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by adambard 15y ago
I as well did this last year, at http://resumatic.net/ Unfortunately, I don't have the same talent for design.
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Using Java from Clojure in plain language, with some simple examples.(posterous.adambard.com)
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by adambard 15y ago
I have DDG set as my default, but I admit that that's more or less despite the quality of the search results. When I'm searching for "discovery" purposes, such as when trying to diagnose an error message, I add a !g. When I want an image, !
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by adambard 15y ago
Thank you for informing me about the existence of Pandoc.
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by adambard 15y ago
No worries, glad I could help. I think another thing that gave me a boost was when, for whatever reason, I decided that I should avoid for loops when writing day-to-day python. I started using list comprehensions, and then map, filter and r
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by adambard 15y ago
4clojure.com was very helpful for me, as was this: http://jkkramer.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/clojure-python-side...
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by adambard 15y ago
I see a lot of votes for python, but a disproportionately small representation of python fans in the comments. If you asked me a year ago, I'dve said python. But lately, I've been using Clojure for personal projects, and it's making python
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by adambard 15y ago
It's a bit mean, but a Ruby-to-PHP compiler implemented in C#? I feel like 3 is a crowd here.
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by adambard 15y ago
Still didn't make it a good idea though.
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by adambard 15y ago
My rule of thumb is, as soon as it gets to the point where I need to use "this", I find a library that abstracts that whole business away. I've been there and it sucks. I say leave it to someone with the expertise to use "this" in Javascrip
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by adambard 15y ago
This is a good rule of thumb, but the best client I ever had was in the general area of legal services. No more than 6 employees, or at least that's how many email accounts I set up, but paid well, without complaint, and always immediately.
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by adambard 15y ago
If you don't have Optima (the font), it defaults to Trebuchet, which I find very ugly. Could they not have used one of many available webfonts (from Typekit/FontSquirrel/Google etc.)?
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by adambard 15y ago
It works really well. But, I consider anyone who finds the dense grid display easier than browsing down a list a savant; I have trouble focusing on just one thumbnail in the sea of others. Wasn't there a recent article about the merits of l
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by adambard 15y ago
I have heard just "usb" from many people. "Do you have a usb I can borrow?" It's grating.
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by adambard 15y ago
The constructor for the Python HMAC library just defaults to MD5; you can pass any of the hashlib modules to it via the digestmod parameter. I don't know why it doesn't default to something more secure, but it's no challenge to do.
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by adambard 15y ago
I think this tool gives too fine-grained an outlook about whether a language is "suitable" or "not." Some languages (e.g. Matlab, Erlang) were designed for specific domains in which they excel, but most were designed to be general-purpose.
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by adambard 15y ago
I'm pretty glad about this. I've been shying away from even deals I want, because I know that Groupon is (was) taking 50% of the price and leaving the merchant with what was probably a loss. I might be more likely to purchase them again now
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by adambard 15y ago
Hah! My strongest memory impression of using Bump is that it's hideous. Good work.
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by adambard 15y ago
I disagree; I think the more standard handling of `this` and the automagic variable scoping, constitute a significant reduction in complexity for people coming from other OO languages. Certainly for me, having more experience with Python an
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by adambard 15y ago
I worked on a large PHP codebase for a few years, and that sounds very familiar. We never did get it untangled enough to test before I left. Do you have a static analyzer or something like it that enforces the no-circular-dependencies rule,
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by adambard 15y ago
The comparison between PHP and frameworks isn't valid. Writing PHP on a framework probably abstracts away SQL too, just like writing CGI in Python gives you lower-level control.
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by adambard 15y ago
Actually, here's a more insane version: $x = 0; if(!empty($x)){ echo '"0" is empty'; }
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by adambard 15y ago
Here is some PHP code: $x = "0"; if(!$x){ echo "0 is false"; } If you understand why it's crazy that PHP prints "0 is false" when you execute that, you're probably better off jumping ship now. If you don't, you'll probably appreciate th
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by adambard 15y ago
It happens with any language. But at least in Java you're limited (as far as I know) to looking through what you've explicitly imported. If you include a file in PHP, you have access to everything that that file included in itself, and ever
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by adambard 15y ago
I think it's probably easier to create unmanageable spaghetti with PHP. It's not that you can't build a large project in PHP, it's that it's easier to foul up. By far the part of PHP that shines for small projects and causes havoc in large
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by adambard 15y ago
I'm a fan of uWSGI, personally. If anyone's interested, I wrote up (before it was cool) a guide to Django/nginx/uwsgi in more or less the same format: http://posterous.adambard.com/start-to-finish-serving-mysql-...
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by adambard 16y ago
If anyone's looking for a registrar, NameCheap sucked enough less than GoDaddy to make me go out of my way to mention here. Which is to say, substantially less.
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by adambard 16y ago
I posted it up here a few weeks back, but my current project is http://resumatic.net/ It's a(nother) online resume-hosting app influenced by about.me and such, with an emphasis on presentation and individuality. I hope. Basically, it's a
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by adambard 16y ago
I'll take that over a way-too-long line of text any day. Improves readability.
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by adambard 16y ago
I believe the elevation of each point relative to the center represents the distance that one would have to be from earth's centroid to experience the same gravitational acceleration (relative to some baseline, presumably an average). So, i

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