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by awj 15y ago
No, the kinds of people that go to google.com are the kinds of people who would assume "the internet broke" if google.com looked dramatically different when they loaded it. They may even need someone to point out to them that Google is acti
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by awj 15y ago
The real long term consequence that they're afraid of is pissing off enough people that they go form another party. It's happened before.
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, we do that now with other areas (radio transmission, fascination with X-Rays, almost every known application of chemistry, etc), but it's weird to think of it happening in our daily lives. What are we doing now that people will look b
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by awj 15y ago
What does "linux style" even mean? Linux is a kernel, it doesn't define how a package manager is supposed to work. Gentoo has been source compiling from ages, and is a linux distribution. If you're looking for technical correctness, your in
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by awj 15y ago
In that both embody the concept of using the types of multiple arguments to determine which instance of a function gets called, yes. That's where the similarity ends, though. CLOS does this at runtime during method invocation, MPTC "dispa
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by awj 15y ago
"compile everything" is an approach to package management. BSD Ports (as well as Gentoo's Portage) use it. It does a pretty decent job at helping packaged programs build off/work with unpackaged installs. You also get some marvelous com
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by awj 15y ago
...what is to stop them from doing it now? I don't think you can fix management problems at the programming language level. Also, at least for the next five years, I doubt you'll have to worry much about those kinds of shops deciding to pic
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by awj 15y ago
They are, until someone makes a five parameter monster because "someday I'll want that genericity." To be honest, though, I just googled the extensions I could remember until I hit one that hinted at creating a situation where the compiler
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, I expect, if Scala were to go this route, much the same would happen in regards to "inheriting" language features. Sometimes you can neatly tuck them away in the library, sometimes they spill out into calling code. At the least they g
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by awj 15y ago
Then it's probably a good thing that no one was making that claim. You may instead find people claiming that the complexity "isn't a problem" or "can be avoided by convention." I don't fully agree with either of those statements. A "complex
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by awj 15y ago
One issue that Scala has been dealing with for ages is a "oh my god, look at these sharp edges, I'll hurt myself!" response. Even if an individual more or less trusts themselves to make good decisions about language constructs, there's the
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by awj 15y ago
> Truly advanced, and dangerously powerful, features such as implicit conversions and higher-kinded types will in the future be enabled only under a special compiler flag. The flag will come with documentation that if you enable it, yo
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, I'm on about that setup too. Now if I could only convince CBS to actually show at least one of the games they're carrying. Half the time it's paid programming filler.
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by awj 15y ago
The best you can do is bookmark the link with all of them chained. To construct a custom frontpage, just take the subreddit names and join them together with a '+' Example: http://reddit.com/r/fitness+programming+iama
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by awj 15y ago
For what it's worth, I expect people to have that opinion about their (older) code samples. If you get the feeling that people are judging you by the poorer sections of your code sample, speak up! Start telling them what you think is wron
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by awj 15y ago
Yes. Stitching the tiles together is relatively easy. Depending on the specific tiling scheme, you may be able to do so without any depth of knowledge in geography. That said mapnik [1], the rendering engine used to generate tiles, is a gen
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by awj 15y ago
> A good caching plan obviously helps with these kinds of issues. Caching is suggested far too often and too frequently in the Rails world. The solution to "the default tools for template abstraction are too slow to use" is not "use a
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by awj 15y ago
In practice there is usually a world of difference between apis that are used to build a service's main website and apis that are written outside of it. Forcing yourself to use your own apis is one of the absolute best ways to ensure yo
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by awj 15y ago
A quick how-to on bypassing the TSA no-fly list: 1. Buy a plane ticket under someone else's name. Presumably yours is blocked/flagged due to the airlines being able to check the no-fly list. 2. Use that ticket to forge a boarding pass in y
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by awj 15y ago
My understanding (note: I am not a physicist, this is not a physics lesson) agrees with ars , gravity has to move at the same speed as light. In either case, the energy emissions potentially are enough, if they're directed at us and strong
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by awj 15y ago
If I send a slow, waddling mobster to go break your kneecaps, are you affected when I give the order or two weeks later when Guido knocks on your door?
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by awj 15y ago
So ... he won the amazon affiliate race condition lottery, and somehow this is a bad thing? You could argue that he sent you to amazon, possibly having a non-negligible impact on your purchasing something from them. Also, seriously, his cut
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by awj 15y ago
I think he more meant "vote for that congressman's strongest opponent." The party doesn't particularly matter so much as showing that his handling of this specific situation caused someone to support his biggest rival.
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by awj 15y ago
Pretty much the same here. Then again I'm targeting cross-stitchers (pretty small market) and went with iAd over any form of payment. All things considered the fact that it's made any money at all is kind of astonishing. Was a bit of a letd
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by awj 15y ago
Yeah, that's why I talk about stealing it at the language level. Although it's possible to use this based on conventions, the real power comes from being able to use it to cover weird conditions while gluing various libraries together. If y
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by awj 15y ago
This is the one feature I wish I could steal from Common Lisp in almost every language I work with. It would be much easier to put in than almost any other big lisp feature, and damn would it make a lot of things easier.
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by awj 15y ago
This could be the result of sql injection or some other application-level attack.
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by awj 15y ago
I think that's making it too hard. Where is this information coming from? How do you update it? Instead, just order the matches like so: 1. Everything that matches at the first word 2. Everything that matches at the start of some word 3. Ev
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by awj 15y ago
While I agree that annotations would be awesome, there's a lot of value to be found in what already exists. Part of the appeal of pg's writing is how ... "tight" it is. The man just plain writes well. It was helpful to see a lot of the weak
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by awj 15y ago
Part of the reasoning there is in calculating the impact of redistribution. When someone tosses an mp3 up on a torrent the RIAA doesn't just lose the immediate (potential) sales for those who downloaded it, but also for anyone that that net

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