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Cursor preservation in collaborative editors(neil.fraser.name)
19 points by jsrn 17y ago|8 comments
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by jsrn 17y ago
> Darn. I wanted to have a play with it. Just in case - perhaps you will also enjoy playing with the non-verified L4? http://l4ka.org/ http://l4ka.org/download/
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by jsrn 17y ago
did you look at the sublanguage for paths? It's quite compact if you want compact - the other primitives (like circle, ellipse etc.) are more verbose but IMHO sometimes better if you want the SVG file to be read by humans. Besides, XML gi
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by jsrn 17y ago
I consider it strange that he begins his Vi/Vim tutorial with a page of (bad) Emacs bashing. I mean, he obviously knows the virtues of his editor (I skimmed the next few pages), but why begin it with comments like this one: > Emac
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by jsrn 17y ago
from the article: A mysterious, single page website, brennende-autos.de (Burning Cars of Berlin) [...] what's "mysterious" about that website? If you click on "Impressum & Warum Brennende-Autos.de?" you get contact informat
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by jsrn 17y ago
this is a tradition in the Emacs community: for each release, they publish "antinews", e.g.: > For those users who live backwards in time, > here is information about downgrading to > Emacs version 21.4. We hope y
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by jsrn 17y ago
well, if you take away all driver's licences, I guess that includes the driver's licences of police officers. Which would make it relatively difficult to enforce the rule that "drivers have to have a driver's licence"... [Porsche vs polic
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by jsrn 17y ago
> Kinda reminds me of the garbage strike in New > York City years ago. Garbage piled up on the streets > and rats appeared everywhere. One of these "experts" > probably would have said, "Look at all the garb
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by jsrn 17y ago
Then he's criticising the applicability of column stores to a mode of use for which they're not designed. ah, ok. That makes sense, agreed. Here is question to you - not directly concerning the article - If we talk about all those
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by jsrn 17y ago
He's missed the point by targeting column stores, however. Column stores are primarily aimed at data warehouses, which (generally) have the following characteristics: [...] He is not missing the point. Quote from the
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by jsrn 18y ago
> Why should she have to eat her words? I didn't say that, the parent of my first comment did:-)
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by jsrn 18y ago
> I bet whoever wrote it painfully had to swallow his words... ^^^ her words, that is [it's by Kalpana Mohan] http://www.kalpanamohan.org/ and she doesn't seem to be pa
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by jsrn 18y ago
> To each their own :) yeah, of course! And if it works, then, by definition, it's good for your customers and thus for you! Also, your approach is probably more flexible (no fixed schema for the recursive list structure), which makes i
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by jsrn 18y ago
> I'm assuming it's an arbitrary choice that you're using "prev" instead of "next," correct? yes, in effect it's a doubly linked list (circularly doubly linked), so you could remember the id of the first element of the list and then tra
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by jsrn 18y ago
While your approach to do this in JSON is cool, I think you have overlooked the 'direct' solution to do this in a RDBMS - with a linked list. Here is a quick suggestion (works in Postgres): create table l ( id char primary
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by jsrn 18y ago
ha! I just tried to find a flight from Frankfurt to Moscow and also wasn't successful because of your software insisting on 'Frankfurt/Hahn(HHN)'. Please fix this fast! I also tried 'From Frankfurt/Main' and 'From FRA' but wasn't understood
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by jsrn 18y ago
hm - no source tarball, but perhaps others find this Leopard binary useful: http://www.joel.lopes-da-silva.com/articles/computer-science... (including man pages etc.) Caveat: I didn't try it myself (I don't have Leopard).
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by jsrn 18y ago
for Emacs users, there is wdired mode, which makes a directory listing editable just like a normal Emacs buffer.
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by jsrn 18y ago
mmv (moves multiple files based on a simple pattern replacement language). Example: mmv "*.mp3" "old_#1.mp3" prefixes all files in the current directory ending with .mp3 with 'old_'. Btw., the quotes around the arguments are necess
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by jsrn 18y ago
> Also he keeps refering to computers as finite. I can only > assume he means in a physical sense that there are a > non-infinite amount of atoms making up his CPU. No, this is meant as 'having a finite number of
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by jsrn 18y ago
... and it's not a good thing for hedge funds playing with billions to apparently not know about the laws of the market they are investing in:-)
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by jsrn 18y ago
The regulatory loophole they exploited only exists with cash settled options [1] - IIRC the hole will be closed this spring with new legislation. Btw. another German Company (Schaeffler) used the same loophole last summer to secretely buy C
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by jsrn 18y ago
> In January of 2007, IE held nearly 80 percent market share; now it holds 68.15. That is a 14.8 percent decline, not 'nearly 12 percent' [alternatively: a 12 percentage point decline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point ] Als
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by jsrn 18y ago
> [...] and very very verbose it's possible to write compact SVG. For example, it has a simple and very compact sub-language for specifying paths (with one-letter commands): http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html#PathDataBNF What do you
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An Address in Mayfair - Donald MacKenzie on Hedge Funds(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by jsrn 18y ago|0 comments
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by jsrn 18y ago
> though my became the new right way to declare variables > anywhere, since the goal is always to get smaller > scope for variables, and it doesn't look like that's the > right idea with let well, it's a
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by jsrn 18y ago
> If it gets block scope [...] it has block scope since Javascript 1.7 (which is of course only supported on the client side by Firefox (FF 2) and I think Webkit) and on the server side it's supported in Rhino 1.7R1 and of cour
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by jsrn 18y ago
webkit already has decent SVG support: http://webkit.org/projects/svg/status.xml
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by jsrn 18y ago
here is the full transcript of the Times Magazine interview with Putin: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/printout/0,29239,1690... it's pretty interesting, actually. For example, Putin is often quoted with saying that the Collapse
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by jsrn 18y ago
> according to some blog I read, which I couldn't re-find I think this is the blog post by Brendan Eich you are referring to: So my default answer to questions such as the one I got at last May's Ajax Experience, "When will you

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