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by compay 16y ago
Well, I'm very glad there are people who are willing to do the hard work to improve Ruby's performance. If ekidd can help bring it up to a significant fraction of LuaJIT's, I'll line up in the pouring rain to be the first one to buy him a b
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by compay 16y ago
I can only speak from my experience as an American living in Argentina for a little under 10 years, who was a Spanish major in college, and has travelled a fair bit around the continent. The idea that people in South America "hate the US" h
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by compay 16y ago
It amazes me when I go to conferences and I see how many people are still using 1.8 rather than 1.9 or JRuby, which may not be comparable to LuaJIT but offer much more respectable performance. I also really sympathize with the notion of
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by compay 16y ago
Veto, no, but obviously the JRuby team are well worth listening to. Charles's post isn't really saying that refinements are a bad idea, but rather offering some, well, "refinements" to how he thinks they should be implemented. It's taken a
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by compay 16y ago
I'm also an inexperienced public speaker, and have decided to improve as much as I can. A few weeks ago I gave a talk at a conference in front of about 350 people, following this advice exactly. I still have a long way to go but the talk
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by compay 16y ago
"Do what you love and the money will follow" -my Mom Best of luck Steve. Props to you for living the life you want to lead. Now that's a great way to inspire children in and of itself.
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by compay 16y ago
And, as of 7.3, Lua.
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by compay 16y ago
Yeah, what lucasjung said. A "negative transfer" is when you apply habits from one language to another and make usage choices that are not necessarily errors, but sound awkward to native speakers. It's not so much a translation thing as it
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by compay 16y ago
Yeah, some of them (like the ones before "that" and "when") are a negative transfer from German. Trivial to fix though, and something tells me they will. Definitely a beautifully put-together page.
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by compay 16y ago
That depends on how and when you're going to use it. It's fine with small data sets, or if you're going to run the query and cache its output periodically. With MySQL you can also speed it up quite a bit by selecting only an indexed column
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by compay 16y ago
Most of the things listed there are not MySQL specific. Here's one that I'm pretty sure is: SELECT * FROM example WHERE value = 'á'; where "á" uses UTF-8 encoding. By default this will return rows that match both "á" AND "a", which may or m
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by compay 16y ago
Let me add my voice to the chorus: great job! This is the best domain name generator site I've seen yet.
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by compay 16y ago
I remember reading a few times in interviews with people that knew him, that Hendrix basically never put the guitar down. I think in the sense the author is trying to convey, he "never worked hard" and "it just flowed" because he must have
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by compay 16y ago
If you're looking for a good read, I enjoyed Jeremy Campbell's "Grammatical Man" quite a bit, it ties together information theory and linguistics. Obviously not the most in-depth book on either topic, but fascinating nonetheless. http://ww
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by compay 16y ago
Having a slow machine available to test your code on is a nice option, but I'd be very annoyed if I was forced to use it as my development environment. Then again, it depends on what you're doing. I have a pretty slow netbook that I use whe
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by compay 16y ago
"Open source" != "open project." This issue comes up every so often on the Lua list, and I think Roberto Ierusalimschy's explanation describes the situation with Android pretty well. http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-06/msg00407.html
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by compay 16y ago
The article has some interesting critiques. But really, anybody's code can be improved, particular if you're willing to spend more than half your time nitpicking about style and formatting details. Writing an article taking a famous program
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by compay 16y ago
Nope, me too. I can see maybe using a prompt like this temporarily, or putting this info in an XTerm's title, but I spend most of my time on the command line and really don't want crap like this distracting me. My prompt on localhost is a
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by compay 16y ago
I enjoyed some of his books, but pop fiction is unlikely to win that award any time soon. :) And no, Paulo != Pablo, but it's an axiom that if a Brazilian becomes popular enough in the Spanish-speaking part of Latin America, he or she will
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by compay 16y ago
> whom time has failed to vindicate. Yet.
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by compay 16y ago
Exactly - Brazil's history and relationship with Portugal bear little resemblance to the USA's relationship with the UK. Brazilians in general are, if not proud, then at least amused by their country's royal history, and most major Brazilia
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by compay 16y ago
"DRM done right" is an oxymoron.
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by compay 16y ago
Thanks - that definitely qualifies as "something obvious" that I missed.
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by compay 16y ago
I've seen Uncle Bob speak at a few conferences and his talks are always the best of the lot. He's brilliant, knowledgable, a great presenter and also seems like a heck of a nice guy. This is a real question though - where can I see code tha
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by compay 16y ago
I'm almost 38 and had my first child not too long ago. Sometimes I surprise myself at feeling tempted to chase the illusion of "stability" at a bigger company. Then I remind myself of all my friends who have been through terrible layoffs an
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by compay 16y ago
Josh Simmons, one of the main Mongrel2 hackers other than Zed, is already working on that. The idea behind Mongrel2 is that you can write your own configuration system in any language you want, as long as the final result is an SQLite3 data
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by compay 16y ago
Nope. It's one of the biggest complaints about Textmate, and one of the things that led me to (mostly) switch to vim. A lot of people are pretty upset with the author because rather than choosing to release an incremental update that adds s
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by compay 16y ago
"Compatibility mode to view websites designed for older browsers" has IE9 checked, but not FF or Chrome. I was about to say something snarky but I think this just speaks for itself.
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by compay 16y ago
I doubt it. But I suppose somebody could potentially build a product around Mongrel2 which does.
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by compay 16y ago
No, the USA does not require that.

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