benhoyt

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by benhoyt 18y ago
I'm somewhat surprised by this. Do you have a source or news article?
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Unfortunately K&R is all-rights-reserved copyright by Bell Labs, so this is illegal. It's also a bit ironic that you have this at the bottom of your own website: © 2005-2009 White Paper Clip, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Stealing
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Yes. My wife's from Namibia and her mother tongue is Afrikaans (but she speaks English as well as we do). We try to speak mostly Afrikaans to our daughter Marica, who's now two. Our theory is that "she'll learn English anyway", and that's d
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Glancing at someone's behind in the supermarket is qualitatively different from porn. As far staring at buttocks goes, you're right that we've all done it, but does that make it a Good Thing? Anyway, not sure if this is OT or not, so I'll
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by benhoyt 18y ago
GitHub does look cool. However, I'm wondering what advantages Git will give me over Subversion for small and medium-sized projects? I guess I'm really asking what's the advantage of distributed version control over centralized for Joe Coder
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by benhoyt 18y ago
I honestly don't understand how treating women as unclad ogleables is a good business practice.
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Ask HN/PG: Asterisks around something make it italics (except in indented code, apparently). In the above comment I had to remove a literal asterisk in the text because I couldn't figure out how to escape it. Backslash doesn't work, and t
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Good call. Quote from the PDF in the meantime: "To give a sense of what programming in Boomerang is like, we will define the lens implementing the transformations between XML and CSV composers shown above. First we define a lens c that hand
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Very interesting. However, this kind of thing: "Most significantly, when children are born, the father may have little or no responsibility for his offspring..." -- that's terrible. That WP paragraph "Walking marriages" somehow reminds me
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Knuth, goto, Python, and OOP(blog.brush.co.nz)
3 points by benhoyt 18y ago|0 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Yep, that's exactly the kind of thing DecentURL's for. Though it's even better for modifying (say) YouTube URLs which don't have any meaning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4cmrMJul1g turns into http://youtube.decenturl.com/mr-bean-swim
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Thanks for the mention. :-) Yes, the first thing I thought about twi.bz was, "I thought I already solved this with DecentURL" ... but I didn't quite. Looks like twi.bz is still about shortening URLs, whereas DecentURL is about making URLs
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Can't beat us here in NZ, though. I wonder if the real Python BDFL okay'd PEP 401 before it was published? :-)
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Oh, I see. PEP 374: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Cool, and I like Guido's way of making decisions. But I'm just wondering why they're switching. Did they find that Subversion wasn't working for them?
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by benhoyt 18y ago
My maternal grandparents are in their 90s, have been married for 68 years, and are still going strong. (Okay, so I'm proud of them.) They relate a story of how they were called up once by a guy doing some research on why couples stay toget
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Good point. To be fair, however, he's probably just being intellectually curious -- that is, "hacking". There's no way you'd test a number for evenness in real life by either recursion or iteration. You'd always do either (n&1)==0 or
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by benhoyt 18y ago
That is funny. "Browser-dependent scripting language" isn't too bad for JavaScript. But "stand-alone program" for Java? That's kind of like calling English a "stand-alone dictionary". Sure, I'm a programmer. But why is it so easy for a jo
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by benhoyt 18y ago
In Python you can create a class at "runtime" using "type(name, bases, dict)" as per http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#type You can also use "new.classobj(name, bases, dict)" -- not quite sure what the difference is.
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Tail recursion in Python(paulbutler.org)
30 points by benhoyt 18y ago|5 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Dead right about how hard it is to create a community. That's one of the two main reasons microPledge.com didn't really work out for us.
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by benhoyt 18y ago
He still is. Well, one of the creators. :-) I wondered if someone would mention microPledge here. Two major reasons we put it on hold: 1) issues with PayPal -- payment providers and CC companies don't like you holding funds in trust, and 2)
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Ask HN: Does anyone else use "and" and "or" in C (iso646.h)?
4 points by benhoyt 18y ago|3 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Christchurch, NZ. How does "Oceania" differ from "Australasia", by the way?
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Or, given the context, should that be Free-DOM?
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Why would you stay far away from bbPress? I really like how simple it looks&feels, and how one just needs PHP+MySQL to get it going. (I'll look into the Drupal forums.)
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by benhoyt 18y ago
HN is simple, but it's written in Arc/Lisp, which I don't know, so customization and maintenance would be difficult. reddit is a possibility, because I know Python, but I felt it was quite large-scale. Maybe I should look at the code proper
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Ask HN: For a simple forum, should I use bbPress or is there a HN/reddit style one?
21 points by benhoyt 18y ago|16 comments
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by benhoyt 18y ago
You're right -- my bad. I guess I've always called extensions "plugins", partly because I don't care about actual plugins very much. (Time to change.) I'll add an update to the blog post to clarify.
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by benhoyt 18y ago
Yeah, I know you can't do it over HTTPS -- with HTTPS over a proxy, all the proxy can know is the hostname. Such an extension system would be HTTP-only, but I don't think it'd therefore be useless.

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