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by ionfish 18y ago
Trying to read the entry on the jQuery UI blog and just getting a database connection error message. Given that the main jQuery UI site's 'Blog' link goes to the jQuery blog, perhaps it's not quite ready yet.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Taking a perfectly ordinary form and breaking it in a completely unnecessary way so that it no longer works for users without JavaScript is quite rude. The same effect can be achieved just as easily with event handlers, and will result in m
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by ionfish 18y ago
For those interested in knowing more, the Experimental Philosophy group blog has been running for a few years now. http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/ It has a long and distinguished list of contributors, including Stephen Stich an
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by ionfish 18y ago
Bus Scheme doesn't have continuations or macros; Heist has both. It also has tail recursion optimisation, which Bus Scheme is missing.
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How a small Czech ISP single-handedly caused a global internet meltdown(renesys.com)
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by ionfish 18y ago
I can't remember where I originally found this link (I thought it was here, but a quick check of SearchYC didn't reveal it), but I found the following article on intuitionistic mathematics for physics pretty fascinating. While I know a cert
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by ionfish 18y ago
Perhaps that's the price one has to pay for making it easier to do the right thing, which is to say, not squashing a bunch of unrelated stuff into the same commit just because you happened to be working on them at the same time.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Running OS X, I just got an upgrade from 2GB to 4GB of RAM. I wouldn't have bothered--just running the OS, Eclipse etc. is fine--but when I'm running Photoshop and an instance of XP under VMWare Fusion, things start getting a little sluggis
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by ionfish 18y ago
The other side of the story: http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/02/12/reports-of-velibs-demi...
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by ionfish 18y ago
You don't think ongoing performance issues and bug fixing are problems? If the MooTools selector engine were entirely bug free (I'm not claiming that it's full of bugs, just that without knowledge to the contrary I'm going to assume that it
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by ionfish 18y ago
I just make them up. They don't come "at the drop of a hat"; it takes time and a lot of hard work, usually. Often there are false starts and wrong turnings. One site design I did a while back went through four utterly different designs befo
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by ionfish 18y ago
It's worth noting that functions created via create_function won't be garbage-collected, which can cause some obvious problems. This article about partial application may also be of interest to PHP hackers with an interest in functional pro
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by ionfish 18y ago
There are some listed on the 'Haskell in education' page on the Haskell wiki. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_education
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by ionfish 18y ago
Surely numbers are significant here. How many universities teach Haskell, compared to the number who teach Java? Of those that do teach Haskell, how many of them teach it to a level that someone taking that degree would easily be able to ex
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by ionfish 18y ago
To address your first point, GitHub are already doing some of this: they reduced server loads by lazy-loading commit data when cached data isn't available. http://github.com/blog/293-while-you-were-sleeping At work we do a fair amount of
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by ionfish 18y ago
Maybe he forgot that he'd already posted it. Easy to do.
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by ionfish 18y ago
It certainly looks a lot better than the old site.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Onomatopoeia (I learned to spell it by remembering it in pieces: Ono Mato Poe Ia, although that's not how it's pronounced) is the use of a word or words that sound like the thing they describe. Comic book sound effects--boom! bang! biff!--a
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by ionfish 18y ago
It's good to see more Haskell-related stuff being posted here. Since you presumably frequent #haskell, how does it compare to other programming language channels? What sort of level is the discussion generally at? Are the people joining the
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by ionfish 18y ago
My brother is starting to learn a bit of programming, and was looking for books to read. I suggested SICP, so he went to Amazon and immediately picked up on the fact that almost all of the review scores were 1 or 5. Interestingly, he didn't
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by ionfish 18y ago
Someone at work linked me to Brightbox yesterday; haven't used them myself so I don't know how good they are. http://www.brightbox.co.uk/ Of course, there's always Heroku: http://heroku.com/ I have nothing but good things to say about S
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by ionfish 18y ago
pg == Paul Graham http://ycombinator.com/people.html
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by ionfish 18y ago
I would vastly prefer a built-in package manager and fewer preinstalled packages.
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by ionfish 18y ago
http://butyoureagirl.com/2009/01/28/did-norm-coleman-fake-hi... Apparently the 'crash' left rather a lot of data sitting out in the open.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Apache 2.2 and mod_proxy_balancer in front of a Mongrel cluster. If Passenger had been available when I set up the server, I'd probably have used that, but since it's working fine it's really not worth my time changing over. I use Git to de
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by ionfish 18y ago
"[T]urn out to have"? Hasn't Mark Pilgrim always been this way?
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by ionfish 18y ago
Microsoft and Yahoo! do this too, it's hardly unique to Google (e.g. Hotmail, Viaweb).
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by ionfish 18y ago
The .git directory, however, is top-level, rather than in every directory in your repository, so it'll only be a problem if your site root is the same as your repository root.
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by ionfish 18y ago
He might also be the 1st Viscount St Alban. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
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by ionfish 18y ago
Choosing one's operating system is not merely about possibility, it's about productivity. If a system is simpler, and has fewer and more robust APIs that work for more attached systems, then in theory at least it will be less work to progra

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