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by mattdw 16y ago
…or, you know, the directly hostile and sexist things women sometimes experience in the industry. As described in the original post. Not to say that Greenspun is wrong in his conclusions, but when women are saying "I find it unpleasant to b
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by mattdw 16y ago
Does anyone know how this affects companies exporting software from NZ to, say, the US? I am assuming you're fine until you have an official/legal presence in the US, at which point you come under US patent law. Does this sound correct?
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by mattdw 16y ago
...and here I was hoping that Lady Gaga was headed for space. Disappointed.
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by mattdw 16y ago
Yet another site that doesn't fully function on (the rapidly growing number of) touchscreen devices. I'm still getting my head around what changes no mouse and no hover is going to demand to typical web practices, Nice idea, though.
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by mattdw 16y ago
I'm more impressed by all of these for the effort put in than for any technical achievement. Sure, you can make any arbitrarily complex shape with a correspondingly complex set of arcs and lines, but who would bother? The animation is a nic
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by mattdw 16y ago
Heh… caught out. Thanks for doing my reading for me ;).
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by mattdw 16y ago
The thing I don't understand about this is why the US would be prospecting in Afghanistan in the first place. Is there any valid reason why the US should have made this discovery? (Genuine question; I can't think of any reasons.)
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by mattdw 16y ago
> Facebook seems to be doing fine with pseudo requiring real names. I haven't seen any data indicating that Facebook has increased the number of victims of violence. Of course, Facebook gives everyone access controls - and witness the
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by mattdw 16y ago
I am all for 'controlling the look of your webpages', but this seems a step too far. In a browser-provided or user stylesheet, sure, but he's added it as a rule to his website's css, which means that – were I running a recent enough webkit
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by mattdw 16y ago
"(or parents, who can filter the content their kids see)." Hard, when the kids are directly connected to their own 3G data plan. Hence, putting the controls on the phone.
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by mattdw 16y ago
Correlation is not causation :P. Mr. Rogers is more likely just another symptom of the "everybody is special" culture underlying this. Personally, I think it's less to do with upbringing and "positive self-esteem" and more to do with a (glo
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by mattdw 16y ago
I think this is important. The article also mentioned that this group of people doesn't read newspapers or listen to the radio, so the loss of their usual media cuts them off even more than might otherwise be the case. (I'd be curious as to
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by mattdw 16y ago
But they are always ditching features everyone else is convinced are vital – hardware keypads, removable batteries, floppy disk drives. In that sense they're doing the unimaginable.
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by mattdw 16y ago
REST, please. You can generally bootstrap a REST client from any language with basic HTTP and XML/JSON/… libs (ie. basically every language.) On the other hand, doing SOAP without a dedicated library is a path to pain and suffering, and not
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by mattdw 17y ago
Ah true. Maybe they just want to avoid eating into the limited number of writes flash mem handles?
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by mattdw 17y ago
Of course, then you have to deal with resources – like when you unfreeze your app partway through typing a word, but in the meantime the user has changed keyboard layouts, or you unfreeze the camera program but meanwhile something else has
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by mattdw 17y ago
It sounds like Grand Central is the mechanism through which multitasking roles are described/created; i.e. programmers declare the background parts of their app as closures (GCD blocks) which are handed off to a task manager. I might be wro
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by mattdw 17y ago
> Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy way to temporarily and completely disable Flash in Safari for sans-Flash testing Prefs -> Security -> Uncheck "Enable Plugins", refresh.
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by mattdw 17y ago
Apple are the only primarily-hardware company of the three, which would explain their lower profit/revenue ratio.
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by mattdw 17y ago
> Flash is not "slower" on Mac . It uses up too much resources compared to its Windows edition. I switch between Windows(work) and Mac (personal) all the time and i have never seen anything Flash playing "slower" on mac. I think you'l
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by mattdw 17y ago
> This argument is ridiculous. Flash is native code and does not run in a sandbox. It already interacts with graphics hardware through numerous other APIs and has the ability to kill your system in innumerable other ways. Actually, in S
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by mattdw 17y ago
(sorry, this is way old, but I just saw your response) you might be interested in the 'db_column' option to Django fields, e.g. content = models.TextField(db_column='a_different_column_name') That will allow you to have 'content' on the mod
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by mattdw 17y ago
Seriously? - he equates long jvm startup times with generally slow execution times. - he equates uncaught java stacktraces with properly displayed error messages from command-line tools - he gets frustrated that ldd and similar tools don't
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by mattdw 17y ago
I really don't know how to feel about this. As much as I want to say "get a brain" to these people… a problem this widespread really can't be considered an individual problem. This is, I guess, representative of the problems the iPad is aim
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by mattdw 17y ago
Well, clever enough, but does the world really need more rape jokes?
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by mattdw 17y ago
Clojure can use (with very little mismatch) any available Java/JVM libraries. F# can use anything available for the CLR/.NET. Libraries are not really an issue.
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by mattdw 17y ago
> When you need to pull an address out of a web page, itertools does absolutely nothing to make that easier, nor does any other functional programming technique. I'd say an approach like "iterating through all nodes, filtering for the o
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by mattdw 17y ago
I posted it because it's largely true of me. I'm still using Python (with Django) for my day-job, because I know the libs and the tools and the pitfalls, but almost all the code I've written for myself in the last year has been Clojure. I t
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"On iteration": Why people leave Python(brehaut.net)
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by mattdw 17y ago
Okay, I see. In that case, you're being tripped up by the fact that `parent = ForeignKey(OtherModel)` actually creates a database field `parent_id`; parent just becomes a synthetic property. AFAIK foreign keys and "_id" is the only place th

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