icky

28 ms·

181.
by icky 19y ago
> Reading The Nude is like a ride in a Ferrari. Just as you're getting settled, you're slammed back in your seat by the acceleration. Before you can adjust, you're thrown sideways as the car screeches into the first turn. His brain thr
182.
by icky 19y ago
"Actually, their lungs."
183.
by icky 19y ago
> What about the things you pass into the function? You can't know their properties in advance, in general, or can you? You can know that, e.g. a function passed in as an argument can be dereferenced as a pointer stored in a specific of
184.
by icky 19y ago
> For static pages, there no reason to stick Apache in front. Are you suggesting that static pages should hit the app server?
185.
by icky 19y ago
In the Distant Future, the Year Two-Thousand, robotic beings rule the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64&fmt=16
186.
by icky 19y ago
> the marginal costs of digital products are essentially zero Assuming you can scale. ;-)
187.
by icky 19y ago
> If the symbols are "hard linked", it is not dynamic anymore. Lies, slander! ;-) Anything that happens within a function can be treated as a black box, and compiled down to the metal, if you like. The language can be as dynamic as yo
188.
by icky 19y ago
> icky -- don't know if you know it or not, but Paul's writing his own application language, Arc, and testing it out on this board. "Whoa, you mean this isn't wood shop class?" ;-) > To my knowledge he is not using an Apache stack.
189.
by icky 19y ago
1. Stash key-value pairs in signed cookies (salt + text + sha1 should be fine; HMAC is even better-- I prefer a variant of HMAC where I concatenate the client's IP address onto the first hash before hashing again with the second key). 1a.
190.
by icky 19y ago
> Unfortunately, there is a performance penalty with dynamic langues, which wont go away. You'd be amazed at the sorts of aggressive optimizations that can be done at compile-time.
191.
by icky 19y ago
> I don't read the statements are a contradiction. Perhaps I was reading too much malice into it, but I came away with the distinct impression that had Demo been muscling in on TC50's weekend, her arguments would have been reversed.
192.
by icky 19y ago
> "I think that certainly...TechCrunch 50 is a great venue for young companies," Shipley said by phone from Madrid, Spain. "But to put it up against Demo means those companies are now going to be competing for attention, and I just don'
193.
by icky 19y ago
Recursion is implicit in the rule, "For every rule, there is an exception." Unfortunately, the recursion never terminates.
194.
by icky 19y ago
> Linux: two weeks, gave up when I got Clisp to run in the command line interface. Are we talking Lisp noob, or Linux noob? As the other posts indicate, use an apt-based distribution (Debian, Ubuntu), and do sudo apt-get install c
195.
by icky 19y ago
Craigslist! ;-D
196.
by icky 19y ago
> Don't fund with credit cards unless you absolutely have to. Funding with personal debt should not be considered 'bootstrapping', if only because it's so damn stupid, and should not have a positively-connoted word associated with it. I
197.
by icky 19y ago
> while others would tell me to low-fat milk when mixing their caramel machiattos with whipped cream because they want to lose weight. Magic milk! :)
198.
by icky 19y ago
Incidentally, in python 2.5 and later (probably not available in Dapper's repo), you should use the standard hashlib module for generating hash digests.
199.
by icky 19y ago
I was tempted to downmod this, just so it would be a lower number and run faster...
200.
by icky 19y ago
That's only available on Super vim Fighter II Turbo Championship Edition.
201.
by icky 19y ago
> about the longest 'combos' you make are action-move combos, And then you use :wq as your finishing move!
202.
by icky 19y ago
Assimilation.
203.
by icky 19y ago
No, you fool! Reroute auxiliary power through the plasma conduits!
204.
by icky 19y ago
Bullshit legislation, but take solace in the fact that government-produced GIS data is usually crap. :-)
205.
by icky 19y ago
> C++ here reminds me of Perl I agree with you at least that far! ;)
206.
by icky 19y ago
Apparently it's higher than the percent of people trying to squint at that image in 1680x1050. :-(
207.
by icky 19y ago
I think you're grasping at straws, here. Got a better, more relevant example?
208.
by icky 19y ago
No, I'm married, and my wife won't let me have one. ;-)
209.
by icky 19y ago
DH-3.5: Disagreeing with the author's Disagreement Hierarchy. This category is particularly troublesome, as even when both parties agree, in principle, to disagree, they may still disagree on how to disagree. One particular nuisance is t
210.
by icky 19y ago
Wait a sec... Telecommute makes possible the 9AM start...

More ›