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901.
Accent-Folding for Autocomplete(alistapart.com)
3 points by aristus 17y ago|0 comments
902.
by aristus 17y ago
I don't have data on "diversity" as such, but I tend to give extra points to candidates who speak multiple languages. It's not just an indicator of intelligence. A team with broad "cultural literacy", in my experience, tends to create softw
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by aristus 17y ago
Comparing a Rails library to a bridge isn't quite right. Most things lone hackers write are bike sheds and family homes. No one builds a bridge alone. You want a legacy? Move up the food chain and start discovering new data structures and a
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by aristus 17y ago
"We form discrete groups from discrete sets of people, generally with little overlap." This is true for some people. Anyone who grew up in a small town, a tightly-knit religious culture, or most of Latin America, for that matter, might have
905.
by aristus 17y ago
Racketeering is the extortion of money under the threat of illegal violence: arson, injury, blackmail, etc. The payer has done nothing to harm the payee. Patent trolling is the extortion of money under the threat of a legal action over a wr
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by aristus 17y ago
It does appear fast, but I'm withholding judgement. I'm not certain if it's doing caching tricks or whether their parser really is 10x faster. It certainly is CPU-bound, which is as good as it gets, and it's more stable in terms of memory u
907.
by aristus 17y ago
The exact versions of the browsers are available when you mouse over the column headers.
908.
A Hidden Cost of Javascript [updated](carlos.bueno.org)
50 points by aristus 17y ago|10 comments
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by aristus 17y ago
Lately I've been trying to get into performance profiling research. Also, statistics. I've been programming full-time for, uh 15 years now. Holy shit. If anything programming gets harder but more enjoyable as time goes on. If it doesn't you
910.
by aristus 17y ago
LOLWUT. Why is "money" less strong than "business", while "abc123" is stronger than "qwerty"? Fluff.
911.
by aristus 17y ago
Thanks all, but I didn't intend to publish this just yet. :D I'm still gathering data (Windows, netbooks, etc). If you'd like to help, please drop me a line at carlos [a] bueno [d] org.
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by aristus 17y ago
I learned that one by accident. I used to do open mike standup (really) and would amuse myself by composing bits talking out loud during long commutes. I couldn't write them down so I would end up composing/practicing a piece 40 or 50 times
913.
by aristus 17y ago
I think you nailed the problem I had with this too. The future is not measured by years, technology, or economics. It's measured by how much it disagrees with the past about what is and is not important.
914.
by aristus 17y ago
Good catch. It's actually innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-parameters.htm...
915.
by aristus 17y ago
MySQL has this in the form of the startup option innodb_txn_commit. It performs all writes to memory and flushes them to disk in 1-second batches. It's a good way to scale up to 000's of writes per second per machine.
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by aristus 17y ago
A modern laser-printed page has better archival characteristics than the Domesday book. Most paper is now acid-free. It's chemically stable cellulose that few creatures can eat. Laser toner is black plastic powder, heat-fused to the paper a
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by aristus 17y ago
40 years ago my parents purchased a house on a 7-year mortgage. At the time dad and mom were employed as a carpenter and a social worker, respectively. The price was about 3X their yearly income, they put up 30% up front, and they paid off
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by aristus 17y ago
Politics is tricky, and different countries really are different. No one in this fight is clean. In 1992 Chavez led a failed coup against the government and was imprisoned. In the US he'd have been barred from public office, if not tried an
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by aristus 17y ago
In particular, Yahoo Mail is hiring top Javascript and front-end programmers. We have wicked smart people working on one of the most popular apps on the web, and we're looking for more. Drop me a line; my email is in my profile.
920.
by aristus 17y ago
Funny. :D But assignment is the other way around. Simply announcing that the 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.2.3.0/24 IP blocks were routable opened a 50mbit flood of UDP traffic, random pings, etc.
921.
by aristus 17y ago
So we've advanced to mere disdain. Better than undisguised contempt, I guess. But beware talking down to your potential userbase; that's one of the systemic problems of educational and enterprise software.
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by aristus 17y ago
Eh. The book is about generation "Y", a phrase that's been around for about 15 years. There are 8 basic colors. Odds are it's unconscious. I was about to recommend a book on this called Borrowed Design, but apparently it's a hard-to-get cla
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by aristus 17y ago
The ideas on that list are intentionally only half of an idea. I believe it means they want to see more kinds of things for a CRM to do, not just sending email templates and logging notes.
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by aristus 17y ago
For most people they are but you'd be surprised at how many basly-placed or -configured resolvers there are out there. Consider a nationwide ISP with resolvers on East coast and West coast. For "failover" they assign them in random order to
925.
by aristus 17y ago
Vixie will not like this, for sure. Another way to do this is to use your HTTP and DNS logs to "triangulate" seen user IPs with seen resolver IPs. It's surprising how many DNS resolvers are ill-placed with regards to their clients.
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by aristus 17y ago
// HANDLE: $(function) // Shortcut for document ready } else if ( jQuery.isFunction( selector ) ) { return rootjQuery.ready( selector ); } Calling jQuery(fn) twice will trigger the .ready() call twice. Apparently they are
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by aristus 17y ago
No camera. Less space than a ThinkPad. Lame.
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by aristus 17y ago
I used to work in DM, and this is very true. Not just in the analysis part, but in how to send the right signals with copywriting and design.
929.
by aristus 17y ago
Jason's recent fits of sanctimony over other companies' behavior contrast poorly with his posturing when people criticize him in turn. His dismissal of any accusations as "silly", old news, or naive mistakes ring hollow and insincere when,
930.
by aristus 17y ago
Singular Value Decomposition was held back for 20 years by patents owned by BellCore. I had to scrap large interesting portions of Dowser to avoid potential problems. As a counterexample, Autonomy has a patent on Bayesian text classificatio

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