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by Xurinos 17y ago
What is wrong with CSS is the same thing that is wrong with HTML and XML. We are trying to use these things as DSLs, but they lack a core aspect of a language: means of abstraction. As a result, modern website work generally involves usin
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I like to read these kinds of articles because it is interesting to see how other people choose to categorize their game mechanics philosophies. In my mind, a game is comprised of a goal and methods for reaching that goal. You can manipula
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I second this. I ran fine in 8.4 and thought an upgrade would be nice so I could get all the latest software. I was wrong. At 9.4, Ubuntu broke half my laptop's functionality. 9.10 had the same issues. I read that the patches I needed f
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I am not familiar with the validation koolaid (can you summarize it?), but from my experience, you want great constraints in your database because there may be more than one entry point to your database. If your software layers outside the
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I have found myself using jQuery SVG more. This link shows what other people think of the two: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/588718/jquery-svg-vs-raphael The version of Raphael I used at one point had to be in complete control
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Let me present an argument in favor of the ternary operator. tl;dr -- It is an abstraction on a conditional assignment pattern. We start with your "readable" approach: var a; if (condition(x)) { a = 4; } else {
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by Xurinos 17y ago
You could use grep() instead of filter(). Sorry for not including it in my first post... Granted, it still suffers the problem of lacking the shortcut, but programming new useful abstractions is part of our job anyway. The point is to mak
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by Xurinos 17y ago
What about thinking about what to write?
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Or you could use jQuery's filter() to find if there is at least one match. Even better is to use an any() function that can shortcut. The real issue here is that each() is incorrectly used to perform a search. each() is intended to perfor
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I look forward to follow-up studies about how to train the brain to divide into more tasks. Wasn't it Jefferson who by legend could handwrite two documents simultaneously in different languages? I doubt he had a third lobe.
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Does "In the Zone" programming actually provide quality and no-bug benefits comparable to pair programming? I suppose you could suggest that you would follow it up with a code review, but when you sum all the reviewing process to the codin
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I have not played with Clojure since it was introduced, but I have a question about recur or tail recursion. Here is a trivial CL example (nontrivial might be approaches to parsing): (defun find-nth-match (test from n) (if (= n 0)
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by Xurinos 17y ago
"The research team studied eight volunteers" -- Is that a large enough sample size to be drawing scientific conclusions?
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I can't remember if it was here or on reddit, but someone posted an interesting article that said that the big flaw with these mixed character passwords is that people have a hard time remembering them. When you start demanding that they u
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Yes, of course I do, and the generalizations here are gross and condescending. You will not convince me that I do not want this. I lean towards the Comfort angle, but I also start tinkering and producing when I am bored, so I could hardly
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by Xurinos 17y ago
I use ixquick, and they have SSL, too: https://ixquick.com/ I am curious which of these will grant more privacy and better searches.
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Isn't this really a weakness of this system's abstraction? This appearance decision is just a skin layer. Rather than thrust it upon people, it could just be the default skin/view/appearance/theme, and there would be ways for contributors
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Registry entries (for Windows deploys), data files, silly DRM stuff, etc. You'd want an installer/uninstaller for your more complex deployments. But that's not something one should reasonably expect from a Lisp REPL or compiler; that's jus
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by Xurinos 17y ago
> Java cannot run without a JRE Yep... As I recall from responses to this critique, 99.9% of C programs cannot run without support from libraries either, usually already installed with the OS. Even though the executable size looks smal
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by Xurinos 17y ago
The bits were never a scarcity. Software sellers have attempted to make them so with the use of legal wording, sternly-worded threats, and excellent politics. Before it was easy to transmit things electronically, we had to pass around ph
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by Xurinos 17y ago
> Sell it at a loss, make it up in volume? Right. Or diversify. Do not put all your eggs in one basket. This is the games business, the entertainment industry, where the audience is fickle and diverse in their interests. When it come
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Or don't use DRM at all. Instead of relying on a single instance of a product making money for years to come, focus more on new games or in-game content sales. Better yet, focus more on positive features and bugfixes/polish for present gam
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by Xurinos 17y ago
One problem is that if you’re working in an interpreted language such as PHP then your code isn’t compiled This has always bothered me -- the theory that compiled code is not also code. It is a language that can be interpreted by the OS
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by Xurinos 17y ago
The author here is responding to my comment in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1146091 I was asking how I could approach making money with my group's hobby MUD, at least to cover server costs, and I had various co
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by Xurinos 17y ago
Our http://darkmists.org MUD has a similar position to this, especially with our niche -- fewer people want to play an online RPG for the RP than for the PK aspects. The topic has often come up about making money from this game, at least