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by asymptotic 15y ago
I can't comment on Ruby, but as the author decided to throw in a "...AttributeError in Python" reference I figure I have two cents to add. Unfortunately the author is out of their depth. Why are they checking for specific attributes or ass
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Kitten Faces(kittenfaces.com)
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I'll see your out-of-context quote and raise you the more subtle, sensible, and actually correct quote from Donald Knuth. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/39/whats-your... There is no doubt that the grail of effici
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by asymptotic 15y ago
There are several important threads that Joe Armstrong brings up that people are completely missing. 1) Typing in code directly into a shell necessarily implies you ignore all the tools and IDEs that many beginners clamour for. In fact, in
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by asymptotic 15y ago
The basis of your website was the subject of a wildly popular Metafilter thread, which may interest you: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? http://ask.metafilter.com
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by asymptotic 15y ago
FWIW, from Bloch's "Effective Java" (2nd Edition): "Finalizers are unpredictable, often dangerous, and generally unnecessary. Their use can cause erratic behavior, poor performance, and portability problems. Finalizers have a
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by asymptotic 15y ago
The idea of chained calls all returning this forms the basis of the phenomenally useful Builder Pattern, from Bloch's "Effective Java". There are three main reasons for using the Builder Pattern: 1) Allows for "constructor-like" calls to fu
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by asymptotic 15y ago
tl;dr: The Actor model of concurrency used in Erlang doesn't lend itself well to key/value caches. The fact that Mnesia isn't mentioned once indicates the author is insufficiently knowledgeable about Erlang to write an informed article. Th
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I'm sorry, the quality tests are garbage. Anyone who's done even a cursory amount of research into PRNGs has already heard about the Diehard tests and would have used these in preference, or as a subset, of subsequent testing. https://sec
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Most discussions about commenting necessarily revolve around how to comment functions/methods/classes, when to comment, how to write code that is so intuitive that it doesn't necessarily require commenting, etc. In my opinion, these discus
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Thank you. A hundred times thank you.
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by asymptotic 15y ago
FTA: But ultimately, Happes and Oettingen believe that positive fantasies are likely to scupper your [chances] of obtaining your goals. "Instead of promoting achievement, positive fantasies will sap job-seekers of the energy t
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Why positive fantasies make your dreams less likely to come true(bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I'm part of a project that's an art piece management solution for galleries to use for exhibitions. Right now galleries use paper reports to track art pieces between exhibitions, and we want them to use tablets. We currently have a galler
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by asymptotic 15y ago
dictionary.com "their [thair; unstressed ther] 2. (used after an indefinite singular antecedent in place of the definite masculine form his or the definite feminine form her ): Someone left their book on the table. Did everyone bring th
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by asymptotic 15y ago
"con·cur·rent [kuhn-kur-uhnt, -kuhr-] –adjective 1. occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air. " In conjunction with: Inside the Erlang VM with focus on SMP http://www.erlang.org/euc/
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Ask HN: Who is riding _their_ weekend project straight to profitability? FTFY.
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by asymptotic 15y ago
This is a phenomenal article. After wading through bullshit "X HTTP server beats Y HTTP server at serving 40 bytes of static content!!!" articles this is a breath of fresh air. This is clearly written by someone working in the real world.
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Blocking Javascript by default? I am, and similarly didn't see any content. Temporarily allowed JS and it works. Why do sites require Javascript to show any content at all? What's the web coming to?
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by asymptotic 15y ago
A few days ago I tried to run Android Honeycomb in an emulator on my quad-core 12GB RAM box, and it's completely, 100% unusable, even after increasing the device RAM to 1GB. Google admits their emulator is completely unusable: http://www.
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by asymptotic 15y ago
If I didn't have an email address, and Post.fm claims to re-invent email, and yet Post.fm requires an email address, does my head explode when I try to connect the dots? At some point obscurity stops being cool. I think I reached this poin
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I spent five minutes on the site and couldn't find a single link that lead to a section saying "ThingSpeak is...". So what is this? An API framework for user-facing devices? The "Documentation" page comes close...I now know it talks ov
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I physically subscribe to Harper's Magazine ( http://harpers.org ) and the New York Review of Books ( http://nybooks.com ). I use Google Reader, through which I have 222 subscriptions and have read 11,321 items in 30 days; I mostly skim th
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Your site is currently unresponsive: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.gitalytics.com I look forward to seeing it when it's up!
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by asymptotic 15y ago
I'll come along, thanks for organising this dmitri1981!
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by asymptotic 15y ago
...there's nothing to crack here, so I find the title misleading. I would find articles such as "Cracking the ISBN code" or "Cracking the CRC32 code" equally misleading. To me, cracking implies breaking through a barrier intended to be opa
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by asymptotic 15y ago
FTA, keep in mind that issue is not whether there are unique identifiers of any sort on phones. Any of the IMEI, SIM, or UUID (or equivalent) on a phone can uniquely identify you. This is a fact of life. However, the real issue is whether
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Yes, I'm interested! I'm particularly interested in recipe books that are both task-oriented and language-oriented. For exaple, Doug Hellman's PyMOTW is a phenomenal guide to using libaries that are part of the Python standard distributio
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by asymptotic 15y ago
You should ask this question on Metafilter as well. However, some people already have: http://ask.metafilter.com/71101/What-single-book-is-the-best... http://ask.metafilter.com/52701/Philosophy-readings http://ask.metafilter.com/26408
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by asymptotic 15y ago
Shame about the multiple posts, but this is truly hilarious. For bonus points the author should allow people to specific an arbitrary url from Google Code Search, Github, Bitbucket, Linux kernal source, etc. and then wrap it in a simple HT

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