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In the past year and half I've been learning Java (for Android), Python and JavaScript (& HTML/CSS) (for web development) and I've come to realize that the best way to learn programming from a book or tutorial is to read it 3 times! Yes, read it 3 times!! Reading new content this way has helped understand new languages/concepts well. I'm confident it can help you, a beginner to programming or a certain programming language, maximally absorb knowledge from whatever it is you're reading. Do you learn new languages by reading books, doing tutorials, or just hacking away?
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I prefer taking classes; I need the structure. I've had this Android/Java book on my desk since last summer.
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This is spooky. I do almost the same thing and i was discussing it with my friend yesterday. In fact he is the one who saw this insider news and told me that I was just reiterating the article and bragging it in my name yesterday. But the fact is that I read it today only for the first time.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Same here, I find that to truly understand something I have to go at least 3 times over it. I then supplement this learning by doing all the tutorials/excercises the first time and then the second time I apply it to some small program of my own.
After all it seems like one can always find a bunch of people around the world who think and operate the same way as one self, no matter how different one might be to the group directly around you.
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Cars are getting smarter and more connected, but there still seems to be a small variety of app icons sitting on the dash — usually Pandora radio, in-car navigation and not much more. But 2013 looks to be the year automakers move beyond a few pre-approved partnership-driven test apps and into the great unknown. She's real fine my 409 Conflict in Request.
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Following the surprising immediate departure of Windows President Steven Sinofsky late last year, many are asking who will be CEO Steve Ballmer's successor. The talk persists despite the fact that Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal late last year he had no intentions of vacating the CEO chair any time soon; he said he plans to stick around until the board thinks he can't handle the job.... Who's potentially positioned to lead the new, devices- and services-centric Microsoft? Here are a few of the names I've heard bandied about. One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne. In the Land of Redmond where the Live Tiles thrive.
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A person who calls for greater diversity is not necessarily advocating the implementation of a quota system — that’s a straw man fallacy. Similarly, having a diverse roster of speakers at a conference does not imply that those speakers were not chosen on merit. Diversity and a merit‐based selection process are not mutually exclusive. To state the contrary is a false dichotomy. And before assuming that a conference probably couldn’t find enough women because not enough women applied (blaming the victim), first find out whether or not the selection process actually included an open call for talks. In an industry where 27–29% are female, if you manage to get a speaker line‐up with 0% female speakers, you have a bias.
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Haiku is a really sweet OS, and seems really stable for alpha stage software. It seems to have the essential software for my needs, and it runs fast even on the eee. Besides, Linux is just too mainstream. Good tips and tricks for / Installing Haiku OS / On your own netbook.
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We increasingly live in a computer-embroidered reality, and the ability to manipulate that reality is empowering. If we can find a way to bring that ability to a wide audience, it could have an impact comparable to the invention of the printing press. This is end-user computing. “End user” means everyone: people like you, me, your friends and family. We all use computers in our daily lives to accomplish both work and personal goals. When those end users can write and run their own programs, they will have fully harnessed the power of computing. Is programming really the new literacy?
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If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one to hear it, does it make a sound?
Okay, now here's a tougher one - if Google do a bad thing, with their motto, is it a bad thing?
Google have admitted that they deliberately blocked WP8 users from using Google Maps. Source[^]
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I read a different article yesterday that said it redirect the users to google because the maps did not render correct on the WP8 and gave a poor user experience. I see no issue with that.
It is no different than Apple filtering and being selective of which videos to show users in the search results in Youtube on an iPad. I was at a pals last year and couldn't find half the videos that I seen via a normal browser on my PC or via my tablet. It was a very odd experience knowing they existed but not being able to get near them! Now that is evil.
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DaveAuld wrote: I read a different article yesterday that said it redirect the users to google
because the maps did not render correct on the WP8 and gave a poor user
experience.
What they originally said was that as IE didn't use WebKit, the experience was poor. Well, Firefox and Opera don't use WebKit either, but there's no block there.
They then changed their tack, but it was shown that a simple user agent spoof on Windows Phone allowed the user to use Google Maps with no problems.
However - an important point is that Google have previously said that their mapping works cross browser with no loss of functionality, regardless of which browser is used.
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Definitely sounds like some corporate shenanigans going on. Just sounds like a bit of "Your names not down your not getting in. Oh hello pretty lady, you can come in though."
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Funnily enough - the ban came into effect less than 3 hours after Google were let off by the FTC.
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DaveAuld wrote: I was at a pals last year and couldn't find half the videos that I seen via a normal browser on my PC or via my tablet.
I'd rather suppose that they are not displaying videos which are not accessible from mobile devices (as far as I remember is there a possibility to block a video for playing on mobile devices for the video uploader). Maybe your tablet appears as PC to Youtube (Would not be too bad either)?
I don't claim that I am right, I'm just suggesting around (again).
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They have also been accused by MS of inhibiting access to YouTube from WinPhone, particularly the metadata, preventing MS producing the equivalent experience.
(Reported in The Guardian today, can't link as it was print copy)
I begin to detect a theme here.
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Rob Grainger wrote: inhibiting access to YouTube from WinPhone
Until three weeks ago I was able to view videos on my WinPhone which were blocked for mobile devices by the content uploader (Now there is no way to tweak around anymore ). I don't know if they have changed this for every kind of mobile devices or just WinPhones but you can simply test it out by adding
&nomobile=1 to the URL parameters list when viewing a youtube video which apperas as blocked for mobiles on a mobile phone browser.
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People really use W8 phones ?
Nihil obstat
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Maximilien wrote: People really use W8 phones ?
Yes of course. In germany they made commercials showing about 20 Windows 8 Phone users. Yes! They showed everyone in Germany using Windows 8 Phone. That is cool, isn't it?
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It's a biased rhetoric.
The bias is that they done a bad thing.
The rhetoric is that Google's policy conflicts with their directive.
Note that it's a bias and not a premise, because whether something is 'good' or 'evil' is highly dependent on ones personal interpretation of the concept.
The first one is a lot harder...
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It seems MetroTube (for Win Phones) which is not official Youtube viewer got broken because Google has changed their back end Youtube code base. I think Google is really jealous of the upcoming Windows Market. I would say stop all these nonsense hatred things, Google should use their skills and people to make the community better.
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There is an easy answer: Google is a company going after money. They're just another business out there and another business out there can do as much evil as any other business out there.
Personally, I've never believed in Google's "Do no evil" since they started hiring paid employees.
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The blocking could be a two-edged sword which hurts both Google and Microsoft.
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