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by mattdw 13y ago
The bill allows our previously Foreign-intel Spy Agency extra domestic powers to (a) assist other agencies like the police and (b) undertake mass domestic surveillance with very little oversight in the name of "cybersecurity" and
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by mattdw 13y ago
Assuming those would be beneficial adaptations, which is arguable :). Why binary search when you can pattern-match?
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by mattdw 13y ago
He'd rather write in Beethoven languages than Lady Gaga languages. Which is fine, but there's something to be said for "takes 3 minutes to perform with one voice and one computer" as against "takes an hour to perfor
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by mattdw 13y ago
'Mick' is slang for Irish; it's a racial slur. Your theory seems more likely.
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by mattdw 13y ago
"Sorry, this game works only in Firefox and Chrome." Welcome back to 1998. For the record, it works fine in Safari too. Why do people even do this?
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by mattdw 13y ago
Or websites, apparently.
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by mattdw 13y ago
HexFiend[1] doesn't do the trick? (I have only occasionally need for a hex editor, but it serves well when the need arises.) [1] http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
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by mattdw 14y ago
"In my experience a line height of 1.5 x the base font size is a great place to start, and is usually right on target." You start with your base font size, you choose an appropriate line-height for that (based largely on designerly notions
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by mattdw 14y ago
> A problem we face where I work is how designers sometimes limit themselves in the creative part of the work, because they don't know how to implement it later on. My experience is actually the opposite. If the designer I work with is
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by mattdw 14y ago
Clojure has "transient" (mutable) forms of its immutable datastructures, which can be bashed in place, but they're not allowed beyond function boundaries in either direction (I think). So you convert (copy?) to transient, mutate it in-place
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by mattdw 14y ago
To add to the cacophony of "I built one of these too!", here's mine: http://mattdw.github.com/experiments/image-evo/ It's more strictly a genetic algorithm than the OP, too, as it's mutating a population, and instances age and eventually
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by mattdw 14y ago
When all you have is a flatMap, everything looks like a nested list ;). (The author seems to be shoe-horning a lot of different concepts into flatMap via traits. I count several different Monads in there.)
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by mattdw 14y ago
WTF. How is this ever acceptable in a professional context? Talk about hostility.
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by mattdw 14y ago
Also a Kiwi here and I think actually most of us are more concerned with the Police and Govt's apparent disregard for the rule and application of law. Kim Dotcom is pretty funny and makes a good case for himself when he's given TV time, but
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Templates are Functions(brehaut.net)
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by mattdw 14y ago
See also MP John Banks' “I can only help you if your donations to me are anonymous” to Dotcom. This case is making public a whole lot of what looks like routine corruption.
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by mattdw 14y ago
Aside from the initial raid, and the illegal surveillance, and the invalid warrants, and the illegal seizure of evidence. Sure.
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by mattdw 14y ago
It's worth noting that in NZ, the Prime Minister is also the Minister overseeing the GCSB. He has to sign off on all surveillance warrants, too. So at the very least it's a huge and public failure in his department; at the worst, he's compl
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by mattdw 14y ago
It just came back up. Phew.
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by mattdw 14y ago
Ah interesting. I wonder if they had to part ways with Google a little before they were ready to?
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by mattdw 14y ago
A competitor of TomTom indicates that Apple is relying mostly on TomTom for mapping data, and says "they've chosen the weakest partner" and "their data is terrible." Not exactly a neutral source. Not that it's necessarily untrue; they might
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by mattdw 14y ago
It means those offers have been withdrawn. They are no longer an available option. (I just heard back from support.)
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by mattdw 14y ago
I requested that they honor the refund offer (as I'd already started migrating away, and as they've destroyed any remaining trust I had in them.) I just received the reply: We are sorry for the inconvenience our change in plans has caused.
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by mattdw 14y ago
The trouble is, the advertisers want exactly those users who would be willing to pay money; they're high-value eyeballs. By allowing their most valuable users to opt-out, they devalue themselves as an advertising venue. Of course, they also
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by mattdw 14y ago
The Affero GPL [1] is a specific license to address this, because existing OSS licenses have no specific clauses regarding network software; the idea of "distribution" is generally considered as "the computer on which the software is runnin
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by mattdw 15y ago
To reply to you and jashkenas, we weren't completely delusional. Sure, the project was big and tight, but we were pretty confident that we could nail it; none of the particulars were new, just the scale and the timeframe. There was never an
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by mattdw 15y ago
Could you explain this further?
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by mattdw 15y ago
I've been seriously considering ClojureScript (which is on top of Google Closure) for exactly those reasons. The extra toolchain complexity is still an issue though.
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by mattdw 15y ago
Let me readily acknowledge that our process wasn't optimal. The CoffeeScript version-change happened while I was completely offline for a week, having dumped the next dev right in the middle of things with insufficient handover, so we caugh
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by mattdw 15y ago
You can see the generated Javascript, and worst-case scenario is that you dump the .coffee and just massage the generated JS into shape. It can't get that bad.

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