sgaither

Yes, the growth in the webspace can be partly attributable to programming being more stable, more accessible to beginners. Do you think the hard part of any programming/engineering project is learning a new language?

How slow is "slow" for you right now? And writes vs. read? Which MySql storage engine are you using?

Good read: this story has nothing to do with programming but everything to do with overcoming the loss of extrinsic rewards and putting yourself somewhere where your mindset and personality fits best

We have to ask ourselves: where is the money? Our rights aren't being lost to a sprawling military-police state just because there's a Big-Brother wannabe conspiring to destroy the constitution. Police departments grow the same way our project departments grow in engineering companies: by managers arguing for bigger budgets and spending more, sometimes wastefully, to justify bigger budgets come next fiscal year.

These hyped-up (sometimes roided-up) SWAT teams do what they do to justify their existence....no manager wants to preside over a shrinking department. It takes a lot of thinking and long-term policy making to reduce this perverse yet basic economic incentive

After seeing some of the NSA protests yesterdays, it's easy to see Obama the college student taking part in those:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-o...

Funny what becoming part of a bureaucracy will do to your ideals

The page looks nice and you have a clear flow and call to action...but the copy could use tightening up all around. For example, the subhead:

> New, exciting way of doing online courses

Sounds like it's missing an article: "A new, exciting way of doing online courses"

And is "doing" the right word? Maybe the verb should be: "taking" or change the sentence structure from "of doing" to "to take"

There's a lot of little grammar and style things that should be polished...IMO it's a big factor in an online education's first impression

The U.S. and Russia are still large strategic and economic partners. There's other political balls being juggled around, like the ongoing conflict in Syria. It's not necessarily "leverage"

This has little to do with Google+ itself and more to do with Google becoming ubiquitous and + riding along

The upside is that a poor product with an entrenched position does not automatically win just because its backers could afford polished design

I'll be the one who says it... There are too many typos in this piece (including the first paragraph) to take it seriously.

Neat! I hope physics classes today are getting more into using such web interactive modeling. Or, that the new wave of interactive books are leveraging this kind of ability.

Surprised no one's mentioned Zed Shaw or his Learn Python the Hard Way series...

http://learncodethehardway.org/

According to his homepage, his books have been downloaded 500,000 times. Don't know if those are all paying charges but he also sells online tutorials.

i'm not sure if the audience is supposed to be clients or if it's supposed to be informational to prospective devs, but it's not a very welcoming/informational page to someone who isn't familiar with your service.

I'm new to this...so with IFTTT and Zapier, are they hand building their own APIs to these services?

You're obviously not overweight but you're pretty light for that height, so I wonder if someone with a lower center of gravity would suffer fewer back issues? What if you used a laptop that you could move from standing desk to couch from time to time? Like after every 40 minutes?

Would love to get a published collection of their brain teasers. Those were always a good way to pass time during car rides.

I know they say that the chats aren't screengrabs, but why even make it look like they were? Text (and avatar) is just fine. Also, are these from a source different than the one BI had posted a year or so back ago?

This looks great. I'd buy it if I weren't so already tied to workflowy though.

I looked at the title and thought "good riddance", assuming it meant mediocre maintenence-only programmers were being replaced by automated-programming/systems, just as low-level lawyers can be replaced with document scanner/databases.

But systems programming seems to be an essential role that uptime-concerned operations will always want on retainer...

Am I being nitpicky in pointing out that this probably shoulda been done not using giant background images? I guess if it's not a web design company it's not a big deal...but it would raise a flag for me as a designer

According to this New Yorker story: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_...

There are almost no cases of an elevator's cable just snapping and going into downwards free fall - with the exception of (possibly) during 9/11 and an incident in 1945 where a bomber pilot rammed a building. The elevator operator dropped 75 floors but miraculously survived:

> One of them fell from the seventy-fifth floor with a woman aboard—an elevator operator. (The operator of the other one had stepped out for a cigarette.) By the time the car crashed into the buffer in the pit (a hydraulic truncheon designed to be a cushion of last resort), a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it, serving as a kind of spring. A pillow of air pressure, as the speeding car compressed the air in the shaft, may have helped ease the impact as well. Still, the landing was not soft. The car’s walls buckled, and steel debris tore up through the floor. It was the woman’s good fortune to be cowering in a corner when the car hit. She was severely injured but alive

true...I've been wanting to try out jekyll and even though it looks slower than a login/3rd-party setup it's still demonstrably easy, from this post...so that's extra incentive to give it a go.