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by SlyShy 16y ago
Interesting. 68% is higher than I thought. I figured the reason they didn't disclose the number was because it was much lower than that.
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JavaScript rapid function definition(javascriptweblog.wordpress.com)
12 points by SlyShy 16y ago|2 comments
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Having beat Nethack five times I can't say it's not a great game. That said, there are a lot better games, and even many better roguelikes. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is my recommendation. It's insanely difficult, but in a better way than N
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Well executed product launch on Reddit.(reddit.com)
2 points by SlyShy 16y ago|1 comments
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I would like to see more programming and hacking on Hacker News again. Lately I've been seeing programming articles floundering in New and never making it to the front page. Bit of a shame, really. It used to be I only needed to go to HN to
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Running Vim within IRB(vimcasts.org)
1 points by SlyShy 16y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Beware, some definitions here are incorrect. For example, Witzelsucht, which is correctly defined at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witzelsucht For people interested, Phonistry maintains some much nicer (longer, etc.) lists. htt
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I don't understand why I'll want to use Facebook features when I'm not on Facebook, or why I wouldn't ignore Facebook ads the same way I ignore all ads. But maybe magic web 2.0 fairy dust can mystically make advertising not obnoxious.
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Automated Drift Parking from Stanford(youtube.com)
3 points by SlyShy 16y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 16y ago
This may get downvoted, but : I personally know you to be a trustworthy guy, but people outside of Hacker News probably won't (and you aren't even associated with this project on the site, regardless). So to the average passerby this websi
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Thank you for explaining. :)
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I just use classes, so I'm not sure what you took my meaning to be. I'm certainly not requiring the singleton library.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Yeah, it wasn't meant as a criticism of the article. More of a "Python can do nice things too" shout out to other Rubyists. I don't know about them, but I find myself translating code between Ruby and Python for various reasons and it is ni
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Interesting. I sort of assumed Python had singletons natively, because I'm so used to using them in Ruby. This guy doesn't do it here, but you can make singletons relatively painless in Python by using decorators.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Seems like the first time was in April 2009 ( http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Orange_an... ). Personally, I think this is a good idea. Granted, there get to be conflict of interest problems when more deals like this go do
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by SlyShy 16y ago
As someone who is both a user of HN and in the Wikimedia Foundation has already noted, Facebook actually arranged a deal with Wikipedia to get this content. They aren't simply scraping, they are giving Wikipedia money in exchange for this.
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Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++(david.tribble.com)
3 points by SlyShy 16y ago|1 comments
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by SlyShy 16y ago
If people are interested, here's some extra reading matter courtesy of reddit: http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/09/dining-philosoph... http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
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Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)(infoq.com)
22 points by SlyShy 16y ago|3 comments
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List Comprehensions in Ruby(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by SlyShy 16y ago|0 comments
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Really awesome article. I was expecting something mundane like "Lisp has closures, that's so cool, etc." but it was in depth and illustrated a lot of idioms I should have picked up earlier.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I can attest to _Little Schemer_ being a wonderful book. There's just something very cool about a book that's both easy for beginners to pick up and that goes through a derivation of the Y Combinator. But maybe I'm just biased because I'm o
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by SlyShy 16y ago
People have referred me to Real World Haskell as such a book. Lovely though it is (I learned a lot of Haskell), it wasn't teaching software design in Haskell exactly. Hopefully someone will write a book like that.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
If you are looking for startup ideas, start talking to customers, basically.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I'm malicious, so I wouldn't actually delete my account. I'd just gradually falsify all my information. That way they don't get any data mining benefit from my account, in fact, their data collection is being confounded by it. ;)
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by SlyShy 16y ago
I remember doing that while living in Taiwan. At least the climate in Boston makes having lukewarm water more bearable. When you are sweating in a tropical summer the last thing you want is a warm glass of water.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
It's laggy, stuttery, junk. It's basically the only non-game application I can run that'll spike my CPU to 100%.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
Of course, Google is protecting its business interests, but I happen to agree with its business interests in this case.
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by SlyShy 16y ago
That wasn't a joke, I'm sad to say. The Arnell Group is just amazing at getting people to pay for what amounts to nothing.
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Facebook jumps on the Mahalo-esque Wikipedia scrapping bandwagon(facebook.com)
6 points by SlyShy 16y ago|0 comments

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