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by doty 16y ago
http://skydrive.live.com ? Doesn't it already work this way? Specifically, I can create and edit office documents using Microsoft's web-based editors, and then open the documents in my local editors and when I hit save they save back to "
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by doty 16y ago
I honestly cannot tell whether or not that comment was serious.
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by doty 16y ago
Well, to be fair, HTML5 also already has the <meta> extension mechanism. I know you're not making the argument that one is more "standardsy" than the other; you're just pointing out that both approaches are equally "standard".
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by doty 16y ago
I don't think this was a technology acquisition. :) I'm pretty sure they just want the person.
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by doty 16y ago
You can always align variable width fonts with TAB. Because a tab is frequently equivalent to a number of spaces in a fixed width font, we get religious wars about tabs vs spaces. In a variable width font, I presume you would use only tabs.
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by doty 16y ago
Do you think that you use fixed width fonts because you use words like that, or do you use words like that because you use fixed width fonts?
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by doty 16y ago
I wonder what the world would be like if somebody designed a nice variable-width font for typesetting code. It would be different than a font designed for setting English, but I wonder if we wouldn't get the same benefits of beauty and legi
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by doty 16y ago
It's interesting; for internecine that's what I had always used as the definition as well. However, the OED only lists two definitions: 1. orig. Deadly, destructive, characterized by great slaughter. internecine war, war for the sake of sla
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by doty 16y ago
It seems reasonable to assume that they'd standardize on a distribution, and centrally manage patching client machines. I cannot imagine that they would expect every employee to concern themselves with such things.
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by doty 16y ago
You're right that it's pretty easy to write the individual tests. But on the whole, I disagree: in my experience, compilers for non-trivial languages have an extremely large surface area, especially when optimization is involved. Language f
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by doty 16y ago
Actually, Windows Phone 7 tools come in an express edition, so it wouldn't be too strange for the iPhone version to come in an express SKU. (Tools available from http://developer.windowsphone.com/ ) But the tax is more like a thousand doll
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by doty 16y ago
That doesn't appear to be true. From http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/ : It is now well-known that the crytographic hash function MD5 has been broken. [...] The following is an improvement of Diaz's example, which does not ne
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by doty 16y ago
Say what you will about programming by gluing things together, but the fact that "answering the phone" and "doing voice recognition" are services that I can just use is amazing.
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by doty 16y ago
Isn't this just good old group commit? I'm surprised the kernel wouldn't do this optimization for you.
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by doty 17y ago
I've done a bit of work with tries and hash functions and found that in-memory tries are almost universally faster than in-memory hashes, no matter how good the hash function is. Do you have any insight on why this would be? It's not very
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by doty 17y ago
Try adding a lot of data to the table; with different kinds of correlation between questionId and participantId. (i.e., many questionIds per participantId, many participantIds per questionId, and both.) A databases query optimizer attempts
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by doty 17y ago
You sure that isn't just a backronym? It seems highly unlikely given its peers (/etc, /lib, /bin, none of which are acronyms) and given the system it lives in, which I don't think used the word "resources" anywhere else. When I google I mai
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by doty 17y ago
You may say this, but I don't see semantic member or statement completion for any language. I don't see "go to definition" or "find all references." Frankly, although cc-mode is fantastic for indentation and stuff, it offers a small fractio
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by doty 17y ago
"Emacs can do whatever you want." Saying "Emacs can do whatever you want" is like saying "your computer can do anything you want." Sure it can, so long as you're willing to write the code to make it go. But my time is finite; I cannot be bo
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by doty 17y ago
Two different, competing implementations is nothing but good. They will have different security vulnerabilities. They will try out different optimizations and learn from each other. The competition makes each of them better.
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by doty 17y ago
Maybe it's just an easter ogg.
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by doty 17y ago
Do you have a reference?
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by doty 17y ago
The problem is that most sites' "privacy policy" is squishy. Even if they guarantee they won't give out "private information" to anybody, they are free to define what information they consider "private." (For example, some web email provide
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by doty 17y ago
Before we make fun of the webkit folks for not doing the proper work because "it's too slow," remember that these are the same folks that we praise for making the fastest dang HTML rendering engine on the planet. (Or near enough.) Their cul
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by doty 17y ago
Although C# has rules about variable capture and partial-evaluation that do not necessarily apply to fexprs.
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by doty 17y ago
I've already voted it up, and don't want to violate social conventions here, but consider this comment another vote for the LtU thread mentioned above. A fantastic and educational argument by people who know what they're talking about. If y
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by doty 17y ago
I understand the point, but I think corollary 2 is a bit too strongly worded. Sometimes tools don't help you catch your mistakes but are fantastically useful for other things. The fact that the assembler does exactly what you tell it to is
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by doty 17y ago
Microsoft Excel is arguably the worlds most successful functional programming language.
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by doty 17y ago
Might be a nice step up from docbook, though.
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by doty 17y ago
(a brilliant UI innovation) nit: ...though not theirs. Something that Microsoft gets little credit for.

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