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by mbrubeck 18y ago
It works if you use a comma, like the comment you replied to. Python 2.6 introduces string interpolation like Ruby/Perl. (Older versions used printf-style format strings.) print "x: {x}".format(x=1234) # New in 2.6 print "x: %d" %
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Treating configuration values as templates(blog.ianbicking.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
It's not at all unusual to see homeless people with mobile phones. Some homeless shelters even provide them to clients, to help them with job hunting. And it's not like anyone is "choosing to be homeless" by spending $5/month on a prepaid
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
I worked at Amazon for three years. While the company isn't quite as secretive as Google, it's still extremely tight-lipped when it comes to any sort of public statement. Even when being more open would probably be better PR (like in this
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
The problem with most auto-escaping templates is that they may save typing (by turning on escaping by default, rather than making developers do it explicitly), they don't save thinking . You still need to inspect each template and make su
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
If I understand correctly, the revenue model is roughly: Joe's Dance Club uses Twitter and Facebook to post news about shows. They want to promote these news feeds so that more customers will subscribe and hear about their cool shows. The
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Google Security Team: Reducing XSS with Context-Aware Escaping in Templates(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
5 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|3 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
While ES5 doesn't have ES4/ActionScript classes, some of the features it introduces (like Object.freeze) are explicitly design to support classical inheritance, and the ES "Harmony" project will probably build more classical OOP syntax into
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Easy dependency management for git with braid(evil.che.lu)
4 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Coral CDN worked for me: http://www.thelogofactory.com.nyud.net/logo_blog/index.php/s... Summary: The author took the trouble to contact the stock art company, talk to their lawyers, and track down the specific pieces of art in question.
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(Simple, Applied) Ternary Search Tree in Python(ifdown.net)
5 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
A name is just a trademark, but a logo is a work of art, and may be covered by both trademark and copyright law. For example, the Debian/Firefox controversy hinged on the non-free copyright license governing the Firefox logo artwork: ht
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Yeah, couldn't we at least link to the original blog post? The TechCrunch writeup adds nothing. http://peekay.org/2009/03/26/security-issues-with-google-doc...
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
It's not just name dropping. While I appreciate the extra links, they do very little to put the project in context or explain why we should care. Alan Kay isn't just a big name, he's also a good essayist. While light on technical details
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Cliff Click Jr: Experiences with Hardware Transactional Memory for Java(blogs.azulsystems.com)
10 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|3 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Permalink: http://www.anoowa.com/blog/?p=103
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Is this really supposed to link to http://www.psc.edu/ ?
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
Correct URL is here: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/03/javascript-needs-elvi...
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Simple parallel JSON processing using "make -j"(github.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|0 comments
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Enumerating a context-free language; introducing the Omega monad(lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
5 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|1 comments
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Oni: an Embedded Structured Concurrency Language for JavaScript(croczilla.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 18y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 18y ago
"JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford is a good, concise, opinionated crash course in JavaScript. It demonstrates the full power of the language, but also teaches you how to avoid real-world compatibility and performance traps.