There is so much hate towards the teacher's unions swirling about these days. Is it really deserved? What's the story from their side? From what I've read, it sounds like the single most important solution to fixing education is to abolish all teacher's unions, but is that really reasonable?
Great, but it's not quite there. I'm a geek--I know what all of these do, but I think you've got a chance to target people who don't know what they want. Great job so far!
I have a professor telling me this is what he wants a project written in. It's currently a terrible mess of JSPs, and I have half a mind to simply re-write it in Django or RoR. How do I convince him to switch from JSPs to Django/RoR instead of this RunRev thing?
The difference in power consumption between an idle CPU and a maxed-out CPU is appreciable. I stopped doing Folding@home, distributed.net, etc when I discovered my old AMD 2500+ sucked an extra 30 watts when pegged. That was a desktop chip! I suspect it's even worse with the new mobile=>desktop chips these days. If electricity is free and you don't care about inhaling more mercury due to coal burning, go ahead and run it all you want.
So preventing the legalization of one activity will prevent already-possible illegal activity? If I want to jailbreak my iPhone for illegal purposes, what does it matter whether that process is legal?
That's the same sentiment I had. The software guys I've worked hated FogBugz so much they scared the crap out of our CEO. I watched Aardvark'd and once longed to work for The Great Fog Creek, but I've already moved onto bigger and better things.
This makes me so glad I have an iPhone 2G on T-Mobile. I have unlimited calls to five people, unlimited weekends, 300 minutes, 400 messages, unlimited data, and unlimited tethering thanks to PDANet. What do I pay? $41/month TOTAL including taxes and fees. Thanks T-Mobile and iPhoneDevTeam!
How are they able to make MagicJack so cheap? Don't you get a real phone number? Most other services, like SkypeIn, charge quite a bit for the ability to call in, much less out.
We've had one of the smaller predecessors to this printer at my university for a couple of years now. They're great! The prints look beautiful and the printer is blazingly fast. So easy to service, too.
Isn't 1Password a solid way of avoiding the whole one-password-multiple-logins problem? Most of my logins are 8 or more randomly generated characters. The best passwords I end up memorizing anyway, but I don't use the same PW twice anywhere on the internet. Am I secure?
Processing.js is a wonderful tool. I'm not sure exactly what it is about Processing, but I find writing rich, graphical applications a breeze using Processing, and Processing.js Just Works in all major browsers!
Interesting! My school, RPI, tends to do whatever MIT does about ten years after they do it. Right now we're in the process of building a $100M athletic village. As far as I can tell it's so we can get alumni to notice us more and donate. In ten years are we going to regret that decision?
> Now that I was spending more time on the floor, I wondered why the men’s room always stank. Then one afternoon at three, when I was in there taking a leak, I discovered the hideous truth. Traders had a contest. Coming in at eight, they never left their desks all day, eating and drinking while working. Then, at three o’clock, they marched into the men’s room and stood at the wall opposite the urinals. Dropping their pants, they bet $100 on who could train his stream the longest on the urinals across the lavatory. As their hydraulic pressure waned, the three traders waddled, pants at their ankles, across the floor, desperately trying to keep their pee on target. This is what $2 million of bonus can do to grown men.