Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I feel like this article is simply intended to demonstrate what the Jacquard loom produced. Leaving out the contributions of Lovelace is no different from leaving out the contributions of Turing. Both were monumentally worthy contribution
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I think it _could_ be used that way. If used properly, however, you’d make sure all your other ducks are in a row before using something like this as icing on the cake, so to speak. But you make an important point.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
One of the best and most powerful alternatives to RegEx I've ever seen is the PARSE function used in the Rebol and Red programming languages. page: read http://hq.rebol.net parse page [thru <title> copy title
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
In 2009/2010 my wife accidentally made a charge to PayPal that was linked with our Wells Fargo checking account. Since we weren’t planning on that charge happening from that account, there was an NSF fee and Wells rejected the charger.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Wells Fargo is an awful company. Hopefully this outage will be the final straw for many people.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I really think the blame lies with Facebook management and not a button.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
And the “cube farms” as we called them back them were almost as bad. Worse in some ways. They gave a false sense of privacy and people could be louder than they otherwise might have been because they thought those fake 3” walls were sound
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
> several well-educated and seemingly intelligent Americans who hold strong racist opinions At the risk of opening that particular can of worms; I'm curious to know if you can provide more details on this? As an American I suspect
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I know. But that's how these guys think. They don't actually know the fundamentals. It's almost comical. My business partner worked with a guy a few years ago who, after running npm install on something was dazzled by wha
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don't deny that they make things easier. But there's a cost to that, sometimes a significant cost. In my experience (and confirmed by others I know--including the author of the post), frameworks get you to 80% of where you nee
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I think one problem you really highlight is that, at best, those higher number of devs who can only code in the frameworks think those frameworks are able to save them from themselves. At worst, they're lazy and don't want to tak
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
"...while a framework will let you create standard solutions to standard problems very quickly, you always then have to add that little special sauce that makes your app unique, and that is where the frameworks can slow you down instea
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Wow. I’ve been a user since the beginning and I seem to recall a point where they almost closed their doors. Talk about it paying off to keep going.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
> Before Facebook, if I lost someone's contact information, and drifted outside of their social circle for a long enough time, chances were I would never ever see or speak to that person again. Not really. Chances are, I knew someo
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Can anyone explain why you’d use this over just writing the HTML? This reminds me of the days when there were similar libraries in PHP and I could never find a use for them. It was easier and faster to just write the HTML.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Oh, yeah, it is. I used to love npm and then didn’t use it for several years. I’ve gone back to it lately and find myself screaming “what have you people done?!” on a regular basis now. And while we’re on the subject of package managers; d
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Google have become masters at not knowing when enough is enough. Remember when Google Maps was great? Not perfect, and not quite as pretty as it is now. But it sure did work well and was a hell of a lot faster than it is now.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
That's impressive. Can you provide more info such as how old he is, did he have any kind of programming experience prior, and how did you go about teaching him?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
They became a "services" company which means they want that recurring revenue. When they sold a few million dollars in hardware to a company they didn't make another sale like that to that company for awhile. Sure, they cou
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
We tried this on a project with not great results, chief among them being the project maintainer always classifying a problem or defect as "Not a bug" even when it provably is.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This is sad for such a well-known brand. I have such fond memories of their Wishbook catalog that came out around the holidays every year. I would flip to the toys section and dream. My grandparents even had a years old Wishbook in our t
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
This isn't sympathy, it's practicality. I've been on SSRI's. The side effects are nothing to joke about. The withdrawals when coming off of them are brutal. It was hard enough writing code while on them. I would rat
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I have a seven year-old Prius and the support columns on the left and right of the windshield are huge. I can't count the number of times I'll be pulling up to a stop sign only to stop and freak out when a pedestrian walks right
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Viewing things like going to dinner “the competition” is, in my opinion, immoral. This is Netflix serving their shareholders instead of their customers.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
I don’t know why this is getting downvoted. I feel the same way. Amazon and Google have yet to demonstrate to me that they value my privacy enough to take necessary steps to protect it. They, like Facebook, know most people foolishly don’t
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
So it’s ok that they repeatedly, and in the sole interest of their bottom line, violate their users privacy (that they explicitly claim to protect and care about btw) and allow unscrupulous groups and governments to use that data to manipul
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Maybe Google should split Chrome and related assets (Chromium, Blink, are there others?) into a separate foundation that has control over the source with a board that has membership by major players such as Google themselves, Opera, and Mic
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
Our use of acronyms is getting out of hand.
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
What does that acronym stand for?
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by Zelphyr 8y ago
> This means algorithms... I'm curious what people consider the best books and/or online resources on computer algorithms are?

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