IsaacSchlueter

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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   It means that something "performs well". The specific criteria of performance depends on context. Both "fast" and "efficient" are more specific than performant, but are related concepts. Note that "speed" and "efficiency" are also often r
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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   That said, "performant" is not, has never been, and will never be a word. Well, it's certainly Not A Duck. It's pronounceable, it has a widely accepted spelling and definition… Seems like a word to me. Time to get over it, I think.
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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   Use of the word "sexy" 30 times in something purporting to be scientific Well, he's using the word "sexy" to mean what it means. That is, marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest . I found it rather refreshing that some
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   Why Women Have Breasts(evolution-x.com)

   90 points by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago|64 comments
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   Genetically Modified Glowing Monkeys(washingtonpost.com)

   5 points by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago|2 comments
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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   But domestic cats kill far more than necessary for food. I've had cats that were very aggressive hunters, but never ate their prey, and another cat that preferred her kills to what we fed her, but nonetheless killed far more than she ate. I
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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   Also contrary to popular opinion, an img tag with an appropriate alt attribute is very accessible (in any browser but IE, it's even resizable.)
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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   Be the person you wish you were. Anyone who doesn't like it is not a friend you need. It is absolutely possible to have a very active social life and also have intellectually stimulating friends. I have long tried to make a point to neve
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   by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

   The author fails to explore the possibility that perhaps "doing well" leads to "equality", rather than the other way around. Or, perhaps "doing well" and "equality" are both caused by something else.
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Not just JS state, either. What if I have a flash movie running? When you middle-click a link on a YouTube video, the video keeps playing. You probably don't want pages in your history to be downloading data, playing video, etc. Ideally,
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Be strict in what you send, and forgiving in what you receive. Browsers are just following this basic networking principle.
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Agreed. If Les Paul was 60 years younger, he'd have been into computers, no doubt. He's very much the image of the hacker mentality. I love seeing the inventive mind at work, even if it's in another field.
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    Les Paul saw a need and invented something to fill it(cleveland.com)

    17 points by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago|4 comments
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Javascript does not guarantee that, and yes, it does affect the results. I did a bit of playing with this in Firefox, sorting the array [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] and then testing the mean of the first 5 vs the mean of the second 5, over 10,000
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    You can bitch about how javascript sucks, and refuse to use it, or you can man up and write programs in the language that every web browser supports. Seems like a pretty easy choice to me. Yay running out of stack, tons of fun. Why aren'
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Axod may have overreached by saying "most languages". However, you overreach as well by saying "the minority" (though at least you add the qualifier "I'd expect".) What Axod perhaps should have said is "most languages that support automati
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts" (aka "the butterfly book") is a much quicker read, and will result in better code.
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by "made it work". It causes me real physical pain to look at the site. Was that the intent? Is this like some roundabout new fangled goatse kinda thing?
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    However, the other thing that needs to be remembered is that if you want to play real sword fighting, take up fencing. Better graphics and level of immersion than you'll find in any game. I don't know. Fencing is way more effort, harder
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Favorite line in the article: Twitter Search isn’t meant to replace Google, that’d be dumb.
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    @Google - @Twitter To Start Indexing Links For Search(techcrunch.com)

    9 points by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago|3 comments
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    When you don't smoke for a year or so, that first one when you un-quit is unparalleled pleasure. It's worth starting and enduring the pain of quitting just to be able to come back and feel that glorious mind blowing forbidden pleasure of th
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    A vaporizer is not a pipe or bong, and it is certainly not smokeless. You put your combustible material in a machine that heats it up until it smolders, and collects the resulting vapors in an airtight plastic balloon. Then you remove th
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Ow, my eyes! Seriously, red text on yellow? And she's a graphic designer?
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    So you would not want to use any service that uses XML for any purpose, even if it could output its results in JSON? That seems irrational.
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Isn't your response just whataboutery? I think part of the author's thesis is that misogyny is handled in numerous other analyses. However, even in situations where allegations of patriarchy are ludicrous, certain trends are still present
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    I've been working on K7, an extension library/framework for linking the V8 javascript engine with existing C/C++ libraries. Kind of slow going since work has gotten busier, but hoping to get back to it soon. http://github.com/isaacs/k7
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Look closer. YQL can output results in either JSON or XML. It just uses XML for table definitions, and as one of several ways to extract data from web services.
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    Absolutely. My focus is on front-end engineering (Javascript, markup, and CSS), but I've written plenty of PHP, MySQL, and C++. I can say with absolute confidence that back-end engineering is orders of magnitude simpler and easier than fro
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    by IsaacSchlueter 17y ago

    I see the distinction. It's not a blocking call, and can't return a value to the original caller, so it might not be correct to call it recursion. (Also, I'm using "recursion" rather loosely here—as we've seen in the recent Guido-vs-TCO d