manuscreationis

Never had one, never will

"In fact learning vi/m is a lot like learning to play a music instrument."

If thats the case, I am screwed

Just wanted to add, I just used this to show some work to a friend, and it worked really well. Had it up and running quickly, he joined easily, was able to see everything I did.

Only gripe, the window re-sizing wasn't working properly. Once I re-sized it once (width-wise), it didn't let me re-size it any more, only move it around.

Otherwise, very easy to use product

It seems quite powerful, but overall vi still overwhelms me with all the options and functionality...

I'm trying to learn more about vi/m (and emacs) as I get more into Linux development, but I think a lifetime of Windows has damaged me, mentally

Thanks for replying, good luck with the product!

Mind sharing what your particular frustrations with WebEx are? (Not that I'm defending the product, just curious)

I had thought that was the problem. The right side that listed my answers didn't always seem to be correct.

Thanks for following up - best of luck

The first demo puzzle had some kind of bug.

I got into a loop where I couldn't submit the correct answer, I had to keep resetting and submitting until it accepted it. I may have just brain-farted, but I'm almost positive the first puzzle has some kind of validation bug in it where it's not properly checking the answer, especially if you checked once before and got it wrong.

Otherwise, it was a decent diversion... You should work on the presentation a bit more, it looks very rough.

Hope you keep adding more puzzles, could be a useful tool for practicing problem solving

That is pretty amazing for her. A novel approach, although my knowledge of cancer-fighting-techniques is limited at best (limited to just about 0). Good for her, however, I hope this turns out to be another leap forward in saving lives.

CBS needs to fire whoever edited this article. It is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, and parts of it are down right impossible to make sense of.

Cheapens the entire weight of her amazing discovery, to have it reported in such a haphazard manner.

Just to get this out the way: In his example, his resulting command should be (if hes such a stickler for naming conventions) CommandBase (or BaseCommand).

Prefixing Interfaces with an I is not a mistake; Using an Adapter Pattern when one is not the right choice, is the mistake.

"I can’t think of any logic to put in the base class and the Dependancy Inversion Principles says interfaces are preferred. So I’ll make it an interface and follow the IConvention naming it ICommand."

But then he does think of logic that he wants in a base class, as he goes about developing it. Also, hes following DI principles without first thinking about how those principles apply. It feels as though hes just putting fingers to keyboard without putting thought towards the design itself.

We've all run into this scenario, and yes it can be a pain in the ass - Thats why you should stop and think before writing any code and make sure the choices you're making now, are the choices you'll want to live with later.

As for the hassle of having to change things... I don't think theres a developer worth his salt who hasn't gone through that scenario a dozen times over, and probably will go through it another dozen times atleast. Things always change partways through development, and you realize you based later work on an earlier assumption that did not hold up. It's part of the process.

tldr; Interfaces begin with an I, Base classes should be labeled as such

Nah... nah this is totally legit.

He didn't copy and paste it, including html formatting, from a pre-canned document.

He certainly didn't make a second post a few seconds later stating how great thumbtack is to use either...

Nah... Totally legit

This is a great article, thanks for posting.

I think my favorite response has to be "trading the barometer to the building's superintendent in return for the information wanted".

... Speed limits are laws that are set up by well-paid lies?

By whom? That all-too-powerful "Let's drive slow" lobby?

I'm with you on the "When the law hurts the very people it's meant to protect, it's the right and responsibility of the people to fight against it" angle...

But speed limits? That is your line in the sand?

I cut out all caffeine several years ago (that I know of - I'm sure it slips into me somehow), I don't drink coffee, soda, or even tea.

I don't drink a lot of alcohol as of late, mainly as a money-and-waist saving expenditure.

There are nights where I'll hit the pillow and be asleep in minutes, and there are nights where I wont. My sleeping can be very erratic. If you were to ask my S/O, she'd tell you i'm out like a light in 2 seconds, but that's only because her issues are worse than mine, so to her it seems like I'm an amazing sleeper.

She sleeps like a log on her days off, however, so to each their own. Woe be to the foolish man who dares try to wake her.

But I'm usually in that half awake / half asleep mode most nights, for a non-trivial amount of time. I've gotten used to it; The trick is to never open your eyes. Keep "playing" asleep, and eventually it'll happen. Once you open your eyes and let your brain turn on more fully, you're screwed.

My first thought was, it was some kind of joke, trying to take a more original / off-kilter approach to the whole blackout thing.

I mean, "Black Oak" on SOPAs "Black Out" day?

But maybe I'm just giving them too much credit...

Also: Pretty messed up (on TCrunches part) that this Black Oak site would now have access to cookies/LS from techcrunch, as one person points out.

I think the real question is: "How much quality sleep per night do you get?"

I roll into bed around 10:30 or 11:00pm, to wake up at 6:30.

Assuming I sleep the whole time, that makes it look like I'd be getting about ~8 hours on average.

Factor in it takes about 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, brings it down to ~7:30 hours of sleep.

Factor in time spent tossing and turning during the night, laying in bed in that "I'm not fully awake, but I'm damn sure not asleep" mode, and that brings it down to at least ~5:00 hours of sleep, if not less. This isn't every night, but it is common.

Added to that, my s/o works odd hours, and so I get woken up at least once per night about 3 hours before 6:30 am no matter what, which means i'll spend the next 20-30 falling back asleep, if I can - some times it's a few hours of the aforementioned not sleeping / not waking phase.

On a good night, my quality sleep is probably 6 hours.

On a bad night, probably 2 to 3.

"Search engines need a system of collectively flagging sites like Quora, so I, and everybody else, would never see it in their results ever again."

Not sure about the "everybody else" part, but Google already has this mechanism... Although I've heard sites like w3schools has already found ways around it (Someone on here posted an article about it once, but it's lost to me at this point, otherwise I'd post it as a reference).

As to his core point of requiring a login to view full results... It's annoying, but since it's free it isn't the end of the world. It's not the model I'd choose, but then again, Quora isn't really asking me for my opinions.

StackOverflow definitely has the reader-model correct, although many people are unhappy with their answer-model... So no one is perfect.

This is a really interesting read on algorithms applied to one of the great games of my youth...

Really makes me want to sit down and rip off... er... borrow liberally from this article and implement some of these algorithms as a learning experience

Thanks for posting this

I think the saddest thing i'll read all day is this quote from the top paragraph...

"An often overlooked feature of C# (and OO programming in general) is the use of abstract classes to maximise code re-use."

Excuse me while I go weep for the poor folk for whom this applies

Even a library with 2 books is still a library. Don't sell yourself short.

Great answer, that's about what I had figured. It looks pretty useful for putting that kind of functionality into an existing web app. Hope to see you continue to develop it.

You're right about Knockout expecting you to design your app in consideration for it, although it really just expects you to adhere to a RESTful JSON approach, not a "knockout" approach.

But I digress...

Best of luck!

Seems similar to the functionality built into Knockout.

Can you describe your libraries VS Knockout (or those like it)?

It's back up, FYI

Looks to be down for me, as well.

Never seen it go down before that I can recall. Luckily its just my personal side project stuff, so no huge loss while I'm at work

Relevant: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Came across this while looking for resources on RD, thought others might find some of these useful

Appears like it made a dent for a small period of time, then back to business as usual.

Also, as other state, this is an over-designed graph. There are much simpler ways to get this data across.

Sounds very interesting, but what kind of system do you have in place for configuration of the date activities?

For example, if a couple prefers to have dates with just themselves, vs couples who want exclusively group style dates? Or a couple that has some kind of physical disability and thus wouldn't be able to complete a "surprise" date that included, say, skydiving?

Cool idea, however. Best of luck with it!

It doesn't seem to be about software development mainly, but he mentions that he does development for a living, and posted a little about how his co-morbid ADHD plays a factor into things.

Thought it might be an interesting read for those in the community with similar issues.

Like I replied to another person, my hope was to get my sea-legs with a vm/hack setup, then once I had some experience and a solid idea to execute on, invest in a used mac.

But thanks for the advice

Hmmm you know, that never occured to me as a possibility...

I'll look into that, as well

Thanks

Edit:

From a quick search, it seems as though it's more trouble than it's worth... Which seems to be the hallmark of what I'm reading about taking the "easy" way out overall...

Oh well

Sent, thanks