Xion

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IE7 users suffer higher prices in online shop(afr.com)
2 points by Xion 14y ago|0 comments
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by Xion 14y ago
As a relative newcomer to the software industry (~2 years), I hope the grumpiness caused by shifting requirements decreases over time. That after you gather enough experience, you are able to predict more and more accurately what the requir
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The Hype Cycle(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Xion 14y ago|0 comments
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by Xion 14y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. TDD as Test-Driven Debugging is the way to go. :)
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by Xion 14y ago
I've found '1234678', 'password', 'qwerty', 'linkedin' and few other common phrases (already 00000'd, obviously), so it doesn't look like a list of just the hard ones.
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by Xion 14y ago
On Inferno the monsters scale quite massively with each and every player that joins the game. I believe it's 110% of hit points and about 15% of damage per player. So your party have to synergize alot in order to overcome this scaling. This
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by Xion 14y ago
That's exactly what I meant, yes. And I used Java as comparison because of its speed being not that far from C itself - and certainly surpassing that of Python by a long shot. I definitely didn't intend to propagate the outdated "Java is sl
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by Xion 14y ago
"By way of comparison, the Python program takes 1.5 seconds to run, so that's about a 10X speedup." Only tenfold? Interesting. While Python is surely not the slowest interpreted language around, a result like that borders on the performance
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by Xion 14y ago
You can replace the built-in apps with different ones but this can go only go so far as to change the icons you tap on dashboard. The lack of unified way for apps to interact with each other is seriously crippling the platform's capabilitie
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QuickCheck in Python(xion.io)
1 points by Xion 14y ago|0 comments
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by Xion 14y ago
Bonus point if you also use interleaving whitespace [1] to hide yet another program. [1] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
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by Xion 15y ago
Consider the case of Scheme, again. Since making Scheme object-oriented is so easy, many Scheme hackers have done so. More to the point, many individual Scheme hackers have done so. In the 1990s, this led to a veritable warehouse inventory
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by Xion 15y ago
I absolutely have the same problem, and you do not really have to be an expert to encouter this. Personally I do not find much appeal in taking part in this "race" you have mentioned - even if the opportunity cost is a big fat number of upv
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by Xion 15y ago
A little above 5k [1]. I used to be quite active in Java, Android and Python department when I was still learning a lot on those topics. Now when I'm a bit more proficient in them I usually do not have motivation to answer questions, for th
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by Xion 15y ago
This is really sad. No, no the whole idea about building a floating incubator. It's the fact that immigrant & visa laws are so ridiculously outlandish that it's perfectly conceivable to devise an elaborate and expensive "hacks" to circu
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GameBoy Color emulator written in JS(gamecenter.grantgalitz.org)
10 points by Xion 15y ago|0 comments
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Explain shell commands using ASCII art(github.com)
2 points by Xion 15y ago|0 comments
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by Xion 15y ago
I've been using 2.7 for few months now and I'm glad it finally goes official. The concurrent serving of requests really does make a difference: for app that is mostly I/O bound and isn't using a lot of asynchronous RPC, it greatly increases
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by Xion 15y ago
A casual inspection of Firebug shows that the only way JSONLint communicates with outside world when you click Validate is to report usage to Google Analytics. It certainly doesn't appear to be sending the actual JSON anywhere.
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by Xion 15y ago
And finally you are powerful enough to enforce your own rules.
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by Xion 15y ago
Very nice work here! The search is definitely better than in original version, the docs itself are more tidily formatted and easier to read, and the whole website is just much more lightweight than the jquery.com version. I'm pretty certain
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by Xion 15y ago
The first time I needed a permalink to particular tweet, I spent good five minutes looking around for it. Only accidentally I noticed that the timestamp has it, and it didn't strike me as obvious at all. Having a link which clearly says 'De
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Adventures in Haskelland(xionlog.com)
2 points by Xion 15y ago|0 comments
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by Xion 15y ago
Functions that need to employ this trick are often overly complicated and could use splitting into more manageable ones. For one, you could relieve the need of do-while-false itself by moving its content into separate function and replaci
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by Xion 15y ago
Seeing Bootstrap everywhere is actually a good thing. It makes me hope that the Web is finally maturing to the point of having a common, uniform UI patterns for its applications. If Bootstrap helps to alleviate the design & UX bonanza
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by Xion 15y ago
While I agree with the point that FB Connect should not be the only option, I don't see promoting password-based authentication is beneficial here. Implementing a traditional user&pass auth. scheme: 1) Is really hard to get right from
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The "Wat" of Python(xionlog.com)
2 points by Xion 15y ago|0 comments
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by Xion 15y ago
SQLAlchemy is just beautiful piece of engineering work. What I always marvel at is how detailed, descriptive and just plain helpful its error messages are. It's a small yet extremely useful feature, given the natural complexity of ORM and b
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by Xion 15y ago
The assertion that programming is broken seems to be stemming from assumption that, in contrast, human minds - which currently do the programming - are not. And that's a huge overstatement. For a product of a process that is essentially t
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by Xion 15y ago
If we could get rid of SOAP along with SOPA, I would be doubly happy.

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