I wonder if there's correlation between below-average physical activity and insomnia? I assume that a lot of coders---by necessity of their task and the tools they use---spend most of a week sitting as opposed to, say,…
Is it possible that the difference between 1984 and the world into which we could be moving is that Big Brother recorded all motions and activities of the citizenry, but the reverse wasn't true? Perhaps that's where…
There are similarities between Facebook and AOL. But one significant difference is the interface. AOL had a proprietary client to access its service network. It made sense at the time, but it was often clunky, had…
Interesting point. But if we aren't going to trust SSL, what should we trust for commerce over the Internet?
I use my netbook mostly to write small web server applications in Ruby and Python. This device is not "for" me.
For the record (though as other commenters have pointed out, this rant on LabView is off-topic): LabView is a very successful tool that is used by many programmers in various fields, not just instrumentation. LabView…
For his baby-momma to keep the baby in, of course.
I believe that I see your point, and I would agree that the verbosity of HTML leads to sharability, and that is a strength. But the verbosity is also one of its weaknesses for large projects; it adds a great deal of…
They are functions you can make up on the spot. That's usually the extent of my explanation. Surprisingly, most of the people I talk to assume that the "fancy" parts of closures (such as variable value capture and…
Sounds like fun. I'll be in for that. How do we know where to find each other?
Sadly, I think the issues mentioned in this comment are exactly the point, primarily the last issue. Most desktop consumers using Windows and MacOS aren't used to dealing with a product that isn't a household name.…
Yep. Working at a startup company in the city right now, in fact.
Not a bad article. But the article summary on HN is pretty much a lie; I'm pretty sure you can cure NS with various techniques, including blunt-force-trauma to the cranial region.
This news and Google Apps coming out of beta in the same day? I can't take all this sudden and drastic change!
I strongly suspect that's the point. What does "beta" mean on a web service that is continually updated by the developers in essentially realtime? The only real meaning I can think it has is the liability concerns that…
Here is the thing I wish someone had told me my freshman year of high school. If you're interested in computer science, study topics in discrete mathematics, real algebra (the algebra where you compute with symbols…
I've seen Mono used to great effect in the Unity 3D game engine (http://unity3d.com/). Game engines are one of those interesting spaces where speed matters quite a bit, but so does ease of modification; you want your…
It's funny, because I have a simple AppJet app that I was considering re-implementing in Rails, having recently learned the basics of the framework. AppJet has just helped me make the decision. Thanks, AppJet!
I wonder if there's correlation between below-average physical activity and insomnia? I assume that a lot of coders---by necessity of their task and the tools they use---spend most of a week sitting as opposed to, say,…
Is it possible that the difference between 1984 and the world into which we could be moving is that Big Brother recorded all motions and activities of the citizenry, but the reverse wasn't true? Perhaps that's where…
There are similarities between Facebook and AOL. But one significant difference is the interface. AOL had a proprietary client to access its service network. It made sense at the time, but it was often clunky, had…
Interesting point. But if we aren't going to trust SSL, what should we trust for commerce over the Internet?
I use my netbook mostly to write small web server applications in Ruby and Python. This device is not "for" me.
For the record (though as other commenters have pointed out, this rant on LabView is off-topic): LabView is a very successful tool that is used by many programmers in various fields, not just instrumentation. LabView…
For his baby-momma to keep the baby in, of course.
I believe that I see your point, and I would agree that the verbosity of HTML leads to sharability, and that is a strength. But the verbosity is also one of its weaknesses for large projects; it adds a great deal of…
They are functions you can make up on the spot. That's usually the extent of my explanation. Surprisingly, most of the people I talk to assume that the "fancy" parts of closures (such as variable value capture and…
Sounds like fun. I'll be in for that. How do we know where to find each other?
Sadly, I think the issues mentioned in this comment are exactly the point, primarily the last issue. Most desktop consumers using Windows and MacOS aren't used to dealing with a product that isn't a household name.…
Yep. Working at a startup company in the city right now, in fact.
Not a bad article. But the article summary on HN is pretty much a lie; I'm pretty sure you can cure NS with various techniques, including blunt-force-trauma to the cranial region.
This news and Google Apps coming out of beta in the same day? I can't take all this sudden and drastic change!
I strongly suspect that's the point. What does "beta" mean on a web service that is continually updated by the developers in essentially realtime? The only real meaning I can think it has is the liability concerns that…
Here is the thing I wish someone had told me my freshman year of high school. If you're interested in computer science, study topics in discrete mathematics, real algebra (the algebra where you compute with symbols…
I've seen Mono used to great effect in the Unity 3D game engine (http://unity3d.com/). Game engines are one of those interesting spaces where speed matters quite a bit, but so does ease of modification; you want your…
It's funny, because I have a simple AppJet app that I was considering re-implementing in Rails, having recently learned the basics of the framework. AppJet has just helped me make the decision. Thanks, AppJet!