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by aston 13y ago
"Golang dependency hell in Haunts The Manse game" is not only a very editorialized title for this link, but it's also factually incorrect. Here are some choice quotes about the codebase that have nothing to do with dependencies in Go: Synta
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Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (Bret Victor)(vimeo.com)
5 points by aston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aston 14y ago
Not to start a language war, but this blog post demonstrates two things Python got right that Ruby got wrong. First, in Python, there's only one way to express a boolean "and". The && operator is left out. Second, this post demonstr
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Making Sharing Better(blog.quora.com)
8 points by aston 14y ago|0 comments
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by aston 14y ago
Near the bottom of this article is an interesting post mortem of RethinkDB's transparent salary policy. When it was posted years ago [1] folks here took pretty kindly to it, though some were skeptical [2]. I'm kinda disappointed (who doesn'
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by aston 14y ago
The fascinating tl;dr: The British lost their English accents around the turn of the 19th century. As far as rhotic r's go, Americans still mostly speak the way Brits and Americans did in the 18th century.
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by aston 14y ago
One solution to the fmt.Println problem is not to use it at all. There's a built in println function that works alright for debugging messages and requires no import. http://play.golang.org/p/y5XX4RDTW5
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by aston 14y ago
I'm not sure why it's possible to change the division sign, but using a colon (":") to indicate a fraction is confusing given that it's generally used for odds. ( 0.1 + 0.2 )/( 1/3 * 12 ) = 3/40 3:40 = "three to forty odds" = 3/43
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by aston 14y ago
The New York Times style guide recommends periods after the letters if you pronounce the letters individually. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent...
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by aston 14y ago
This is a good opportunity to remind people that reading the title of a patent and looking at the pictures does not suffice for understanding what's actually being patented. You should get in the habit of actually reading the claims, since
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by aston 14y ago
Deep within the 1000+ comments on the accompanying reddit thread is a really interesting fact: Reddit is not (currently) profitable. [1] I was already a reddit gold subscriber, but the fact that at the moment they're literally running into
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by aston 14y ago
The tl;dr of this article is that the author summarizes some really interesting leads on automated letter spacing, but so far hasn't come up with a winner. There are a number of loose ends in there that might be interesting for others to pi
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by aston 14y ago
I'd be very willing to bet against it rising. That would be nearly unprecedented.
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by aston 14y ago
I think the intended idea is U($) = k*$, a linear relationship between dollars earned and utility, or (its derivative) a horizontal line on marginal utility. Typical economically rational adults have utility curves that eventually flatten o
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Funders Club raises over $1M for startups online — including itself(venturebeat.com)
43 points by aston 14y ago|13 comments
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by aston 14y ago
This debate reminds me of the battle over an 8-bit remix of the cover of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" [1]. The discussion here at that time [2] was strongly in favor of the person doing the repurposing, with folks bemoaning the fact that the
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by aston 15y ago
From Forbes to Hacker News back to Forbes back to Hacker News. Definition of an echo chamber. In case a Forbes reporter wants to quote me, this comment is not for attribution.
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by aston 15y ago
I've been waiting for this sort of thing for the longest. The first time I saw the callback passed to a callback of a callback's callback style in Node.js, I wondered why the code couldn't look as nice as the async C++ I'd written at OkCupi
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by aston 15y ago
The better explanation is that there are a series of fallback actions for all of the top level functions that delegate to the .__whatever__ methods. For example, if you write a class that quacks like a collection that has a length (it imple
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by aston 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics has all you need to know on the subject.
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by aston 16y ago
As noted in the comments, DON'T use stuff = stuff or [] because if you pass an empty list, you'll get a new one rather than mutating the one you passed. stuff = stuff if stuff is not None else [] is wordy, but at least it's co
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by aston 16y ago
These guys are not the only ones to make this mistake. Check the first line of Tornado's XSRF check: def check_xsrf_cookie(self): """Verifies that the '_xsrf' cookie matches the '_xsrf' argument. To prevent cross-site
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by aston 16y ago
That blog post is from a year ago. In the intervening time, Asana's actually moved away from developing Lunascript. [1] Instead, they're just coding in Javascript. There's a lesson in there somewhere [2] [1] http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Asa
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Hack Week at Dropbox(blog.dropbox.com)
107 points by aston 16y ago|18 comments
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by aston 16y ago
I worked at OkCupid for a bit and got to see OKWS in its full glory. Though it sounds kinda daunting from the documentation, it's actually reasonably workable. I was able to get a rough app up that talked to a bunch of different internal se
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by aston 16y ago
Jeremie Miller is the guy behind XMPP, so this is coming from somebody who really knows what he's doing when it comes to protocols. This type of thing would be cool as a federation mechanism for something like Google Wave or Diaspora. I thi
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by aston 16y ago
In fact, Accel, Facebook's earliest venture investment firm, has already cashed out a fair chunk of stock. http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/19/facebook-accel-34-billion/
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by aston 16y ago
The Zune had a similar self-healing bug at the end of 2008. There was a fencepost error that resolved itself once the internal calendar code no longer thought it was the 366th day of the year. So, basically, a one day bug. http://www.zuneb
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Immad Akhund (YC W09): How to write a killer deck and get funded(vator.tv)
85 points by aston 16y ago|23 comments
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by aston 16y ago
Cool idea. However, though the individual letters are all roughly legible, the text there is not readable at all. The lines are quite long and the line spacing is quite short, so your eye'll have a lot of difficulty moving line to line succ

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