aconbere

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by aconbere 18y ago
You couple those with ruby's method_missing and then you have some interesting functionality. But basically the way that Ruby handles operator overloading and function accessing is a lot cleaner than pythons. It would be pretty nice to get
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by aconbere 18y ago
I have to agree with the other commenter. I prefer to "roll my own" here. Not because I don't like it when frameworks take care of mess for me, but because I'm constantly frustrated by how frameworks handle JS. A quick and dirty RESTful JSO
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by aconbere 18y ago
I definitely did not have this effect on me. Usually when I hear comments like this it's from Java programmers. But coming from a background of already knowing several expressive dynamic languages (Python, Perl) and having a strong function
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by aconbere 18y ago
Matz might say that, but doing functional things in Ruby is a pain in the arse as well. Blocks, Lambdas, Procs, and Methods, all which are slightly different and require transformative functions to move one into the other. That's about as f
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by aconbere 18y ago
To be fair... blocks are not lambda's, but things would be a lot better if they were.
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by aconbere 18y ago
I'm not sure this is an either or proposition. I haven't seen many message queue protocols with tools for identity, user authentication, federation, etc. I'm also pretty sure that xmpp doesn't even begin to replace message queuing on the ba
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by aconbere 18y ago
This seems a bit like the project I work on (timelope.com). But still requires people to actively push data into the network. With an extension installed and already looking at what you browse, why not just let that data they generate just