Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 417
*sheer.
Comment Chakra? (Score 4, Informative) 120
How is this different from Chakra?
Comment Re:Nothing on Facebook is private (Score 1) 593
Nothing on the internet truly is.
Comment Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS (Score 3, Insightful) 291
You'll be sacrificing the availability of tons of apps if you go with WP7 though.
Comment Don't download this song (Score 5, Funny) 409
Comment 45 million dollars (Score -1, Offtopic) 248
Is more than enough to feed the entire population of Somalia, a nation that is struggling with starvation.
And they want to spend this much money on computers?
Comment Re:Futile (Score 3, Informative) 160
If you don't like JNI, you can use SWIG, it generates JNI code for you.
Comment Javascript: The good parts (Score 5, Informative) 575
I suggest reading this book, it's gotten a lot of good reviews, I've seen a lot of people recommend it to people starting out with JS.
It explains a subset of Javascript that's simple to use, and also the most used in practice.
Comment Re:Django (Score 1) 519
I personally think of it as a feature, it prevents you from blindly copy pasting code.
Sure, I had my problems with indentation when I first started learning it, but now I'm used to it, I think of it like curly braces in the C family of languages.
Comment BASIC is a horrible language. (Score 1) 783
Hobbyist programmers don't write BASIC code these days, the question you should be asking is "why can't we put python/ruby on the phone?".
Comment ddg uses bing? (Score 1) 315
Proof?
Comment Re:Why I only do iOS (Score 1) 614
Care to elaborate on why Android is an awful platform?
Oh, and Android is NOT a cross platform API, Android apps only work on Android, unless you mean that the SDK and tools are cross platform.
Submission + - You really are what you know (bbc.co.uk)
jd writes: "There has been research for some time that shows that London cab driver brains differ from other people's, with considerable enlargement of those areas dealing with spacial relationships and navigation, with follow-up work showing that it wasn't simply a product of driving a lot.
However, up until now it has been disputed as to whether the brain structure led people to become London cabbies or whether the brain structure changed as a result of their intensive training (which requires rote memorization of essentially the entire street map of one of the largest and least-organized cities in the world). Well, this latest study answers that. MRI scans before and after the training show that the regions of the brain substantially grow as a result of the training, that they're quite normal beforehand.
The practical upshot of this research is that — even for adult brains, which aren't supposed to change much — what you learn structurally changes your brain. Significantly."
However, up until now it has been disputed as to whether the brain structure led people to become London cabbies or whether the brain structure changed as a result of their intensive training (which requires rote memorization of essentially the entire street map of one of the largest and least-organized cities in the world). Well, this latest study answers that. MRI scans before and after the training show that the regions of the brain substantially grow as a result of the training, that they're quite normal beforehand.
The practical upshot of this research is that — even for adult brains, which aren't supposed to change much — what you learn structurally changes your brain. Significantly."
Comment Really? (Score 1) 75
I'm waiting for Kinect 4
