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First sentence being false makes me not want to read the rest. I have only ~200 friends and member of a handful of communities and there is lots going on.-rgdot (February 15, 2014, 09:41 AM)
Google Plus, the company’s social network, is like a ghost town. Want to see your old roommate’s baby or post your vacation status? Chances are, you’ll use Facebook instead.
Maybe uninstall/reinstall is needed?-crabby3 (February 06, 2014, 07:29 AM)
..This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C.
C is quite different, at a fundamental level, from languages like Java and Python. However, well-known books on C (such as the venerable Kernighan & Ritchie) tend to have been written before Java and Python changed everyone's expectations of a programming language, so they might well not stop to explain the fundamental differences in outlook before getting into the nitty-gritty language details. Someone with experience of higher-level languages might therefore suffer a certain amount of culture shock when picking up such a book. My aim is to help prevent that, by warning about the culture shocks in advance.
This article will not actually teach C: I'll show the occasional code snippet for illustration and explain as much as I need to make my points, but I won't explain the language syntax or semantics in any complete or organised way. Instead, my aim is to give an idea of how you should expect C to differ from languages you previously knew about, so that when you do pick up an actual C book, you won't be distracted from the details by the fundamental weirdness.
And while we're at it, be warned that SugarSync will become a paid only service on February 8, 2014. If you have been using their free service, you have until then to move your data elsewhere or either pay for it or lose it. Ransomware?-xtabber (December 12, 2013, 08:30 AM)
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I count 39 apps for this year's NANY.-kyrathaba (January 03, 2014, 06:42 AM)
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As for #2, i do think WOT can be gamed, and probably *is* being gamed -- though not nearly as much as most of the damn internet services we use every day. every major successfull (and trying to be successful) internet service is gamed to high heaven, both from inside the company -- to fakely inflate the apparent popularity, and by external people who pay to have fake accounts and content and upvotes and likes, etc. It's the nature of our current system that such gaming takes place and has become a solid business model. it sucks. It's fair to complain when companies encourage this or don't do much about it. I don't know enough about WOT to judge them on this.-mouser (December 07, 2013, 10:12 PM)
Like most things in the real world, WOT involves competing interests. The interests of most users would be to get reliable information about the safety and reliability of a website. The users who have gained more prestige in the system OTOH have an interest in being more equal than all the other animals. And of course WOT's owner gains most if the breadth and depth of site rankings grows exponentially since that's what makes it useful - or not.-Vurbal (December 09, 2013, 06:17 PM)
I found "slow speed" harder because the "tail" seemed to grow far faster somehow.
I "just ran it"; there was no music.-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:33 PM)
But it's cute! Do you feel like making any mods to the code? I would appreciate a "laser lock mode".-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:33 PM)
.P.s. the font use is hysterical! 15 years ago did you think that was Da Kewlness? Heh it's like my chess nany app, it showed the tail end of my adoration of the Matrix etc. Ah, I miss the Old Days when computing was fun!-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:33 PM)
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