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This attitude is both hateful and harmful to our profession. It is not ok and I wish more of our peers would step up to tell you that this is not acceptable. You are also making wi…

Unless you are a minority in the field in which case your success apparently requires tolerating disproportionate abuse from your socially inept peers. Hardly the meritocratic envi…

If students are being harassed and driven away from a subject by their peers I don't think the out of date curriculum is the most significant problem in that classroom.

> While designed to make things easier for newcomers... The idea that Rails was designed to be accessible to newcomers seems to be pervasive but I don't think that has every been a…

Don't worry, we can replace that with CSS too: http://html5advent2011.digitpaint.nl/14/

Caution is a good attitude to have when working on critical code with non-obvious modes of failure. However I agree with davidw; this "dont' touch it" or "we're not smart enough" a…

Oddly I don't see any mention in the article or linked paper of financial aid as a contributing factor to these decisions. I recall my college social circle being intently aware of…

I found it to be possible but difficult to get KeePass running on every machine I want a password store on. When I last used it running the KeePass itself under Mono was an annoyin…

I was briefly a user of LastPass until that service lost every credential set I had added to it. I tried a KeePass store in DropBox for a while but the poor cross platform support …

AVFoundation is a library provided by Apple. CocoaDocs documents third party libraries published through the CocoaPods ( http://cocoapods.org/ ) tool.

I've talked to folks from Simperium before and think that they have a good idea but I remain skeptical of their approach . In particular their Core Data syncing strategy. As I unde…

Disappointing that this is still not supported. The need to be able to join multiple organizations is what prevented me from advocating for my company to switch to HipChat a year a…

I find it interesting to see how many new developers, and perhaps problematically teachers of new developers, set out to learn programming via web development in Rails. I like Rail…

That seems to be enough to pay back all of LaunchGram's funding( http://www.crunchbase.com/company/launchgram ) and serve as a signing bonus for joining refer.ly. That sounds bette…

Your response seems to suggest that the OP has not been successful and is no longer a member of the "startup scene". I don't see why you would assume any of that to be true or to b…

We have a great many people relying on a volunteer run project here. It would be great to have someone sponsored to spend time maintaining the site. Unfortunately I don't see any w…

As others have pointed out; Brian is a well known and highly respected designer. He also served as the chair of the board of the International Game Developers Association (advocate…

You released a free app in a crowded market. You are going to need something exceptional to stand out. Searching for "sudoku" in the Play store returns "at least 1000 results" for …

We're not going to be "stuck" with 1.9. Use 2.0 for a smaller and faster library on modern browsers and 1.9 to continue to support old IE versions. http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/2…

What do you imagine this API would look like if it existed? What use case do you believe it serves (who would use it, what existing behavior would it replace)? If you're going to c…

Why do you assume photo redistribution is National Geographic's concern? Perhaps they are more worried about the ToS changes allowing Instagram to sell off use of the National Geog…

The attitude I see is that detailed plans can be dangerous but that not having a plan does not mean you should not have a process. I think this often comes from Steve Blank's defin…

I understand that tweets were sent because a user opted-in and use some setting to elect to share activity on the site. As a developer I know how tempting it is to defensively decl…

What makes you think that is the case? It looks equivalent to a "git merge --no-ff " to me. The feature branch is then merged with master (or whatever the target branch was) and wo…

I don't see why you allowed the system to feel "broken" to your users in the first place. It sounds like you asked them to do work when you could have said "we received your reques…