jim_lawless

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by jim_lawless 17y ago
Do you think that there's a need for a HackerNews feature or maybe a separate site altogether that would allow one to add their favorite HN links ( both the original post and the HN commentary ) as public bookmarks? One could then link to t
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
In the late 70's while in my teens, I was interested in making video games. I had a TRS-80 and learned BASIC and then Z-80 assembly-language. I then bought a Commodore 64 and learned more languages while at a tech school. I became a prog
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
I use SciTE ( http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html ) at home and UltraEdit ( http://www.ultraedit.com/ ) at work. My needs are simple: I just need an editor that can handle LF-delimited or CRLF-delimited text and one that has some syntax
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
The author doesn't state which version of Python / BeautifulSoup he's using, but based on this page, the older versions parse HTML more reliably. http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.ht...
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
"Client/Server Programming and the World Wide Web" ( Dr. Dobbs Special - Internet & WWW Programming, Dec. 1995 ) http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184409740 I wrote a simple CGI program for the above magazine that I believe to be one
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
I have seen some success in controlling caching of JS files by appending a query-string ( including something such as a timestamp of the JS file ) to the end of the URL. script src="/whatever.js?x=09_02_2009_08_15_AM Various versions of IE
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
I don't do much promotion. I used to visit some appropriate Usenet groups ( 10 years ago ) and would announce new versions and such on groups such as alt.msdos.batch.nt. Before the dot-com bubble burst, I used to get a lot of traffic from
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
I sell a few command-line utilities for Windows ( MailSend, MailGrab, CMD2EXE, and ScreenKap ).
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by jim_lawless 17y ago
Doesn't Apple frown on VM's and/or embedded interpreters in the iPhone submissions? Couldn't the presence of Scheme's eval function ( whether it's exposed to the user of the compiled software or not ) end up being an issue?
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by jim_lawless 18y ago
For the small utilities that I sell, I go through a payment-processor: Regsoft. Regsoft adds the proper VAT to the shopping-cart total when the prospective buyer is in the process of paying for a license or licenses for the given program.
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by jim_lawless 18y ago
GET parameters can ( and often do ) show up in web-server logs. Transmitting sensitive data via a GET ( even over SSL ) may ultimately cause security / privacy concerns.