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by daxelrod 16y ago
Wil Shipley has explored this approach: http://blog.wilshipley.com/2009/08/pimp-my-code-part-16-heur... I also swear I remember reading another example of this on his blog, but I'm unable to find it, so I'll paraphrase from memory (which
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Does your startup rely on creating copyrighted works as part of its business model? Congratulations, using pirated software makes you hypocrites. (If it doesn't, you've still got the ethical and legal issues discussed here to deal with.)
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by daxelrod 16y ago
My first guess was that that was intentional. It seemed clever at first, but now I'm not so sure.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
The original cited article states: The language is broad enough that a president's administration could even ban bake sales, but Secretary Tom Vilsack signaled in a letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Ca
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Putting upvote and downvote buttons on opposite sides of the screen to is ingenious . (Explanation: this fixes the "I meant to upvote you but I tapped the wrong tiny button" problem.)
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Just to clarify, according to http://baywords.com/about/ , Baywords is free of charge. I presume agentcris was saying that PRQ.SE is "really costly".
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by daxelrod 16y ago
xmonad for Mac OS X would be fantastic. Unfortunately, while OS X can run an xserver to use with programs that are written to use X11, it has its own native window manager for native Mac programs. (To give you an idea of how rare X11 progra
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by daxelrod 16y ago
To be fair, I've never looked at the source until now and... wow. I'm definitely glad he wrote the paper to go along with it. It's not even that most of the code is hard to read (although a few parts did leave me scratching my head), it's j
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by daxelrod 16y ago
May I suggest you instead model your inflector's algorithm after Lingua::EN::Inflect? ( http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::EN::Inflect ) It handles tons of cases better than Rails's inflector does. Damian Conway (Lingua::EN::Inflect's
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by daxelrod 16y ago
The Bank of America app is a webview of their mobile site. It has excellent ratings, and is currently the #1 free app in the Finance category. All that said, it's clearly not a native app. Transitions from screen to screen are slow, do not
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Fun corollary to this, having an empty element in your $PATH (for example, "/foo::/bar") is the same as having '.' in your $PATH, at least under bash. This will usually happen when a login script puts the value of a variable in your $PATH w
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Since I couldn't find the HTML version hosted anywhere, I posted it myself: http://danonline.net/modernperl Thank you so much for writing this, chromatic!
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Huh? He's also the one who posted this to HN. It seems to me like he wanted to have conversations with both the HN community and his readers.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Thank you for the confirmation. Will the ihackernews browser interface remain active? I hope so, because I love it and use it every day. Whether or not it will, thank you so much for creating it, as well as the API!
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by daxelrod 16y ago
>Apparently that's because Hacker News has blocked his API. Does anyone know if this is actually the case? http://api.ihackernews.com gives me a 404, but I'm posting this from ihackernews's browser interface, which obviously is gettin
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Let's assume, for the purpose of argument, that you've correctly identified this list of factors that may have contributed to this event. How does that make it any less big of a deal?
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by daxelrod 16y ago
I hardly think correct use of a technical term (in this case, in the field of law) is an "abuse of the language"; see http://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/assault.html The rest of your argument seems to boil down to the same behavior
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by daxelrod 16y ago
On what filesystem? Certainly not the default HFS+, which is is case-insensitive but case-preserving.
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by daxelrod 16y ago
Is it possible that this happens more than you've observed or heard about at the parties you attend? One of the disadvantages of being male (which I'm assuming you are from your username, forgive me if you're not) is that we're often much l
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by daxelrod 16y ago
> * how much they follow through with projects Hmm, how would you measure that, though? Enumerating these attributes is fun: * How long they take to fix bugs * What ratio of their pull requests are actually pulled * What's
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by daxelrod 16y ago
stevenp's response inspired me: >Stop thinking that "what to do with your life" is a choice that you have to make. Further, your major doesn't lock you into a particular career the rest of your life. One of my best CS mentors majored in