mattdw

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by mattdw 15y ago
Oh, same guy. That'd be why.
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by mattdw 15y ago
Looks much like http://tamejs.org/ in the semantics. I guess if you're pre-processing anyway, you may as well pre-process all the way.
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by mattdw 15y ago
My link was apparently not obvious enough :). http://toyota.com/camryeffect/
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by mattdw 15y ago
Particularly I'm thinking of the inescapable async-all-the-way down, which necessitates endless lambdas. In other languages it's possible to pick a point at which to invert control back to blocking-style; JS's single-thread model makes that
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by mattdw 15y ago
(This appears to be by design: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1191 )
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CoffeeScript comprehensions are broken(brehaut.net)
11 points by mattdw 15y ago|3 comments
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An Error Monad in Clojure(brehaut.net)
6 points by mattdw 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattdw 16y ago
It's not about browser wars and "web apps", it's about net neutrality, and that all applications/protocols should be treated as equal -- shaping and throttling per user is legitimate, but (so says the article) ISP shaping and throttling by
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by mattdw 16y ago
On Windows, Mac, or Linux? I don't find it too bad, but I suspect it's one of those color schemes that is greatly monitor/OS/color-calibration sensitive.
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Impedance mismatch with CouchDB(brehaut.net)
27 points by mattdw 16y ago|11 comments
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by mattdw 16y ago
Is there anything I can do to hasten IPv6, either as a guy who builds and runs website, or as a plain-old user? Or is it just a matter of waiting for the ISPs to roll it out?
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by mattdw 16y ago
This. Exactly this. I once looked into getting a friend to get a Macbook from the US for me; by the time taxes were taken into account it was going to be no cheaper at all – and if I took my GST write-off into account, the US import would h
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by mattdw 16y ago
Especially considering the selection bias of using "people who have given up diet X" to judge "diet X."
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by mattdw 16y ago
Writing a session backend for Django to allow it to share sessions with PHP is a pretty clever idea. To be honest, that's the only really interesting thing they did.
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by mattdw 16y ago
I... cannot see any download link. Or any other kinds of links to #67.
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by mattdw 16y ago
Of course, you then have to take into account what attributes people value when hiring, and if (as seems probable) employers prefer the 'agentic' attributes to the 'communal' ones, then you still have a problem.
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by mattdw 16y ago
No, Apple approves an app that pre-processes and converts Flash content on the server and delivers nothing but html-friendly content to the client, displaying it in an embedded browser. It's not even the interesting case of a Flash runtim
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by mattdw 16y ago
This just in: some people hate hipsters. (I am not entirely convinced that faux-polaroid effects are a tragic loss of data as he suggests.)
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by mattdw 16y ago
Mostly about a small girl trying to find her brother, who's been kidnapped from the slums and taken to NZ for some nefarious purpose I haven't discovered yet.
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by mattdw 16y ago
A scifi-ish novel set in the slums of Jakarta and ranging over the rest of a near-future Oceania. 3200 words in, pretty much on target for the 50k month, but that probably won't be the end of the novel.
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by mattdw 16y ago
Not to be a hater, but this on a site currently entirely sponsored by a huge Microsoft banner in the background ;).
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by mattdw 16y ago
I'm especially unconvinced by "cargo cults" and "w3c standards" being put next to each other as equivalents. But I'm also generally unconvinced by the larger point; "the right way" might have a longer learning curve, but once you know it th
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by mattdw 16y ago
I did have the thought that if OO is clearly metaphorical, it could be argued that all abstractions within the program are 'pataphysical. That is, we can say "an agent sends a message to another agent" or "the function passes control to the
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by mattdw 16y ago
The article doesn't get very concrete, and given the origins of "'pataphysics" as parody I'm not sure how seriously to take this. On the other hand, treating software systems as realities in their own right – with only incidental mappings b
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by mattdw 16y ago
It's a little worrying that the release is essentially just a fix for patch and package mistakes in 1.2.2. I know that 1.2.2 was a pretty urgent security update, but to re-update it a day later because the patch was broken and you botched
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by mattdw 16y ago
I found these pretty fun. Effectively just pattern-spotting exercises, but good ones nonetheless. It's curious how few examples you need to begin forming new ones.
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by mattdw 16y ago
I have a VM solely for web dev (IE testing.) However, of all my friends and family who own Macs (sample size of about 10) one uses a linux vm for dev, and one more uses Crossover for gaming (WINE, basically). The rest have no virtualization
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by mattdw 16y ago
I temporarily screwed my wrist/forearm reading books while holding it up one-handed for a good week or so. Switched to two-handed or sitting it on my lap/table/whatever and problems went away. That was only for multi-hour reading sessions,
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by mattdw 16y ago
"To which I shall counter, but you should have. This is an attitude of entitlement." Clay Shirky has written about this at length [1]; the basic point being that women are socialized their whole lives to not be entitled or aggressive but
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by mattdw 16y ago
"…dominant culture that discourages women from even entering a computer lab filled with sweaty nerds, much less think about joining them." You have a good point here, but it's not just that they're sweaty, it's that all too often they're

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