mikedougherty

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by mikedougherty 14y ago
dotSyntax, LLC was acquired by Tagged, Inc in April last year ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/19/tagged-buys-popular-sociali... ).
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by mikedougherty 14y ago
Anyone that's surprised has not been paying attention.
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by mikedougherty 14y ago
Negatively named bools bother me. e.g.: while notDone: { if condition() notDone = false; };
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by mikedougherty 14y ago
depending on your chosen minecraft server, his first game was an MMO too!
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
Additionally, while the author is correct that a bad developer is a bad developer regardless of toolset, it's much easier to completely fuck everything up in certain languages. It's quite easy to write code that allows for buffer overflows
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
I'm only done with the first page so far, but I wouldn't call most of these "hidden". Many of them are oft-touted selling points of the language or appear in basic tutorials. That being said, today I learned about the two-argument form of i
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
As others have said previously: too little, too late.
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
"Scandal"? Really?
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
Apparently it's a heat map of courier paths, not endpoints. So the dots on the bridges just signify that deliveries are going out of the city.
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
Yea, this just seems like rearranging the tokens to achieve the same result. Though, the same sort of thing could be said about path.py, which I absolutely love using.
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
I wouldn't have ever seen this submission if it weren't for RSS. Along with almost everything else I'm going to read online today.
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
This article is just false comparisons and strawman arguments. Why is Facebook's IPO anything like GroupOn's? Completely different business models. G+'s existence is used as an excuse to compare Google with Facebook, but G+ wasn't even a th
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
I prefer to think that if an HTML parser can't parse an HTML page, then I either don't have an HTML parser or I don't have an HTML page. ;D
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
I'm not expecting Amazon to hand out money to developers. But, as a developer* , I don't want to put myself in a situation where my work (that I would have otherwise charged for) is being given away for free. Conversely, as a user, if there
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
Even with the pre-paids, they'd stil be able to see where a person with one of those is going and their shopping patterns, therefore giving them exactly what they're looking for. They're tracking the movement of dots to analyze shopping pat
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
You'll have to get developers on board, I think. http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store...
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
Hopefully they're all too busy making stuff to bother blogging about it.
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by mikedougherty 15y ago
Any chance of getting it to apply the filter on page load as well? It appears that it's not possible to link to a result set. i.e., if I send someone a link to http://instacss.com/#background in order for results to be shown they must per