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721.
by autarch 15y ago
One of the things I've noticed with my very limited knowledge of Chinese is that it's a fantastic language for poetic expression. Each Chinese character is a single syllable, so you can have a poem that consists of 4 lines, each with 6 syll
722.
by autarch 15y ago
This is pretty funny for us Perl folks. People have been making this complaint about CPAN for many, many years. It's a valid complaint, but all of the alternatives seem to be much worse. I think the idea of using various metrics to pick the
723.
by autarch 15y ago
That's actually really good to know. I'll have to look into that further.
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by autarch 15y ago
I don't think you really read what I wrote code-wise. I'm all for using accessors, that's why I wrote: var prop = model.prop() Note the parens there. I just like giving each accessor a unique method name as opposed to getting at all
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by autarch 15y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find this idiom incredibly gross: var prop = model.get('prop') It seems much more elegant to write: var prop = model.prop() You can do the computed properties and binding thing the same way, it's real
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by autarch 15y ago
Don't quote the variables, use placeholders. It's much simpler, and it's safer. $dbh->do( 'INSERT INTO movie_collection VALUES ( ?, ?, ... )', undef, @{ $data->{movie} }{@fields} );
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by autarch 15y ago
I don't think Stallman's a very effective activist in some ways. Stallman and the FSF could benefit from looking at the history of social justice movements to see what made them effective. Of course that's no reason to treat him with disres
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by autarch 15y ago
You should read her blog post on the issue - http://geekfeminism.org/2011/10/13/on-being-harassed-a-littl... It's a lot more than one email. It's a pattern of harassment by multiple people that's gone on for years.
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by autarch 15y ago
I'm still amazed that neither Python nor Ruby allow you to require declaration of variables. Perl really got this right with strict and the "my" keyword. If you try to use an undeclared variable under strict mode, the compiler throws an err
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by autarch 15y ago
There is a lot more to programming life than Rails, ActiveRecord, and web APIs. It's incredibly arrogant to find it hard to believe that someone thought stored procedures are a good idea. SPs are one possible solution among many to common s
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by autarch 15y ago
I guarantee no one will waste their time creating 3 'users' on each server i.e. 3x4 = 12 'users' on that cluster. You're just wrong. Plenty of people will do this. If one of those three people leave the company, you can disable that accou
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by autarch 15y ago
I'm not sure what's going on, but Google clearly does support the new format on some sites. Try http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http... I know it's the new schema.org format because I added support for it myself, a
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by autarch 15y ago
To answer your questions ... 1. Yes, they are. They're very useful for certain things. For example, want to update your fulltext index in Postgres after certain table cells change or when new rows are inserted? You'll need to use a trigger.
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by autarch 15y ago
This is a fun thought experiment, but I think it over dramatizes the reality. There's a huge potential set of humans, of which the current population represents one infinitesimally tiny subset of that potential set. But there's a lot of peo
735.
by autarch 15y ago
Right, cause no one ever uses an underscore in parameter identifiers.
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by autarch 15y ago
Beau has been around a long time. I remember him posting jobs to the jobs.perl.org site and perl jobs list years ago (back in 2001). We had to ban him for similarly bad behavior. I'm amazed he's still around.
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by autarch 15y ago
I think there may be less intentionally deceptive, but they make up for it in cluelessness and incompetence. Founders may not give their employees good deals because they just make stuff up and don't do any analysis.
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by autarch 15y ago
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harper The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach Both are excellent.
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by autarch 15y ago
So if a woman shows any hint of sexuality, there's something really wrong with that? I don't see why that's relevant.
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by autarch 15y ago
They may spend less per child on education, but they probably spend more on social services. Read the paragraph in the article that starts with "it's almost unheard of for a child to show up hungry or homeless." Many American students face
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by autarch 15y ago
I do all of my presentations with HTML. For the past few years, I've mostly been using Eric Meyer's S5, though I've used some other things as well.
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by autarch 15y ago
It looks like it's a lot more amenable to customization. I've used S5 for many presentations, and there's a limit to how much you can customize the look without getting into nasty hacks. It also doesn't have any sort of theme or plugin arch
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by autarch 15y ago
Police are generally under a lot of pressure to close cases. Getting a confession closes a case quickly and neatly. Watch The Wire to get an idea of what kind of pressures the police face to "solve" crimes.
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by autarch 15y ago
Wow, what a crazy idea. Decoupling parsing from output generation. What will those crazy Ruby kids think of next?
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by autarch 15y ago
No it's not. Amazon does a lot of selling for third parties who set their own prices.
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by autarch 15y ago
Except I think it's more like MVVM in client-side JS code. You don't really have a request dispatcher on the client side (a controller). Instead, you have a View Model, which is basically a representation/manager of the View in JS code (whe
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by autarch 15y ago
Identity is not the same as "name on your birth certificate". Skud's identity is Skud, not Kirrily Roberts. I'm all for having stable identities on social networking services, but that has nothing to do with legal names vs pseudonyms.
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by autarch 15y ago
I think a lot of the words are ones that you will only ever encounter in reading fiction (and flower/older fiction at that). Also, keep in mind that this test doesn't include field-specific technical jargon.
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by autarch 15y ago
Have you looked at http://vegguide.org ?
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by autarch 15y ago
This looks great, but the license includes the Creative Commons non-commercial clause, which basically makes it unusable, since it's not compatible with open or closed source usage! I wrote the author a note via Github asking him to consi

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