Comment on: 3 Alternatives to Evernote
Keep various documents synced and organised across multiple machines and devices.
I'm a writer so these apps are a godsend since I can load up an app (like Evernote or a text editor synced to Dropbox) from anywhere, put down a couple thousand words, and have it saved and safe.
Simplenotes sounds great since it has a .zip collection you can download, which is a godsend in case anything ever happens.
Comment on: Quick question for you nerds
How does this have upvotes? It's a blank link to Google.
Comment on: [Humor] How to save the princess using 8 programming languages
Python: You type in
import heroic_knight
princess.rescue = true
and wonder why other people make things so hard for themselves.
Comment on: What were some of the first programs you made?
I made a program that would take the number of balls in a lottery draw and give you random numbers to use when you played. I never won anything. I made a second one that used the actual results from lotteries (i.e. populated the list with the numbers depending on how many times that numbered ball had been drawn in the past) to account for any non-random bias on the part of the ball (lol) but I still didn't win anything.
Comment on: When do you actually make programs
You can compile Python code in to C using a program like Cython.
Results vary but it is a method of producing stand-alone programs from Python "scripts".
Comment on: Model shows off her sick coding skills (X-Post from /v/funny)
I don't think it's attention whoring. The world has moved on and our values of privacy and doing stupid shit in private has been left behind. For kids these days, sharing things publicly is how they share them at all. Where before we would have a friend over and show them our code and get help with it in private and then play couch multiplayer, now it's completely different. To us, her behaviour is aberrant, but to her and people of her generation, it's normal.
This is life now, and these kids keep putting stuff up in public where we have to see it. The internet is our front lawn and these kids are on it.
We are old.
Comment on: Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Given the TPP and the wording it has on mega-corporations using GPL and open-source software while ignoring the conditions of the licence, I don't see this ending well for anybody.
Comment on: How one woman's name and some poor coding caused massive issues at a large telecom operator.
I read the headline and thought there might be a weird name with "NULL" in it somewhere. Wasn't far off!
The Impostor Phenomenon is real and it's a bitch, unfortunately it ties in to the Dunning Kruger and Peter Principle almost perfectly.