jlarocco

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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   I think it's called "incompatible" because it looks at it from the other direction, so to speak. There are valid Perl regular expressions, i.e. those using backtracking, that are incompatible with this regex engine.
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   I've been trying to stop using Google products, but I have to admit most of their web services are probably about as secure as you're going to get. Google has some of the smartest tech people in the world working for them, and ev
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   > It's not so much "fake" as presenting one's best face in a professional context. That's what I take issue with. I think for most people, the majority of their internet use isn't in a professional context,
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   That seems unlikely. I can easily imagine guys with 40 years experience writing Fortran or Cobol getting six figures. Or even just 10 years. But I'd have to see it to believe it for a straight out of college kid and rudimentary famil
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   I guess beggers can't be choosers, but you're describing an employer I would never work for. > Remove any controversial political views or disparaging remarks about previous employers. If a person keeps their stupid political v
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   Meh. I tried playing a few months ago, and it's better than at launch and when the auction house came out, but it still can't compare to the first two, IMO.
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   I can't believe an article about Lisp left out QuickLisp. It's the most popular Common Lisp package manager and has over 1200 open source libraries in it, and most of them are written in Common Lisp, or are bindings to native C&#
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   Sorry, but the writing style just grates on me. "It was nuts. Totally obsessive-compulsive. Call it an exercise in eccentricity or futility, and you'd probably be right." How is that humble? A good writer would tell the stor
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   by jlarocco 11y ago

   No offense, but Etsy isn't a large company by most measures. And besides that, some of the things in his list were already popular at companies a lot larger than Etsy five years ago. I'm not saying he didn't do good work at E
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Not to rain on his parade too much, but a lot (most?) of his "Five years ago..." statements just aren't true. Most of the ideas he says didn't exist or where "heretical" five years ago were definitely around.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Except it's not a similar penguin. It's the exact same Penguin image with the background clipped out.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    The headline seems a little sensationalist. Even the blog in question released a statement saying it was obvious that they were in violation. Arguments in favor of violating copyrights are getting old. It's easier than ever before to
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    What's with the final one pixel "branch" sprouting out of the tree at the end, after the leaves fill in? Bug?
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    > Either way, an increase in Americans focused on exercise, spending time in the wilderness, and general soul-searching activities will be a good thing. I disagree. The problem pointed out in the article is that a lot of people aren&#x2
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    > I also found this totally strange that people pick up smoking cigarettes once they are old enough to know they are just horrible for you. It doesn't surprise me very much. People choose to do a lot of things that are terrible for
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Neat, but it would be nice if it could zoom out a little more or adjust to the browser window size. I have 2560x1600 display split into four equally sized panes, and it's difficult to use and view in a single pane.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    gmail.com does the same thing, and it's super annoying.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    I'm not the OP, but I'm 33, and also don't see the appeal of having children.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Your example is a straw man. IRL, I've seen this crop up while processing database results and large datasets. On several occasions I've shaved up to several minutes off of execution times by replacing chained map, filter, and zi
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    I guess I should have been more clear. I'm aware that they do not add extra passes in some languages. But in Swift, C++, Common Lisp, OCaml, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Scheme, and many others, adding another map/filter/etc. wi
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    I don't understand why so many people are so enthusiastic about flatmap. It's never seemed particularly difficult to understand, and in my experience is less useful than map. The Scala community in particular seems to have a comi
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    One pitfall I often fall into with map, filter, etc. is that I chain them together, forgetting each of them takes another pass through the sequence. With an explicit loop, it's often easier to reduce multiple passes into a single pass
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    > I'd love to see someone open a McDonalds-like fast food restaurant that paid $20 or $25 per hour, plus decent benefits, and make a profit. If it were possible to do, why can't anyone do it? I can almost see that working as a
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    I appreciate the work that must go into the pieces, but they're way too over the top and gaudy for my taste, also.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Knowing the time saved by removing the ads is a useful number to know, IMO. I'm willing to give the benchmarker the benefit of the doubt that he used the same block lists for each blocker, although spelling it out would have been a go
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Because there's no way to measure when the page is "usable", and the load event firing is a good enough measurement of the worst case.
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    I'm not sure any of that matters. As long as the same thing was measured in the same way each time, I think the results are relevant. For your first point, the measurement wasn't "usability", it was how long it took for
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    If he pays taxes then it's partially his money, and he has a right to vote on how it's used and tell people his opinion. Arguing that his idea would be spending "other people's money," is a non-sequitor. Following
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    Yeah, more than 4 words per line would be nice...
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    by jlarocco 11y ago

    I agree with Arcanus; lines of code isn't a good measurement here. It's not uncommon for high performance math and science libraries to have specialized code to handle a lot of different cases the fastest way possible, or the mos