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by mahmud 14y ago
Why are people listing HTML and CSS?
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by mahmud 14y ago
Much of the world seems to have been shaped by "war" and colonialism. Only "eponymous" label is for Hungary. The country correctly self-identifies in term-frequency ;-) Most poetic definitions: New Zealand: Maori. North Korea: Kim. Saudi Ar
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by mahmud 14y ago
"Scraping" implies remote, possibly "unauthorized" access. For your example static html files, converting them to some other format might not be scraping as we understand it, plenty of editors and browsers have options to dump the data as s
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by mahmud 14y ago
You don't know Scheme if you think their differences are just syntactic. Hint: what about that whole prototype object sysytem? There is a running joke in PL research that "programming languages = lambda calculus + constants". Scheme IS
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by mahmud 14y ago
OpenGL, C++ and Javascript? The winning ticket for the "brokenness" trifecta. I can't think of a combination in modern computing that would rot a mind quicker than these three. There are already languages and tools that combine simplicity,
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by mahmud 14y ago
thank you for solving my most pressing 1st world problem.
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by mahmud 14y ago
Everytime I have seen a doctor call on airplane it was either an allergic reaction to food, or some guy who opened his duty-free bottle on the plane and had a little too much fun.
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by mahmud 14y ago
pull request for the Chicago Manual of Style?
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by mahmud 14y ago
It's better for the future of this site and "community" if it didn't become people's goal to get on the front-page, or some such idiotic achievement.
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by mahmud 14y ago
Cannasse is the last person I expected to see leave Flash. Dude built a career around the platform and released more tools for it than any single individual.
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by mahmud 14y ago
Fair point.
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by mahmud 14y ago
Many Somalis pretend to be Christians to receive church aid, or qualify for refugee status.
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by mahmud 14y ago
I don't think the world of software development changed at all since 2009. It takes about 15 years to see noticable shifts in practices. Also, shared-nothing "architecture" goes back to the 60s with the first investigations into concurrency
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by mahmud 14y ago
CPAN might be centralized, but Java libraries are far superior. This is not a pissing contest, but a fact. The java runtime makes everything else look amateurish and unprepared. Debugging, profiling, introspection and distribution, all buil
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by mahmud 14y ago
You butchered Greenspun's Tenth Rule (booze; dekstop) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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by mahmud 14y ago
The it will be a more than adequate preparation. In fact, it just might be overkill :-) But read it nevertheles. Plenty of materials out there, it might help you to learn a Lisp dialect, Scheme is excellent and closest to the lambda calculu
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by mahmud 14y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, one of my favorite hangouts on the net for the last decade. Enjoy it.
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by mahmud 14y ago
100%. The lambda calculus forms the backbone of most theories of programming languages. Functional programmers use enriched forms of it directly, but all others, at least the useful ones, do make use of lambda-calculus techniques. The LC de
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by mahmud 14y ago
Hotels have that already. Drop all traffic except web, then route that to an authentication or EULA page, set cookie, etc.
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by mahmud 14y ago
It's Capitalism, if the business is not profitable they should get out of it. No one told them to run on thin margin. Not my responsibility to subsidize bad business decisions.
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by mahmud 14y ago
The Bravery .. kickass band. Saw them once, too drunk to remember. So, what were you saying again?
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by mahmud 14y ago
Low-hanging fruit. This is a non-issue that concerns no one but the Senator and her frequent-flyer peer group. I don't vote people into office for taking care of fluff issues, and I hope neither should you. Address what matters, then we can
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by mahmud 14y ago
I wasn't elected into office to serve or help anyone. These people are voted in to carry on the duties of a government. Digital gadgets on an airplane is the sort of a low hanging, non-issue that a lazy politician would take up. This is wha
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by mahmud 14y ago
Airlines will start offering "quiet" flights at 40% premium, allowing only business class passengers to talk on the phone (or you can upgrade yourself to Communicator level for $20 more and use your phone in economy) In Australia you can pa
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by mahmud 14y ago
The Senator sure wants her iPad on the plane. But what is her position on indefinite detention of Americans, and even their assassination, without the faintest legal fig leaf?
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by mahmud 14y ago
GNU CLISP, an small portable Common Lisp implementation supports Acorn RISC OS, NeXT, Amiga and OS/2. http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/
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by mahmud 14y ago
that's a shitty excuse. HTML as a "protocol" mixes presentation with content. An API should not only be presentation agnostic, but presentation free .
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by mahmud 14y ago
Coleslaw, ye olde Common Lisp static site generator (with optional dynamic backends, if that's how you roll) http://www.cliki.net/coleslaw
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by mahmud 14y ago
I think you're being a little too optimistic here. There is no shortage of web-IDE or foo-Touch on any platform. They're all poping up for all the platforms at the same time, this is not some edge Windows 8 has over other platforms. (If the
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by mahmud 14y ago
Maybe he wants to beat the morning rush on his daily drive to the data-center~?

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