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by ionfish 16y ago
The whole thread is worth reading. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-July/thre... http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-July/thre...
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by ionfish 16y ago
That assumes that any decline in productivity will be insufficient to outweigh the increased hours.
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by ionfish 16y ago
Not so—I'm merely pointing out where the burden of justification lies, not staking out a contrary position. Merely asserting that something is unique doesn't serve to justify the implication that uniqueness is a virtue.
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by ionfish 16y ago
Is uniqueness in and of itself a virtue? Or being "part and parcel of x "? Hooliganism used to be part and parcel of the English game; that didn't mean it was a good thing. The blowing of vuvuzelas at football games might have many things
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by ionfish 16y ago
Just use Pinboard. http://pinboard.in/
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by ionfish 16y ago
Thanks for the correction, of course you're right. For some reason I always confuse the two names (this isn't the first time I've written one when I meant the other...). I'd edit my original comment to prevent future confusion but the editi
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by ionfish 16y ago
His review of Black's 'Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition' made me chuckle, and accorded with my own experience of the book. To the reviewer who said "I was looking forward to a detailed insight into neural networks in this b
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by ionfish 16y ago
I switched to Rails 3 (and Ruby 1.9.2-pre, which seems a lot more solid than 1.9.1 anyway) to get round this.
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by ionfish 16y ago
Agreed. This is precisely the reason I release most of my code under the BSD license. I'm happy for other people to use my code, modify it to suit their needs, and embed it in larger projects with more restrictive licenses, but I emphatical
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by ionfish 16y ago
Sounds like reactive programming.
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by ionfish 16y ago
I presume you haven't come across Hg-Git, then. http://hg-git.github.com/
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by ionfish 16y ago
The problem with replacing parseInt with the unary + operator is that they don't have the same semantics. +"" evaluates to 0, while parseInt("", 10) evaluates to NaN. Tricks like this are fine if you know that it won't matter for your input
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by ionfish 16y ago
The application of mathematics is a practical matter; I am not entirely sure what "high philosophy" is, but mathematics is also a conceptual, abstract discipline which can be investigated with no concern whatsoever for practical applicati
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by ionfish 16y ago
So you don't accept inductive proofs? This will rather limit the amount of mathematical tools available to you.
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by ionfish 16y ago
They both suffered from severe depression. Only Wallace committed suicide.
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by ionfish 16y ago
No, it's function composition as seen in e.g. pure functional programming languages like Haskell: (.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c Except that of course in an impure language like JavaScript if you compose some func
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by ionfish 17y ago
No way to move files between repositories and retain their history. Luke Palmer talked about this a little here: http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/sketch-of-udon-ve...
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by ionfish 17y ago
As a matter of general principle I agree with this, but I've had so many problems with 1.9.1, I moved to 1.9.2-pre, and it's been working a lot better.
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by ionfish 17y ago
It's not merely sexist, it's misleading. When the LGP-30 was in use in the late '50s (the RPC 4000 was introduced in 1960), the proportion of women in the field was higher than it is today. When "programmers were men", more of them were wom
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by ionfish 17y ago
"WordPress being OpenSource is vulnerable to attack." What nonsense. WordPress is more secure, not less, because it's open source. There have been a lot of security patches contributed over the last few years, which have made WordPress a lo
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by ionfish 17y ago
How many loaders can it possibly unify if it's a plugin for a specific framework?
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by ionfish 17y ago
E.g. loading graphics.
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VaultPress: WordPress backup service from Automattic(vaultpress.com)
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by ionfish 17y ago
Dive Into HTML5 [1] demonstrates how one can detect placeholder support; the obvious use case is to use the focus and blur events to mimic the functionality if native support isn't present. Here's some example code, using Ojay [2]. /*
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by ionfish 17y ago
Creating—or discovering, if you prefer—Markdown and JSON were not great feats of technical accomplishment. They are, however, considerable achievements in data format design. In their respective domains, they provide best-of-breed formats w
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by ionfish 17y ago
It would be great if they had a .torrent or some faster servers, downloads from haskell.org always go at a snail's pace for me.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Some code I found myself writing recently: var fader = Faders.Default, test = document.createElement('div'); 'o moz webkit'.split(' ').forEach(function(prefix) { test.style.cssText = '-' + prefix + '-transiti
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by ionfish 17y ago
That's not the line taken by the core WP team, and the SFLC agrees with them. http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
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by ionfish 17y ago
It's pretty idiotic to try this on in the first place, given that theme code has to be under the GPL anyway. I suppose one should give the author of this article the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is something they figured out fo
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by ionfish 17y ago
That seems like an excellent piece of advice. I already practice a variant of this—I read a book on the bus every morning—but perhaps I'll try getting up a little earlier and getting some reading done before I even leave the house.

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