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http://bjc.berkeley.edu/ It's in the article. "Snap is the programming language for UC Berkeley’s Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum (BJC), which aims to bring introductory CS …

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I found this here, it's a really good paper that backs the idea that goals are pretty tough. http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6114.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7897662

Creator does look great, but so does Interface Builder. IB has caused me to leave the computer in a state of shock from frustration, so I'll have to reserve judgement. Performance …

Curious to see how this works out, with JS being the native way to write applications. Been excited about the Firefox platform because of this for a while (especially for POS/embed…

Reminds me of Doctorow's Scroogled. http://craphound.com/scroogled.html The funny thing is Doctorow makes references to "just metadata" years before it became a public issue, howev…

Guessing you could probably put everything into a redis instance and just hincrby/incr for either the individual queries ie "902", "9021", "90210." Not sure what would be more perf…

Rural Wisconsin. I worked on a road crew during college and we'd rarely have guys buy stuff during breaks/downtime.

Management. Business Analysts. "Metawork" in the words of a coworker who used to architect BPM implementations at the parent corporation of my job. Getting consensus from possibly …

At my day job we generally will bundle small procedures/scripts into a simple webapp with either flask or express.js. For our backend systems, we're looking into rundeck to allow n…

From the article: "At age 18, arrest rates were 12 percent for white females and 11.8 percent and 11.9 percent for Hispanic and black females, respectively. By age 23, arrest rates…

Hmm, is there historical data of this sort for many companies? Sounds like it could make an interesting survival analysis project.

You'll enjoy this paper by the Harvard Business School which pretty much destroys the concept of systemic goal setting in a business. It describes your exact situation: when people…

Maybe not. http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/ I think the general idea behind driverless cars is that they can be JIT-rented, and since Uber would have the infrastructure i…

Indeed. Here's something somewhat related, from PyCon 2012. It deals with using computer vision to fire a squirt gun at squirrels. The principle is basically the same. https://www.…

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002211... Yes, there is a lobby.

Definitely, I'll send an email over. I've spent a lot of time mulling over these type of agents, would be nice to do something practical based on it.

Great idea. There's a lot of calendar apps out there, but the data feeds powering them are the same old crap. The concept of an agent doing stuff with the app feels like 60's-ish v…

Yes, via a new install to an iPad.

I'm guessing it's just his prompt. The Node/JS community has a bit of thing for using unicode characters everywhere. Case in point: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/c247e1626118…

Hopefully it wasn't a "Clever Hans" type of demonstration for the second one. IE, someone watching on camera and then manually entering data into the interface from a different roo…

I personally only buy the frame, and build a table-top for it. You can get pre-glued boards like this, which are quite easy to finish: http://www.menards.com/main/building-material…