Graphon

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by Graphon 14y ago
Using a content-type header instead of .json or .xml (etc) extension in the URL is just another example of this phenomenon. There's a reason people are moving to use dot extensions in URLs - it's easier to adopt and test.
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by Graphon 14y ago
Funny - when looking at a codebase for the first time, I do almost exactly the same thing as described by Mr Seibel: I start rewriting it. I rename functions or methods that I think have poorly chosen names, I rename the names of fields, va
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by Graphon 14y ago
While powershell is a valuable and interesting option, the problem with it is that it changes the basic metaphor. For 40 years unix shells and their descendants and derivatives including cmd.exe have used files and text streams as the metap
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by Graphon 14y ago
Yes, it's different. UnxUtls gives you grep, tar, tr, gzip, and etc. Clink appears to give you shell command completion and history completion. They are complementary.
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by Graphon 14y ago
Coders talk too much. They are in love with themselves. Did you ever hear a cabinetmaker talk about all the considerations that went into the new cabinet he made, how he did the planing just right to hide that knot in the wood, or how he ch
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by Graphon 14y ago
Thanks for that, that was fun. Who here coded a solver into the game that used the quadratic formula? I tied it to a particular key and it would momentarily, almost imperceptibly flash a correct solution on the page after I selected an ang
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by Graphon 14y ago
That headline ought to read "Voyager reaches beginning of interstellar space". The interstellar space is the space between solar systems, so it would be impossible for the craft to reach "the end" unless it exited the Galaxy. There's no cle
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by Graphon 14y ago
Today's embedded is not tomorrow's embedded. In 10 years your sunglasses will have more compute power and memory than today's smartphone .
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by Graphon 14y ago
The OP seems to be very willing to draw general conclusions when none are warranted. When faced with a project in which code modularization was a problem, his proposed solution was to port the code? Seriously? Port Javascript to Actionscri
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by Graphon 14y ago
People suggesting that Go is a potential replacement for Python, Lua or Ruby are missing the point. IMO, Go isn't designed to compete with those existing languages for existing opportunities. The key opportunity in the future is smart devi
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by Graphon 14y ago
This is pretty typical of the series. There are 3 or 4 drivers to a car for the Le Mans race (24 hours continuous racing). Two or 3 of those will be professional drivers, and one is a rich amateur who brings money. Pay-to-play. How much yo
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by Graphon 14y ago
What's the international symbol for a lawyer? https://www.google.com/search?q=parasite+icon
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by Graphon 14y ago
> Note: In the hours before our presentation/release, Google pushed a new version of reCAPTCHA which fully nerfs our attack. I take it that "fully nerfs" means this defeat of recaptcha is no longer useful?