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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
Nonsense. Some counter-examples: * Sherlock * Top Gear * Luther * Life On Mars * Doctor Who * The Thick Of It * In The Flesh * Being Human * Africa I could go on...
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
A comment doesn't have to cause offence in order to be sexist, just as much as causing offence doesn't make a comment sexist. The comment is sexist, by "I have 2000 Yahoo shares", he means "I have power over you&q
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
I have worked on what I would call non-trivial Javascript applications, but only front-end javascript (no server-side js, apart from a few MongoDB map-reduce queries). My feelings towards js are are informed by that experience, and my (happ
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
When that language is javascript, yes.
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
> Javascript is not just a "quirky scripting language for minor workflow events." It is a powerful, expressive language I didn't say it was just for minor workflow events, I said it was created for minor workflow events - it's just
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
No, it's not, and it's certainly not OK. Javascript is a quirky interpreted scripting language created for scripting minor workflow events. It's an afterthought by Netscape, duct-taped to a bundle of silly hacks, wrapped up in some interest
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by Herald_MJ 13y ago
There were a set of Python bindings for phantom.js named PyPhantomjs, and it was included in actual phantom releases, but the maintainer moved away from the project, no-one stepped forward and it was ultimately removed from the project (
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
If you have an iPhone and Mountain Lion, you can just pass messages between devices via the Notes apps and iCloud.
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
The European mobile web market is 'immature'. #shithnsays
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
My understanding of LibreOffice was that it existed as a fork purely as a response to Oracle exerting excessive control over the project. Now that Oracle has relinquished OpenOffice.org, can anyone shed some light on what the stated goals o
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
An interesting side-effect of "cloud browsers" (browsers that proxy your traffic through their servers and compress the data on the mobile data end) like Opera Mini and Amazon Silk is they completely bypass these filters.
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
Orange UK have a similar overenthusiastic filter - I've noticed it blocking online dating websites, a beer festival website and even reddit, in it's entirety. It's also opt-out, and although this can be done through their mobile app, it has
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
I would have thought this would be much lower priority than a Google Maps native app for iOS, which also will be missing from iPhones when iOS 6 launches.
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
It may be new to TechCrunch, but there's been a talent deficit in London for years now.
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
? web.py? Tornado? Any microframework?
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
http://httpstat.us does this too.
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by Herald_MJ 14y ago
Oh wait, so does Hacker News
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
For anyone interested, the closest thing to this around at the moment (that I have come across) is http://pipl.com , and it's actually pretty good.
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
Pretty sure this was discussed on HN before when he wrote the blog post describing how it was developed: http://acko.net/blog/making-love-to-webkit/
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
What's the normal price?
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
So the code can be simplified as >>> states * len(state)
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
http://ddg.gg
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
Lua isn't programmer friendly?
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
Just to kick off an alternate perspective on the situation: up until reading about this incident, airbnb and the whole business model of "borrow my home" has somehow escaped my attention, and even though what has happened in EJ's situation
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
Even more reason to offer a support line then?
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
You can do this on Steam and PSN also. I don't view this as a significant piracy problem (and apparently neither do Apple, Sony or Valve), because there is an obvious limit of scale. Pirating an app via this method to two or three iphones i
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by Herald_MJ 15y ago
http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/05/07/duke-nukem-forever/
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers... - Downloadable copy
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[eBook] Implementation of Functional Programming Languages - Simon Peyton Jones(research.microsoft.com)
3 points by Herald_MJ 16y ago|1 comments
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
It does. I came across this article yesterday morning and attempted to submit it to HN, found that it was rejected for being a dupe. Ultimately, I submitted it to reddit.com/r/compsci instead. I assume fogus picked up on it from there and h

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