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by awj 15y ago
> CoffeeScript simply has better syntax than plain js in every way, and any js developer will be more productive using it. That's a pretty bold claim. Have any examples to back it up? Most of what I've seen of coffescript (note: I haven
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by awj 15y ago
It's interesting to see they're pre-rendering the composition of the weather layer on top of their regular map. Where I work we have our own styled map tiles and probably would do a layer of transparent cloud tiles over our (unmodified) reg
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by awj 15y ago
So, by "in no time" you mean "finally shutting down after seven months of reduced functionality even though abuse of the api was costing them a fortune"? If that kind of management upsets you, I hope you never have to use Facebook's apis. P
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by awj 15y ago
You know, I'm not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that. There's no real great reason to avoid doing it other than download size, and I doubt that's a huge issue. Right now I think they're just doing releases as a .tar.gz archive of th
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by awj 15y ago
If Django makes too many things official, installing it will become a pain for some people, especially newbies. They have to walk a careful line in that regard, and I think they made the right call on offline docs.
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by awj 15y ago
...that thing is monstrous. It seems to me that it presents an almost frightening display of information. The synonym handling is great, but why not keep the original tag display and show the wiki description as a tooltip when hovering over
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by awj 15y ago
I still think I like haskell's approach to this problem: hello = \name -> putStrLn ("Hello, " + name) That said, Haskell doesn't end up needing no-arg functions the way JavaScript does, but I think "\-> { }" wouldn't be too b
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by awj 15y ago
> I'd like to interfere with that feeling. Honestly, why? You can't scold everyone into "real" virtuous behavior, so why not give them a taste of what it feels like and see if they can get hooked? Do you believe that people putting mone
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by awj 15y ago
> Unit tests prove a different level of semantics that these warnings cannot substitute (although possibly complement). That, actually, is part of the point. Unit tests check for correct expression of the problem domain (and solution).
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by awj 15y ago
I don't think it's a tautology, just getting too hand-wavy on an important point. What does it mean to really use a programming language? I take it to mean that your task aligns with the strengths of the language. I can use the butt of a
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by awj 15y ago
...except that almost every table in existence has something that messes up the system. Usually it's an upper limit on the amount you can bet (called a "table limit"), which puts an upper bound on the number of successive losses you can win
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by awj 15y ago
The coding subreddit is largely a reaction to the loss of focus and meme-infestation of the programming subreddit. It seemed to also be more theory-heavy at the time, but looking at it now it appears to be striking a better balance.
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by awj 15y ago
That is a great quote, even if it does feel like some bizarre entry in a comma/run-on-sentence contest.
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by awj 15y ago
To play devil's advocate: does cutting back on the transfer rate constitute a data limit? Users that hit that 5% threshold aren't blocked from sending and receiving data, they just don't get the same transfer speeds. Granted, it sucks to se
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by awj 15y ago
He's referring to the finger pointing / blame shifting that seems to happen whenever someone starts criticizing desktop Linux. Any time this comes up people pop out of the woodwork to give the solutions, sometimes of staggering complexity,
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by awj 15y ago
I guess my biggest question is: in what way can programmers outside that specific discipline pitch in and help out? Are there relevant open source projects that could benefit from someone with a lot of programming experience and a slightly-
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by awj 15y ago
If what you quoted is the only part of my statement that you read, I can see how you reached that conclusion. It's not "blind faith" to decide that your initial response was an overreaction and eventually forget that you even held that opin
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by awj 15y ago
Yes, he has. In fact, most people have forgotten about these things. They were either quickly fixed or not the huge problem they were made out to be. But, by all means, show me another smartphone that hasn't had similar user experience is
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by awj 15y ago
I wouldn't go that far. I've had some great tech discussions on reddit. Things seem to devolve like this whenever the discussion starts to close in on a topic that any idiot can comment on. There are many of them there, and they do.
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by awj 15y ago
My comment was meant at least slightly tongue-in-cheek. I've seen some people (usually pretty deep compiler experts) who were able to do a remarkable job of reconstructing original source from object code. There obviously is brilliantly wri
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by awj 15y ago
No, it isn't a crime. Then again Google and Bing aren't going out of their way to evade web provider's attempts to keep them out of those servers.
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by awj 15y ago
> Given the reality that software source code is human readable, and object code can be reverse engineered[...] It's now abundantly clear that this argument was put before someone who is not familiar with the difficulty inherent in divi
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by awj 15y ago
It in no way illustrates that, for the reasons programminggeek provided. Google+ is making a huge splash, that is about the only meaningful statement that this graph illustrates. It doesn't suggest that they could dethrone facebook because
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by awj 15y ago
For a good portion of my people (in my experience, at least 50%) any domain but .com might as well not exist. With them, ".com" is four characters that must ritually be applied to all domains to appease the computer gods.
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by awj 15y ago
> IMHO, we are few scarce decades away from cars that will just be plain better drivers than the median meatbag. ...except that we've been a few scarce decades away from this for a few decades now. For the most part the history of thi
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by awj 15y ago
I wouldn't be too surprised if him causing a month (months?) long interruption of JSTOR for an entire campus deeply involved in government contracts was also part of the ire.
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by awj 15y ago
Because, of course, JSTOR plans for 100x usage spikes and performs neither logging nor accounting, so serving a file is just as simple for them as downloading it is for the client.
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by awj 15y ago
You're getting hung up on the "access" part, it's the "authorization" that's important. In your example it would likely be almost impossible for the blog owner to prove that someone intent on posting negative comments was not authorized to
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by awj 15y ago
I can see that point ... but where's the direction on what to do next? What's the post-scaffold JSON mechanism? Bonus points if it lets me generate/embed urls with the knowledge/techniques I have from making web pages. If you say "erb", ple
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by awj 15y ago
I've ended up doing without ActiveRecord's to_xml/to_json to (among other things) accomplish HATEOAS within Rails. Instead I'm using xml builder and a roughly equivalent json-from-ruby-hashes template system. The process is a bit ugly at ti

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