I also haven't seen auto-playing ads on my android phone. Nevertheless, the ads on slashdot are what finally made me get around to setting up an adblocker for it.
It is better to use Vim/Emacs (Spacemacs ftw!). Real devs however use whatever works best for them.
Agreed. I use both actually. Android Studio is kept on one monitor. I use it for syntax checking, auto imports, refactoring, etc. I do the real coding in vim on the other monitor (with portrait orientation). It took some effort to get vim to auto-load changes made by android studio, but it works very well now.
In the Before Time when Eclipse was the standard for Android dev, I used eclim which eased the pain of Eclipse significantly. Thank goodness those days are over.
I started programming about 7 years ago with visual basic 6, now I'm finishing my sophomore year of college (CS major). When learning new languages, I would start out with beginner tutorials and then move on to writing my own projects as quickly as possible. I would then do all my learning from experimentation and online resources (google, stack overflow, etc). Now I have enough experience that when I learn something new I can jump right in and start making stuff. But I've never learned from books. I tried a few times, but they just seemed boring/slow paced. I learn so much quicker from google anyway. I don't think I'm really missing out on any in-depth knowledge from not reading books--I try to research things I don't understand quite heavily, and works quite well as far as I can tell. I often hear other programmers talk about how they learned/learn from books, but I figure I just learn differently. I never read the text books for my c++/java classes either. I find that half-paying attention in class and then researching anything I don't understand on my own time is much more efficient.
It actually doesn't matter that the sample is such a small percentage of the population. It's size that matters, not percent.* A sample of 162 will be just as statistically relevant whether the population size is 9.5 million or only 10,000 (assuming the sample is taken properly). There may be other issues with the study, but this isn't one of them.
(At least that's what I learned last quarter in intro statistics. Feel free to correct me if I missed anything)
*Though if the sample is drawn without replacement (i.e. putting each subject back in the pool before choosing the next), the sample should be under 10% of the population.
What also annoys me a lot is the lack of variety in ads, if I open three tabs on Youtube, chances are they will all play the very same commercial and often one that I already have seen five times before the same day.
This really bugs me. I'll be listening to Pandora and they'll cycle between just 2 or 3 ads. Do they think that repeating ads is going to make them more effective? Maybe to a degree, but it starts to get really annoying to listen to the same crap over and over again (same goes for the music, but that's a different rant).
I started noticing issues with my typing a month or so after I stopped playing clarinet (September). I can still sort of use the pinky, but it locks up and gets tired quickly. I'm not sure exactly how to explain it. I went to a neurologist at the University of Washington Medical Center. She suggested two treatments: pills or botox injection. The botox seemed to be the better choice, so we tried that. They gave me a small injection at the end of January, but there was no effect. I'm scheduled to get a larger dose in May. However, the doctor isn't optimistic that the botox will work in just the right way to let me play clarinet again. We'll see, but it doesn't look good. I would love to hear any treatments or other advice you have. You mentioned finger splints in another post; would you recommend that I try that? Do you know if it's common (or at least not unheard of) for musicians to be able to overcome dystonia? I'm repeating myself I guess, but the neurologist wasn't too optimistic...
I tried tasker for a little bit, but I couldn't stand the interface. I would've liked to just type up a script or something on my computer and copy the file over to the phone rather than going through that mess.
Yeah, same for me on my samsung galaxy exhibit with android 2.3.6. I can't stand it; it makes the whole site completely unusable for me. They better keep the old mobile site around, or at least until this gets fixed.
Isn't that button only available from the website interface? I've used pandora on android for a while (and ios before that) and I've only seen it when listening on my laptop. It's a shame too--I discovered it a few days ago and now I really wish I could use it on my phone.
This is one of the reasons I feel really fortunate to live in Washington. Juniors and Seniors here can go to a community college instead of regular high school if they want. I'm a high school senior in my second year of full-time college, and it's nice having some real CS classes.
The post's author... apparently considers statistics to be "social science".
No, he/she said statistics is a requirement for the psychology students, of which they have a lot.
In response to the rest of your post, I don't really think of CS being in the same category as math, physics, etc. It just doesn't seem as "science-y" to me.... Though I'm just a student barely starting his CS degree, so what do I know eh.
Another vote for Sennheiser here. I've bought two different sets of their headphones, and I've been very happy with both of them. Specifically, I bought the HD 212s for $50 (extremely durable, lightweight, good bass, but they squish your ears after an hour or so) and then the HD 555s for $100 (also very durable, you can wear them for hours, even better sound quality than the 212s, but they're open-backed so no noise isolation). Neither of those quite fit the OP's specs, but my point is that Sennheiser is a great brand. Definitely check them out.
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I also haven't seen auto-playing ads on my android phone. Nevertheless, the ads on slashdot are what finally made me get around to setting up an adblocker for it.
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I like the editing features of vim. Yes, there are plugins, but why settle for a subset when you can have the full editor?
It is better to use Vim/Emacs (Spacemacs ftw!). Real devs however use whatever works best for them.
Agreed. I use both actually. Android Studio is kept on one monitor. I use it for syntax checking, auto imports, refactoring, etc. I do the real coding in vim on the other monitor (with portrait orientation). It took some effort to get vim to auto-load changes made by android studio, but it works very well now. In the Before Time when Eclipse was the standard for Android dev, I used eclim which eased the pain of Eclipse significantly. Thank goodness those days are over.
Stop rhyming, and I mean it!
Exactly. If you can already type at 60+ WPM, the miniscule benefit that a th key would provide is laughable.
Can we please stop describing games as being "addictive"?
care to elaborate?
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
Misery is in the air
People dying everywhere
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
I started programming about 7 years ago with visual basic 6, now I'm finishing my sophomore year of college (CS major). When learning new languages, I would start out with beginner tutorials and then move on to writing my own projects as quickly as possible. I would then do all my learning from experimentation and online resources (google, stack overflow, etc). Now I have enough experience that when I learn something new I can jump right in and start making stuff. But I've never learned from books. I tried a few times, but they just seemed boring/slow paced. I learn so much quicker from google anyway. I don't think I'm really missing out on any in-depth knowledge from not reading books--I try to research things I don't understand quite heavily, and works quite well as far as I can tell. I often hear other programmers talk about how they learned/learn from books, but I figure I just learn differently. I never read the text books for my c++/java classes either. I find that half-paying attention in class and then researching anything I don't understand on my own time is much more efficient.
Care to explain? I couldn't find any info on who/what APK is.
It actually doesn't matter that the sample is such a small percentage of the population. It's size that matters, not percent.* A sample of 162 will be just as statistically relevant whether the population size is 9.5 million or only 10,000 (assuming the sample is taken properly). There may be other issues with the study, but this isn't one of them.
(At least that's what I learned last quarter in intro statistics. Feel free to correct me if I missed anything)
*Though if the sample is drawn without replacement (i.e. putting each subject back in the pool before choosing the next), the sample should be under 10% of the population.
What also annoys me a lot is the lack of variety in ads, if I open three tabs on Youtube, chances are they will all play the very same commercial and often one that I already have seen five times before the same day.
This really bugs me. I'll be listening to Pandora and they'll cycle between just 2 or 3 ads. Do they think that repeating ads is going to make them more effective? Maybe to a degree, but it starts to get really annoying to listen to the same crap over and over again (same goes for the music, but that's a different rant).
If you're on chrome, you can get the Personal Blocklist extension (made by Google). I don't know if there's an extension for firefox though.
35 mbps should be enough for anyone.
I started noticing issues with my typing a month or so after I stopped playing clarinet (September). I can still sort of use the pinky, but it locks up and gets tired quickly. I'm not sure exactly how to explain it. I went to a neurologist at the University of Washington Medical Center. She suggested two treatments: pills or botox injection. The botox seemed to be the better choice, so we tried that. They gave me a small injection at the end of January, but there was no effect. I'm scheduled to get a larger dose in May. However, the doctor isn't optimistic that the botox will work in just the right way to let me play clarinet again. We'll see, but it doesn't look good. I would love to hear any treatments or other advice you have. You mentioned finger splints in another post; would you recommend that I try that? Do you know if it's common (or at least not unheard of) for musicians to be able to overcome dystonia? I'm repeating myself I guess, but the neurologist wasn't too optimistic...
I tried tasker for a little bit, but I couldn't stand the interface. I would've liked to just type up a script or something on my computer and copy the file over to the phone rather than going through that mess.
Or even better: "Your code sucks." It could be shortened down even more to "You suck," but then the meaning starts to change a bit.
Yeah, same for me on my samsung galaxy exhibit with android 2.3.6. I can't stand it; it makes the whole site completely unusable for me. They better keep the old mobile site around, or at least until this gets fixed.
Isn't that button only available from the website interface? I've used pandora on android for a while (and ios before that) and I've only seen it when listening on my laptop. It's a shame too--I discovered it a few days ago and now I really wish I could use it on my phone.
This is one of the reasons I feel really fortunate to live in Washington. Juniors and Seniors here can go to a community college instead of regular high school if they want. I'm a high school senior in my second year of full-time college, and it's nice having some real CS classes.
The article says he got a grade of 2.3. Does Germany use a different grading system than the US? Over here that would be a pretty terrible grade.
The post's author ... apparently considers statistics to be "social science".
No, he/she said statistics is a requirement for the psychology students, of which they have a lot.
In response to the rest of your post, I don't really think of CS being in the same category as math, physics, etc. It just doesn't seem as "science-y" to me.... Though I'm just a student barely starting his CS degree, so what do I know eh.
Another vote for Sennheiser here. I've bought two different sets of their headphones, and I've been very happy with both of them. Specifically, I bought the HD 212s for $50 (extremely durable, lightweight, good bass, but they squish your ears after an hour or so) and then the HD 555s for $100 (also very durable, you can wear them for hours, even better sound quality than the 212s, but they're open-backed so no noise isolation). Neither of those quite fit the OP's specs, but my point is that Sennheiser is a great brand. Definitely check them out.
This should help you out -- you can just make your own jokes!