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by crux_ 16y ago
And a rude response isn't wasting two peoples' time as well?
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by crux_ 16y ago
Their tools are also a gigantic pain in the ass. (Note: things are improving, thanks to the power of competition!) I've thought very strongly about having a standard policy of upping my bill rate 50% if I'm doing ArcObjects code. :)
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by crux_ 16y ago
I'm disappointed with myself, but in a trivial way. :) Awesomebar + apparent severe lack of caffeine. Here's the working link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6600185/cfa/cfademo.html
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by crux_ 16y ago
You might want to consider looking into using the LWT library? ( http://ocsigen.org/lwt/ ) It's fairly mature, has a bunch of standard libraries already wrapped up into continuation-passing / callback style (I believe this includes libev, a
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by crux_ 16y ago
I know what I'm playing with this weekend... For the same thing, in 2D: http://www.contextfreeart.org/ -- make sure to check the gallery. Ditto, in the browser w/ canvas (full disclosure: I wrote this): file:///home/dan/proj/my-langs/cfa-
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by crux_ 16y ago
To add to the other poster about collecting payment before shipping: It's not just Amazon that never does this; generally speaking (in the US, at least), nobody is allowed to collect on an item until it ships. Typically a merchant handles t
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by crux_ 16y ago
> His engaging with people there on a one-to-one level seems to exactly disprove the idea that it's an echo chamber that no one's paying attention to. Except, you know, for the part where he calls it an echo chamber that no one is payi
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by crux_ 16y ago
Something of a counterpoint: http://leoville.com/buzz-kill
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by crux_ 16y ago
I've been using emacs, so the tooling is equally compelling. ;) The nicest surprises so far have been: - I can code in a fully dynamically typed manner for the parts of my code where it's more convenient. (To do this in O'Caml requires manu
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by crux_ 16y ago
> XML isn't bad in and of itself. I'm arguing that it is. Symptoms of badness: version 1.0 of the basic standard is on its 5th edition over ~8 years. Said standard is stupendously huge. Major security/crash & other bugs in pretty mu
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by crux_ 16y ago
Strictly speaking, XML could be extremely well done and still have horrible horrible things done with it higher up in the layer cake. ;) There's no surprise, though, that a shoddy foundation might encourage crappy houses.
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by crux_ 16y ago
Note that I was talking about parsing a stream of text into a DOM tree or SAX events, not parsing a DOM tree or SAX events into some second-order structure. Lookahead: Your parser will need to read the entirety of a tag (from the '<' to
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by crux_ 16y ago
It does get filtered into its own folder; it's just that I prefer to read that folder's contents in Google Reader, along with all my other "feed" stuff, in one shot. This is more appropriate if you mostly lurk on mailing lists; if there was
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by crux_ 16y ago
Closed as subjective and argumentative. Darn, I wanted to pick a fight there. ;) Many of the really crappy aspects of XML have been thoroughly abstracted away by libraries. I'm of the opinion that you can only truly despise XML if you've tr
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by crux_ 16y ago
I used to have two places to check for all of that semi-automated "I'd like to read this but it isn't urgent" material: my email inbox (mailing lists, newsletters, etc) and my RSS reader. The fix -- a quick'n'dirty script that moves all tho
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by crux_ 16y ago
Don't forget you need to make sure your callback doesn't itself block, or take too long. (Which in turn implies that all the other libraries you are using --at least ones that need to communicate-- need to have pretty deep integration wit
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by crux_ 16y ago
Agreed. Also: R-trees don't do so well as you add data dimensions. (This is partly received wisdom; my rough understanding is that the empty volume in each node becomes cavernous and nice splitting becomes much less achievable.) Another ref
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by crux_ 16y ago
Probably as or more important than hierarchical memory performance, a big reason and the main motivation for using an R-Tree is to store "data objects of non-zero size located in multidimensional spaces." ( http://www-db.deis.unibo.it/cours
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by crux_ 16y ago
There's sort of two directions to respond in here. First, you're rather fudging the conclusion that cutting expenses to the bone has bought you a house -- better save for double the time or end up putting 10% or less down, which has been ma
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by crux_ 16y ago
If I could trade an iPhone for a house, I would. You're blatantly misrepresenting the scale of these things in order to equate them.
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by crux_ 16y ago
> And even then most "younger generations" live much easier and more wealthy lives than previous generations. They still have cable TV, the internet, cell phones, cars, prepared food, etc, etc, etc. Don't conflate access to luxuries wit
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by crux_ 16y ago
> That dream is as alive as ever While I agree that the article chose the wrong focus, I think you're wrong. Look at the American Dream on a societal level: while there will continue to be outliers, the fact is that today's younger gene
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by crux_ 16y ago
It's interesting to read the heaps (and heaps and heaps!) of scorn here upon postmodern philosophy, which I'm only passingly familiar with -- all while living and participating in a society where "postmodern" is far and away the best single
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by crux_ 16y ago
I've reached a point where I needed to lift my head up from bootstrapping and see what else was on the horizon. So, I spent a bit of time programming just for fun, and here's the result. It turned out that someone else (Aza Raskin) had alre
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Something I made: Context free art in javascript+canvas(dl.dropbox.com)
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by crux_ 16y ago
There's a bunch of obvious problems, off the top of my head: People should be able to to look for a job without necessarily tipping of their current employer. Ambition and hard work, unless expressed very carefully, could well become an end
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by crux_ 16y ago
I think those characterizations are rather context-dependent, though. Restating my point somewhat differently, the "what should be done about it" reaction lies on a somewhat independent axis from the "how angry am I about this" reaction. Fo
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by crux_ 16y ago
Yes, HuffPo is leftist, but I don't see how rage over this particular issue has jack-all to do with where you lie on the partisan spectrum. I'd expect even many full-bore libertarians to find that policy stupid, discriminatory or both (thou
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by crux_ 16y ago
Sure ... but what does that have to do with dodging FICA taxes, which are not the double taxation in question? And people absolutely do pay themselves ridiculously low wages and take the rest in profit, and choose S-Corps specifically in
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by crux_ 16y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Assuming you want your maps and filters to be purely functional, you need only two simple methods: One that constructs an object that implements the Iterable[X] trait from the java object, and another that construc

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