I've been having a ton of issues with Apple myself. I've had account issues where I keep getting denied access to many downloads in the dev center despite having paid the $99.
Their support has been atrocious, it generally takes 2-3 weeks for a response. When I do get a response they ask for a screenshot despite the fact I've given them the error message verbatim, with error code.
I had to buy x-code4 through the app store because this issue is going on 3 months- still waiting on a refund.
This isn't meant to be an apple bashing post. I'm pissed about these issues, but I don't think it's because Apple doesn't care. I think it's because they are trying to cope with enormous amounts of support tickets and are probably having trouble hiring qualified people to address them. I'm guessing that Google is experiencing a similar problem x10. There's a market demand to get these products out asap, but the infrastructure just isn't ready yet.
Professional is not a word I would use for Zed. Someone that's professional would not be as confrontational and antagonistic as Zed is. He seems to be that way, often to his own detriment.
With that said, the aggressive side makes him a very unique individual that many of us highly respect. I don't aspire to be like the guy, but he sure does motivate me to step up my standards and accomplish more. Zed's just way more interesting than Professional.
Professional is not a word I would use for Zed. Someone that's professional would not be as confrontational and antagonistic as Zed is. He seems to be that way, often to his own detriment.
Oh please, can we just give this tired old tripe a rest already?
I guess I was most amazed that in 1991 Apple's profits were greater than Microsoft's. I was playing Ultima 6 and King's Quest V back then... I didn't know anything existed but the IBM PC.
At 55 seconds he says the Toll Booth "has the time our son was born". This man achieved a work of art that is far from sad. It's very obvious that this has tons of sentimental value, but it is also a wonderful work of art. I hope I can achieve a long-term disciplined accomplishment like this in my lifetime (my children notwithstanding).
What makes dropbox special is that I can access it on my home iMac, my work macbook, my linux netbook, my android phone, my iPad and the web interface when I feel so inclined. On top of that, I select different directories to sync on each machine and often share file between friends and colleagues.
An uber simple interface that supported on every major platform is what makes it so awesome.
I've been using rubular since it's inception. There are lots of sites/apps for building regex's, but rubular has always been my goto guy. To the developer, thanks for an awesome site!
"She has this thing where she makes us do reviews that are about 10 questions and then she calls us up to the board to answer each question putting us on the spot."
My 10th grade geometry/trig teacher did this to us. Confidence issues I had as a result of this class lasted many years. I got over it and have done well for myself, but I still have some resentment.
My AP Calc teacher had us do the same thing with our homework assignments. I cannot say if this resulted in confidence issues among his students, but 58 out of the 60 students in the class received 5's on the AP exam.
It is not clear to me that this is obviously a bad teaching method. It definitely accomplishes 'engaging the student'.
It can be a good teaching method or a bad one, depending on how it's used.
Personally, I enjoy having students come up to the whiteboard. But when we do so, I present it as the student at the board is a representative of the class. The whole thing is collaborative, and I have students who are sitting explain what the student at the board is doing.
What this means is that students who know what's going on are able to take the lead (when at the board), whereas students who are less confident can rely a bit on their classmates. The whole time, I stress "Look, we're learning new stuff and it's going to be challenging. Work together and you'll get it." This makes a different vibe than if we just sat and watched before I determine if the answer is correct or incorrect.
I don't use this for individual assessment, and I don't attach any guilt or shame. It's purely done to get students working in the Zone of Proximal Development and to get someone other than me talking.
I guess I'm just amazed that they (rails core) haven't learned from the RJS mistake. These 'fads' to get around JS syntax are terrible as standards.
What is so wrong with writing idiomatic, unobtrusive JS? I personally don't care for JS syntax (compared to the beauty of ruby and haml), but that's life... JS syntax my be ugly, but it can be written elegantly.
What's there to learn from the RJS mistake? RJS was fucked because it attempted to pretend JS didn't exist and muddled the separation of concerns between client and server-side; CoffeeScript makes no such mistake.
CoffeeScript is much more like HAML/SASS in function, and while there are arguments against those in some environments (like if you need to hire a lot of designers without a dev mentality or environment), they've been proven to be very effective in practice, and I'm quite sure CoffeeScript will be the same.
I've actually been reading this book over the past few months. I just stumbled across it while looking for info on neural networks in Ruby. The book takes a very clinical approach, but the code samples are surprisingly accessible.
I haven't bought the book yet (I read it on my iPad), but I will eventually buy it if I can't find a decent digital download. For some reason I'm so much more inclined to buy books offered for free than not.
