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by bct 19y ago
I don't know why it wouldn't have. You should have been able to do: out = parseClosure(curr_page, cnt) { |doc,out| eval(codeStr) } ... def parseClosure(curr_page, cnt) ... yield(doc, out) or: def parseCl
452.
by bct 19y ago
Any reason you did parseClosure(x,y,lambda {|doc,out| ... }) instead of parseClosure(x,y) { |doc,out| ... } ?
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by bct 19y ago
HTML was designed so that if you're using it correctly the first version of the site should be accessible.
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Tim Bray on OOXML(tbray.org)
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by bct 19y ago
Interesting stuff. I wonder, though: > 62. In Why Gender Matters, Dr. Sax explains that "anomalous males" -- boys who like to read, who don't enjoy competitive sports or rough-and-tumble play, and who don't have a lot of close male frie
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by bct 19y ago
It took me a while to get used to hjkl with Dvorak, but Nethack did a good job retraining me. (As a vim user, I've swapped Caps Lock and Esc.)
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by bct 19y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22note%3A+if+you+do+not+know...
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by bct 19y ago
> Could you build in Semantic Web structure at development time, or DB insert time, etc. Sure; just use a triple store rather than an SQL database. Take a look at ActiveRDF.
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by bct 19y ago
Besides decentralization, it's about making connections between two datasets without either dataset having to know about the other. There's a certain minimum effort required to make it worthwhile to write a web application with a public API
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by bct 19y ago
Example: You're looking for a house. There may be several databases of houses for sale in the area you're looking. You want one that's within walking distance of a good school; the regional government has a database of schools and data abou
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by bct 19y ago
There are lots of industries that don't make their money by controlling access to data. Pretty much anybody selling you something can gain by making it easier for you to find the product you want. I'm sure eg. realtors would be happy to pub
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by bct 19y ago
Wow, a Semantic Web article that focuses on the real issue (convincing sites to share their data), debunks the "it's about marking up HTML" myth, and doesn't make any ridiculous claims for or against it. I'm impressed.
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by bct 19y ago
How do you prevent people from using the things you claim ownership to without violence?
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by bct 19y ago
That it's no less secure than what we do now is not a mark against it, though. Giving up control can be a good thing. I don't need to keep up to date on password hashing techniques, or worry about sending passwords in the clear. As a user,
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by bct 19y ago
The browser can be your SSO, but OpenID is more than that. And if you're not comfortable using an OP run by somebody else, you can run your own.
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by bct 19y ago
You're probably right that this killer app isn't, but I don't think OpenID's future is as bleak as you're making it out to be. Your email address is already a single basket for all your keys, or at least all the keys to locks with "I forgot
467.
by bct 19y ago
Bringing it up about the website is a separate issue from bringing it up about the language.
468.
by bct 19y ago
I doubt anyone would have commented on the tables thing if pg hadn't made a big deal out of it.
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by bct 19y ago
oops, I was confused - I was thinking of PeopleSoft rather than WebCT. As bad as WebCT is, PeopleSoft is far worse.
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by bct 19y ago
A compsci student at the University of Alberta wrote a web app https://bearscat.su.ualberta.ca/ that scrapes the U of A's WebCT install and can drive WebCT's UI in the background to do basic registration stuff. It's infinitely more usable
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by bct 19y ago
You've already got a single point of failure; your email address.
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by bct 19y ago
It wouldn't have been my choice for a messaging protocol either, but it's hard to argue with the huge number of extensions XMPP has grown.
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by bct 19y ago
> right now I don't think any mainstream tools assume markup is semantic. Depends on what you're talking about; anything that uses microformats does, for example. Tools generally can't assume that tables are semantic, because they've be
474.
by bct 19y ago
> You don't get the right to complain. Yes we do. What we don't get is the right to demand.
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by bct 19y ago
Ruby doesn't, but it's regarded as a mistake and (afaik) is fixed in 1.9.
476.
by bct 19y ago
Complaining about Unicode support doesn't mean people haven't been reading pg correctly, it means they disagree about the importance of it. I don't see how lacking it makes the language any more artistic. Edit: and characterizing people as
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by bct 19y ago
Huh. I would have said just the opposite about HTML; seems to me that slapping down some structural divisions and worrying about layout later is much more exploratory than starting with the layout.
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by bct 19y ago
> I imagine one should be able to take the mozilla engine and tack XMPP instead of HTTP in front (probably easier said than done). Already done: http://dev.hyperstruct.net/xmpp4moz It's really cool, it's a pity it doesn't get more at
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by bct 19y ago
So put the rules in a style attribute on that one div. That's hardly a reason to clutter HTML up with presentational things.
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by bct 19y ago
Oh, and according to a guy at Yahoo: "Consuming OpenID is a different beast that can't happen overnight. Give it some time. I'm optimistic that we'll get there." http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/009856.html

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