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Re:How the Camera Doomed Google Glass on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:47AM (#8897982)
Yep. Plus incredibly uncool looking.
Re:Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @11:17PM (#8491346)
I'm dubious of the "walking again" claims though. Sure it's awesome he's regained feeling - that's the story here. But his so-called walking is between parallel bars or with a walker, both with full calipers. Complete paraplegics can do this by just swinging their legs, and it looks like what this guy was doing. They showed him lying on a bed, I wish they'd show just what leg movement - if any - he's regained.
Re:Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @09:39AM (#8324395)
In the multi-version, how would they handle the different DSLs in things like route mapping?

map.resources :users

vs.

resources :users

Re:Introducing Swift on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:51PM (#7835804)
Live preview. Kids changing a value and seeing their widget move differently or change colour instantly, that can be magical.
Re:Has Anyone Ever Flipped Heads 76 Times in a Row? on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @11:14AM (#7144715)
The article quotes 500 flips to get 9 in a row. I'm not sure how many flips this took but Derren Brown gets 10 in a row. Notable camera cut after the intro but the 10 heads seems genuine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uJD1O3L08

Re:Angry Birds in space on Friday March 09, 2012 @12:29AM (#3683039)
Surely they paid for it? If so, is the the first use of private advertising on the ISS?
Re:Return of the Mac (2005) on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:47AM (#2859298)
If you wanna get cross-platformy, Mac is the only system where you can run and virtualise every OS. It's a web dev's dream.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+ on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @11:22PM (#2708292)
They used to strongly discourage adding non-friends.

I remember when adding people you had to enter something for "How did you meet this person?" and if you checked "I don't know them", it would close the box and say "Well why are you adding them?"

Re:GitHub for Mac on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @09:46PM (#2686277)
They're not ignoring a larger market, they're ignoring a smaller one:

> Beyond that, one-third of our traffic uses Macs. It's not a small market for us.

Re:What to Say To Someone Who is Sick on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @09:18PM (#2655575)
Some great points here but just because this applied to this guy doesn't mean every point is a catch-all for sick people.

2. I SHOULD BE GOING NOW. You’ll never go wrong by uttering these five words while visiting someone who’s sick.

I spent 11 months in hospital after a spinal cord injury and every time, I hated when my mates were about to leave. Having visitors can be the only form of escapism.

Also, "You look great". Maybe you do? I get this a lot. People say it behind my back too, i.e. "Hey I saw him the other day he's looking great", which feels awesome because in my mind I look like shit.

Re:What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails? on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @08:31PM (#2655470)
On coffeescript and sass, I guess I'm just a blind-following zombie fanboy that does whatever the Rails team tells me. I moved all my javascript to coffeescript and css to sass, it was love at first sight and in my mind it was the best decision ever. I know it was all available long before 3.1, I had played with both but never in real projects, and having it baked-in makes it easy for me.

I guess I'm basically just an end user, I like to use technology that's vouched-for and I trust the Rails team. Rails suits me.

Re:WWDC 2011 Prelude on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @02:22AM (#2628123)
No downvotes from me. I've had two iMac HDDs die, lots of friends' too. My heart sunk when I found out about special temp sensor, I live a long way from any Apple repair centre.

As for Lion, it's anyone's guess whether we'll get a burnable/USBable DMG or not...

Re:WWDC 2011 Prelude on Monday June 06, 2011 @06:11AM (#2624234)
iCloud, dummy! Seriously though, I'm guessing it's a second partition.
Re:Zed Shaw: Github's Favorite Joke on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @02:59AM (#2601706)
If you paid it no attention it would go away and find someone else to annoy.