cheald

87 ms·

931.
by cheald 12y ago
Nokogiri can use xpath, as well, FWIW. The article's example could be a lot more terse.
932.
by cheald 12y ago
"rapier" is what I thought, as well; the rapier is a light thrusting sword, which is intended to deliver a quick wounding strike to the target. Seemed perfectly on-point for this drone.
933.
by cheald 12y ago
Not just that, but SHA-256 isn't slow. It's slower than CRC or MD5, sure, but it's slowness isn't a feature like blowfish's is. A single round of Blowfish, by comparison, takes time to set up the key and IV that SHA
934.
by cheald 12y ago
You've missed my point; LuaJIT can be quite a bit faster than v8, despite the amount of money being invested in it being a tiny fraction of what's put into v8. Therefore, we can conclude that v8's speed is not simply a functi
935.
by cheald 12y ago
If you can provide modern numbers, I'd appreciate it! Maybe my information is out of date, but I just now picked a random benchmark (the fasta one from the language shootout) and ran it against v8-3.14.5.10 and luajit-2.0.3 (Fedora 21,
936.
by cheald 12y ago
Per Chris Seaton's comment in this thread: > Oracle Labs pays two people full time (including me) [to work on JRuby] and a PhD student, and more soon.
937.
by cheald 12y ago
What I mean is that while Python's embeddable, it wasn't designed specifically as an embeddable language in the same way that Javascript or Lua were.
938.
by cheald 12y ago
Last I looked, you are correct, but Python isn't designed as an embeddable language, either. Multiple VMs usually isn't something you'd have any desire to do specifically because you can achieve multithreading from within t
939.
by cheald 12y ago
It supports it as a language construct, even though the GIL gets in the way of actual parallelism. As far as I'm aware, EMCAScript doesn't provide any concept of threading within the language itself. You can get it by spinning up
940.
by cheald 12y ago
I'm not so sure it's all about money. Ruby and Python are significantly more complex languages than Javascript. By contrast, LuaJIT can absolutely wreck V8 performance-wise, but Lua is a substantially less complex language. v8 doe
941.
by cheald 12y ago
A judge can jail you for "contempt of court", which is basically whatever the judge decides is contempt.
942.
by cheald 12y ago
That monster .
943.
by cheald 12y ago
The "Dread Pirate Roberts" moniker is from a (wonderful) movie called "The Princess Bride". In it, the hero assumes the mantle of the "Dread Pirate Roberts", and is at least the fourth successor to the title. I
944.
by cheald 12y ago
This argument can be applied to any transaction engaged in by people who are drunk or high or otherwise in a state of modified consciousness. Is it unethical to sell Cheetos because the buyer might be a stoner who is high and not in a sta
945.
by cheald 12y ago
I have a theory that the rate at which I break or lose sunglasses is directly proportional to their price.
946.
by cheald 12y ago
The OP commented on responsiveness, which is certainly a sensitivity issue.
947.
by cheald 12y ago
There's a mouse sensitivity option in the menu.
948.
by cheald 12y ago
Emdasheyedashseedasharrdashohdashessdashohdasheffdashtee is well-known for their litigiousness.
949.
by cheald 12y ago
Man, this thing is going to destroy all the dish-washing jobs in the service industry within 5 years, mark my words.
950.
by cheald 12y ago
Microsoft's patch schedule was going to be 32 days later. The hard stance produced a positive outcome here; the patch was available a full month earlier than it otherwise would have been. There is a lot of history between security re
951.
by cheald 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
952.
by cheald 12y ago
Value is subjective, which is why we can have concepts such as "mutually beneficial exchange". The entire concept of barter and trade, which has been the foundation of our economies since time immemorial, is built on that fact. Th
953.
by cheald 12y ago
Or more simply, it ignores that the sum of an hour of labor does not exist in a vacuum, but is instead a product of the time and effort the laborer had previously invested in their craft. There's the old joke about the repairman who ch
954.
by cheald 12y ago
(Hint: They're already disclosed.)
955.
by cheald 12y ago
Or what, you'll disclose them?
956.
by cheald 12y ago
Google's action resulted in a security bugfix which improved the security of Windows, and on faster schedule than Microsoft would have provided otherwise. But sure, let's call it evil.
957.
by cheald 12y ago
I entirely expect the journalist writing this article has no knowledge of the intricacies of disclosure politics.
958.
by cheald 12y ago
I've been taking L-theanine with my coffee for a few years now. It has a noticeable positive impact on my ability to focus and think clearly. I also feel a lot more comfortable taking it than other nootropics, because a) it's just
959.
by cheald 12y ago
Completely aside from the privacy issues, I rather bemoan the decline of cash, for the very simple reason that handling physical currency makes it much harder to spend carelessly. It's too easy to swipe your card and receive an item. I
960.
by cheald 12y ago
Community college is already a tiny fraction of the cost of a university, yet people flock to universities. You can save tens of thousands of dollars by getting your associate's at a CC, even if you go on to get a bachelor's at a

More ›