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by ionfish 17y ago
Regarding your point #4, it's also worth securing the admin area to only be accessible over HTTPS. I also prefer HTTP Digest authentication to Basic.
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by ionfish 17y ago
One thing that the article misses is that there is a way to tell the difference: do you find your product useful? Clearly there are major limitations to this heuristic; you might be strange or exceptional in some way that makes the infe
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by ionfish 17y ago
Why do you need to be funny? What's wrong with an honest, clear explanation that you need to fire him, and the reasons why? Getting fired isn't (generally) a funny thing, and if you're an employer you should probably be considering the well
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by ionfish 17y ago
This is clearly absurd. While revisions of patent law are certainly needed, and while Trevor Baylis may have a point that the current legal system is, due to the cost of litigation, unfairly skewed towards large companies, criminal law is a
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by ionfish 17y ago
Context failure: linking to Ryan Tomayko's article without linking to the article that's brought it to people's attention again, namely Josh Peek's 'Gem Packaging: Best Practices'. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/1/gem-packaging-best-
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by ionfish 17y ago
Tried WysiHat? http://github.com/37signals/wysihat/
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by ionfish 17y ago
Polymorphic inline caching. This article might give a bit more insight into how modern JavaScript virtual machines like V8 and SFX use it. http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20090106/163620/
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by ionfish 17y ago
I haven't done too much with it yet, to be honest — things have been a bit crazy at work — but FRP seems like a really interesting potential approach to JS-based web interfaces, and I can understand the desire to write Haskell and then comp
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by ionfish 17y ago
On the subject of compiling other languages to JavaScript, you might be interested in frp-js. It's a Functional Reactive DSL in Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. http://github.com/sebastiaanvisser/frp-js/
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by ionfish 17y ago
This is also why things like the double-inclusion problem are still live issues. http://eigenclass.org/hiki/The+double+inclusion+problem One problem that Ruby does need to deal with is when implementation problems become institutionalised
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Heist (Scheme in Ruby) 0.3: complete set of Scheme data types(blog.jcoglan.com)
1 points by ionfish 17y ago|0 comments
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by ionfish 17y ago
The Groklaw article has a lot more depth. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090824142203182
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by ionfish 17y ago
As John Stuart Mill famously wrote, "it is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied". http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11224/11224-h/11224-h.htm
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by ionfish 17y ago
Climbing is popular amongst physicists and mathematicians—Raymond Paley and Jacques Herbrand come to mind. Scott Aaronson wrote about this last year. http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=355
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by ionfish 17y ago
Oh, we did that too, we just waited until after training.
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by ionfish 17y ago
When I did ju-jitsu in university, everyone there studied physics, chemistry, engineering or computer science. I found it slightly surprising at the time, but I suppose the arts and humanities students had better things to do.
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by ionfish 17y ago
This is fine if the package maintainers are relatively up-to-date with the software you require, but often they aren't. Ubuntu Hardy's version of Ruby 1.9 is pretty outdated and thus probably doesn't include, amongst other things, some rath
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by ionfish 17y ago
Yeah, ruby-doc.org is pretty annoying in this regard, especially since they do actually have the stdlib documentation available, they just don't link to it. Have a look at this search, for example: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arub
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by ionfish 17y ago
It depends on what you plan to do with it, I suppose. I'm personally happy to pay merely for a decent chunk of performance improvements (isn't that what we do when we buy faster computers, after all?), but the new frameworks are also intere
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by ionfish 17y ago
I tend to think that 'hacker' is like 'philosopher': something other people call one, not something one calls oneself. This implies that these terms are honorifics, not mere descriptions. That being said, there are clearly plenty of people
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by ionfish 17y ago
Yeah, it inspired me to spend an hour at lunch messing around with canvas. I can see some really nice uses for it as a tool for progressive enhancement—for example, you could replace a table of values with a histogram in browsers that suppo
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Starting a Bank(ma.tt)
144 points by ionfish 17y ago|65 comments
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by ionfish 17y ago
Your link is broken—it needs an apostrophe after "Gall".
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by ionfish 17y ago
Absolutely, although of course looking at the web, it's clearly not fatal if those standards aren't properly adhered to by some members of the ecosystem, just very annoying, time-consuming and expensive.
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by ionfish 17y ago
The lesson to be learned is, surely, the same one as we should have learned from the web: creating small pieces, loosely coupled is the best way to build large systems. Ecosystems, not clocks.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Alternatively, the worst operating system there is—apart from all the others.
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'Kind of Bloop' released: an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis(bygonebureau.com)
3 points by ionfish 17y ago|0 comments
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by ionfish 17y ago
If you want to learn about the specificity values of CSS selectors, Specificity Wars is a much better read. http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_w...
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by ionfish 17y ago
People like to use the word "citizen" because it's a way of broadcasting their tribal identity. These little war dances are generally done by people with citizenship of high-status nations; one doesn't tend to see people going around braggi
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by ionfish 17y ago
There's a small Ruby binding for Scrypt available on GitHub. All it needs is for someone put the time into making it a gem, and maybe bundling it with Scrypt as a Ruby extension. http://github.com/coderrr/scrypt-ruby/

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