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by aston 18y ago
He also has the balls to rock double polo shirts on stage at WWDC. In lime and pink at that...
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by aston 18y ago
Javascript won't help you much when it comes to dynamically uploading content. Adobe's got a really flexible uploader in Flash, and the nicest Javascript interface I've seen to it is http://swfupload.org/ , though it does take some work to
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by aston 18y ago
The idea would be to read in the entire dictionary and mark the Bloom Filter for each word. Then whenever you get a word you want to test, see whether all of the places it would mark were previously marked. If it misses any, you know it's n
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by aston 18y ago
Norvig's code solves an even more difficult problem, spell correcting . But yeah, good read nonetheless.
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by aston 18y ago
The point is that the logo font face was very intentionally chosen. It was not created by happenstance and eventually adopted as good just because it was old. If it's getting them into trouble now, it's not because it was a poorly designed
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by aston 18y ago
The selection of that particular font was made by Ruth Kedar, who's no design lightweight. http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-14-n16.html
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by aston 18y ago
The lowercase g is a direct rip from their current logo. They actually did very little restyling of it, at least for the purpose of the favicon. It's kind of a clever variation on the "make your favicon just a piece of your real logo" trend
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by aston 18y ago
Probably just you, since it's blue.
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by aston 18y ago
The mistake people make is thinking that Microsoft needs to be the dominant player in a market to make their participation in it worthwhile. They're perfectly happy to have their hand in any cookie jar that poses massive future revenue, eve
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by aston 18y ago
54 in San Francisco. That's why everyone says the city's cool.
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by aston 18y ago
The Micro-hoo debacle is kind of old hat right now, but the fact that Yang actively hid information to make the MSFT offer look worse is pretty big news.
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by aston 18y ago
Coming soon. I hope.
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by aston 18y ago
What you're talking about is essentially a syntax specifically for getters, I think (I don't know Ruby that well). I guess my general point about "too much magic" goes away when the magic is part of the language, just on semantics. That is,
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by aston 18y ago
I'm a percussionist mostly. I've played basically every genre, though I'm tending towards jazz lately. I've been chewing on a long response for you here, but I think I'll save it for my blog. Instead, the short one: Touring only works at th
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by aston 18y ago
Great job ignoring the substance. I thought it'd be better to come up with an unrealistic but simple example rather than to paste in the source for Pylons... Just play along and imagine a more complex world. If it makes you happier, pretend
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by aston 18y ago
I'm not arguing against abstraction. I'm arguing that explicitly wiring between components is better than implicit. To make this concrete, take the example of implementing getters for a class in Python. If my class has four fields class
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, but "let the IDE handle it" is a perfectly valid way to code. When you want to run water to your house, you don't hire someone to design new pipes for you; you use the ones pipe companies kick out. The boilerplate is just plumbing y
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by aston 18y ago
I'm a big fan of saying whatever you want as long as people understand you. Shakespeare made up stuff all the time, and people got it. Meanwhile, I can't understand Steve Gillmor, even when he's using all one syllable words.
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by aston 18y ago
As a sometimes musician, I really want someone to get a little more creative about the future of the music industry than just "make all of your money from live concerts." If the only musicians that can make money from recordings are ones wh
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by aston 18y ago
As is "irregardless." Not that anyone should begrudge you the use of either word.
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by aston 18y ago
This sure has a lot of upmods for zero comments. Nothing against pc, but is this really that spectacular of a blog post? It's like the 10th MagLev response on the front page lately, and doesn't add too much to the discussion other than a qu
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by aston 18y ago
I always know a Gillmor post because my eyes start glossing over by paragraph two. Something about the way he puts together his prose makes it very difficult to gain any information from his words. "But each chink in the old Microsoft armor
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by aston 18y ago
Less like an actual "open letter," and more like a "here's a little lesson on uncommonly performed business maneuvers." The tone is kind of patronizing/offputting.
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by aston 18y ago
Wow, SC people hang out here? Sweet. Columbia, SC doesn't really send any strong messages. Only the young people in the area have anything to do with USC, normally, so not even the frattiness comes across that strong. College football tailg
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by aston 18y ago
Creating your own cipher is basically always the wrong answer. There's a reason why we're still using AES, even though it's 10 years old.
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by aston 18y ago
Nobody should be nagged by NYT to login, btw. Clear your cookies.
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by aston 18y ago
Made me take the long way to the paper, but from the abstract it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
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by aston 18y ago
The tip-for-tat idea for the front page of news.yc is a pretty cute one. As to your general point, though, I think you should tip for provision of value. Sure, often the value provided is an argument which might merit discussion, but the th
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by aston 18y ago
Explicate, por favor?
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by aston 18y ago
A word geek aside: The distinction between the verb forms of "flounder" and "founder" is kinda interesting, as the former implies you're struggling against the water, and the latter says you're already sunk. Not to mention the homonyms tha

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