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by baxter 17y ago
Despite using some nice fonts the typography in this infographic seemed really inconsistent.
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by baxter 17y ago
I tried to verify that the adverts used the same code, but I couldn't. Looking again I see that they do still use "DF" as the referral code, so I guess they aren't making any money from this. I take back my "spam blog" accusation! :)
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by baxter 17y ago
A quick search led me to http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment... I have to say that I think Daring Fireball is better _without_ comments. I presume that this site was set up without John Gruber's consent. This rais
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Daring Fireball with comments(daringfireballwithcomments.net)
30 points by baxter 17y ago|16 comments
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by baxter 17y ago
WebDF could be the end of humanity.
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by baxter 17y ago
The most extreme case I've heard of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/81326... This tangent is not a pleasant one, but I couldn't resist making a citation.
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by baxter 17y ago
I've spent the day so far playing with sclang[1]. It's quite a nice language. Dynamic, OO, first class functions. Definitely worth a look, in my opinion. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider#The_SuperCollider...
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by baxter 17y ago
There's a difference between "don't be evil" and "be good".
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Justification behind the development of Erjang(javalimit.com)
6 points by baxter 17y ago|2 comments
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by baxter 17y ago
Upvoted because I think this is a good point, but the statement "nice error pages matter" isn't backed up with any evidence. I would have loved it if there had been statistics showing how people reacted to different error messages, even tho
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by baxter 17y ago
JavaScript is a beautiful language with much more to it than just the DOM API. You seem to suggest that this is JavaScript's only strength. In fact it could be argued that the DOM API is the single greatest problem with JavaScript in the br
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CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination(arstechnica.com)
126 points by baxter 17y ago|35 comments
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by baxter 17y ago
I can't help but think of Erlang. Erlang is by no means a DSL, but it is very well suited (both in terms of language features and its Virtual Machine) to writing distributed, concurrent applications. Why manipulate a hyopthetical language s
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by baxter 17y ago
I really don't like the idea of one language suitable for all problems. I actually like that there are different languages that are better suited to different domains.
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Scientists create the first programmable quantum processor(arstechnica.com)
2 points by baxter 17y ago|0 comments
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by baxter 17y ago
A couple of years ago I spent just over a year working as a mainframe developer on a System/360 set of mainframes and the author's description of mainframe development seems accurate. I grew very fond of JCL, EBCDIC and the text editor desp
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MI5 comes out against cutting off Internet pirates(timesonline.co.uk)
15 points by baxter 17y ago|7 comments
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Self-Organization vs. Evolution(noop.nl)
1 points by baxter 17y ago|0 comments
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Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD(voices.washingtonpost.com)
2 points by baxter 17y ago|1 comments
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Asteroid impact-driven climate change called into question(arstechnica.com)
1 points by baxter 17y ago|0 comments
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Reservella: The shadowy company behind The Pirate Bay(arstechnica.com)
31 points by baxter 17y ago|4 comments
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by baxter 17y ago
This has to be the worst example of blurring out text that I can recall seeing.
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by baxter 17y ago
Completely agreed. From the title I was really looking forward to seeing how they were going to highlight the limitations of these services. Disappointed.
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by baxter 17y ago
Wow, it seems I have underestimated Clojure! Thanks for enlightening me :)
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by baxter 17y ago
Perhaps with this feature we can finally use ASCII art to navigate through our code!
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by baxter 17y ago
I found this fascinating. Does anyone have any knowledge of any other programming languages/environments that focus on time in a way comparable to that suggested in the presentation?
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New York opens school of gaming(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by baxter 17y ago|0 comments
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by baxter 17y ago
They don't sound far off. Wikipedia agrees with you so far :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_%28C_language_extension%... The Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard features a nice introduction to the new language feature: http://arstec
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by baxter 17y ago
I'll be honest, any blog post containing the phrase "It is in this way that I outsource my disciplinary duties to Nintendo." will get an upvote from me. I urge you not to abuse this.
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by baxter 17y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once :)

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