dbpatterson

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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Obviously it's personal, but the main issue I've always had with Alt-Tab is that as soon as you have more than 2 windows, getting to a specific application is now something you have to think about (or hit key, look, possibly hit k
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
You do realize the helpful answer reveals another users username and password...
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Perhaps it worked better on your browser, but the content was so delayed that many times I scrolled past it before it decided to load. So I was constantly having to scroll back and forth to try to figure out whether a blank spot was truly b
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
If you are assigning them copyright, and they can sell proprietary licensed versions, then it's a pretty valid request...
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
The point of HTTPS is not to hide things, it's to prevent tampering... Which seems relevant when transmitting checksums.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
A large project? I'm not sure what's particularly large about this. Perhaps it should be "how I organize a project I'm going to have running on a server at some point"?
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
That's not believing Apple though. That's just accepting that there isn't a better alternative...
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Because it is a completely different language and would require rewriting all of the thousands of packages by hand (and centuries of human labor)?
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
The thing is, with current tooling, the current design means that I can write a function, type a key combination, and have the type signature printed in a buffer (where I can then copy it into place). And until I do that, there is warning h
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
That's not the case.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
The issue is that platform packages are in the global package database, which doesn't play well with the (amazingly useful) sandboxing that cabal provides. And may cause other problems too.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
How can they mention Ceylon, Eiffel, Kotlin, and PPL (the latter two I've never heard of, and I've heard of a lot of programming languages) and not mention Haskell, ML, OCaml, etc? It's been mentioned in other comments, but e
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
I think that, having used both of them, Rust is going to feel a lot lower level than OCaml. The single biggest thing is that it's pretty hard (slash near impossible) to write Rust code without thinking about memory allocation, which ad
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Also, unless things have changed significantly in the past year or so (since I've last really used Rust), there are significant differences between Rust traits and Haskell type classes. You can have collections of heterogeneous types t
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
It is really bizarre to contrast Real World OCaml to Learn You a Haskell. The former is a serious book, the latter is a very beginner level tutorial. Now there may be real criticisms comparing Real World OCaml to Real World Haskell (which,
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
I think it's a little bit of both. Yes, Haskell code is often quite terse, but the more important thing is that the type system allows abstraction to a much higher degree than in languages with weaker type systems. Abstraction always t
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
They said they archived 10TB (and that covered everything with at least 10 views), and that the total including all videos would be 1.1PB, ie 1100 TB. So there is over 1000TB of videos with less than 10 views.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
The problem is that often while regular users are not directly using those features, they are using libraries that do use them. As a concrete example, people writing webapps with Django probably (often) aren't using some of the crazier
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
You won't find helicopter - air is too thin (one of the reasons why rescues are hard). But maybe a plane could give you one.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
This still has a flaw that it makes low wage jobs pretty unappealing. Why work fulltime for 50k a year when you can make 40k without working? Or even worse, who would ever work fulltime for 40k a year? Perhaps this means that there won&#x27
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
That's a glaring error of selection. Because with basic income, the idea of removing the minimum wage makes complete sense. Without it, what he says sounds completely insane.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Take a look at the urls and do some calculation on how likely you are to actually get anything. It looks like 14 characters, alphanumeric with uppercase, which is about 10^25. Even if you can try a thousand urls per second, that would take
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Obviously there are some differences, but type classes are pretty similar to the way python normally works - type classes specify methods that a type has to have. So in the case of 'print', the type specifies that print can be cal
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Mandrill is transactional, so would be a no go for sending a message to 3500 clients. Mailchimp and mandrill don't overlap.
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
And then anyone who doesn't have extra resources is prevented from using your service... As if it is a trivial amount, spammers will pay it, and if it is non-trivial, then some people won't be able to afford it. Doesn't seem
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
Umm. Just leaving this here for anyone who doesn't know - the whole point of hashing things like emails or passwords is that reversing the hash is very difficult (read: near impossible). Indeed, once it becomes feasible to do, the hash
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by dbpatterson 12y ago
They've always said they are aiming to target cheaper less powerful phones. Right now the bulk of the world is using cheap phones probably running Symbian or something similar. Whether they actually will be able to target that group is
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
Just as a side note, the over $25 shipping is the slowest they can find. So if it is all books, it is media mail (which is _really_ slow), and otherwise it is whatever the slowest that UPS does (3-5 days), vs two day shipping on everything.
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
That means you are on a paid plan, but have a discount applied (which happens to be the cost of the lowest plan).
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by dbpatterson 13y ago
You can definitely find a 1BR apartment in brooklyn for <$2000/month. And a two bedroom for not much more, if you look.

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