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by aston 17y ago
I dunno but either way it's worth reading once for sure.
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by aston 17y ago
In the most recent WIRED (magazine), the errata section acknowledges that the technique wasn't invented by Disqus. Not sure how it slipped past the initial fact check, but they figured it out eventually. You do have to wonder how that didn'
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by aston 17y ago
I like that it's sort of inspired by the WSGI model, but it seems like it's missing a key piece: I want to return a 'generator' as the last object in the response list so that I can stream content. I guess the JS version of that would be a
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by aston 17y ago
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=programming+languages Scheme comes out on top. Awesome.
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by aston 17y ago
As far as power goes, this technique strictly dominates the seam-carving method that took the 'net by storm last year. However, it can't top the simplicity (and hence elegance) of the seam-carving implementation. I doubt anyone but the orig
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by aston 17y ago
Python 3 intends to fix a lot of the stdlib issues. For example, the subprocess module should obsolete all of the various popens. http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html
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by aston 17y ago
Hey Zed, it's mystuff.pop(4).
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by aston 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
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by aston 17y ago
cloc does a rough estimation of the terseness/verbosity of the almost 80 languages it supports. It'd be pretty easy to incorporate those scaling factors for this analysis.
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Wikipedia + Youtube + Flickr = Navify(techcrunch.com)
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by aston 17y ago
It's rare to have the plaintiff as an active member of your community. Any comments, thinkcomp, or is this a hush-hush type of settlement?
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by aston 17y ago
a={foo:"bar"} creates an object called a with foo as a key mapping to "bar".
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by aston 17y ago
The Aristo PSDs should be a treat for folks like me with no real Photoshop training but with the ambition to make things that don't look ugly.
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by aston 17y ago
Those types of ads are commonly called "takeovers," so...
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by aston 17y ago
Always good to see more poker being played. If anybody's looking for a game in SF, give me a holler.
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by aston 17y ago
At least this time it was posted after it was possible to have read it in the actual magazine. I always cringe when I see news.yc threads around articles for WIRED and The New Yorker a week before I have my hard copy.
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by aston 17y ago
The video demostrates some decidedly non-Googly slowness. If it takes 10+ seconds to load, I don't think very many people are going to be using it...
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by aston 17y ago
But for those in the dark: http://alcoman.railfan.net/fear.html
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by aston 17y ago
There's a rule-of-thumb when it comes to prototypes that this sorta toes the line on: Don't make the prototype pretty when the backend isn't done. Ken Arnold has an at-length discussion of the effect ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost
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by aston 17y ago
Well, out of fairness, The Part-Time Parliament is a story about a fake Greek society, replete with "Greek"-style reinterpreted names for researchers Lamport wanted to name check. Extended metaphor is not the standard academic approach. Not
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by aston 17y ago
I've always wondered whether it was an intentional feature of the BART machines that they focus on the cash value on a card rather than the trip cost. Underpaying isn't allowed--the gates at your destination won't let you leave--and overpay
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by aston 17y ago
The fellas from Heyzap seem to have timed their SwineFighter similarly and were mentioned in that same Techcrunch post. I wonder how much their marketing experience parallels that of kyro.
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by aston 17y ago
So the smart social networks create lock-in. Here're a few things Facebook does (all of which are smart and some of which were probably not done solely for lock-in). 1) Encourage the uploading of lots of pictures without an easy way to down
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by aston 17y ago
It looks like the IE version is a bit more clever, since it seems to grab the name of the function at the point it's first bound to a variable. Huge benefit being you don't have to go back an instrument your code with .displayName's everywh
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by aston 17y ago
Yeah, the "warmth" of analog recordings is just another word for "pleasing aural distortion," not unlike applying some blur and raising the brightness on photos for glamour shots.
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by aston 17y ago
There's a ton of jargon in there, and no summary is going to really do it justice. Here's some reading material to get you started, though: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/08/term-sheet-series-wr...
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by aston 17y ago
The demo is pretty unfair. If you want to package lots of the same image, you just use it and let cache control do its job. If you want to package lots of different images, you should use a big sprite (again, server-side packaging without a
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by aston 17y ago
Interesting idea, attempting to crunch all of the requests for a page snippet into a single request. Why do it in Javascript, though? It seems like you'd be better off with a pre-processor server-side to inline include CSS, Javascript and i
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by aston 17y ago
Mere coincidence that the Python's gem-like packages are called eggs?
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by aston 18y ago
Good point re: Youtube, but the fact that eBay thinks they can spin Skype off into an independent company implies that it's profitable or near to it. edit: A little digging confirms it -- http://www.pehub.com/37158/is-skype-profitable-now-

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