midnightmonster

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by midnightmonster 18y ago
Do I swear under my breath when code doesn't run how I meant? Often. Do I sometimes put dire warnings or florid descriptions of suckage or even rhyming couplets in my code? Yes. Do I swear in code? No. Swearing is easy and imprecise. If I c
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by midnightmonster 18y ago
talking with someone (as many have suggested) is great if you feel like talking . A recent study shows what I've long suspected: not everyone benefits from talking it out, and in fact those who don't want to talk about it and manage toavoi
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by midnightmonster 18y ago
On the server side (Helma/Rhino) I do a lot of functional-style JavaScript anyway, so jQuery feels very natural to me. It does have a lot of sugar, but playing with the DOM needs it. Crockford described the DOM as having been written by peo
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by midnightmonster 18y ago
I got a refurb macbook from apple for $800 or $900. With a recent Core 2 Duo processor, it's very snappy. Only downside is it came with only 1GB RAM. That's surprisingly tolerable for basic use, but application switching starts getting slow
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
What you describe is more like my experience when half-awoken in the middle of the night. That's when I'll hold adamantly to some complete bit of nonsense ("Really, this does make sense!") while my wife smiles and nods and tries to get me t
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
I have a dedicated server at iweb8.com (canadian company, extremely reliable so far, very transparent about any issues on the company blog--which is hosted elsewhere just in case). I like my dedicated server, but I recently bought a 512MB s
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
I'm wary of attempts to "spruce up" web apps after the fact. Like skinning desktop apps, often the best you can do is put a pretty picture on a lousy user experience, and generally you don't even get that far. (I was going to go for some me
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
Any creative work is protected by copyright from the moment it is fixed in some medium (e.g., written on a napkin, saved to a computer file). JavaScript source code is no exception. Using GPL code doesn't make my code GPL. If I violate the
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
never had an IE-only jquery problem, but I only use the core lib.
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
I've deployed one production Helma site http://preachingtheword.net/ for a client. I have been a PHP developer for many years, but I have switched to Helma for all new work. (I spend a lot of time maintaining and repairing other people's
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by midnightmonster 19y ago
Anyone know where I can find materials for the course Dijkstra describes (or similar)? As a mostly-self-taught hacker, I'd love to get a more formal perspective, and this seems like an appealing way.