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by valuegram 6mo ago
Hey! My first introduction to software engineering was via HyperCard in an advanced elementary school math class in the Texas public school system in the early 90s. I have made a nearly 30 year career out of the passion my teacher and a v
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by valuegram 2y ago
What's weak about the grandmother effect? Selective pressure absolutely applies outside of reproductive phases of the individual. Evolution happens at the genetic level, not only at the level of the individual organism. If a related
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Nuclear Power Phase-Out(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by valuegram 5y ago|0 comments
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Expensify's CEO emailed 10M customers urging them to vote for Biden(businessinsider.com)
41 points by valuegram 6y ago|20 comments
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by valuegram 7y ago
WSJ does not claim google is guilty in this article. The title is factual. What would you suggest they title the article? "anything else they publish about google" is pretty wildly hyperbolic, and obviously false.
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by valuegram 7y ago
It worked out very well for the founders of all of those companies.
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by valuegram 7y ago
Regular expressions (regexp) can be understood at a pretty impactful level within a solid hour of focus. For all the developers or even just heavy computer users, the ability to find and replace exactly what you're looking for is a ga
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by valuegram 10y ago
True. I have a Chevy volt, which I love. The check engine light came on while under powertrain warranty. It took them 5 days to upgrade the software to fix the problem, and they charged me for it since "software isn't part of the
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Average Rating Issue on Amazon (Coin 2.0)(booneputney.com)
1 points by valuegram 11y ago|0 comments
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by valuegram 11y ago
If you haven't read it, I highly recommend: Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh The proof of Fermat's last theorem has a long and intriguing history, and Sing
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by valuegram 11y ago
I've had a similar problem several times, and Microsoft was always able to manually activate after I called and explained the hard drive change.
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by valuegram 11y ago
I thought the point of watermarking is to prevent people from using your images without your branding, but if it's done on the client side, it's easy to circumvent: http://brianium.github.io/watermarkjs/img&#x
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by valuegram 12y ago
It's possible the person didn't say anything about Chrome, or since all of the direct responses reference Chrome, it's also possible the parent comment was edited.
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by valuegram 12y ago
As someone who is considering using a JavaScript framework for client-side rendering on a new application, this strikes me as an anecdotal over-simplification. We can find terrible uses of any technology. I'm not sure that is a reaso
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by valuegram 12y ago
Safari still uses WebKit, but Chrome has been using a WebKit fork called Blink since version 28.
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by valuegram 12y ago
I'm working on a static site generation web app as well, although mine won't be self hosted. Good luck to you! For me it was a convergence of: 1) Outstanding cost/benefit of static file serving. 2) Current static site soluti
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by valuegram 12y ago
This is related to a question I was just pondering. I'm developing a web application that relies heavily on JavaScript for a lot of the interactivity. I was planning on devoting a decent amount of time to implementing JavaScript disa
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by valuegram 12y ago
Not a direct answer to your question, since I graduated from a traditional university with a degree in computer engineering and have been doing contract work for over a decade, but I frequently take classes through Coursera and have been pl
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Texas Attorney General Password Rules(portal.cs.oag.state.tx.us)
13 points by valuegram 12y ago|14 comments
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by valuegram 13y ago
I think you might be mistaken: "Dear Lessig Lawrence (Lawrence Lessig), ... These forums are intended for technical questions that can be answered by the community. We want everyone to be able to contribute to our forums and have their
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by valuegram 13y ago
1. "So as we enter a Brave New World where huge monolithic companies such as yourself began to possibly test ways to take out old phones so that customers have to go purchase new ones" 2. "I will be the first one inline if so
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by valuegram 13y ago
Here's the actual kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-...
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by valuegram 13y ago
For sure. Not saying it's a poor choice. As a frequent buyer of used books on amazon, I was interested in the details and thought I would share in case anyone else had the same question.
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by valuegram 13y ago
It looks like this only applies to books that were purchased new through amazon. Used books purchased through amazon marketplace are not included: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1001373341
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How Amusing: Now Boston University's Suing Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung(forbes.com)
2 points by valuegram 13y ago|0 comments
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Limits on multiple sign-in access to Google Drive(support.google.com)
1 points by valuegram 13y ago|0 comments
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The use of insects as food(fao.org)
1 points by valuegram 13y ago|0 comments
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by valuegram 13y ago
I suppose the incrementing index on A tags could have been for ordering links for tab navigation for those who were navigating websites via keyboard.
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by valuegram 14y ago
The "Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate" functionality on this page is really useful.
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by valuegram 14y ago
"place their own customers directly in their crosshairs. Your immediate reaction may be to blast the previous sentence as hyperbole, but you would be wrong to do so." Of course this is hyperbole. Don't be ridiculous.

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