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Comment on How to Learn to Program in 2010 by Nate Dern

Nate Dern — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:18:46 +0000

Thank you so much, Mr. Ragheb. I really can’t thank you enough. I’ll take your advice and keep you posted. Thank you thank you thank you.

Comment on How to Learn to Program in 2010 by Dave

Dave — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:55:10 +0000

Amen. The single major flaw of my university’s CS course was that the “Introduction to Programming” course started things off in Java and the Swing libraries. This meant that by the time the students got to some of the 200 level classes where you needed to know things like event loops and what the heck a pointer was, most were totally lost.

Comment on Don’t call it a comeback! by Benjamin

Benjamin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:26:12 +0000

I left out the exercise rungs as I didn’t use them myself (narcissism!) but a few other people besides yourself have asked, so I’m working them into an update.

Comment on Don’t call it a comeback! by pasht

pasht — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Is there any way you could incorporate the exercise information from the Hacker’s Diet book? Selectable rungs, perhaps, that would give you the details upon selecting one, and remember which one you’re on? Thanks for making a fine app; I’m hoping it helps me stick to this diet.

Comment on Don’t call it a comeback! by Neve

Neve — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:04:36 +0000

Like the app

Comment on Nicer ways to view UNIX man pages by Andrew Fiore

Andrew Fiore — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:10:03 +0000

Nice! Already installed in my .profile. Works like a charm. Thanks, Ben!

Comment on Which App Store? by Humbaba

Humbaba — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:02:02 +0000

As someone who’s used Eatwatch on the palm since 2000, I’m interested in Fatwatch, just not at ten bucks. I only paid five bucks for Civilization Revolution, and less than that for Solebon solitare which I’ve used for over 350 hours so far.

As long as my free eatwatch keeps running, I’ll keep using that until such a time as either Fatwatch goes on sale, the price is reduced, or a competitor comes in with a cheaper port.

I’m certainly all for your freedom to charge what you want for your software, but as a potential customer I think you should know that you’ve overpriced it for at least one person. (Of course, it could be that 90% of your potential customers think that price is great, in which case I’m back to waiting for a competitor)

Comment on Which App Store? by stiiv

stiiv — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:24:08 +0000

Apple partisans are kinda loony sometimes.

There are two app stores, as described, but it’s not mac vs. windows, it’s PC vs. web. A lot of the crazy bad stuff is coming from the web world. What were stupid little web sites with an ad stuck in the corner are now stupid little 99c apps.