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by justinhj 11y ago
A typewriter is an optional tool for producing a written work. With programming the computer is a necessary object required for converting the intentions of a programmer into both information about the world and actions within it. I think i
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by justinhj 11y ago
It's a bit misleading to call this faster than A* since it is still using A* under the hood. Most optimizations to path finding with A* involve changing the world representation somehow. Most do not use a simple grid, with navigation m
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by justinhj 11y ago
This article seems to suggest that Go was designed as a language for large teams. Firstly it was designed as an research project and secondly I don't think it does work for large teams. The simple type system and lack of genetics makes
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by justinhj 11y ago
My understanding was that the development manager in the taup blazer was an IT consultant brought in to run the project making it a little easier for that person to disappear to the next gig no matter how disastrous the project turned out.
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by justinhj 11y ago
That's cool. I once made a Common Lisp macro that iterated and gave you the pred and succ of each list element, but it was a lot more work than this. Although I think implementing each_cons was most of the work.
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by justinhj 11y ago
Compactness is more of a side effect and can be a detrimental one. Personally I find that this kind of code is more declarative of intent than the more imperative for loop. By using particular functional tools for the job you're avoidi
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by justinhj 11y ago
Why sadly?
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by justinhj 11y ago
I wrote this gist that adds the ability to add multiple files from dired to git https://gist.github.com/justinhj/5945047
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by justinhj 11y ago
I've been using emacs for a long time. When I duplicate a line I don't even know that I'm following the steps you mention, I just do it on autopilot. What I like most about emacs though is that I rarely have to do repetitive
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by justinhj 11y ago
That git repo claims to be retired. I get my emacs from here http://emacsformacosx.com
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by justinhj 12y ago
I would suspect that most people don't come close to using all the ram in their computer in normal use. Whether they use adblock or not will not have any noticeable affect on the computer performance apart from the blocking of ads.
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by justinhj 12y ago
This article is very low on content yet appeals to those who really want an excuse not to learn something. "Oh, I don't need to feel bad about that time I gave up on learning Vim because of that random guy on the internet." P
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by justinhj 12y ago
Checkout Scala worksheets (Eclipse and IDEA) and LightTable too.
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by justinhj 12y ago
This is true. We have two recent Waterloo students on the payroll (in Vancouver), both of whom had options in SF (or anywhere they wanted really)
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by justinhj 12y ago
Good speech. The numerous errors in transcription took a little away from it, especially given the first message about doing simple tasks well. A University should have higher standards on their site.
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by justinhj 13y ago
I was looking for a solution that worked on either
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by justinhj 13y ago
Me too. I was a kid. I got 2 games a year, one for Xmas and one for my birthday. Even if the game wasn't fun I would have played it to death.
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by justinhj 13y ago
I think stackoverflow is working just fine, it's just weird. For example a question I posted recently I got a great answer in minute or so, as well as grumpy comments and closed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/
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by justinhj 13y ago
Whilst not arguing against your other points which I think are interesting, git has the submodule system which we use for shared libraries.
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by justinhj 13y ago
This web page is one of those that is just unreadable on mobile.
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by justinhj 13y ago
Yes, I was thinking along similar lines. If your coding standard strictly prevents known dangerous habits (and it should be for security related code). Insisting on putting all if body statements in braces would have prevented the Apple bug
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by justinhj 13y ago
Question: with a stolen private key don't you still have the problem that is has the host name in it? So to truly spoof a browser you need to compromise the domain and serve a site from within it?
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by justinhj 13y ago
In order to know this they must have stored and subsequently analysed the ssl traffic. Something that I would think is quite unusual. So the true scope of data theft is probably much larger.
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by justinhj 13y ago
Here's another http://heyes-jones.com/astar.php I'm the author. Expands a bit more on what a heuristic is, admissibility and includes source on GitHub of a cpp implementation of the algorithm.
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by justinhj 13y ago
The built in iOS podcast app is the worst app I've ever used. It's not that it fails to be great, it actually seemed to go out of its way to delete podcasts just before I left home. I bought downcast and I'm happy with it exc
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by justinhj 13y ago
Well put. I find comments of the nature "I know a guy who just cut down on his drinking and now he's fine" the most dangerous. Sure, some drinkers can do that but there are many more who cannot safely do so.
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by justinhj 13y ago
Most American's sign an at-will employment contract, meaning the employer can terminate you without reason whenever they want. Given that, why would you give the company any more loyalty than they are giving you? The only reason I can
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by justinhj 13y ago
I think it's easier in general to work on an application that's up and running . Architecting a new system in a language you're new to would be much more time consuming. But in the case where the groundwork is laid you get by
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by justinhj 13y ago
1876, London, England: The enthusiasm about the telephone wasn’t shared in the UK. William Preece, chief engineer of the General Post Office, declared that the new gizmo was merely “a substitute for servants”. “There are conditions in Ameri
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by justinhj 13y ago
There are a lot of people making money writing systems in php because it's the right tool for some jobs. There are companies making money using system that are written in php, because it works. These people don't have as much to s

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