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by djacobs 16y ago
If I had 60 cars scattered around the city, well, I'd want that phone service. Security issues are not unique to i-names, and I think the abstraction layer (removing a domain name from your login) is important and useful. Disagree if you mu
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by djacobs 16y ago
Exactly. This eliminates 50% of the hassle. Maybe 75% of that if you consider having a single name to type in on any site on the Internet.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I mean the whole thing is ridiculous, yes. OpenIds should have been names and not URLs from the start.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Your mother doesn't need to understand it. I gave the technical details because this is Hacker News . Brokers need to make setup simpler, yes. But even today, logging in is as simple as typing =djacobs.
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by djacobs 16y ago
This is the problem i-names are intended to solve. An i-name is a short name that looks something like =name. So instead of your OpenId URL, you can type in =name in any OpenId form and it will log you in as usual. So instead of name.myop
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by djacobs 16y ago
They usually do send out e-mails about it. Maybe there was a way to have opted out before they announced it.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I think one of the most sarcastic entries may be the object-oriented solution in C++: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer/C%2B%2B/Objec... Compare with the simple solution: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer#The_si
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by djacobs 16y ago
Better question: "How well do you interact with someone who you're attracted to."
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by djacobs 16y ago
The other day I was talking with a friend of a friend at a bar. Him: "I do web design and computer science for major business X" Me: (What kind of stuff do you do, etc., etc.) Him: "It's really cool, I just found out about this new technolo
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'd be down. If there's enough interest, is it worth starting a Meetup group or something similar?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Contrary to what hardcore "coders" tell you, notepad is not your ideal development environment. I don't want to bring up this debate again, but I do want to point out that this is a strawman. No one codes in Notepad or TextEdit
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by djacobs 16y ago
The TSA begs to differ: http://blog.tsa.gov/2009_03_01_archive.html
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by djacobs 16y ago
That's not true universally, though local laws can choose to disallow cameras at security stations.
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by djacobs 16y ago
What do the motivating factors behind Clojure have to do with anything? Motivating factors dictate current practices. If every piece of Clojure PR says things like "harness all the power of Java from a language that uses Lisp semant
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by djacobs 16y ago
Thanks, I knew I'd read it in there.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Given Clojure's emphasis on Java interop, I don't think full portability was ever the motivating factor behind Clojure.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I have a digital copy of Programming Clojure with me, so I can give direct evidence for that now. On page 30: Because the Java invocation syntax in Clojure is clean and simple, it is idiomatic to use Java directly, rather than t
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by djacobs 16y ago
Okay, fair point. I am only halfway through Joy of Clojure , so I semi-retract the "every" in my claim.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Yes, it avoids duplication (of OS X-included packages) and is very simple to remove if you decide it's not for you.
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by djacobs 16y ago
To be fair, the subject of the title is "Art" and the object is "Programming". This is about the art and care that developers should put into the Unix community and the tools they build. In a way, it's an intro to the mindset and philosophy
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by djacobs 16y ago
Even though every Clojure book out there says something like "We're telling you, wrapping Java libraries in Clojure functions isn't idiomatic !", I think this is the way Clojure will go. (And good for it.) Why? 1. No one likes calling Java
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by djacobs 16y ago
The MCAT actually doesn't measure much in the way of knowledge, just of speed. The actual questions are easy, and your score (after a certain knowledge/intelligence threshold) is solely determined by how many practice questions you've waded
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Qt simply because I can't get it to feel natural on Gnome, my desktop of choice. I've looked into Gtk+, but I'm not so sure I want to commit to it yet. Are there plans to make Qt feel more natural on Gnome and OS X?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'll have to agree as well. The only problem for me is: if not on the web, how are we going to make GUIs that aren't severely limited to our platform? Wasn't web design supposed to solve the "platform question"?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Is "Politics is reality" really an excuse for such behavior, though?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm in the same boat and it seems like several others as well. I'm fine moving to Python for the moment, but I wonder how the Ruby community will ever know if there's enough of a demand for scientific tools to merit their development?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Emotion is not appropriate, regardless of what they claim their "rationale" is. Clearly they weren't using reasoning here, so I don't think the emotion was planned or well-intentioned. The questions were not merited at all, from my reading
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by djacobs 16y ago
Glenn Beck got < 90,000 to the rally, if I remember correctly.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not. The raw emotion controlling the interrogating 'official' is not reassuring to me at all. Also, "live round"? Really?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Richard Dawkins has talked about this phenomenon. He says we live in a "middle world" and make all of our important judgments based on our size. (He says that our view of the universe would be fundamentally different if we lived on a differ

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