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by chadrs 9y ago
This is awesome, it reminds me when we decided to add unicode support to our API, but our code had been connecting to MySQL with Latin-1 connection. As long as you read from a Latin-1 connection, it looked like everything was correct, but
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by chadrs 9y ago
I can't tell if you're joking; applets are being officially deprecated in Java 9 and browsers disable them by default now.
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by chadrs 9y ago
Somehow I don't think he was too worried about 9-14 year olds using Linux. Probably was mostly thinking about Windows.
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by chadrs 10y ago
Reminds me of http://www.lamdu.org/ while trying to remember the name I discovered: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/prune-a-code-editor... http://jetbrains.com/mps https
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by chadrs 10y ago
My father (63, I think?) is starting to learn to code. I chose a decent beginner book for him (Python) and spent some time trying to figure out IDE situation would work best. But the places he stumbled were a total surprise to me. He's
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by chadrs 10y ago
Growing up, we always had Macs, so when my grandma got an old Windows box from a surplus auction, I went to OfficeDepot and bought Anno 1602, a game no one I knew had ever heard of, for $9. Actually it was a pretty awesome game, despite hav
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by chadrs 11y ago
I never like the appeal to founding fathers argument as if it carries any weight. (1) They could barely agree on anything, so it's not like they would magically agree today (2) They would also be appalled by women's rights /
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by chadrs 11y ago
This is a good explanation and may even get you excited about jigsaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8bpKYDrF5I
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by chadrs 11y ago
Well, I'm not sure about XSS, but imagine you know someone's home IP is: 192.168.1.10 Based on this, you can probably guess the router is 192.168.1.1 and maybe even have a clue about the vendor based on the IP assigning patterns.
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by chadrs 12y ago
> Safety is not much of a concern... If you're getting pure LSD, safety is not much of a concern. I would love to do acid again (did it by mistake once), but my concern is that because it's illegal, there's no way to know
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by chadrs 12y ago
This whole "expressive vs. performance" is a false dichotomy. Languages like Scala and Haskell are performant like Java and expressive like Python. Not to mention the work being done on JIT compilers by V8/HHVM/PyPy that
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by chadrs 12y ago
Look, everyone! Cool tech in need of an actual problem to solve.
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by chadrs 12y ago
Seems like the exact same approach and even using the same redis datastrucutres as this talk from RedisConf: http://vimeo.com/52569901 (Granted, the solution presented here is not open sourced.)
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by chadrs 12y ago
Think about the implications for all the "who's the daddy" day-time television shows!
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by chadrs 12y ago
I've always felt there should be a conference for bug hunting. All talks about bugs, how they were solved, dead ends attempted, tools/techniques used to diagnose, etc. Would be really useful to see how other people approach debugg
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by chadrs 13y ago
I don't understand; isn't this how it is now? When I do into messages from the main Facebook it flips to the Messenger app. It's been this way on my phone for several months now.
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by chadrs 13y ago
Sad the "jumping the shark" theory for Happy Days doesn't really hold up against the data: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0070992
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by chadrs 13y ago
This makes me feel like my similar site, Klout Penis should be worth at least $1M, right? http://kloutpenis.com/
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by chadrs 13y ago
Office productivity explodes.
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by chadrs 13y ago
No dynamically typed language is going to be "The Dominant Language Of The Enterprise" anytime soon. When you have hundreds of mediocre developers in cubicles pounding away at a single, huge, codebase, you're going to want as
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by chadrs 13y ago
On a related note it's always annoyed me when people use "telnet" when they mean "make a TCP connection" as in "can you telnet to the port?"
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by chadrs 13y ago
> What the hell is quinoa, they asked. Their culinary ignorance is nearly as upsetting as their disregard for citizens privacy.
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by chadrs 13y ago
I don't believe the world is filled with "terrible" people. I do believe the world is filled with people who use their smartphones in inappropriate situations all the time. There's a discrepancy here, and it's clear new tech is being consum
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by chadrs 13y ago
> Well, if you take some of that potion and mix it with the power of Google Glass, and you have something remarkable: an app that lets you see the world in real time through other people's eyes. That is the essence of what I dislike abo
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by chadrs 14y ago
For probably almost every website/webapp in the world, the amount of servers you have is 1. Facebook is not a typical application. Besides, code is written for more than just websites. Chef/puppet/cfengine, one-off scripts you write, etc. T
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by chadrs 14y ago
Yes; IntelliJ 12 has this.
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by chadrs 14y ago
I've always wondered why a site that blocks mailinator sites wouldn't just do an MX lookup on any domain you put in and check for mailinator redirects.
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by chadrs 14y ago
Seems like the more ambiguous term here is "lightweight."
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by chadrs 14y ago
$250MM - profits from pizza deals sold to mobile users
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by chadrs 14y ago
very interesting. My understanding was that most handsets didn't implement compression but I think it's worth a try.

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