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by mjs 14y ago
I agree with you that they're not logical, but unfortunately I think it's too late to fix now. All the documentation, stackoverflow questions and answers, and so forth assume you're using standard git commands and terminology. At least (in
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by mjs 14y ago
Oh, and apparently there's an update to the poster in the form of an iPad app, and she's the only woman there, too. http://techpinions.com/men-of-modern-mathematics-lives/6332
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by mjs 14y ago
Emmy Noether is the only (?) woman on IBM's famous "Men of Modern Mathematics" poster (1966). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica:_A_World_of_Numbers...
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by mjs 14y ago
That's pretty awesome! Although I think the elements of the "poor" example that draw attention to some potentially pertinent information shouldn't have been removed. (For example, the fact that the applicant is not mission-essential during
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by mjs 14y ago
Interesting. Do you know what the tool support is like? What compilers implement it, if debuggers support it, etc.
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by mjs 14y ago
"bolted-on support for concurrency"--just what are your options when it comes to concurrency and C?
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by mjs 14y ago
I thought the "changing underneath" in the title was referring to "hot" VM migration too (i.e. no downtime, but different physical hardware, like http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Migration ) but I think it's a bit picky to object to the way it's u
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by mjs 14y ago
I don't really get Laravel. The docs talk about dependency injection but at the same time they really really love static function calls. For example there's no event manager class, only a single, global event manager: e.g. "Event::fire('l
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by mjs 14y ago
I think that's going to be difficult, at least initially. It looks like you at least get a MySQL client though, and it can run WordPress with only a few changes: http://www.hiphop-php.com/wp/?p=113
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by mjs 14y ago
HipHop is incredibly promising, though it basically wasn't used outside Facebook in 2012. I hope it will get more adoption in 2013, which (as well as the performance benefits) should make PHP play a bit better with the Heroku-style service
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by mjs 14y ago
I'm really hoping Knuth doesn't discover how bad his books look in their Kindle editions, he's already had to fix this problem once... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#History
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by mjs 14y ago
I don't believe this is true. I've set up a Facebook account, and provided Facebook an email address only, and had reasonable "Friend Suggestions" appear presumably based on the presence of that email address in other people's address book
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by mjs 14y ago
> Right. The idea is that you use app specific ones at first, then, as you find they're useful and stable, you make them a generic one. Ok, but do you think there will will ever be a generic definition of "user" or "product" or "photo"
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by mjs 14y ago
Well, companies seem to like to brand their dashboards, emphasise different aspects and so on. But still, I agree it would be really cool if you could use the same API browser everywhere, to avoid crappy dashboards, and that HAL would could
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by mjs 14y ago
RSS is a great example, because about the most sophisticated link relation in RSS is a link. But there seems to be a big difference in kind between what's being suggested for hypermedia APIs and the example of RSS. With RSS, the client does
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by mjs 14y ago
Sorry, I don't get what you're responding to. Browsers don't understand hypermedia APIs (or even HAL)--they only grok HTML.
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by mjs 14y ago
Oh! If that's the sort of thing we're talking about, then I'm all for it. The proponents of Hypermedia APIs have been saying a lot of vague things about how it will enable automated clients, and I assumed that the clients they had in mind
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by mjs 14y ago
A few thoughts: * Mike Kelly (the author of the HAL spec) is not aiming for a universal API client http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949357 (and also seems to be under the impression that no-one else is either). * A universal client se
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by mjs 14y ago
I can imagine Twitter publishing a application/tweet+json media type or similar, and clients and servers either supporting this or not (and exchanging Accept headers and 415 Unsupported Media Types as they go), but I don't get what that has
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by mjs 14y ago
Well ... the spec does say "HAL is a bit like HTML for machines, in that it is generic and designed to drive many different types of application." To me (and perhaps DHH), that suggests that it's designed to be used to create clever client
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by mjs 14y ago
Ah, maybe I misunderstand what you're trying to do. I thought Hal was trying to make it possible to write clients that can buy from Amazon or eBay without knowing anything about the specifics of either. But actually what it's attempting is
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by mjs 14y ago
Do you mean like http://haltalk.herokuapp.com/rels/signup ? But every site will have different requirements or mandatory fields on signup, so there's still no "discoverable" way to sign up to Amazon and eBay and Google without a human look
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by mjs 14y ago
Are there any examples of what, for example, the Flickr or Twitter API would look like under hal+json? I'm struggling to see how application/hal+json would help me write a client to upload a photo. I imagine that with or without hal I'm u
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by mjs 14y ago
Doesn't that Schneier quote only apply to symmetric algorithms (e.g. AES)? I thought asymmetric algorithms (e.g. public/key systems like RSA, as in the original question) have completely different characteristics and rules. "NIST key manag
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by mjs 14y ago
Does this use "native" OS X components?
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by mjs 14y ago
Well, they're the only ones that got into trouble. Maybe 1000 people did realise.
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JITs (e.g. V8) aren't allowed on WP8 and iOS(code.google.com)
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by mjs 14y ago
Much better than Apple Maps, but still: * The Hayward Gallery is in the wrong place: http://here.net/united-kingdom/london/museum/hayward-gallery... * Searching for "Dover Castle" goes to the Castle in Dover rather than the pub <500m
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by mjs 14y ago
"Here is available through a Web browser and as an iPhone app." Anyone know how to get the iPhone app? Doesn't come up on the store. EDIT: Ah, the answer comes later: "Skillman also showed off the iPhone version of Here, which will be avail
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by mjs 14y ago
FWIW, it's okay for me (London).

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