Apple Town Hall type events, like the recent "The Spotlight Turns to Notebooks" and "Let's Rock" events. Those work just as well for the majority of the Apple fans who get their news via the press
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by ruddzw 18y ago
I dunno about this. Of the books under "books most programmers have actually read," the only one I've read is the C programming language (K&R). But I think I'm probably more likely to read the GoF design patterns book or the rest of m
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by ruddzw 18y ago
I'm inclined to just say WarGames. But the closest that I've seen in a more modern tone was Antitrust. None of my computer-inclined friends seemed to respect it though.
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by ruddzw 18y ago
However, as would be the case with dating more than one girl, don't spread yourself too thin. If you start dating 10 people, and try to keep up a working relationship with all of them, you might find it hard to ever get any relationship to
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by ruddzw 18y ago
1. My view would be that I wouldn't mind being directed to a sign-in/up page upon clicking, as long as it was clear why I'd need to be signed in to do so. If I'm on yahoo.com, and I click on mail, it makes sense to ask me to sign in. But
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by ruddzw 18y ago
"The timing of the ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ launch could not have been more (un)fortunate. At the busiest time of the year for on- and offline retailers, this Firefox browser add-on offers users a download link to pirated copies of products

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