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by lubutu 12y ago
> the response by the project creator was "The busybox code sucks." Whoever that is, they aren't the project creator.
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An introduction to the UTF encodings(lubutu.com)
2 points by lubutu 13y ago|0 comments
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by lubutu 14y ago
Sorry, but this really isn't relevant to the article. "A bad UI pattern" is not an invitation to rant about your unrelated UI pet peeves...
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by lubutu 14y ago
More specifically — assuming the rules were the same as for the first such workshop, linked in the article — "women were automatically allowed to apply for a spot, while men were allowed to apply if they knew a woman who was going to attend
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by lubutu 14y ago
I agree more with philh's response that there is no alternative term for the true meaning of "regular expression" — a regular language, as suggested by _delirium, is not the same thing. I suppose I could accept "regex" as not being a regula
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by lubutu 14y ago
I do dislike people calling that expression a "regex", because it isn't: regular expressions cannot contain backreferences, and must be computable in linear time, whereas primality tests are polynomial.
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by lubutu 14y ago
Yeah, it seems BBC Worldwide is available for free in every country on Earth, except Britain. I'm not sure in whose head this makes any kind of sense.
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by lubutu 14y ago
Etymologically, the word 'spirit' originally meant one's life force or 'breath'; its supernatural connotations came later.
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by lubutu 14y ago
The justification in On Intelligence is what I'm talking about wrt words being "separated at most 1 em." Contrary to what Gruber says, there are no "unsightly gaps between words" because there is a maximum distance of 1 em between words,
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by lubutu 14y ago
"the Kindle still lacks hyphenation but yet insists upon full-justified text. Full justification without hyphenation inevitably results in unsightly gaps between words on a few lines each page." On my Kindle, at least, words seem to be sepa
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by lubutu 14y ago
I also have a real problem with them referring to the second digit from the right as the "tens place", considering it's actually base sixteen...
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by lubutu 14y ago
Well, if we permit functional programming languages all the problems concerning imperative control flow magically go away...
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by lubutu 14y ago
And yet backward goto is extremely useful. Consider this Java, redo: while(true) { for(Item x : xs) if(f(x)) continue redo; break; } With goto, redo: for(Item x : xs) if(f(x))
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by lubutu 14y ago
Perhaps you could only share a limited amount of information to non-users, like the topics they'd like to talk about, and an "about you" or something. Just enough to catch one's interest.
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by lubutu 14y ago
I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I could talk to, so I have no idea if it would be worth giving up my email addres
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by lubutu 14y ago
I think you misunderstood; the OP was saying that there should be no search button, ever, as in (e.g.) Chrome.
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by lubutu 14y ago
These are all completely obvious — idea 2, though, only in retrospect. For a long while I've wondered about how to combine path editing with hyperlinks. Numerous browser extensions have tried various methods: mode toggling, modifier keys, t
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by lubutu 14y ago
I'm very fond of typography, but I don't know all that much about it. Is there a name for the style of fonts like Elena? As soon as I saw the sample I was struck by the similarities to Minion, which has to be my favourite serif font (though
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by lubutu 14y ago
Notice 'parseLogLoudly'. You could not implement that using your set of functions: you are not allowing for other code besides 'resume' inside the 'handle' blocks. Also, I don't believe the mass duplication of code necessary for your approa
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by lubutu 14y ago
The abstraction problem remains: you are reimplementing parseLog every time you write a new handler, as I described in section 1. (By the way, you're looking for Haskell's Either type, but ([a],[b]) and [Either a b] are equivalent here.)
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by lubutu 14y ago
Suppose we were attempting to write parseLogInteractively by just returning errors (as in idiomatic Go). If parseLog just returned an error upon failure we would have to same problem as exceptions do, as explained in section 1. So we have t
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An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers(lubutu.com)
104 points by lubutu 14y ago|65 comments
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by lubutu 14y ago
I've wondered about the "two week problem" in the context of large open source projects. It would be great if a developer could spin up, say, a temporary VPS for Chromium development, the toolchain all set up and source ready to modify. I c
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by lubutu 14y ago
It amazes me that the argument against this is by attacking some "standard-bearer of his cause." Let's not ask how it is compared to existing alternatives, or to 'perfection', but rather the potential alternatives. Your argument is akin t
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by lubutu 14y ago
Likewise the emphasis! Although you're right that a lot of languages are bureaucratic with enigmatic exceptions and so on, I think that a well-typed language is better to learn to begin with than one which basically accepts whatever nonsens
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by lubutu 14y ago
I've noticed that the NUL-termination problem [1] has come up a number of times in these comments. If you want a solution to this that isn't so drastic as an object system, perhaps take a look at Usul [2], non-POSIX 'tabular' Unix utilities
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The Linguistic Interface(lubutu.com)
58 points by lubutu 14y ago|6 comments
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by lubutu 14y ago
Fair point. Though anything using the standard POSIX dirent API would still get the performance hit (even if path resolution doesn't).
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by lubutu 14y ago
As Rob mentions in his post, the more dotfiles there are in $HOME the slower path resolution for any subfiles becomes. How do we navigate to ./src? We open the directory and read all the entries until we find the one called "src". What happ
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ParaSail: A Pointer-Free Path to Object-Oriented Parallel Programming(parasail-programming-language.blogspot.co.uk)
8 points by lubutu 14y ago|0 comments

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