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by dhotson 18y ago
I personally found the search results page a tad confusing. Having the results in a grid layout, my first impression was that they were all ads! .. also, how do I know which result is #1 ? Top left? Middle?
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by dhotson 18y ago
I worked on a web crawler once before.. you've got no idea how annoying these kinds of websites are to detect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_trap .. although I'm sure they've got some smart people working on it at Google.
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The clouds are coming(gojko.net)
5 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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The Dark Knight and Game Theory(quantitativepeace.com)
17 points by dhotson 18y ago|5 comments
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Making Sense of Mapnik(mike.teczno.com)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
786.
by dhotson 18y ago
Probably the best phone support system I've seen was where if the wait time was going to be more than ~5-10 mins, they would call you back when they were available.
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by dhotson 18y ago
Haha, I had no idea! Thanks for that. :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
I used to love Bitstream Vera Mono. It's pretty nice. Although, recently I've switched to Liberation Mono as my monospace weapon of choice.. I'd certainly recommend it.
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by dhotson 18y ago
I've had a similar experience to this also. I suspect it's a case of the Blub Paradox. A few months ago I was watching a Java programmer write a text processing program. I found it frustrating to watch as he struggled with even basic stuff
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by dhotson 18y ago
Fantastic post Reg. Insightful as always. I hope you'll still hang out here. You're one of the people that make this site great. :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
Oh awesome.. I've been meaning to look into Seaside for ages already. I'll definitely check it out. From what I understand, that super-impressive Dabble DB demo used Smalltalk and Seaside. Have you seen it?
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by dhotson 18y ago
I've always liked _why's approach with Markaby: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/markaby/ It's "Markup as Ruby". Quite an elegant hack I must say. :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
I generally agree, C comes in really useful in a lot of places. It's certainly the best nuts-and-bolts language. Although at the same time, I find that C++ can be quite useful if you are disciplined in what parts of it you use. I think it's
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by dhotson 18y ago
You probably don't want all your friends to know about everything you buy. Especially if you have bad taste in music.
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Design in the age of intelligent maps(adobe.com)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Competitor to 37signals Campfire?
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by dhotson 18y ago
I highly recommend checking out the Ruby source code.. it's some of the best C code I've seen. It's not all that big, and it's pretty easy to follow. I've even seen people use it as a kind of framework for writing C code in a ruby style. :)
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by dhotson 18y ago
I personally don't like the kind of arguments where each person responds by splitting up the post and arguing paragraph by paragraph. I've found that it often devolves into nitpicking of spelling and grammar, which I could care less about.
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by dhotson 18y ago
It just goes to show, search is not a solved problem even now. I think it's fantastic that they can share this kind of information.. it's really interesting technology. I would have liked some more in depth technical details though.
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App Store? More like Crap Store(atomicwang.org)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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The State of Browser Caching(mnot.net)
1 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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The Clang Static Analyzer(rogueamoeba.com)
15 points by dhotson 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 18y ago
Magic quotes.. sigh I think this feature is going to be removed in PHP6.
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by dhotson 18y ago
Very impressive demo. I saw this ages ago, but I often send it to friends just as an example of how to demo software.
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by dhotson 18y ago
There's really no need to be dogmatic about it. If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
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by dhotson 18y ago
This submission title looks like a troll, but I'll bite. The good thing about Coding Horror is that it gets people thinking about issues that they might not have considered before. While the details may not be 100% correct, I think the gene
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by dhotson 18y ago
Oh cool, I think that's similar to how JavaScript 'objects' work. I've heard that it's not that difficult to do object oriented stuff in plain C using nothing but structs and function pointers. I can imagine the syntax would be a pain in th
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by dhotson 18y ago
Ah yep, dictionaries are pretty similar to objects in this sense. Mostly just a matter of notation. I often use dictionaries as a poor man's object. It could be kind of cool to have proper objects with methods to interact with them. You cou
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by dhotson 18y ago
Oh thanks for the link, that looks pretty cool. For some reason it reminds me of _why's mini dungeon in ruby: http://poignantguide.net/dwemthy/ I used to love writing my own adventure games in QBasic. I found that using stuff like GOTO's
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by dhotson 18y ago
Yeah, sometimes I wish I could add some descriptive text to submissions as you suggest. Perhaps I should just add a comment after submitting? Did you ever have a go at writing text adventure games? I'm kind of curious to see what kind of ap

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