I have recently started using a laptop underneath a big honking monitor. It is fantastic. You get a second screen (down low) for stashing things like shells or firebug and looking at the big monitor (up high) forces good posture. Going back and forth feels more natural than looking left-right. Switched away from equal sized dual monitors. Never looking back.

I just want to point out that Canvas is doing a rather good job of modernizing LMS software: http://www.instructure.com ...It took me a long time to find that tool when I needed to spin up an LMS, so I wanted to make sure folks were aware of it.

p.s. Canvas is foss https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki

Mhm... the demo asks for too much information:

Name, email, organization, title, and phone number.

This immediately they'll get random gibberish from me. The majority of LMS provide a default demo login/password and do not require personal information.

About 3 years ago I researched broadly about LMS. I tested several (including Moodle, Dokeos, Claroline, Blackboard, etc) and selected Dokeos due to its simplicity and interface ease. Moodle was a second but the interface just did not make sense to me (too cluttered, no evident task flow for teachers and students). Right now Chamilo seems to follow Dokeos original goal.

My first computer was a Macintosh Plus at age ~5. Not sure what I would be doing with my life without his contribution.

Yah, my first program was done in an Apple ][+. My friend and I grew up programming on his various Apple machines (I had a Commodore 64).

For the past 10 years I've made a living developing on all kinds of Macs. Couldn't imagine work without them.

Best of all, I loved watching Steve's keynotes. No one can distort reality the way he did.

I didn't even know him, but I feel like I'll miss knowing he's there, ready to present:

"one more thing.."

I can see that I am not the only one whose life was changed by those early experiences with the Apple ecosystem. From my own 30-year-old memories:

On any given afternoon around 1981-1982, the geeks at my middle school could all be found gathered around a dozen Apple II+ and Apple IIe machines in the computer room. The British instructor who had set them up and taught us code fundamentals really encouraged us to explore and experiment (and fought a losing battle to keep us from bringing our game floppies into the room).

Mine was an Apple IIe, and likewise it really opened my eyes to the world of computing and gave me a life long passion for technology.

I thank him for that as well.

My first was an Apple IIe at age 12. I was thinking the same thing.

I'm another dev whose first computer was an apple IIgs. I don't know if I'd be a dev today if I hadn't spent far too many hours poking around in basic typing in games from magazine, modifying them, and writing my own.

For purely selfish reasons -- what could Steve have imagined next? -- he passed far too soon.

Given that it takes years for a big thing to pass through the dev cycle and come to market, you're still going to see some things that were up his sleeve.

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I wonder if anyone has data on the broader question of whether numbers that are easily divisible perform better than prime or hard to divide numbers?

Someone had shared a public repo with me on Monday. It started 404ing the next day and I had assumed he took it down. I realize now that it must have been this issue. I just checked for it and it is back.

I like the way your eyes get directed on that page. Read the whole pitch then follow the trail back to the top.

My guess would be that it doesn't. A public DHT can ensure that data is not corrupted or changed, but you cannot prevent others from seeing your data.

I think the DHT is just used to address peers and do NAT negotiation. There is no need for every message to go through the DHT.

I hope posterous is hard at work building a delicious clone!

edit: Not completely sure why you all hate this comment, but fwiw I was being sincere not snarky.

It seems to me that all their sites are run off one complicated db schema. I just confirmed that my Lifehacker user name is in there.