Do people actually do this? I've seen donate buttons before, even clicked them a few times, but I never imagined anyone received a sizable chunk of money this way.
* Owned my own incorporated business at the age of 15 (Looking back, it was kindof dumb. It was essentially just freelancing with a shitload of paperwork attached). I dissolved it at 18 when I went to college.
* Self taught every programming language I know (Started with BASIC, then JavaScript and PHP, did some windows programming in VB, then later VB.NET and now doing asp programming in C#. I've also toyed with Objective-C/C/C++)
I'm really impressed by some of the comments here. I've had a better understanding of these languages than most of my professors (which probably speaks more to the quality of my school than my programming ability)
It said the rest went toward production of the xkcd book. I don't know if that means solely inventory and production costs, or if it includes administrative overhead as well (I would assume some)
I agree that there is a premium placed on mac products, but I would guess you are overstating it. I'd be willing to bet that the difference in price lies in the RAM. Apple uses DDR3 while most other manufacturers use DDR2. If you look on Newegg, you will see that there is a substantial price difference in the two (at least at my last check).
AJAX and Flash is a generic technology, telephone guided co-browsing is a specific implementation, most likely using that technology. There's a big difference there, especially when Flash and AJAX are ubiquitous on the web and the phone guided browsing is more innovative.
Agreed, interesting article but horribly inaccurate title. I'm not sure if the poster was intentionally inaccurate or if he just badly misread the article.
Did I read this correctly? They overrode a private API call, but then never called the method that they overrode? Or did they only call the method they overrode, and never call the private method.
I don't see why you would override a method but never call it, and if you override it, shouldn't you call [super methodX] (thereby calling the private method)?
This seems strange. I understand not volunteering the info, but if someone asks I don't see a problem with letting them know. You may not be asking for PR but you can always use it.
I remember growing up I was playing on the Internet and found a 10 chapter book online for QBASIC. I printed it out and had it scattered all over the floor, and in no time at all I was writing code that actually did things. I had never written code before and I was in elementary school (9 or 10?).
Eventually this led to html, javascript, php, VB, C#, etc. Dad wasn't real thrilled when he realized I used all of the printer ink to do this, but I'd say it was a pretty good return on his investment.
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I'd like to play with BASIC again, anyone know of a way to do that on OSX? VM?