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by apgwoz 16y ago
It's really hard to use the site with that mindset when 15/30 of the submissions on the front page are resubmissions. I'm not sure if that ratio has ever happened, but it certainly feels like it quite often. Other articles that make it fe
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I disagree. I want to see new stuff. There's plenty of worthy stuff that in /new that does't see the homepage because shit like this reappears every 6 months/1 year/whatever. edit: emphasized what kind of stuff in /new
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Parser Combinators Made Simple(sigusr2.net)
17 points by apgwoz 16y ago|2 comments
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Serializing Work to be Done(making.meetup.com)
10 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Disclaimer: I don't use Rails or Ruby. Wouldn't including CoffeeScript create a new dependency on Java (to run in Rhino or what not) or Node.js? How is the CoffeeScript compiled to JavaScript if this is not the case?
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Nathan Hamblen (NY Scala) is Congregating Us(congregating.us)
3 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Nice, but I was disappointed when I tried to use the browser's zoom feature--I guess I expected it to zoom in and focus somewhere.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
ahh. thanks for the info. it's back to #newtwitter again it seems.
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Ask HN: Did Twitter just revert to #oldTwitter?
1 points by apgwoz 16y ago|2 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I haven't thought much about this solution, but wouldn't it be simple to just proxy the content back to the user? This would work fine for downloadable goods, maybe not so much for secret links to sites.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
...or at least use shred(1) and then rm(1)
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by apgwoz 16y ago
That would probably explain it. Seems like it might be a good use for GNU Lightning.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
why is clisp so slow? design decisions? has development stagnated?
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I'd have loved to try it, but it requires SilverLight. Would it be possible to hook this up using a JavaScript REPL like http://try-clojure.org ?
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So you want to get a PhD in theoretical computer science(xtranormal.com)
2 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Of course. They (StatusNet) were actually the authors of it (I believe). I'm not against having multiple implementations by any means. It just seems very knee jerk to start your own so quickly. "I hate Twitter. Hey, use my version of Twit
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by apgwoz 16y ago
My first thought: why not use (and contribute to) StatusNet? My second thought: who wants to contribute to a PHP project (StatusNet)?
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by apgwoz 16y ago
And why couldn't you just take the CS classes that the BS requires anyway? The BA/BS non-major classes are the ones where the BS/BA are going to matter for CS. Do you have more background knowledge in Arts? or Sciences?
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by apgwoz 16y ago
And, when you booted into GNU/Linux, you also had a web browser, chat programs, games, etc. The possibilities for distractions are numerous. Contrast that to a BASIC prompt. If you go to your computer to learn BASIC, as long as you are sitt
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I feel really bad for them right now, but I can't stop reading it.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I don't know what pulse is, and unfortunately they're blog doesn't actually link to their homepage... Why is it that people don't do this? At 20 points, that probably means that at least 1000 people have clicked through to view the article.
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Pattern Matching(dosync.posterous.com)
1 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
As of last week, Jython 2.5.2 was released, which is with some benchmarks is a 20% performance boost. I'm told that as of Pycon this past weekend, Jython 2.6 has been officially started, which will bring Jython closer to what you currently
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Andrew (from Meetup) here. While the main web app is written in plain ole Java, the API is almost all Jython (the streaming stuff is Scala). The API team was 1 person until last December, and Jython was a big reason for this. The ability to
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Seph - A Hard Language to Compile(olabini.com)
3 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
It's been a long time, but I'd forgotten how easy Gentoo was to install!
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I'm almost the same way. I don't however used 79, it's normally like 75.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
start one! and ping me if you do. i'll do ny best to help promote it.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
> Realistically, they're probably going to have to do something about this much-hated "feature" for everyone anyway. The question is though, is it a feature for some? If so, how many? Twitter's audience is huge. A couple thousand vocal
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I was partial to: > wrap at 200 characters to make it readable on a terminal What happened to the days of 80 character line limits?

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