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by blasdel 16y ago
The first public release of Go made little use of physical concurrency, though that's undoubtedly improved considerably given that the model allows for it. His earlier languages didn't go there, probably because they didn't have nearly as m
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by blasdel 16y ago
He mostly pans the 'less-than-expert programmers' canard, so he never explores the assertion that's at its base — that events are far better for correctness . Rob Pike has spent the last 25 years developing evented languages, and while t
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by blasdel 16y ago
> How is that even relevant? Images cost in bandwidth, not in computing power. Sounds like you need to do some STFU yourself, having clearly never come anywhere near this problem domain. Using standard tools to process and resize user-u
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A bit more language meditation(apenwarr.ca)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
The shipping version of Firefox when Chrome was first released absolutely did not have this feature. It was a regular pain in my ass. The ability to poof a tab out into a new window without reloading the contents was added to Firefox in the
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by blasdel 16y ago
If it really is independent, please keep it an extension and don't bake it into vanilla Firefox. It doesn't just impact bewildered users that never asked for it and devs/users of existing extensions that are now sidelined -- it completely f
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by blasdel 16y ago
The recently-revealed "Rust" appears to be your salvation: http://wiki.github.com/graydon/rust/language-faq Written by Mozilla employees, and very much like Go, except that shared state is immutable by default, no global GC, and no null p
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by blasdel 16y ago
The 'Android' trademark is fairly worthless to the carriers and manufacturers, and they mostly avoid it anyway. They could fork the OS anyway, since it's open source! What Google could do is be a lot more aggressive with the certification p
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by blasdel 16y ago
The reply in question: http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-security/2010-July/...
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by blasdel 16y ago
Sure, if they were in constant use, but they're used pretty sparingly. The bluetooth radio is on whenever the game hasn't been paused for a few minutes, and that dominates the power usage.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Indeed, look at how they describe different phone models -- which of these are not like the others?: In our tests, iPhone 4 dropped from 3 bars to 1 bar In our tests, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 dropped from 5 bars to 1 bar In our test
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by blasdel 16y ago
I use http://github.com/markevans/dragonfly for this purpose, using rack/cache to hold on to the generated images (also with no expiration necessary). Right now I'm working on doing streaming intermediate resizes that never load the full
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Idea for date formatting strings(notes.torrez.org)
20 points by blasdel 16y ago|22 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
What the fuck? You're reading this on a screen right now. You and everyone else reading this thread likely read text from LCD screens for at least half of your waking hours! What about a tablet formfactor suddenly makes backlit LCD screens
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A letter from Jason Calacanis, the owner of Hack a Day(hackaday.com)
20 points by blasdel 16y ago|13 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
The people making serious real-world efforts at this kind of thing have problems bigger than one machine -- they need to be distributed anyway, so why not focus on multi-process solutions?
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by blasdel 16y ago
PIL is fucking amazing, I've never seen anything like it for any other language. Last year I used it to write a computer vision utility for doing black-box UI testing on embedded medical devices, and I can't imagine having used anything els
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by blasdel 16y ago
Weev is a troll. Phelps is one of the greatest trolls of all time -- he started as a civil rights attorney 50 years ago, but his more recent shtick is to do provocative shit to get his civil rights violated so that he can sue. The infatuati
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by blasdel 16y ago
But their software is heavily reified against that sort of thing -- a new answer is made and then it's karma would have to surpass the existing one (which the karma-inflation problem makes easier) but it also needs to get accepted in place
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by blasdel 16y ago
SuperUser is Jeff Atwood's hobbyist self-identity manifested as a Q&A site. The allowed categories neatly cover everything he's blogged about on CodingHorror that wouldn't fit into SO or SF first. There are a lot of Jeff Atwoods out the
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by blasdel 16y ago
But you are being snide. You've always done a nice job of framing yourself exclusively against your shittiest competitors. Being better than Yahoo Answers is not something you should be particularly proud of. A site born out of an existin
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by blasdel 16y ago
The segregation actually isn't so bad the more I think about it -- people with tons of karma from questions about mundane windows sysadmin and inane adolescent theming shouldn't be running roughshod over people trying to figure out how to d
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Start-up Job Advertisement Mad-Libs(learningcurves.blogspot.com)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
That's not climate. Climate is what's happening in the same place on the same hour of the same day with similar stochastic conditions year over year. What's your fourth of july weekend going to be like in Boston next year? In 5, 10, 25, 50,
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by blasdel 16y ago
Phusion is doing pretty OK. There are still some companies left idling along from a group 10 years ago that sold commercial event-driven webservers / reverse-proxies / caches / load-balancers that were much better than Apache, but are heaps
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by blasdel 16y ago
Would you like it if you weren't the author, director, and performer of the script? DI does have it's merits — it does keep bright assholes like us from dominating the classroom as students in a mixed setting. You can also get through the m
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by blasdel 16y ago
Well, are they doing anything now? I've been favoriting tracks but it's not clear that it has any effect on what gets played. You're saving the tracks I fave, but then I can't do anything with them except delete them — which should absolut
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by blasdel 16y ago
Sure, all the engineers and managers thereof can code, but there aren't very many of them. Not that long ago they were bragging about having 1 million users per technical staff member — but they employ a lot more content moderators and ad s
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by blasdel 16y ago
Please stop paying attention to Jakob Nielsen. Password masking, along with asking for a password confirmation, is what everyone expects. Any affected attempt at 'simplifying' that UI without a total transformation (like no accounts at al
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by blasdel 16y ago
You don't understand — those are the good parts The rest is far, far worse. Say what you like about the tenets of Constructivism, Zed, at least it's an ethos. I'm surprised that you'd have beef with it — you don't even like Papert's Const

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