mccutchen

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by mccutchen 16y ago
Haha, I think it's a great excuse. But I just don't see the value in telling my version control software about the MIME type of every single file in my project.
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by mccutchen 16y ago
That's because it's being served as raw text data from the Subversion repo.
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by mccutchen 16y ago
I too have wondered about this for a couple of minor side projects. I've always resorted to scraping, but it feels wrong and I know it's not feasible for commercial projects. I've always assumed that there was some commercial data source o
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by mccutchen 16y ago
If that were the case, they probably would have just announced the change in a press release (and alerted the appropriate design blogs) and waited for the backlash. I don't think they would have gone ahead and deployed the change to gap.co
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by mccutchen 16y ago
How about a public Google Docs form that sticks its data into a private Google Docs spreadsheet? http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Both of those still fail for other non-list iterables, like generators.
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Tecmo Super Bowl, too.
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by mccutchen 16y ago
From TFA: // The point is... if you're going to invent a // new Java that breaks compatability, then // at least try and fix some of the major issues // like verbosity, invariants, inference, checked // exceptions, and mutabi
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A Response to Ineffectual Java-NG Proposals(blog.fogus.me)
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Not just with Apple's icon designers, but with icon designers targeting OS X as a whole: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccutchen/4293401589/ (At least with the designers of the icons for the applications I use most often.)
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by mccutchen 16y ago
In other news: Future Nike hoverboard to be 'powered by cold fusion'
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Chrome needs to work on its permissions messages or its permissions model. I developed a stupid simple extension[1] that just kills all the images on a given page, and the permissions required for it to do its work (mostly the `background.
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by mccutchen 16y ago
I just took the survey, I hope I got all the answers correct!
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by mccutchen 16y ago
This might be old news to you, but it took me a while to discover after I started using OS X: Cmd-Tab switches between applications (as I'm sure everyone knows), but it's less useful on OS X than Ctrl-Tab is on Windows or Linux because it d
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Guido van RossUM
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by mccutchen 16y ago
I say this as someone who a) doesn't know anything about the actual interaction between WordPress themes and the "core" WordPress code and b) doesn't fully understand the implications of the GPL in situations like the one I'm about to propo
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Shouldn't the company = YourCompany() boilerplate at the top of each test method be factored out into def setUp(): self.company = YourCompany()
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by mccutchen 16y ago
This is just a side-effect of bool being a subclass of int and True and False having the values 1 and 0, respectively. It might seem weird or surprising, but it's not a problem with Python's type system. >>> issubclass(bo
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by mccutchen 16y ago
According to the FAQ ( http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ): > Why don't I see down arrows? > There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Link doesn't work for me with the querystring parameter. Try this instead: http://www.mercurynews.com/traffic/ci_15147417
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by mccutchen 16y ago
Or run a local WordPress installation and use `wget` to generate a static HTML mirror suitable for uploading to your server: http://www.idlewords.com/2009/09/using_wordpress_to_generate...
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by mccutchen 17y ago
Ah, but he made a clone of del.icio.us from back when it was new and minimal and still really awesome. Which is much, much better than a boring old clone of modern Delicious.
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by mccutchen 17y ago
eXistenZ was written by David Cronenberg, not adapted from a PKD book/story.
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by mccutchen 17y ago
David Foster Wallace.
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by mccutchen 17y ago
On the other hand, didn't porn help establish BitTorrent as a viable P2P protocol? I may be misremembering, but I feel like delivering adult movies was an early driver of BitTorrent adoption.
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by mccutchen 17y ago
> How about a command for closing whatever tag is open where the cursor is? Try `C-h m` to find out what commands your HTML editing mode provides. In HTML Mode, `C-c /` closes the current element, and in nxml mode, `C-c C-f` does the s
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by mccutchen 17y ago
And, I just did a quick port to Python: http://gist.github.com/220038
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by mccutchen 17y ago
Thank you so much! I first encountered this article back in 2004 or 2005. I just remembered it again about a month ago, and have been fruitlessly Googling for it off and on since then. You've really made my day!
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by mccutchen 17y ago
I initially misread its name as Posterious, and haven't been able to shake that pronunciation (like "post" + "serious") in my head since then.
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by mccutchen 17y ago
Quoting myself, now: "Using a generator expression works just as well, though, and is probably clearer in the long run." It's just that my first instinct is always to use all(xs, pred).

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