etatoby

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by etatoby 8y ago
Choose HTML5. Choose Node. Choose your fucking social networking sites. Choose open APIs and a per-year subscription model. Choose microformats, micropayments, and SOA. Choose targeted mobile advertising. Choose user-contributed content. Ch
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by etatoby 8y ago
The VM may or may not compare, from some abstract standpoint, but: 1. the startup time and upfront memory usage of V8 and other JS VMs is incomparably lower (better) than that of HotSpot; and 2. Java in the browser was relegated to gray opa
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I've never seen a Lisp machine, but when I use Chrome's developer tools, which can display complex, interactive objects right in the text console, that's what I think about.
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OMG this is perfect! I'm so stealing this quote. It applies to so much it's scary.
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Does Facebook have EU offices? If they do, this law will simply make it close them. If they don't, what is the class action even being based on?
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by etatoby 8y ago
Even if said foreign companies have EU customers, what can the EU do about it? If I were a foreign company, I would completely ignore GDPR requests. Like > /dev/null, not even bother reading them. This law will only make things
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by etatoby 8y ago
As a side note, using Brave browser with all protections turned on by default, including Javascript disabled, and re-enabling Javascript (2 clicks) only on the websites you care and trust enough to, has made my Web browsing experience incre
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by etatoby 8y ago
Null / nil is the gaping hole in the safety net of static typing. I dislike and distrust any language where null / nil is a thing. Yes, that includes SQL, which otherwise would be a great language. At the same time, I've foun
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by etatoby 8y ago
The larger hyphothesis, if I understand correctly, is that RNA (and possibly DNA?) is the seat of long-term memory and has some hereditary or otherwise physically transferable component, while synapses would be our short-term memory, as wel
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by etatoby 8y ago
Most people have at least a passing desire for cleanliness and order (the stuff that becomes OCD when out of balance) which compels them to get rid of the banner.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Install the "I don't care about cookies" extension; problem solved. (Firefox for Android supports extensions, I don't know if there are any Webkit-based browsers that do.)
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> requires JavaScript, please enable it to ensure a joyful browsing experience (followed by some horribly formatted content, at least on my phone) Guess which product I will not be buying today?
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Last time I checked, the default embed code provided by Google Analytics (which covers 99% of website stats) was a single script tag.
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We simply get information on what stuff to buy from websites that work and ignore those that are broken. My mobile browsing experience has been immensely better since I installed Brave and set it to block everything by default, including js
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What website? I only saw a white page. (I have Javascript disabled)
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I watch Louis Rossman too. There's something about his straightforward and self-made-man attitude that strongly resonates with me. Plus it's usually very informative.
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First they used it on those that had committed crimes, and nobody spoke up. Then they used it on (etc.) and nobody spoke up. When finally they used it on me, there was noone left to speak up.
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No, what would be really sleazy is if he deliberately planted a bug in a hard to find place in order to quit and start his own business.
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ngn/apl is great, it's one of the most modern and complete implementations of the language
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by etatoby 9y ago
This sort of thing is one of the reasons I never liked the "noise texture" that appeared on MacOS X and other GUIs and websites not so long ago. I always thought my (former) OS was fingerprinting every screenshot I made. I'd
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by etatoby 9y ago
This is just off the top of my head, but to move an item from position P to Q, you would do something like this: update items set pos = case when pos = P then Q when P < Q and pos between P and Q then pos - 1
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by etatoby 9y ago
JavaScript was designed in 10 days in 1995 to get something out ASAP. It was simple and hacky and it spread like a virus in the following 23 years, covering almost every niche of programming. It is only now getting such (basic) language f
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by etatoby 9y ago
JavaScript was written in 10 days in 1995 by Brendan Eich with the purpose of being a «glue language that was easy to use by Web designers and part-time programmers to assemble components such as images and plugins, where the code could be
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by etatoby 9y ago
I can recommend OReilly's book Collective Intelligence. It shows several ways to get useful recommendation feeds from existing databases, irrespective of the similarity of content.
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Different ages and cultures will give different spins to the same old human needs and inclinations.
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Yes, ideally in a single UPDATE statement.
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Instagram managed to do it, but then it was bought by Facebook.
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> It sucks if you have cash This should explain why governments in America and the EU are under pressure by strong interest groups to avoid inflation at all costs, even though it would help the common people who are in debt and possibl
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That's because the Mac App Store was spawned from iTunes, which has to be the shittiest piece of garbage to ever stain the hard disks of Macs.
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Adjusting the time when you work is not an option for 99% of people. Also, an extra hour of light in in the morning is barely noticeable to most people, who are struggling to wake up, get dressed, deal with family, and commute to work in ti

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