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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 volunteer parent sparked in that class.

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 organism is able to increase the reproductive chances of another organism with shared DNA (i.e. a child, grandchild, sibling, etc.), the related organism won't be directly reproducing, but it will absolutely be affecting the genetic material being passed down.

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.

It worked out very well for the founders of all of those companies.

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 game-changer.

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 drivetrain."

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 Singh's writing is accessible and entertaining for anyone with an interest in math and science, regardless of education level.

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.

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/shepherd.jpg

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.

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 reason not to use that technology.

I believe the theory is that your application may take a little longer to load initially, but subsequent interactions should be much faster, since all rendering is happening on the client, and the server is only delivering API interaction. There is also the potential for even the initial render to be faster depending on what server-side rendering logic is being transferred to the client.

Safari still uses WebKit, but Chrome has been using a WebKit fork called Blink since version 28.

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 solutions being too complicated for most end users. 3) Bloated content management system alternatives.

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 disabled functionality as well, but realized for my target market (small to medium business), that might not be very important, and could just be a big time waste. Anyone have any experience/insight?

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 pleasantly surprised with how well they are put together and how much I have learned. Also, it's free.

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 issues addressed. We feel that we have a very strong community and that it is an excellent resource for users to get assistance. I encourage you to continue using the Apple Support Communities while abiding by our terms of use. The Apple Support Communities Use Agreement, which also includes helpful information about using Apple Support Communities, is located at https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/tou.html

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Best Regards, Apple Support Communities Staff"

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 someone with some money or some lawyer who had this happen to them to be a part of a civil action lawsuit against you, just for the fact that you have stood quiet while people struggle with this issue!"

While "trolish complaints" is a nebulous phrase, I think statements like the above move the post from being an issue report/support request to a more inflammatory post.

If you read farther down in his blog, Apple has responded directly to 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 issues addressed. We feel that we have a very strong community and that it is an excellent resource for users to get assistance. I encourage you to continue using the Apple Support Communities while abiding by our terms of use. The Apple Support Communities Use Agreement, which also includes helpful information about using Apple Support Communities, is located at https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/tou.html...

Here's the actual kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5livesstudios/satellite-...

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.

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

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.

The "Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate" functionality on this page is really useful.

"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.

"Local businesses recirculate dollars in their communities. An analysis of bookstores in Austin showed that, of every $100 spent in a locally-owned store (Book People), $45 were circulated back into the community, whereas only $13 made its way back into the community when $100 was spent at the nearby corporate chain store (Borders)."

It's interesting they used book people as an example since they were a major force behind the "keep Austin weird" local business campaign.

Yeah, I saw that too. I think you're referring to:

Lego tracks down rare train set for Asperger's boy, 11, who saved up for it for two years only to discover it was no longer made

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241454/Now-thats-cu...

Amazing example of customer service.

The last line says it all: "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how companies score lifelong customers."

This report contains a lot of information, so for those looking for the executive summary of one of the more interesting and controversial findings (in the "Conclusions and Relevance") section:

"Relative to normal weight... Grade 1 obesity overall was not associated with higher mortality, and overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality."

I had the same feeling about 3D until I saw "Life of Pi" in 3D. They managed to provide imagery that wouldn't have been possible in a two-dimensional format. As with all other "tools" 3D can be used poorly, and it can be used well. As the technology matures, I have a feeling we'll see it skew more towards the latter.

I use godaddy, but I'm not impressed. Just haven't got around to transferring. I would recommend you go with someone else.

To be fair "researchers" have also stated the converse: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/jhasbrou/Research/Working%20Pape... http://www.automatedtrader.net/headlines/127545/hft-helps-ma... http://home.uchicago.edu/~bweller/files/Liquidity_and_High_F...

Not sure what we're arguing about. I never said HFT is "justified" by its infusion of liquidity. It is simply a function of High Frequency trading, whether justified or not.