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by daakus 14y ago
I haven't looked at Rust, but the semi colon looks like a decision to make some common verbose or "ugly" syntax to be less noisy. Admittedly most syntax has quirks, and this seems more like a quirk rather than an instance of "clever design"
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by daakus 14y ago
I'm the Facebooker maintaining this tool. We use it internally and externally and it represents a "platform application". It runs on a separate domain (www.fbrell.com) and is iframed on the linked page on facebook.com. It's all open source
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Lusty Explorer and Juggler (for File and Buffer navigation in Vim)(github.com)
1 points by daakus 15y ago|0 comments
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by daakus 15y ago
In other words - CSRF fail.
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by daakus 15y ago
Marcel Laverdet has built a node extension that provides yield: https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers
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by daakus 15y ago
I did have SICP when I started undergrad, and I wish, and asked my professor why can't we use "something modern like python". He gave me some reasoning, and I wish I remember what it was. I think part of the problem is that there isn't enou
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by daakus 15y ago
Why would one use a language where the best you can say is "it gets the job done". There are so many better options in absolutely every single way that the only reason I can fathom for one to start something new using it out of choice is la
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by daakus 16y ago
It's sad that Safari does this, especially considering there's a work around using POST: https://gist.github.com/586182 -- it translates to complexity and has performance hit, and doesn't actually add security.
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by daakus 16y ago
If you click on the lock icon on Facebook to set privacy, you can type in names of lists to explicitly hide or specifically limit content (blacklist or whitelist). This would allow posting some piece of content controlled via a named list o
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by daakus 16y ago
This combined with MicroXP resulted in a ~500MB VirtualBox image with IE6,7,8 -- very impressive.
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by daakus 16y ago
Unnecessary plug: I wrote a ridiculously simple version using node and socket.io to get a feel for this too: https://github.com/nshah/tictactoe -- it only has random matchup mode. It's running here: http://tictactoe.daaku.org:9999/
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by daakus 16y ago
I'd split the semester into two parts -- one close to metal, something simple like a url shortner. Then something using an existing framework to build something more complex like a blog with an admin interface and some RSS feeds or JSON API
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by daakus 16y ago
"He couches his fanaticism in "good taste"." -- this is exactly it. It is fanaticism no doubt. Given enough variables, like there are here, making it taste good is clearly possible. I use and like Apple products, but trying to justify every
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by daakus 16y ago
I had a good experience with Prgmr for the most part (dirt cheap memory for the price), and was reliable while I was using it. My only gripe was that IO performance was terrible, to the point that using ls in bash was annoying. I switched t
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by daakus 16y ago
I understand the need for analytics, but I _think_ most twitter users don't care about that. Couldn't twitter just not count the URL towards the 140 characters? (Yes, more complicated than that in order to prevent spam or whatever, and yes
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by daakus 16y ago
Maybe I'm a bit crazy, but I just disable swap all together. With 2 tornado servers, 2 nodejs servers, nginx, postgres, memcache and monit I end up using 170M of memory. (None of the sites are data heavy, so this may be skewed.)
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by daakus 16y ago
Don't macros change the rule a bit?
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by daakus 16y ago
I open tabs in the background all the time -- this doesn't seem any different than one of those being a phishing site. It's pretty simple imho, don't type in a password unless you also typed in the url or used a bookmark. That's the advice
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by daakus 16y ago
I just rent a cheap $20 month VM on the cloud. Every now and then I need another one to test stuff, so I'll just rent another one for that duration, which get's pro-rated. Screen does the rest. Having scripts to bootstrap VM's is crucial to
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by daakus 17y ago
while i'm all for using modern css capabilities -- i think ie7/ie8 will keep us from relying solely on them. i haven't looked into Aristo's source, but using sprites as a fallback the less capable browsers is pretty much the only option atm
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by daakus 17y ago
I think the point is avoiding complexity until absolutely necessary. Splitting code and creating abstractions "because it will make doing X easier in the future" is often the wrong thing to do. The right thing imho is to split it when you n
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Mu is a lightweight JavaScript library to use Facebook Connect on your site.(mu.daaku.org)
51 points by daakus 17y ago|1 comments