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901.
by almost 18y ago
If what you want to say is just 2 words then maybe a blog post is a bit overkill.
902.
by almost 18y ago
Among other things I think it's the huge rush I get when I figure out something hard. Can't be beat :) Then there's the satisfaction of imagining a system and slowly putting it together. The exhilaration of a new program. Problem solving at
903.
by almost 18y ago
Funny how people who write articles are what makes a good on their programming blogs often include "writes a programming blog" as one of the attributes a good candidate should have... Hmmm, maybe my comment should read as: "it doesn't perfe
904.
by almost 18y ago
You did when he wrote that article. And it was a right pain too...
905.
by almost 18y ago
Telemarketing killed landlines? That doesn't seem quite correct... And spam doesn't really seem to have killed email either, you may rarely use it but the rest of the (connected) world does still seem to.
906.
by almost 18y ago
I had the same experience. The first page you see doesn't explain what it's all about except to say advertising and to show a map of the US. From that I immediately think it's about geo targeted online ads.
907.
by almost 18y ago
Nice one on the title soundsop! Great summary of what the article is saying in terms that are familiar to us here :p
908.
by almost 18y ago
Seriously, is there really a need to be such a dick about these things? Maybe he's right, maybe the other guy's right, maybe they're both talking about totally different things and just not noticing because they're too busy arguing. There m
909.
by almost 18y ago
Just so no one else has to waste time clicking through, it's just another lame April Fools joke. Actually, I think I might have found this one funny if it hadn't been now when I'm so sick of them :p
910.
by almost 18y ago
That's not the new clause, that's from the BSD license. The new clause is the last one in the list, the one about not removing the license enforcement code.
911.
Magical Square Root Implementation In Quake III(codemaestro.com)
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912.
by almost 18y ago
Damn right, the Internet has really taken all the humor out of April Fools jokes. Pretty much everything has been done to death already and in most cases wasn't all that funny in the first place. Never the less, they're a perfect example of
913.
by almost 18y ago
I don't think the Sun are all that hard to fool :p Here's a slightly more amusing example: http://www.b3ta.com/interview/monkeyman/
914.
by almost 18y ago
He works for the Daily Mail. It's a wonder he could even string sentences together let alone understand something as "complex" as that.
915.
by almost 18y ago
My point was that it was an old article hence what he said about the DBF library may have been true at the time. Was that not obvious?
916.
by almost 18y ago
It's an old article (see comments above)
917.
by almost 18y ago
Whoops, should have spotted both of those :p Both look good though!
918.
by almost 18y ago
I've seen Duck Duck Go when you posted before and didn't think much of the idea (hey, I can use Wikipedia!) Just had a look again and I now think it's pretty awesome. Just for a really speedy "what the hell is this?" type of query it looks
919.
by almost 18y ago
This looks fun :) I can think of all kinds of fun uses for it already... I wonder why they choose Alex/Happy instead of Parsec though. From my, admittedly limited, viewpoint Parsec looks brilliant for parsers that can be reused and combined
920.
by almost 18y ago
Cool to hear that things are moving on. I'm expecting great things from PyPy :) Psyco is pretty cool right now, even without generator support (though that would be good). I'm doing stuff with a neural net built in Python/Numpy right now an
921.
by almost 18y ago
no
922.
by almost 18y ago
I don't think it's really an either/or choice. You can have loads of forks on Github but still have a central place for those who just want to download code. I think the really cool thing about Github is that it makes it easy to experiment
923.
by almost 18y ago
But the article is suggesting just copying cookies from Firefox into a simple Java based scraper. That won't support Javascript either. If you needed Javascript you could use one of the Firefox scripting bridges (Selenium or MozRepl).
924.
by almost 18y ago
Agreed, this more of a "how to scrape data from sites you can log into". It's not even a very useful example at that. For anyone who wants to scrape sites that require login I'd recomend Python with Twill. That lets you do the whole thing w
925.
by almost 18y ago
Thanks, I saw the article on that a few days ago here and it looks really interesting. Is it really right that I could just use that to automatically recreate the entire backprop algorithm? Is it likely to be reasonable in its performance?
926.
by almost 18y ago
You're depending on a facebook app for a living? How is that working? I thought after they moved apps to the Boxes Tab ghetto it would have pretty much killed off anything like that? Well done if it's working for you though, hope it continu
927.
by almost 18y ago
Wow, that looks good. Just what I need in fact, I can stop writing my own backprop FFN using NumPy now and use this, which means I can get on to the more interesting stuff quicker! Thanks durin42 for posting this! Now I just need to find a
928.
by almost 18y ago
Exactly! What's he doing programming just for the fun of i? He's not being serious! Down with fun! Seriously though, this is a hobby project with an express purpose of being fun. I'm sure there's also a lot to be learnt from it (by the auth
929.
by almost 18y ago
Wow, I've just lost a great deal of respect for the programming skills of Facebook and its employees. This is really obvious stuff. I can understand a junior programmer missing something like this (or a non-junior one, everyone makes stupi
930.
by almost 18y ago
With Javascript (AJAX) it wouldn't be, but with a little Java or Flash it is. (I'm not 100% sure on Flash, but I bet it's possible) I think Facebook uses Java for this bit (not totally sure, and I don't want to have to log in just to check)

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