shelfu

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by shelfu 14y ago
Minecraft is _hugely_ popular with anybody under 14. To the point that it's no longer only nerdy parents that showed their kids it, it's kids hearing about it from other kids. It's simple to buy and install and get working. There is no reas
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by shelfu 15y ago
DAMNIT! My daughter had hers disabled, never found the reactivate link. It sucks because she is now 13 and a non-issue, but lost her email address of 3-4 years.
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by shelfu 15y ago
The kindle/amazon is not always a solution either. I live in Canada and there is nothing I hate more than being given a suggestion (from amazon) about a book for my kindle, only to find that it's "not available in your area" when I go to pu
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by shelfu 16y ago
I'm a Java developer using IDEA. I still spend most of my time in a shell. Mouse pointing and clicking to do things like run builds annoys me when I can alt-tab and run a script to run unit tests. I think IDEA is a fantastic IDE, and possib
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by shelfu 16y ago
Partially this is likely due to the relatively low populations - Manitoba and Saskatchewan have a combined population of ~2.5 million. Alberta bumps up to ~3.7 million, and the connections start to increase.
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by shelfu 16y ago
Currently receiving RSUs & work for a company that provides financial reporting solutions for companies that reward with equity. Part of the lock-in is simply the desire of the employee to wait for the vest date. Simply put, for the fir
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by shelfu 16y ago
I came here to say this. My parents have never shown any interest in IT whatsoever. My brothers, never. Me, as soon as I started messing around with a Commodore-64, I was hooked. Give your kids the opportunities to explore everything and an
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by shelfu 16y ago
"At least I’ve heard IntelliJ IDEA is great, I’ve never used it." That's like complaining about image manipulation software when all you've used is GIMP. I'm a vim guy from way back, I always avoided big IDEs because of the bloat. IDEA is t
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by shelfu 16y ago
I'm pretty sure you can in Canada, using the interac (debit) network: http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_ol_emt.p...
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by shelfu 16y ago
Obviously a little late to read this.. but the source now shows this: Now the that big switch is gone, here are some fun facts: 1. This site was created in 2002, using Visual Studio 2003. 2. Yes there was some editing done in frontpage.
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by shelfu 16y ago
I'm surprised that The Pragmatic Programmer isn't on there. Am I that much out of date that this book is no longer recommended? It completely changed the way I thought of development at the time.
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by shelfu 16y ago
I have one boy that reads constantly. I too used a lot of the points here and seems to have worked, thinking about it my parents did the same with me. I will, however, chime in and mention that we also have a PS3/Wii/PS2/Gamecube/N64/NES &#
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by shelfu 16y ago
Interestingly enough, I had the exact opposite experience as a Canadian camping in the US this summer. The customs at the US was fantastic, it was our first time visiting, and my 11 year old daughter was very nervous. The customs office ask
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by shelfu 16y ago
My favorite would be a comment in some generated html (no other comments around it  Later it was "fixed"
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by shelfu 16y ago
Used to apply that to PC builds as well. Fast, Quiet, Cheap
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by shelfu 16y ago
I wouldn't be entirely sure of your assumptions that missing class makes them fall behind. An example is myself. I am a high school drop out. I gave up when, in Grade 11, I passed my Math 20 class with an 85% - but had credits withheld (mea
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by shelfu 16y ago
My question is why do we treat students differently in exams than we do in classes? When I was going through K-12, there was no collaborative work, we sat at our own desks, did our own work, and although cheating was there, there was a sign