ionfish

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by ionfish 18y ago
He does say "I will be tagging new 'posts' in del.icio.us. You can subscribe to an RSS feed that will alert you when I manually tag a new post." http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/raganwald/homoiconic
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Raganwald now 'blogging' on GitHub(github.com)
27 points by ionfish 18y ago|12 comments
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by ionfish 18y ago
In fairness, writing articles like this is his job.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I've always been rather dubious about Penrose's approach to consciousness. He seems to be of the school of "Put two metaphysically mysterious things together, in the hope that we can explain one in terms of the other."
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by ionfish 18y ago
If you remove the caret, it matches function names; with it, it won't work since there's no way to match the beginning of the string at that point.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I decided to run a small test to see whether the comic's title was always the longest title of any image. Here's the screen scraper I wrote for it: http://gist.github.com/13315 I discovered that following comics don't have the longest tit
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by ionfish 18y ago
The way it works isn't terribly reliable, since it counts on the comic being the element on the page with the longest title. A quick View Source reveals a dearth of helpful hooks like classes or ids, but the comic image is the only one with
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by ionfish 18y ago
Quite. Surely we would be better improving the curriculum so that children have a better chance of learning to think critically and imaginatively about all classes of problems, rather than adding narrow vocational studies. A world where eve
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by ionfish 18y ago
SunSpider is used pretty widely; it claims to be a balanced benchmark, but where the balance point between different language features lies will depend quite a lot on what kind of application one happens to be writing, so it's more an art t
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by ionfish 18y ago
Brendan Eich posted some new numbers with a more recent TraceMonkey build. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/trac...
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by ionfish 18y ago
That's quite an exaggeration. It only takes fifteen or twenty minutes, unless you write short essays whenever a textarea appears.
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by ionfish 18y ago
They seem to have removed the banner.
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by ionfish 18y ago
How absolutely ghastly. I'm not sure which I hate more: the copy, the style or the illustration.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I had a couple of spare minutes so I did a JavaScript implementation. http://gist.github.com/7727
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by ionfish 18y ago
Presumably sleeping and recovery were coincident.
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by ionfish 18y ago
When people at large (i.e., a majority of people likely to buy the phone) think that "the Internet" is the same as "the web" (which is what they meant), it's not really surprising that they phrased it the way they did.
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by ionfish 18y ago
Try PackR for your JavaScript (and then gzip it, obviously). http://github.com/jcoglan/packr/tree/master
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by ionfish 18y ago
"Of the three Javascript is the most elegant [...]" Oh, definitely. When I'm doing a personal project I tend to just not bother with niceties like rounded corners for IE users, and as long as the content's still accessible I'm not too bothe
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by ionfish 18y ago
As someone who basically thinks CSS is a great idea, I have mixed feelings about this article. On the one hand it's a rather silly rant, and is downright wrong in several places. On the other hand, CSS has a number of irritating limitations
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by ionfish 18y ago
The only time I've had problems upgrading was when, running off the trunk svn build, a new tags system which changed a bunch of database tables was introduced and then scrapped shortly afterwards. Repairing the tables was annoying, but that
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by ionfish 18y ago
> [M]aintaining you own installation at your own domain takes quite a lot of time. Not sure I agree with this, at least where WordPress is concerned. What, after all, is involved? Grabbing the source from the latest stable branch on the
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by ionfish 18y ago
Capitalisation is conventional in English for proper nouns, which the Pill (an abbreviated form of the Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill) certainly is.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I can't agree with this. What should be important is what one says, not where one happens to say it. If what one has to say can be expressed effectively in 140 characters, what's wrong with using Twitter publish it?
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by ionfish 18y ago
The article they're linking to was posted on here a while ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190432
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by ionfish 18y ago
Abebooks is also a more usable site than Amazon, in my experience. Because being a marketplace for second-hand books is their only business, they're able to focus on it far better than Amazon. Not having any adverts for lawnmowers makes it
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by ionfish 18y ago
Surely it matters insofar as people find it interesting to hear about, even if they might prefer to actually see the code.
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by ionfish 18y ago
I find that having the 'Add to del.icio.us' bookmarklet in my bookmarks bar and then just hitting Cmd+1 whenever I want to bookmark something works pretty well. I tend to hide the bookmarks bar because the way I use it, it just takes up unn
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by ionfish 18y ago
It's certainly not there yet, but the Web Inspector in recent nightlies is a lot closer to Firebug than the one in Safari 3.1. That, and the advances the WebKit team are making elsewhere, gives me a lot of confidence that it's only a matter
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by ionfish 18y ago
Really? I imagine the Millionaire Fair will be going out of business very soon then. http://www.millionairfair.ru/eng/main/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7109164.stm
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by ionfish 18y ago
This really depends what you mean by cheap. If you're the end user then yes, it's cheap. However, Drupal has had a lot of time and effort put into it. The important correlation is between that time and effort (and the quality of those putti

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