erlanger

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by erlanger 16y ago
Hacker news!
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by erlanger 16y ago
http://eafp.org/ ? But you must be referring to the phrase "easier to ask for forgiveness than permission." I'm not sure exception-handling theory applies to human discourse.
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by erlanger 16y ago
I generally prefer people who consider their words, and hold some back.
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by erlanger 16y ago
> Have you tried CoffeeScript? Nope. I'm apprehensive about adding another layer to the development process when I know JS very well and don't find it at all limiting. So I'm probably not part of your target audience.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Unfortunately, the defaults stink. 1.2 remedies this for error messages at least. as_p and co. should include some class describing the field type in the outer <p> tag so that a developer can style the label and error messages in a
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by erlanger 16y ago
You'd exaggerate the problem at hand too if you were pushing some strange variant of the language criticized. Any programmer experienced with C-style languages recognizes logical constructs with && and || immediately. If functio
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by erlanger 16y ago
The included simple_tag and filter decorators should be used for simple tags and filters. More sophisticated tags can specify a separate renderer class, which must be what you mean by "boilerplate." from django.core.urlresolvers import
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by erlanger 16y ago
> and educated with full employment and no apparent pollution. From the article: There are a lot of other problems in the city hidden under the illusion of order and greatness: Suffocating air pollution, high unemployment, no fire sta
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by erlanger 16y ago
Or even FSB.
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by erlanger 16y ago
They are currently using hay bales on the gulf's beaches as a barrier and absorbant.
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by erlanger 16y ago
So, in short, be a phony geek?
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by erlanger 16y ago
More specifically, I would point to college-age geeks who influence their peers, who in turn exert the influence of seniority on their younger siblings, and of youth on their superiors as they enter the workforce.
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by erlanger 16y ago
I was just going to post Why? , and this sums up the meaning of that word in context pretty well.
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by erlanger 16y ago
No, not quite.
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by erlanger 16y ago
> smoking dope I don't think anyone mentioned dope.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Bongs are most assuredly passed. Even sizable ones.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Some weekend comedians think less is at stake if they make the joke easy. Going for the joke and accepting that many people will not get it takes some guts.
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by erlanger 16y ago
That could be so much funnier if it weren't a lazy translation. It needs some interlude image-only slides, single-word slides, "Fin" slide, etc.
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by erlanger 16y ago
If that is how you evaluate, you will end up with an organization of snakes.
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by erlanger 16y ago
If open-sourcing becomes policy, I just hope there's better stuff to show than this (which I'm sure there is). Until then, the effort seems token.
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by erlanger 16y ago
The government is accountable to us, and we subsidize this work.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Surely the foremost benefit of governmental transparency is the opportunity to criticize...I don't think that code is somehow excluded from this.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Really they are only open-sourcing GovDelivery. There's a lot of questionable code in there. Is this really how you'd do this? // the user may have put in an address of the form "Full Name" <email@domain.tld> instead of just the
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by erlanger 16y ago
Vim can be used to write things other than code, so the "hacker" thing is needless...I think that if vim were recognized as simply a powerful editor, not specialized for code, it could save many everyday people a lot of time. I say that thi
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by erlanger 16y ago
It's an attention grab. I think it's funny that 34 people "like" it when they don't even know what it is or does.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Panic makes solid software, and their site is designed very nicely, but this link seems out of place on HN.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Haha, I noticed that too but didn't say anything because I was worried I'd sound too concerned with comment karma :^)
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by erlanger 16y ago
I'm guessing it was flagged by a bunch of curmudgeons thinking "too much iPad!" I do not like the trend of flagging things for reasons of frequency rather than appropriateness, and I'm happy this made it onto the front page.
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by erlanger 16y ago
Back when I was a cat, we chased bugs for fun! Now these young kitties just want to play their vidja-games all day and night.
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by erlanger 17y ago
Ah, that makes sense, I didn't read and assumed that the first chart was the summary.

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