dave_au

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by dave_au 18y ago
He's not worried about it on the client side. He's worried about it from the server side. As was really, really clear from reading the article. Might shed some light on the downmods.
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by dave_au 18y ago
I found the various commenting on the questions he was asked quite interesting because they were coming from someone who does a lot of interviews. I didn't take the "Great question" as phony exuberance at all because of that, but that could
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by dave_au 18y ago
All good points which I agree with. It appears that we were using different meanings for expressiveness though - yours was focusing on communicating both the feel and the function of the code, mine was focusing on communicating efficiently[
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by dave_au 18y ago
Not taking sides here, just bringing up a potential counterpoint. I like Python, Lisp and a fair few other languages as well. From my understanding, the "there's only one way to do things" idea generally applies at the smaller scales, so a
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by dave_au 18y ago
This is motivated by the fact that I'm in Australia and our broadband sucks. Netflix send a whole heap of DVDs through the mail, so they're trust you not to rip them and distribute copies. If there was a massive content distribution networ
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by dave_au 18y ago
If I remember correctly the Dilberito was designed along those lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito
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by dave_au 18y ago
So bluetooth file transfer at 28kbps with some old school modem hackery, awesome :)
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by dave_au 18y ago
I like the first solution in the comments - use mmap, work page by page (or pair of pages by pair of pages).
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by dave_au 18y ago
Maybe next time you could give them a [yourwebsite]/yc URL so you can check the server logs and be sure one way or the other.
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by dave_au 18y ago
I did that and it worked pretty well. I was drinking a lot of Coke. Six months later I thought "I'll have a Coke for lunch, it's alright since I had one with lunch yesterday". I almost paid for it before I realised I'd only had a very det
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by dave_au 18y ago
I tried a 28-hour day for about a week: http://www.dbeat.com/28/ I'm glad I did solely because I know that if I hadn't I'd be wondering about both the 28-hour day and polyphasic sleep until I tried it, and I'd probably have more at stake
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by dave_au 18y ago
I've considered something like an electronic notary system a number of times over the years. I can imagine having a URL like http://[known and trusted e-notary].com/[user]/[date]/[file or md5sum] would do a lot to discourage any shennanig
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by dave_au 18y ago
It's alright as an idea, might not be too great as a business depending on the demand. You'd need decent customer service when things went wrong or if people had questions about jobs / billing, so I imagine you'd need pretty high and reason
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by dave_au 18y ago
If GS really highlighted the unofficial part and also linked to official support pages then companies with good support and / or people who are neutral on whether the company is ignorant or unresponsive get the check out the official suppor
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by dave_au 18y ago
I remember one of their chief expenses a while back was under-utilization - they need enough capacity for the christmas rush etc, but it does unused during the slow times. It looks like they're letting other people pay for their under-util
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by dave_au 18y ago
Posted on Hacker News an April 2nd, but posted on Lipton's blog a day earlier...
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by dave_au 18y ago
It's far from a trivial task but one thing I keep wondering about LLVM is - what happens if they worked on (optional) incremental parsing/compiling? Seeing the errors as you type is pretty handy in Java so I figure it'd be pretty nice in C
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by dave_au 18y ago
I'm ashamed to say that I paused for a while when Bug Me Not asked me to register.
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by dave_au 18y ago
Interesting. My first thought was that I'd seen that list before - nothing wrong with that, some content makes its way around the net a fair bit. My second thought was that it's only tangentially related to zen - again, nothing wrong with t
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by dave_au 18y ago
I don't see how this does a better job at increasing security beyond the built in anti-malware/phishing stuff in Firefox. Sure, you might have more people reporting stuff but you don't have credentials for any of those people. If they went
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by dave_au 18y ago
For anyone struggling to find the time to get some exercise in, http://www.simplefit.org is pretty nice. The workouts are quick, can be pretty intense, and are staged based on your progress. Not for some people, but I've been doing it co
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by dave_au 18y ago
The last time the LLVM backend was mentioned on the PyPy blog it was mentioned near the phrase "unmaintained and at least partially broken" Link: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2008/10/sprint-discussions-rele...
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by dave_au 18y ago
If you can arbitrarily modify the server side of any instance of the application then you can also just pay using someone elses credit card details. Although I think what Stallman would probably prefer is the source to the site / web applic
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by dave_au 18y ago
I'm sure that a lof of the people who this could help already know about it. If you're in Queensland, Australia, the Climate Smart Home Service costs $50 and you get: - a wireless energy monitor - up to 15 compact fluro lightbulbs - a wate
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by dave_au 18y ago
Citeseer is down at the moment so I can't find the paper on the big hurdles any given visual programming language has to deal with. I've used LabView a little, wrote the backend code for a startup that was trying to create an ambitious visu
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by dave_au 18y ago
I have a friend who does his programming from an armchair and I often wonder how long it's going to be until his wrists start to be effected by the massively subergonomic elbow/wrist placement that it forces on him. Anecdotally, my sister
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by dave_au 18y ago
Does anyone know how different this version is from the final version that went to print? The site for the book talks up the difference but is hardly an impartial source.