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by hammerdr 15y ago
I'm starting to wonder if Rubinius could be a fourth entrant in the emerging platform race. Anyone know if there are any (other) serious language implementations using PEGs? Coffeescript itself is based on @zaach's jison (a port of Bison to
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Why do you have the 'text file hidden away which contains hundreds of CC numbers' if you found that source, communicated the issue and saw that the issue was resolved?
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Oddly enough, my non-reference books have become reference books because of their ease of access. For example, I was once trying to explain how a simple shift in perspective can lead to radical changes in behavior. Pulled out Ender's Game a
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Even more odd is that he crowns the CLI as king over Java because it "does not have any technological advantage over [CLI]." The he turns around and lists Mono as a C# advantage over the JVM. I have zero love for the Java programming langua
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Because I spend most of my days and half of my nights head down and working hard, I miss many insightful articles that blow through the front page. Hacker Monthly is the reason I feel that I can keep up. Thanks and congrats to everyone that
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by hammerdr 16y ago
This is likely to be unpopular. Here goes. Is it possible that Jacob is calling others "cowardly" because he wants to prove how brave he is? Taking a leadership role in a movement of moral prescience is at once commendable, laudable but als
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Just to clarify what k7d is saying when he quotes "agile" methodologies: Any prescriptive agile methodologies (first, do X. then, do Y) are really antithetical to agile. True agile processes are exactly what his own startup did. They used w
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Abu Dhabi, though, is in a similar monetary situation and yet it has prospered. While it has its blemishes and extravagance, it has turned its primarily-oil GDP into a well structure economy. It has diversified significantly. Instead of spe
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by hammerdr 16y ago
My advice wasn't the one solicited but: UI Frameworks are great at helping you get things done. If that is your primary goal, then you should use them. Plain and simple. The only drawback is that you're incurring some technical debt because
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Hotels, unlike Airbnb, get to make money off of the actual room charge. They also get to charge high rates for late bookings and general "just because." Airbnb is a different business model than hotels. The $9 service fee is something that
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by hammerdr 16y ago
This question is similar to asking "Are there any useful applications of Ruby for the JVM?" Of course there are. Smalltalk ported to the browser and able to interact with javascript libraries (in this case it is using ExtJS) gives greater f
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by hammerdr 16y ago
It's a simple reset.css http://fiddle.jshell.net/css/normalize.css
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I'm not fully cognizant of the situation. I wasn't saying that the Libyans aren't asking, I was just pointing out a key element that made the French intervention a fruitful one. However, there are varying degrees of asking for help. The Ame
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by hammerdr 16y ago
One key point: we were asking the French to help.
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I'm more questioning why they thought that was a good idea when there are some drawbacks to overloading GET and some known ways[1] to work around browser limitations of PUT/DELETE/OPTIONS on forms. For example, as a consumer of the API I wo
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Maybe bonus submissions/comments could be awarded for some sort of karma threshold on individual items (e.g. One more submission if you hit 50 karma on an item or one more comment if you hit 15 on a comment.)
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Why not just use the OPTIONS verb? You're overloading verbs in order to make your API discoverable. Discoverability is great but there's a supported (and standard) way of accomplishing this already. Examples: GET /users {users: [{name: 'Bob
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by hammerdr 16y ago
With Node.js, you can use defers (promises), as well. As long as you feel that promises isn't too much mental overhead (obviously you don't), I would recommend using promises for any sizable Node.js application. https://github.com/kriskowa
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by hammerdr 16y ago
GitHub has the largest number of repositories (yes, more than SourceForge) and arguably represents the more 'up and coming' open source projects. You're particular complaint about .NET projects is more than compensated for by the Stack Over
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by hammerdr 16y ago
> Who would handle the hosting? The university and/or the journal. Supposedly, part of their existence and social contract is to maintain knowledge archives for public benefit (even if its not free).
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by hammerdr 16y ago
> I'll make the connection object a parameter rather than have the method set up the connection itself Parameter (Dependency) Injection. > I might make the connection object a parameter to the constructor Constructor (Dependency) In
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by hammerdr 16y ago
The mechanics of the classic liberal are still widely different at the extremes. For example, a rather 'lefty' area may decide to invest in a large social project to increase awareness about a particular issue whereas a Ron Paul libertarian
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by hammerdr 16y ago
[2009] You're doing it wrong. > Ruby is a dynamically typed [7] language, as Smalltalk [8]. I prefer statically typed [9] languages. Without getting into a religious battle, I believe that Ruby is a better (web) language than Java. He l
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Very, very cool. I love that the kids are having fun with this. Sometimes, in the argument of whether NoSQL is better than RDBMS or if Backbone.js is too little for too much, it seems like we collectively forget the joy that it is to progra
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by hammerdr 16y ago
This. I was in a really good CS program at a top engineering school. I had great teachers, peers and courses. I had 2 years of real client experience when I walked out the door. That's all well and good. What I learned at school was far m
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Sad that there seems to be so few of us on HN :(
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by hammerdr 16y ago
I would advise that instead of reading SICP, you should just take the class: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... Similarly, using available online courses to get through the crunchier topics (compilers, theory
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by hammerdr 16y ago
My freshman year of college, I was working with a person in the introductory programming course. We worked together for hours at a time. I'm, by nature, a very patient person and was willing to let this person work through the problems and
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by hammerdr 16y ago
A combination of both uptime percentage and mean outage time (or mean time between outages.. which is essentially the same thing).
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by hammerdr 16y ago
Think of TGP as a filtered version of TDG. It's a high impact, low word count book that covers 90% of what you'll ever need to know for Javascript. TDG, on the other hand, tells you _everything_.

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