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What's the best way to learn C++ nowadays?

With all the existing issues with abuse on twitter won't this just acerbate the problem?

What's the difference between this and any news outlet?

Are there any good tutorials on using the 2D toolset?

Does anyone have any experience with the user experience side of GoCardless? Do customers have any issues entering their account number and sort code, rather than the usual card information?

I really like GoCardless but feel that customers might be hesitant to enter that information, especially when they're not used to doing it.

With all the recent hacking of Bitcoin services, maybe it's this kind of thinking which is causing more problems.

Unfortunately the article doesn't distinguish between high/low GI carbohydrates, which is the main focus of low card diets.

The title of the actual article is "With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with Hard Currency?". It's a question, where as this title was submitted without the 'can' and is therefore posed as fact, which is misleading.

You might be able to lose weight with a Twinkie diet but that won't cure the diabetes.

That reference is super useful. If you're on a Mac you can substitue Ctrl for cmd.

Absolutely glad to see this, however, there are some serious concerns which are addressed at the bottom of the article

"There are, of course, significant challenges to overcome, specifically with the immediate shortage of computer science teachers."

When I was an ICT teacher I was the only teacher I met who had any programming experience whatsoever. A large number of these teachers would even struggle with GCSE level maths and I do find it difficult to see how to government could train all these teachers to be able to be at a level necessary to teach any programming skills. Unfortunately those people who are qualified very rarely enter teaching.

Nice idea, but GitHub already has pull requests which work wonderfully for code reviews.

When I'm finished working on my branch I can submit a pull request. Everyone else on the team gets an email and can take a look at the new changes. We can have a conversation about the code and people can pull the branch and make their own changes. It's all very seamless and works great for remote teams.

The image from the Wired article shows this pretty clearly: http://www.avc.com/.a/6a00d83451b2c969e2015393a8b4c3970b-pi

One of the biggest drops is after "Mt.Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange, admits its database was compromised and user information leaked."

If you bank "lost" your money there would be outcry. Until people understand and trust these establishments it'll never take off.

The thing that I was most amazed at in schools was the lack of sharing resources. There was very little sharing between teachers in the same school and even less between schools.

This seems like a massive waste of time as most of these teachers spend a large amount of time creating these resources and most of these schools teach very similar syllabuses.

Creating resources like this textbook is a great step forward, if more teachers could collaborate to create really great resources it would not only improve the education provided to students but also free up teachers from spending all of their time creating custom resources.

Actually research has shown that it does make a difference: [Why complicate things?: introducing programming in high school using Python](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151880)

They found that students who were taught Python instead of Java scored higher on their tests. Languages like Python and Ruby make it far easier for people to jump straight into the code. If I'm learning about linked lists why do I need this main method? Ruby and Python have lots of abstractions which make it easier for someone learning to be able to focus on the problem at hand.

As a former IT teacher, the curriculum is incredibly boring and outdated. A lot of the teaching is simple word processing and spreadsheets. However, most of these students have grown up surrounded by technology. Half the time the students know more than the teachers. It also doesn't help when the teachers are desperately lacking in any real technology experience. I was the only teacher I'd met who'd ever done any programming or had even worked in a tech company.

The curriculum also contains some of the most boring subjects known to man. Do students really need to have an understanding of "Change Management". We should be educating them about technology, introducing them to the possibilities and allowing them to create. Some of the most fun lessons I ever taught were on Photoshop, even with knowledge of only a few tools students will create the most fantastic images.

Children are naturally inquisitive and want to know how things work, especially around the internet and games. Unfortunately, most of the time these questions go unanswered because the teachers can't answer them and it's most likely not on the curriculum.

Personally the curriculum is currently worthless, it was incredibly boring to teach and even more boring for students. It's incredibly frustrating when there are so many great things we could be teaching these students to expand their minds and skills.

It would great to hear how this compares to IT curriculums in other countries.

Really like the idea. Google Analytics tracks loads of information, but it always takes me forever to actually find the information that I want.

Creating these types of reports is really useful. However, if I was to pay for it I'd like to have more reports and some flexibility in creating them.

Totally agree, when I create a design I want to actually create it myself. Handing it off to someone else who hasn't designed it always manages to miss important elements of the design.

There's also a similar issue with web developers who only focus on the backend and can't create decent HTML and CSS.

I think if you're working on anything web related you really need to be able to write decent HTML and CSS.

Does his political position really have any impact on his ability to redesign? How would knowing his political positions help you to come to a judgement on whether the redesign made a position difference or not?

However, knowing his political positions would immediately put you in either a positive or negative (depending on your position) frame of mind and would stop you from having a fair and balanced opinion.

Hopefully moves like this from big names like Google will help convince these enterprise companies to make the switch.

Wait, who am I kidding, that's just wishful thinking.

Looks really cool.

What are the main things that differentiate you from similar products like Geckoboard? Also it'd be pretty cool to get a list of all the widgets that you currently have.

"Introduction to the Theory of Computation" by Michael Sipser. Was the only computing text I enjoyed reading at university. Sipser explains difficult concepts in a concise and easy to understand way.

Interestring that a company that produces software specifically for companies would introduce features that a lot of their users on older version of IE wouldn't be able to use. I wonder what percentage of their users are able to use this feature.

The country is very dependent on tourism. However, the money generated isn't being pumped back into the country.

People who visit on holiday say how wonderful the place is, beautiful beaches and clear blue seas. But move to other areas of the island and it's a completely different place. Walk 5 minutes down the road from the fanciest hotel and there's a shanty town.

Mauritius certainly has a great opportunity and is probably better than a lot of the other African countries, but it still has a long way to go.

I've currently got a few small apps on Heroku and am considering moving some larger ones over. But the "Heroku | Welcome to your new app!" is very worrying.

Custom error pages for these kinds of errors would be very useful.

London (UK) - Leap (http://www.leapcr.com)

We're looking for a Rails developer to join our London based team. You'll be joining our team in the heart of Soho to work on our employee volunteering platform. If you're a developer looking to do some good then this might be the place for you.

We just posted a job post up on Github: http://jobs.github.com/positions/a9838284-cd77-11df-8c7c-acf...

After navigating to any other page the navigation buttons no longer work. I viewed it on an iPad. Also there are quite a few spelling mistakes on the 'Features' page.

If this is the case, then how is it any different to distribution through the Android store?

This really needs to be at the top of the page!

Are there any new features with this incarnation?

I was really hoping people would take the original Etherpad and run with it, but instead there have just been numerous sites running the original code base.