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by barrybe 16y ago
I remember when Issues 1.0 came out, I tested it for only a short while before I found a blocking bug with vote counts. (The bug I found allowed anyone to downvote an issue as many times as they wanted). I wonder if the voting feature didn'
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by barrybe 16y ago
That's exactly what someone would say if there WAS a tech bubble! We're doomed!
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by barrybe 16y ago
There are exactly 21 companies that run an online business. No more, no less.
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by barrybe 16y ago
I've never used a bug tracker that didn't have this kind of problem, are there better ones out there? That idea of showing the top 10 trending bugs is a good one. I also like the StackOverflow approach of suggesting dupes immediately as you
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by barrybe 16y ago
As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said "There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange
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by barrybe 16y ago
I feel like _why is out there watching us, to see how well we learned all the stuff he tried to teach us. Like Jesus.
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by barrybe 16y ago
Excellent find none the less. How did you find this? I hosted the files in a Github project so that other people could find it in a nice convenient way. As far as I can tell, this is allowed by their license terms. http://github.com/paulho
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by barrybe 16y ago
I think there might be stuff missing. I tried searching for everything mentioned in this paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227... and these things seem to be missing: priority_queue, rand, deque, numeric, sta
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by barrybe 16y ago
Before people get carried away with stories about how the big guy is crushing the little guy, keep in mind that there are at least 4 different programming languages named D, and this doesn't seem to have killed any of those projects. Name c
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by barrybe 16y ago
Also now that it's packed up so tidily, we'll probably get some better tools for blocking/removing all of those tricks. Think of it like an Acid3 test for browser security.
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by barrybe 16y ago
Comic book guy: Worst. List. Ever.
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by barrybe 16y ago
I have to agree, I think TODO and FIXME comments are just a fact of life. I haven't seen a large codebase that didn't have them. But, if you write one of those, at least try to be realistic. Too often I find comments saying "XXX THIS MUST B
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by barrybe 16y ago
The right answer is -54767/66192, so whichever program said -.827 is probably right. There was a good discussion on the list: http://groups.google.com/group/emerginglangs/browse_thread/t... Basically if your language uses floats by defaul
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by barrybe 16y ago
Arg, this pseudomath is hurting my brain. Why does he keep saying P is multiplicative when it's written like a function?? How can the same variable P (or function) affect B and C differently?? If the perceived benefit is equal to the percei
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by barrybe 16y ago
You inspired me! It was that stuff about out-goaling someone; it made me want to try to out-goal your blog post :)
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by barrybe 16y ago
Here are some of the ways that a blogger will try to manipulate you into purchasing a book. First, the post presents itself as a harmless and useful source of information. There's nothing to lose, and you might be informed or at least enter
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by barrybe 17y ago
I don't think he's laying out the whole flash vs HTML5 argument in that post. He says: If HTML could reliably do everything Flash does that would certainly save us a lot of effort, but that does not appear to be coming to pass. which is p
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by barrybe 17y ago
1) If you find yourself trying to design features and write the code simultaneously, then try breaking up those steps. Get away from the computer, grab a pencil & paper, put your designer hat on and go to town. Then drop the notes by yo
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by barrybe 17y ago
Looks really useful, although I wonder is it really necessary for the C++ version to depend on Qt? Qt is a pretty huge library.
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by barrybe 17y ago
I think if he tried today he'd be much more successful. I remember using git-svn a year ago, and it had the problem where it would re-checkout every single file for every branch point, because SVN doesn't really keep track of branch points;
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by barrybe 17y ago
Whew, it's a good thing that everyone remained calm and no one overreacted about that issue. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
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by barrybe 17y ago
LOL at this paragraph: "Boot Camp now includes HFS+ read support that enables you to access the files on your Mac OS X partition from Windows. It’s read-only to prevent PC viruses from affecting Mac OS X,"
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by barrybe 17y ago
For 1, I don't know of any good workarounds. I think it might be wise to have an intermediate page that says: "You are about to see a dialog box that looks like this, click on 'Trust' when you see it". That way fewer people will be scared o
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by barrybe 17y ago
Some thoughts: 1) Being forced to click "Trust" just to watch a video is pretty bad, and would turn away many of your users. 2) Having an alert box "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" is also pretty bad, and unnecessary. Overall, I
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by barrybe 17y ago
371 people are, according to github :)
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by barrybe 17y ago
Yeah, fairly often. I think the most common reason for me to cancel a comment is just knowing how internet people are. People on the internet, especially software people, are really really critical. I think there's a certain group of people
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by barrybe 17y ago
Awesome. Fresh off of the incredible non-success of our client-side Java Applet, Java Web Start, and JavaFX platforms, we're going to take advantage of our required JRE download to push out software that users probably don't want it. (I mea
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by barrybe 17y ago
If we're assuming that the government is evil and sufficiently organized, then it seems much more likely that they would want to calculate taxes themselves. They could make a lot of money just by "accidentally" introducing a few errors.
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by barrybe 17y ago
Related: Search Flickr by color: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr . This one lets you pick a palette of several colors, and the UI looks better. Various other crazy ways to search Flickr: http://mashable.com/2007/07/11/browse-flickr-pho
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by barrybe 17y ago
It would be better, but I want to do some cool things that I'm not sure if I can support in an existing language. One thing is automatically preserving state across a reload. This is really hard if I allow the programmer to store state any

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