SlyShy

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IRC or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sailbot(code.sailthru.com)
1 points by SlyShy 14y ago|0 comments
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Gti(r-wos.org)
5 points by SlyShy 14y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 14y ago
In the past I've felt cynical about these sorts of issues. Recently I went to Hackers on Planet Earth, a hacktivist conference, and left it with a sense of optimism: there are very, very smart people working on protecting our privacy, and r
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Holistic Sentiment Analysis Across Languages, Part I: LDA(confusedlanguagetech.blogspot.com)
1 points by SlyShy 14y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 14y ago
As someone apartment hunting in NYC I appreciate this. If I wasn't my feelings would be pretty mixed.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
I'm excited for the IO/Console library. Even though messing with curses is a rite of passage for anyone writing a roguelike, I'm looking to get out of that business.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
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by SlyShy 15y ago
You can sign-up using the invitation code "techcrunch", but there are only five hundred open spaces. https://x.ruxum.com/users/sign_up
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Pretty cool. The Ruby port is of questionable use, considering erf, gamma, etc. are already implemented in the Math module.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
In case you are wondering why singleton's are bad practice in Java, here are two reasons off the top of my head. 1) Dependency hiding. Singletons are rarely based around as parameters. Rather, methods simply access and modify them as necess
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by SlyShy 15y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I'm not certain you really understand the results presented. This operates just like labeling theory. If teachers stopped treating kids as dumb kids and boring them with idiotic busy work, then those kids wouldn't
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by SlyShy 15y ago
That's kind of the point, is it not?
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Ruby 2.0: What We Want to Accomplish in the Near Future(youtube.com)
46 points by SlyShy 15y ago|9 comments
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by SlyShy 15y ago
I use yaourt instead of pacman. I almost feel like that should just be the default, since the AUR is so useful.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
If you haven't tried Arch Linux before, I highly recommend it. The configuration system is excellent, package management is both sane and fast, and the community is amazing (take a look at the Arch Wiki sometime, it is chock-full of good in
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Answer: if you know Haskell you don't have to run scared from threading, because threading really isn't so hard. I've heard Node advocates argue that being limited to a single process isn't a problem for scalability because you can just spi
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by SlyShy 15y ago
From the patent abstract I have a hard time imaging that they will win this lawsuit. It's sort of like BitTorrent if you squint. Just BitTorrent provided by several central servers run by one company that wants to include DRM in every downl
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by SlyShy 15y ago
The implications of this are interesting. I'm looking forward to the day there is an API for my memory.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Set and dictionary comprehensions, and set literals are both very cool. I wonder though: is back-porting all the nice features of 3 into 2 going to encourage adoption of 3? I somehow doubt it.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Just a miscommunication, then. I was wondering if there was a way of getting around the problems of the iterative approach in Python. After more reading, it seems it could be possible, but messy.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. The rebalancing situation is interesting. Another interesting link I noticed was a discussion on LtU that solves the posed question without using TCO, but it does use types which would again be cumbersome t
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Did you read the whole article though? The whole point of it was that using iteration instead of tail recursion exposes elements of the other classes implementation, which breaks down the abstraction barriers and separation of concerns. The
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by SlyShy 15y ago
After having SICP as my first programming course it always bothered me that Python was so limiting when it came to stack recursion. In the case presented in this article tail recursion was clearly a powerful tool for maintaining abstraction
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Just curious, is that taken from an actual language? Because I've wanted a feature like that for ages.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Even if you aren't hiring, I think this is an excellent article to read. These are practical skills to practice, and I'll certainly be keeping them in mind before going into an interview.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
I like to use Code Envy R: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod... . It's legible at 8pt, which lets me fit big amounts of code even on smaller screens.
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by SlyShy 15y ago
Cool information about the difficulties of writing high-concurrency software that runs on both Windows and Unix. I like the approach of removing #ifdef hell from the Node portion of the code by putting it in liboio. I hope the goal of using
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Some of the comments I've read seem to misunderstand the purpose of this page. This isn't the objectively best writing style, this is a concise writing style. No, it might not be the most pleasant to read, because extremely to-the-point sho
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Man, who down votes someone for asking a genuine question? This isn't monkey patching. Ruby's classes are open (they can be modified on the fly), so you can monkey patch modules with new functionality. In a language like C, if you wanted to
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I wrote a parser once that translated Ruby code using Python syntax convention into Ruby. It felt like it was basically Python, without explicit self method parameters. But I'm sure everything was horribly un-Pythonic.

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