ag80's comments

A much better writeup is here: http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-...

There is some indication that hand writing notes results in better retention: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/ink-on-paper-some...

Some searching also pulls results from a few years ago with similar headlines.

That doesn't make sense to me. I have a Sony I bought in 2010 that has Netflix on it. Never-going-to-get updated, slow interface Netflix, but it's there.

Indeed, I was. An apparent false spam positive from my lone submission.

>...I think the cruel part is that everything appears normal - but your are totally invisible...

Indeed. I cannot for the life of me understand the logic behind this behavior. If you've been banned or had a comment killed, it would be a basic courtesy to provide some sort of notification/reason in your profile.

Is anyone surprised that an organization which created user classes called "Bureaucrat" and "Oversight" has become difficult to manage?

To the extent that reform is possible, they'll have to figure out a way to attract new, inexperienced editors who either don't care about or don't know the organizational structure and technical requirements (will all due respect to the software engineer quoted, wikitext is significantly more complex than # or @ symbols, and is most definitely not user friendly).

Maintaining a complicated language of policies and procedures is not an effective way to do this. It's all too easily used as a weapon by those who understand it best.

My threshold for the number mornings the cat on a diet begins the wake-up call is rapidly approaching the point at which I get around to building some sort of time-release RFID tag access-controlled (two cats, only one on a diet) feeder.

They put a blog post up here: http://www.mytruecost.com/news/2013/10/3/how-green-are-truec...

She mentions specifically the Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. This tutorial has a section on creating secret tokens within the first three chapters (while leaving in-depth discussion of it for later chapters), and starts discussing concepts like MVC and setting up a development environment in the first chapter.

I'm working through the same tutorial myself, so I see no reason to doubt that it is entirely possible to set up a rails dev environment and get started in a single day.

I would also argue she is in fact disclosing how "someone else" helped her -- "...sites like Stack Overflow, MDN, CSS Tricks, blogs and demos. I also used some great online tutorials". Using these resources is to me no different than having your experienced developer friend sit next to you. Probably better, in some cases.

>This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3.

Whereupon I am confronted head on by the relentless progression of aging and mortality.

Centerpoint has some overall price data they monitor at http://www.mytruecost.com, though at present it doesn't include distinctions between electricity sources. I submitted some feedback via their contact form suggesting they should put some data together.