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by alec 17y ago
They have two mallocs?
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by alec 17y ago
Stores passwords in plain text on disk: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&#38... I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic s
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OO + JVM + tail calls, and being an expert debugger(foldl.org)
1 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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by alec 17y ago
This article puts most of the blame on Summers for his expansion plans; I've seen other articles put the blame on Meyer and El-Erian for running the endowment like a hedge fund.
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The left fold: 2009-11-29: Java 7, Haskell 2010, plus experience reports(foldl.org)
12 points by alec 17y ago|2 comments
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The left fold: 2009-11-23: Java closures, GC roundup, and Microsoft assertions(foldl.org)
2 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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by alec 17y ago
I think the Google angle has been overblown. Sure, all the designers are from Google, but Google employs a number of people who are prominent in one language or another - Guido, for one, and Bram Moolenaar is working on Zimbu. It got post
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by alec 17y ago
"While this effort [SPDY] from Google aims to make everything faster, it is largely orthogonal to what we’re trying to do with Resource Package." Seems to solve the same problem, though, but without the headache of rewriting everything.
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by alec 17y ago
I wonder how this applies to software development. The article says it applies to works for hire; if there's 35-year-old code out there, could the original author get rights to some part of the program back or otherwise block use of the so
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by alec 17y ago
Ikiwiki seems to target the same nitch as Markdoc. Do you know how they compare?
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The left fold: 2009-11-16: Go roundup, RTS pathfinding, sprints, and more(foldl.org)
3 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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PyPy Sprint Report: inlining, guard chains, and exceptions(morepypy.blogspot.com)
10 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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The left fold: weekly programming article digest: 2009-11-09 edition(foldl.org)
2 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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by alec 17y ago
Lisp's macros are foremost a cheap anonymous lambda - with-open-file, dolist, and the like don't need to be macros, but it's much more convenient and efficient than passing a lambda to another function. Certainly, though, transforming code
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by alec 17y ago
"Why do they have to defend this careers thing so much?" A career page seems to be the preferred route to go to raise revenue for programming websites. They're not defending it, they're promoting it. Using a job board to directly or indir
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The past six months of GHC: what's been done and what's next(hackage.haskell.org)
2 points by alec 17y ago|0 comments
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by alec 17y ago
Compare their results for "a* search" with Google's. One has a video about police searches in the first page of results, and the other is Duck It.
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by alec 17y ago
> I hope this criticism is helpful. It is, thank you. I'm still looking for the sweet spot; I hope that the link titles themselves give enough context to decide if it's interesting when the topic is one you know, and the blurb just enou
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The left fold: weekly programming article digest: 2009-11-02 edition(foldl.org)
17 points by alec 17y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft Research: Making the Shortest Path Even Quicker(research.microsoft.com)
5 points by alec 17y ago|1 comments
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Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript(felixcrux.com)
23 points by alec 17y ago|9 comments
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by alec 17y ago
I currently work on QPX, the air travel search engine. We continue to use SBCL, primarily because it produces faster code for our workload. We and our customers are very sensitive to the performance of the application. Dan Weinreb, anothe
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by alec 17y ago
Does the zoom problem hamper your ability to read small graphs? I would be concerned about graphs that fit into one of two columns on the page.
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by alec 17y ago
I'm the guy responsible; feedback about the format, content, and frequency would be great, as would pointers to interesting articles. I find it sometimes difficult to link back to Hacker News because unlike reddit, there's no easy API I can
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by alec 17y ago
I never liked any of the group work I did in school. Sure, the teachers would assign it, but it always ended up with a few people doing most of the work or a project with as many different parts as there were people. It was fine for me to
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by alec 17y ago
"You can't be the best without being influential in the field." I think an appropriate analogy is judging an architect on the hammers he has improved instead of the buildings he has designed.
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by alec 17y ago
I haven't used qmail, but I use djbdns. The complete installation, possibly including a few patches, is less work than figuring out how to set up BIND's configuration. It's available in Debian from apt-get. It's good that it's so easy to
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by alec 17y ago
I used to use a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, but found it was bad for me it has a required lots of pressure to push the keys. I can"t use one of them for more than a few minutes now; I can type on a Kinesis keyboard for an entire day (wit
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by alec 17y ago
Why not just link to the actual Harvard Book Store event page? http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2390
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by alec 17y ago
You mention the ease of updates as one reason to prefer webapps. I've used Google Chrome and have never noticed an update - it just does it in the background. If you had something like that in place, what other issues would you run into t

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