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by blasdel 16y ago
The pure version of this idea has failed repeatedly for more than 50 years — noone ever writes their code in M-expressions :) A debased version of the idea found success in Haskell, where the language syntax is defined as desugaring transfo
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by blasdel 16y ago
> They get herded in like cattle into 500 person classrooms to have someone read the textbook to them with the help of a powerpoint slide deck. How does leasing them tools to herd more efficiently do anything but amplify the screwed u
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by blasdel 16y ago
What use would the government have funding market research for hotels? It's blatantly vocational, with even fewer pretenses to academics than MBA programs. At least english majors don't have a profit motive!
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by blasdel 16y ago
What's much worse than that is when "cross-platform" apps have cargo-cult integration into the environment's native behavior. When you middle-click on any blank space or text in Firefox on X11, by default it takes the contents of the select
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by blasdel 16y ago
What? You're practically sledding down that slope! Your flagship 'features' are all based on NXDOMAIN poisoning and intentional censorship in your nameserver by default. You're doing more than anyone else to fragment DNS all while having th
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by blasdel 16y ago
Of course, he did a lot of amazingly awesome stuff as a hacker in the early 90s — but he started turning out turd after turd as soon as his W3C took control over web standards from the IETF and he became a bureaucrat. He produced a masterwo
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's much worse than that — ruby's non-standard libs all have at least three potentially-different names: $ gem install rack-cache $ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rack/cache' => true irb(main):002:0> Rack::Cache =&
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by blasdel 16y ago
They used to do it absolutely everywhere, with insane consistency. They almost always used the construction "with iPhone" and never "your iPhone" or "an iPhone". The only such strings I would find would be stuff like "your iPhone Developer
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by blasdel 16y ago
"Ever get nervous leaving iPad around with your email account logged in?" Please don't use Apple's insufferable house style of ditching articles and possessives when mentioning the physical device. Thankfully you use "an iPad" and "your iPa
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by blasdel 16y ago
I got a replacement BofA debit card a few months ago, and this is exactly how they did it — only the last two digits are different. This may be only in Washington and Idaho though, as there are several different legacy BofA backends as a re
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by blasdel 16y ago
Testing is the parade of preparation preceding a traditional release where they ship 53 CDs to desert island users every few years. Testing still gets frozen once they think they're nearing a release. Testing still completely breaks unless
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by blasdel 16y ago
The site you're looking for is Metafilter, where the poster is expected to curate additional links into the post where necessary, and duplicate posts on the topic are deleted. You link to newly published/discovered content by commenting on
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by blasdel 16y ago
Oooh, I was wondering what that was on the map! I spent a bunch of time last summer adventuring up the Suiattle River, just 10 miles due west of you.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Note that pg can do whatever he wants in the REPL. I haven't noticed any thread ordering tomfoolery before, but he's definitely hidden posts from the index pages before without [dead]-ing them.
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by blasdel 16y ago
But they definitely seeded the site with anonymously asked 'questions'. There's no way that all those "Why does Quora use MySQL" questions weren't rhetorical bullshit.
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's better than citing him like an xkcd comic, with just a URL as a punchline.
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A scene that celebrates itself has nothing to celebrate(sgrblog.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
You're right, people will just continue to plague the blogosphere with posts about how they laboriously drew yet another piece of vector art in 'pure' CSS.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Quora also has a pernicious design feature in that the question asker is publicly anonymous but the answerer(s) are strongly identified and bound to their real names. I strongly suspect that nearly all of the startup-related questions are
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by blasdel 16y ago
> The last year or so has seen more scientific papers and presentations that raise the genuine prospect of catastrophe (if we stay on our current emissions path) that I can recall seeing in any other year. Missed a great opportunity f
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by blasdel 16y ago
Except that the technical limitations favor correct pagination — it's perfectly cacheable unlike the idiotic model: http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/07/20/efficient-api-pagin... I think the true reason is really just pervasive ignorance
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by blasdel 16y ago
Those APIs are only superficially easy, especially in the case of Twitter — their API is purely based on a hideously broken pagination model that counts up from the present, and is cut off completely at 3200 tweets for your own account and
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by blasdel 16y ago
Absolutely — you just open a high port on localhost and open the URL in a browser. I've used this technique before on consulting projects with great success.
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by blasdel 16y ago
That first article is syndicated from http://www.prisonplanet.com/exposed-naked-body-scanner-image... Are body scanners a tool of the New World Order? Since 9/11 was obviously an inside job, was this their plan all along? Does it tie in t
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by blasdel 16y ago
It looks like they got capriciously hellbanned for comments in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320949 — everything after that was auto-killed, several dozen productive comments over the course of six months. Items can be
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by blasdel 16y ago
Of course they do, the most recent one is called the "PlayStation 3 Reference Tool", and costs about $10k to a qualified developer.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Not quite - Jobs and Ellison are BFFs
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Did you put in some chips to become a partner?
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by blasdel 16y ago
They were probably listed in that order in the documentation, and the javadocs are generated from the source. It'd be more suspect if they were in a different order, especially if they were ordered as if they were in a hashtable that was it
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by blasdel 16y ago
Except that VBScript is implemented as a DOM scripting language in IE! I've had several mid-end managed switches where the web configuration UI used it and was unusable outside of IE with no sign as to why unless you read the source.

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