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by avibryant 16y ago
I've certainly built stuff with it that is useful, and some if it is even production, but none of it as complex as, say, the Clamato environment itself. I don't know of anyone else who has.
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by avibryant 17y ago
They share only one defining feature? Bullshit. If we include "garbage collected", that gets rid of C and C++. If we include "dynamically typed", that gets rid of OCaml, ML, Haskell. If we include "single namespace for functions and variab
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by avibryant 17y ago
Oh, come on, you're cherry picking the features that suit your argument. If we include "garbage collected", that gets rid of C and C++. If we include "dynamically typed", that gets rid of OCaml, ML, Haskell. If we include "single namespace
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by avibryant 17y ago
This is off-topic, but I've heard a surprising number of people in the valley say precisely that about Vancouver. I figure if you all just move there , at once, that the problem will solve itself. Actually coordinating that is impossible,
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by avibryant 17y ago
I am. I hack in a lot of different languages/environments, but I'm still most productive by far in Squeak.
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by avibryant 17y ago
Where in Canada are you?
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by avibryant 17y ago
Send me an email.
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by avibryant 17y ago
It's also something Ruby can do, when running on MagLev.
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by avibryant 17y ago
Good point, though going into Civil Disorder is leaving the game - I guess this would let them leave it on their terms, possibly screwing over one of the remaining players in favor of another, but that doesn't strike me as that big a weakne
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by avibryant 17y ago
Boris, I don't even see where there are stories on the VX site - or did you mean techvibes?
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by avibryant 17y ago
AbeBooks is Victoria, and Club Penguin is Kelowna. For those with a SF reference frame, those are roughly equivalent to Sacramento and Sonoma, respectively. But yes, Vancouver is still a great place to do a startup :)
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by avibryant 17y ago
Yes, there are specific rules in Diplomacy for handling the case where someone doesn't fully or properly submit their orders - eventually your units go into "Civil Disorder". It's not a problem.
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by avibryant 17y ago
I'm no crypto expert, but just thinking this through: In Diplomacy, all that's required is that you commit to your orders before seeing anyone else's; once everyone has committed, all the orders are revealed. What if, for every turn, every
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by avibryant 17y ago
Dan, thanks for tracking that down. It's ironic (given the subject matter) that I didn't go to primary sources myself; I just went with the Picasso-attributed version from memory :)
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by avibryant 17y ago
It can, as of the recent releases.
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by avibryant 17y ago
Try a benchmark that uses a lot of blocks and I bet the results are more interesting.
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by avibryant 17y ago
It's been slowly rolled out over the last couple of weeks. I'm guessing everyone will have it by the end of the month or so.
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Analytics: Sometimes 10% > 200%(blog.dabbledb.com)
9 points by avibryant 17y ago|1 comments
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A mathematician's take on the importance of the H1N1 vaccine(blog.noblemail.ca)
2 points by avibryant 17y ago|0 comments
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by avibryant 17y ago
I get the following: "OperationalError at /paul-graham". Which has to be a bug; pg doesn't have operational errors.
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by avibryant 17y ago
FWIW: we've just started using Beanstream, which is a Canadian gateway that I think has what you're looking for.
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by avibryant 17y ago
Cool. Can you say anything about the implementation?
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by avibryant 17y ago
Server-side javascript is only relevant here if it has access to a working DOM, since that's what any HTML generation or templating is going to be based on. At that point you basically do have a headless browser, whether you call it that o
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by avibryant 17y ago
Really? Maybe I misread, but I got the impression the author was presenting evidence in favor of, not against, the "white women are racist" statement. The way it's expressed ("nail in the coffin") is admittedly confusing, but in what way c
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by avibryant 17y ago
I smiled at the last two lines of his test file: (define exit (dlsym "exit")) (exit 0) Certainly no need to define exit any earlier than that...
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by avibryant 17y ago
It's the correlations that would be interesting here - how does marketing cost per user relate to revenue per user? How do monthly costs relate to number of active users? Etc. Or even if we could see all these same pie charts, but filter
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by avibryant 17y ago
We've been using it for trendly.com and yes, it seems very usable. I didn't know about the popup option, though, I'll have to try that.
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by avibryant 17y ago
I'm not following. Why does "ModelClass.register_expiration_callback(keyname)" have to be in a macro expansion, rather than just the first statement of the cache() method? It doesn't appear to use local scope at all. Can you flesh out th
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by avibryant 17y ago
I was there when this was taken. I'm pretty sure it was 2006. It was a small plane, and we were told ahead of time that it was coming, although this is cropped too small to see the fun stuff people did to prepare, like build a huge model o
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by avibryant 17y ago
The problem is actually, more or less, building up the search index - this is only an issue the first time you do a particular kind of search, and it's fast after that. This involves parsing all the source code, which is a recursive proces

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