A few months ago I did the "Introduction to functional programming" MOOC on edX. At first I thought that I would hate watching videos. But what worked for me was:
Read the chapter in the book
Watch the video at 1.5x speed
Pause the video when there was a need to take notes
After a while it became even fun and relaxing to watch the videos
I agree, loved the series. But I also think that a new series would never live up to the original one. Love to be wrong on this, but my experience is that it rarely if ever does after a long hiatus. Doesn't mean that a return will be bad, though.
Both. I have no doubt a new X-Files will be a major disappointment for a lot of people because the previous episodes got better with age. Ditto for Firefly. And I think that "getting better with age" happens for a large part in our heads.
Is that the "general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for data storage"? No, I have no experience with it. I do have (very little) experience with Magento (and like to keep it that way).
on iOS you can only use the bundled one and nothing else.
It's a little less simple than that. On iOS you have to use Apple's browser engine. You are free[1] to wrap your own user interface around it, like for example Google's Chrome does. As a user I don't care much about the browser engine; it's like whining that mobile phones use USB to charge.
"The planet Pao has a stagnant culture. Scientists of the neighboring world Breakness launch a ruthless experiment, jarring Pao into new vitality by installing three class-languages; one for a warrior class, one for technicians, and one for merchants. But their formula contains weaknesses of their own degenerate culture. Beran Panasper- heir to the throne of Pao- has been spirited away to Breakness to be trained as a tool for later subjugation of Pao. But he still has a mind of his own, and his Paonian characteristics will blend with Breakness science in an unexpected way!"
Good for you! *clap clap*. If you want to try a real one you have to buy a real one. Buying a fake one is like sitting in a bathtub claiming you're on the beach.
A lot of food and drinks in the USA (and Mexico, for that matter) have so much sugar added that for practical purposes you can think of it as candy....
"The volume of stolen iPhones dropped by 25 percent in New York, by 40 percent in San Francisco and by 50 percent in London over the 12 months after Apple added an Activation Lock to its smartphones, Reuters reported"
So, no, if you're lucky you don't lose your phone. It will never be 100% because stolen phones can be turned into parts.
"Thefts of Apple's smartphone have plummeted in San Francisco, New York and London following the debut of the company's Activation Lock feature in fall 2013". Source: http://www.cnet.com/news/smart...
Cool, but the apps store is still a draconian gulag. expect a dearth of crisis pregnancy apps to get written and a bunch of Abortion assistance apps to get flagged and removed as part of our nations proud tradition of culture warfare.
Seems like you missed what ResearchKit actually is and that it's open source...
I agree with you, I prefer a Kindle for reading eBooks (fiction) over an iPad. But there are plenty of people who do so on an iPad and are happy to do so and would hate to use an iPad for reading. The main problem (IMO) with most slashdotters is that they measure the entire world by their own needs forgetting that most people don't care about things like "open source", "root" or whatnot. Ignorance is rampant on both sides of the fence. However, I have the feeling that the noobs are aware of this while the nerd crowd suffers from a serious case of something that's akin to the Dunning–Kruger effect.
"When referring to the language, the name is normally capitalized (Perl) as a proper noun. When referring to the interpreter program itself, the name is often uncapitalized (perl) because most Unix-like file systems are case-sensitive. Before the release of the first edition of Programming Perl, it was common to refer to the language as perl; Randal L. Schwartz, however, capitalized the language's name in the book to make it stand out better when typeset. This case distinction was subsequently documented as canonical."
Slashdot Mirror
A few months ago I did the "Introduction to functional programming" MOOC on edX. At first I thought that I would hate watching videos. But what worked for me was:
After a while it became even fun and relaxing to watch the videos
"* with perhaps the exception of the co-pilot"
Judging is so easy from a chair behind a computer....
I agree, loved the series. But I also think that a new series would never live up to the original one. Love to be wrong on this, but my experience is that it rarely if ever does after a long hiatus. Doesn't mean that a return will be bad, though.
Both. I have no doubt a new X-Files will be a major disappointment for a lot of people because the previous episodes got better with age. Ditto for Firefly. And I think that "getting better with age" happens for a large part in our heads.
I don't think a new series will bring back the magic, because the magic is for a (large?) part in our heads.
Sell it, you will get a very good price for it, and buy the 2015 version if you really need this update.
Is that the "general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for data storage"? No, I have no experience with it. I do have (very little) experience with Magento (and like to keep it that way).
I think the problem a lot of programmers have with PHP is that it originally was written by very inexperienced programmer(s) and it still (?) shows.
Good to know I was not wrong ;-).
It's a little less simple than that. On iOS you have to use Apple's browser engine. You are free[1] to wrap your own user interface around it, like for example Google's Chrome does. As a user I don't care much about the browser engine; it's like whining that mobile phones use USB to charge.
[1] free as in what Apple allows in its app store
"The planet Pao has a stagnant culture. Scientists of the neighboring world Breakness launch a ruthless experiment, jarring Pao into new vitality by installing three class-languages; one for a warrior class, one for technicians, and one for merchants. But their formula contains weaknesses of their own degenerate culture. Beran Panasper- heir to the throne of Pao- has been spirited away to Breakness to be trained as a tool for later subjugation of Pao. But he still has a mind of his own, and his Paonian characteristics will blend with Breakness science in an unexpected way!"
correct horse battery staple
Good for you! *clap clap*. If you want to try a real one you have to buy a real one. Buying a fake one is like sitting in a bathtub claiming you're on the beach.
.... looking into the mirror...
A lot of food and drinks in the USA (and Mexico, for that matter) have so much sugar added that for practical purposes you can think of it as candy....
True, but if he locks it he contributes to annoying thieves and hence might lower the overall probability. It's like vaccination.
So, no, if you're lucky you don't lose your phone. It will never be 100% because stolen phones can be turned into parts.
"Thefts of Apple's smartphone have plummeted in San Francisco, New York and London following the debut of the company's Activation Lock feature in fall 2013". Source: http://www.cnet.com/news/smart...
Seems like you missed what ResearchKit actually is and that it's open source...
I agree with you, I prefer a Kindle for reading eBooks (fiction) over an iPad. But there are plenty of people who do so on an iPad and are happy to do so and would hate to use an iPad for reading. The main problem (IMO) with most slashdotters is that they measure the entire world by their own needs forgetting that most people don't care about things like "open source", "root" or whatnot. Ignorance is rampant on both sides of the fence. However, I have the feeling that the noobs are aware of this while the nerd crowd suffers from a serious case of something that's akin to the Dunning–Kruger effect.
You're basically comparing an iPad to an Amazon Kindle.
Ruby is a scripting language like Perl or Python. Rails is the "hipster web 2.0 app", which is a library (framework) for Ruby.
Emacs
What!? And then Dice misses all those comments ;-)
Source: Wikipedia
Nitpick: it's, not its ;-)