codefisher

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by codefisher 16y ago
At the end of the day this is why I don't use CAPTCHA's on my site, they can be broken by a bot that is smart enough. The better option is to use something to analyse the contents of the spam to decide what it really is, and there are some
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by codefisher 16y ago
Mine was similar, Python Python C/Java. Though there are half a dozen others that I am perfectly comfortable with.
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by codefisher 16y ago
You might be able to copy the parser out of the Google Closure Compiler. http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/ you can be sure it works, and is stable. I think though it uses Rhino under the hood, so you could look at that too. http
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by codefisher 16y ago
There are quite a few things you need to learn to be able to program well. One of the easy ones is syntax, which is what you have to learn to go from one language to another, in addition to the names of variables/functions. What is much ha
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by codefisher 16y ago
Reminder to self, don't multi-task and half read stuff before posting comments.
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by codefisher 16y ago
It is a pity that the API does not have a way of getting what appears on the front page. I was planing to soon create a script that scanned the front page, and then applied pg's algorithm from "a plan for spam" to remove links that I think
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by codefisher 16y ago
I agree with you on 8) I don't see why it matters so much what style of braces are used as long as the block of code and I currently looking as it consistent. If future developers object that badly, there is also many many auto formatters
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by codefisher 16y ago
Ditto the above comment. If users don't want to be asked if they want to download/open a file they can use the "Automatically do this from now on" option that Firefox gives them, or the equivalent in their preferred browser. Then users ge
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by codefisher 16y ago
So far we have 3 of the 4 people post here. Can the last one own up? Or did someone underestimate how many people don't have a facebook account...
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by codefisher 16y ago
If your really serious about developing stuff what will end up running on a Linux server, I think you should really be using Linux on the development machine. I know that is not always practical, but more people should do it. No one would
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by codefisher 16y ago
"If they provided a link to something supporting their position I'd probably pass out from shock." Ok I will take that as a challenge to produce a link, so how is this. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/policy_driven_de... Did y
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by codefisher 16y ago
For those interested, the author of this was actually Guido himself. I would have used "".join(map(chr, list)) myself. But I am not sure that was support in the version of python available at the time. It is equivalent to f6. To some of t
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by codefisher 16y ago
There are some interesting ideas to work around the problems with this method in the comments, such as hashing the ip with a secret string on the link to stop others making you ban all your users. And also sorts of other stuff - even putti
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by codefisher 16y ago
How about people with low karma (like myself) not being allowed to comment on articles that appear on the front page. Then only people really interested in following HN, and trying to form some kind of reputation in the community would be
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by codefisher 16y ago
Went and did a search on my email, the first time I recommenced it to someone else was the 13th Oct 2007. So yeah 2007 it is!
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by codefisher 16y ago
He forgets what the main purpose of frameworks are for, doing all the boring repetitive bits, so I can get down to writing the new and interesting parts of my web app. For example doing form validation, and displaying the errors back again
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by codefisher 16y ago
It has been around for awhile, been using it since about 2008. Cool service.