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by j_baker 18y ago
You can kinda get adblock with Privoxy ( http://www.privoxy.org/ ). Notice that I said "kinda." :-)
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by j_baker 18y ago
Out of all the reasons a person could dislike Firefox 3, I never understood why this one is so important.
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by j_baker 18y ago
+1 - At first I was kinda angry because Safari 4 is essentially Google Chrome by apple (at least in terms of user interface). But then I was happy because there isn't a Google Chrome for the Mac.
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by j_baker 18y ago
I like Chrome much better. The only thing that I use Firefox for is Firebug. Other than that, I try to avoid most of the plugins Firefox is famous for anyway. I find that they just make it slower. Maybe 3.5 will change that though.
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by j_baker 18y ago
Well yeah. For a plain old CGI script it's not terribly difficult. But that just doesn't scale well nor is the script easy to write. Consider the instructions for setting up django on the other hand: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Django T
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The magic of python decorators(jasonmbaker.wordpress.com)
1 points by j_baker 18y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 18y ago
Not necessarily. You just need to put whatever libraries somewhere on your python path.
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by j_baker 18y ago
Plus, using things other than PHP is still pretty difficult with dreamhost.
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by j_baker 18y ago
Look for webfaction as a hosting provider. It's cheap and you have lots more options than just PHP. Plus you get shell access. You can even set up your own apache instance. Other than that, don't worry too much about the language. Find
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by j_baker 18y ago
I think the point is that for those security updates to be properly address, security updates need to be less of a pain to install.
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by j_baker 18y ago
I'm surprised to find out that geocities still exists.
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by j_baker 18y ago
Heh, this was an assigned reading in my Computing Languages class. Coincidentally, my professor is also one of the interviewers.
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by j_baker 18y ago
Thanks for pointing those things out. I'll update the chart.
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Java vs C# vs Python vs Ruby: an “objective” analysis(jasonmbaker.wordpress.com)
1 points by j_baker 18y ago|2 comments
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by j_baker 18y ago
“People go to Wall Street out of greed. When I was interviewing for jobs, frequently some form of the question came up: How much do you want to make money? If my answer was something like—and it wasn’t—but if my answer was, ‘I’m here for in
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The language designers' dilemma(gbracha.blogspot.com)
1 points by j_baker 18y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 18y ago
I don't think OOP is at an end. In fact, I think newer functional languages are giving it new life (and giving us alternative ways to use OOP). Consider clojure. It's fully object-oriented, but not in the traditional way (although you ca
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by j_baker 18y ago
Very cool idea. I'm still trying to figure out what good this would be though.
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Don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int(xkcd.com)
6 points by j_baker 18y ago|1 comments
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Controlling Windows from Linux(hiveminds.co.uk)
1 points by j_baker 18y ago|0 comments
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by j_baker 18y ago
This is interesting because I looked on Oracle's website for the deal expecting to at least see a percursory promise to keep things open but didn't find it. Who knows?
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by j_baker 18y ago
Yup. They rejected IBM's offer for 9.40 a share, but are accepting this one for 9.50 a share. After their stock plummeted for rejecting IBM, I suspect they didn't want to pull another Yahoo.
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Google's new captcha method(technology.am)
8 points by j_baker 18y ago|1 comments
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by j_baker 18y ago
Maybe I'm just out of the loop but, this kind of struck me out of left field. All in all, I think this is aimed to keep Oracle competitive with Microsoft outside the database realm. Now, just like MS, they control the Operating System (Or
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by j_baker 18y ago
While I really like the idea of getting rid of IE 6, this is simply unethical. While the link may not tell the user anything that's incorrect, it is obviously intended to look like an official message by Microsoft. If this isn't illegal,