His point, and no.

I have a Kindle Fire HDX, Fire HD, Nook (previous generation), and an iPad. In my opinion, the HDX is worth the price, especially if you're a Prime subscriber. It's not as full featured as the iPad, but for consuming books, movies, and music from Amazon it's pretty great. I'm not that big a fan of the Silk browser, so…

Still, it's free, so you could get it and pay the upgrade price for Parallels Desktop 9 instead of the full price.

If you advocated C for beginners, you're a sadist. Just saying.

I just picked up a Sodastream for Christmas, and I would love to see some Sodastream hacking. Different bottles, cheaper refills, resources for custom recipes, carbonating anything other than water, etc.

This... this is a pretty good info graphic. Know your rights, folks. It's not about avoiding arrest if you are a d-bag criminal (although it's in the title), it's about exercising your rights so we don't acclimate to giving them up.

That's fairly obtuse.

So, basically, you're just opposed on idealistic grounds.

I see that as a distinction without a difference. The net result is that companies that can affford to pay will, and those that can't will face even more of a hurdle in order to be competetive. It's pay to play either way.

I do not like anything that sets a precedent for the preferential delivery of data.

I'm not really invested in either side of this particular issue, but it seems to me that the nutritionist you spoke to is all over the place about why you shouldn't use this stuff without actually providing any real reasons. If it is sufficiently nourishing then what's the real problem? I feel like there needs to be…

All of that is completely transparent to the beginner, and the simplest projects, console apps, have one class and one method to start with.

All of that is completely transparent to the beginner, and the simplest projects, console apps, have one class and one method to start with.

Definitely. I tend to think of those things as being more design than programming. There is some overlap to be sure, but it's not the same as learning C# and .NET or Java and JDK.

Spaced Repetition. I'm pretty sure Lifehacker has talked about this type of memory system before, but I can't seem to find the article. I have used this system a lot to learn the syntax and structure of new programming languages or command line tools, and actually used it for this exact problem when I decided I was…

That's pretty neat, but I'm still kind of dubious here. The software did not actually completely calculate the entire system. I had to tab and space accross the whole thing. I didn't just set the state and let the machine calculate the problem. I had to drive the whole thing.

So are you saying that the combination of HTML and CSS are turing complete together, or that each language is turing complete on its own? I'm having a hard time believing it could be on their own, so it must be the combination, and even then it has been my understanding that markup languages fall outside the bounds of…

Thank you. I couldn't agree more. I lose my shit every time someone points me to this article as if it's some gospel revelation on what "real" programming is. It reeks of technical hubris and "back in my day" sentimentality.

Yeah, there's actually quite a bit you can do with just HTML and CSS, but neither is really a programming language. I'm trying to think of a concrete definition of what makes a language a "programming" language, but all I'm coming up with in my head is programming languages allow you to solve problems algorithmically.…

HTML is a markup language, CSS is not. Regardless you are correct - I wouldn't call either of them programming languages.