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by gavinpc 13y ago
Please, god, hackers, watch that video. Without saying too much here , let's just say I wish I'd seen this video in, say, 2002 (well before it was made).
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by gavinpc 13y ago
The area around Oklahoma University shows 85%, and I was trying to get my head around that (as it's blocks from here). The first explanation I thought of was, This has to be wrong.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Sooner or later, even Bret Victor is wrong on the internet.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
XSLT gets a bad rap, I guess because it is verbose and rather special-purpose. I do wish that version 2 were more widely deployed. But hey, XSLT 1.0 runs in like, every browser in the world, and is practically designed for emitting DOM. I
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Agreed about Joel. When I first read his "corpus", it was already a few years old. But whenever you get to it, get to it. My only complaint is that once you find some really good writing in this field, you realize how hard it
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I dream of a world where this is built in everywhere that I write expressions. It's so hard, and we desperately need it. Bret Victor has called a lot of attention to this lately, and rightly so. It's easy to forget how much we h
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by gavinpc 13y ago
> some godawful real world analogy. Yes, I think this is a real distraction. This Cat/Dog/Animal trope leads to the view that you should use classes to model your domain objects. In some cases, you should. But this can cau
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by gavinpc 13y ago
> I would also add the 'Self-destructing Cookies' browser plugin. In its settings, whitelist a very limited set of sites you want to allow persistent (or session) cookies. Curious, how would this differ from whitelisting cookie
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by gavinpc 13y ago
The screen is also blank (forever) if you have cookies blocked. This is so common that I guess very few people whitelist cookies. Still, I thought you might want to know.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I couldn't post this last night, but yeah: My ears perked up at the dual statement that although you can write a Lisp program that writes Lisp programs, nobody does it (um, macros?); and that you can't write a C program that write
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Agreed — if anything, this just emphasizes how secondary are speed and design if your content is good. That said, I like both the new and old designs, and as someone who's spent a lot of time on MDN recently, I've personally never
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I get the CSS, but why the others?
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Not only that, but the law itself should predict its point of failure.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
If you have to type "news", you're better off than I am. "n" does it for me.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Keep on pluggin'. One such comment a while back (maybe it was yours) made me finally break down and try it. I've never looked back. Before that, I would have been physically unable to not download and test drive the OP's fo
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by gavinpc 13y ago
If the page is completely blank, it may be because you have cookies blocked.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I had to laugh when I saw this. It made me think of the Joshua Bloch interview in Coders at Work : > Seibel: I was reading Java Puzzlers and Effective Java and it struck me that there are a lot of little weird corners for a languag
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I'm happy to see many other XPath fans here. But as far as the OP, this seems like a case of worrying about the code instead of the data structure. This would be easier to address before the lines are transformed into HTML. Which I a
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by gavinpc 13y ago
The font got to me eventually. But I'll be back. What I'd like to see is a report of keys I need to work on. Or the game could just emphasize them in challenge rounds. Even after twenty years of touch typing and a hacked keyboa
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I thought for sure this was a Haskell thing. Even Haskell developers need cheering up sometimes.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
As far as irony goes, I think the headline says it all: > Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video] (stopwatching.us)
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I'm pretty sure you mean "loosely coupled," but I like the neologism.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
The whole time I was watching this I was thinking, how would I explain to a normal human being why it is that I can't look away. Windows 3.0 especially took me back to my adolescence, like a smell.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
This is very close to the "percolation problem." [0] According to Robert Sedgewick, this particular problem has no known mathematical solution , and the threshold (for a given N) is only obtained through, e.g. a Monte Carlo simul
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Because it's there.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Am I the only one who thought this was about a travel guide with no rating?
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by gavinpc 13y ago
What's more, this 404 page (real or feigned) requires jQuery. Now that's penetration.
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by gavinpc 13y ago
> what is destroying the world at large I don’t take issue with anything you say. Dismayed by the shape of discourse as I see it, I have been loath to take a position on anything. I merely point out that phrases like this one trigger a
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by gavinpc 13y ago
Also, isn't it customary to put "(audio)" in links that play sound when you open them? I just put my baby to bed!
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by gavinpc 13y ago
I got the same thing when cookies were blocked. Try with cookies enabled (if yours weren't). Worked for me. (Of course, if you routinely browse without cookies, you'd probably guess this quickly.)

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