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"i have no idea why minorities have a problem with someone telling them they're inferior being elevated and celebrated by the conference they're paying money for."

so who who cares if minorities are offended?

that's, uh, kind of the point.

That's not always true.

LiveCoding.tv is popular, and they're not prepared demos. They're mostly people googling their problems.

Watching a flawless live coding demo can be impressive and inspiring.

Also about "I can think faster than you can type.."... if you can reason about code in a new language or framework faster than someone can type it, you probably shouldn't be in a talk about that language or framework.

You're right, it was US Air.

I recently noticed DTW -> PHL was over $400 more on United than DTW -> PHL -> NYC. (For me, worst case scenario would be having spend an extra three hours on a train back to Philly.)

It would be nice to know what percent of flights have a problem that causes a reroute, so we could do the math on wether it is worth it.

CrossFit is literally a game. The metcon at the end of every class is scored, and there's often a leader board. (I'd argue this is why people, included myself, get so addicted)

I'd argue that Sprints can be a game where the score is velocity.

And a Pomodoro is a game if you try and get done in 25 minutes the thing you set out to do.

I work better and harder when I'm actually playing a game.

Pomodoros, sprints and CrossFit all take work and turn it into an actual game.

If you are doing well you feel a surge of pride that the drudgery of typical 'work' can not provide.

Gamification is bullshit because it is not making the activity a game. It is just assigning a thin game layer on top of mundane tasks.

To prove a 17 year-old committed child pornography by recording himself, a bunch of adults are going to stimulate and photograph his penis.

Makes sense.

"i love relearning a new editor every two years"

"For the first 1-2 years of your Vim usage you will be much less efficient than your current editor"

years????

This is obviously a typo.

If you used a real editor, it'd be quite easy to change "years" to "days."

yes, please use your bright-ass smart phone in the middle of the movie theater. distract every person behind you while you figure out when would be the most convenient time for you to pee.

(this is why i don't go to movies anymore.)

brb. revolution.

personally, i think it's adorable that microsoft keeps trying to make a web browser.

"which can often uniquely identify you."

"and potentially show up in unwanted places, like insurance, credit & background checks."

yeah, i'm pretty sure that's not a thing that can happen.

also, if you like the internet being free then you shouldn't mind seeing ads for your demographic that get a better roi and make more money for publishers of the content you don't pay for.

i was expecting this article to be about glenn beck

someone should patent being a litigious prick

just get rid of your mouse for awhile, even if it kills your productivity. it'll make you figure out the keyboard shortcut for everything.

i like my apps fullscreen to eliminate all the other noise and using spaces to navigate.

fullscreen macvim is actually a beautiful editor.

This is really a stretch to call this "client side" scripting when Silverlight is doing all the heavy lifting.

It's a fun toy, but why an extra layer of abstraction when JavaScript + jQuery are crazy powerful.

"The birth of ORM lies in the fact that SQL is ugly and intimidating"

The notion that people steer away from SQL because it is intimidating is absurdly ignorant.

The communities that embrace ORMs and NoSQL are the ones who are learning and creating new things all the time. No one's first language is Ruby, they didn't learn node.js in college, they didn't take an (N)Hibernate certification course. They learn in their free time!

Meanwhile, if you were good in SQL 12 years ago then you still are today!

Smarter people than me have written on these subjects, but for me, the answer is simple. As Fowler says, the most pervasive smell in software is duplication. If I litter my code with all the CRUD SQL (even worse with sprocs that contain column sizes) then my software is quite brittle.

That's why, if it's public, then people will know they're cheating.

I toy with the idea of verifiable quests. For example, Take a picture a day (I can verify that they have from flickr). Blog once a week (I can verify this from their RSS feed)... although each one of those requires custom programming.

Maybe give more XP for those things that can be verified.

i just messaged you on the githubs.

I wasn't going to flood them with updates for every task, but whenever you get an achievement or level up.

In http://kuwest.com you have more quantifiable tasks, so you can complete a quest when you, say, run 100 miles or read 1000 pages.

I'm working on a web version. http://kuwest.com

The timeline is to have quests done by the end of July and at least a mobile website by the end of August.

That's my thought as well!

In http://kuwest.com you get 3XP for adding a task, 5XP for commenting on it and 7XP for uploading a picture.

I'm also thinking you wouldn't want to flood your social network with lies about what you're doing.

I've been working on a web version of this since Startup Weekend Detroit:

http://kuwest.com

It's live now, but I haven't promoted it. I was going to hold off until I had the quest engine done and polished a little more, but feel free to sign up now.

i just did speed tests with my coworkers 3GS running 3 and my 3Gs running 4 and camera, settings all were a lot faster with iOS4

logmein is the best by far for 1 on 1.

logmein pro only lets you share one screen... but it does it perfectly. invaluable for pairing.

logmeinexpress is free and better quality than dimdim

https://secure.logmein.com/US/products/express/Default.aspx

Who cares that you boot up to BASIC. Kids can now make a website and share it with THE PLANET.

However, if anything is hurting the desire to code it is not modern OS but the move of the gaming industry toward consoles. With PC games kids can get in to games they love and with actual code extend them and again, share them with the planet. They won't be doing this if they're spending their day playing XBOX games instead of PC games.