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Is it the examiners who post some of the requests for prior art? If so, it would be nice if their accounts or requests could be badged so other users can be reasonably sure that th…

If people are interested, my product http://overlay101.com provides hosted product tours that requires far less Dev work than these js libraries.

Great feedback, I truly appreciate it. Please feel free to contact me directly: case (at) protopattern (dot) com We really want to work with early customers to make sure that our a…

Thanks for the feedback. You're correct, we're definitely trying to follow the popular advice on here. Yeah, getting the benefits across is going to be the only way people will see…

This is my first product, I'd be really interested to hear what the community thinks about it. We built this because as web developers we're always asked to implement an in app con…

Just a note that there was good discussion about this before [1]. Remember that this essay is quite old (2002) and Python has changed significantly. [2] [1] http://news.ycombinator…

It's rare that I've seen the Java VM described as horrible. In fact, it seems to be quite highly respected and seems to be working out well for Scala and Clojure. Obviously, there'…

Congrats on releasing your app. Sure it's a stupid app, but you learned so much and had fun. When you have an idea for your next stupid app the whole process will seem so much easi…

Working against Rails, or any framework, is definitely going to cause pain. On the other hand, Rails is not perfect and I, like the OP, have been noticing a number of voices lately…

This is also a problem for some school boards. My sister is using Khan Academy with her ELL students (they don't speak any English but Khan's working great for them). Signing a stu…

I started writing a reply but it turned into a blog post, here: ( http://casestatement.tumblr.com/post/11598425762/why-we-are-... )

Read the award winning Babel-17 by Delany for a bit of science fiction that explores this idea that language and particularly the notation of the language affects one's perception …

I have a copy of Code Complete on my desk, it is 915 pages long. The techniques in there have been gathered from years of experience and research. There's no way I'll ever absorb a…

This is a great comment. I worried that my example was too simplistic, it's difficult to bring up design decisions (as opposed to coding style decisions) without context. For many …