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by monos 16y ago
not sure what the point of this is, but for hard problems (= you have no experience or it involves humans) that won't work. you can't know what the problem is until you tried a couple of solutions.
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by monos 16y ago
> It doesn't develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? > Forget it, baby. It erases the self. > Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. This doesn't sound like it fits the western culture a
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by monos 16y ago
why downvotes? he - again - clearly states his intentions. what's wrong with that.
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by monos 16y ago
clearly points out several advantages, so i think it qualifies as comparison. * commonjs conformant * mature & stable * java access * ... i agree: dislike of nodejs shines through, but that was clear after the first paragra
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by monos 16y ago
the thing about rhino is, that it already is a mature js implementation. it has the most modern js support of all the engines out there (the version shipping with java is sadly quiet old) and it's battle tested. we have it in production s
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by monos 16y ago
"...as measured by Ad Planner." the list is a decent guesstimate. unless every single site on the planet uses the facebook like button, google analytics, google ads, or something else that tracks globally, there is now way to correctly meas
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by monos 17y ago
about the difference between computer science and informatik (UK/US vs europa): as others have noted: in europe "computer science" is not taught at universities. informatik is. (one could argue wether the courses "fachhochschulen" offer te
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by monos 17y ago
as a commenter below me pointed out, there is node.js which got some attention recently. there was a rather long concurrency discussion on commonjs http://groups.google.com/group/commonjs/browse_thread/thread... there was no consensus and
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by monos 17y ago
ops, yes of course
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by monos 17y ago
10^9 = german billion. no problem here with the short ladder.
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by monos 17y ago
fun fact about the challenger disaster. letting it launch at all was clearly an infovis fail, as tufte explains: http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html (i guess a lot went wrong)
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by monos 17y ago
regarding problems and engineering, lets see how brooks puts it: "Essential complexity is caused by the problem to be solved, and nothing can remove it" so the kind of complexity with have to tackle comes from the area of application we are
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by monos 17y ago
i dont know much haskell, but "variable assignment" is not the first thing that comes to mind if i think of functional programming.
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by monos 17y ago
the problem with replacing backslash with <br/> is that there are also the kind of users that make to much carriage returns whenever they feel a sentence is finished. this turns out to be just as ugly. how do you get to the
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by monos 17y ago
correct usage of carriage return and spaces are hard to get right for users who are not used to type writing. thats about it. teach them that and you get 80% readable ascii.
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by monos 17y ago
thx for clarifying this. still a strange example since the GIL is not thought to be a problem, from what i read on pydev.
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by monos 17y ago
> if someone came up with (otherwise acceptable) > changes to get rid of the GIL I wouldn't object. that was the big news for me.
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by monos 17y ago
this is probably trivial economics but it always eluded me: when the govt is giving out amount X money, and wants amount X + INTERESTX back. how can that work? where should INTERESTX come from when they only gave us X?
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by monos 17y ago
good job. had to read it all :) > It has been heavily optimized for speed, in order to get > the response time below TCP's default retransmission timeout.
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by monos 17y ago
very ambitious. from what i get from the examples (see e.g. hello world [1]) and the wiki, it abstracts away all html, javascript and css. you can stay in C++ if you want. i can imagine the html interface could work for a desktopy-applicati
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by monos 17y ago
> C accurately models how the computer actually works i don't even know on what kind of hardware my java or python programs run. neither google (appengine) nor our IT apartment tell me. so for most app developers "a computer" is not rea
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by monos 17y ago
> giro transfer that's what we do in EU. never wrote a single check. i'm 28.
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by monos 17y ago
Ha Shu'al B'Lool Hatarnagolot - Ephraim Kishon. funny from page one & my first contact with the strange world, rules and absurdities of political systems (couldn't find the english title, sorry) The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softwar
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by monos 17y ago
i'm not saying they do that, but one could: * buy cheap copyright like 1940s movies * make divx files, name after non-existing pornos * anonymously seed to major torrent site * startup your auto-legal-threat-software * collect m
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by monos 17y ago
it's always a different superset. not too bad, and you always have that with different interpreters / compilers.
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by monos 17y ago
me european, had to look up 5-paragraphs essay in wikipedia. i've heard the basic "introduction, narration, .." - structure in school, but it sounds to me when you say 5para essay you really mean an essay with five paragraphs .
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by monos 17y ago
they mainly own copyrights to pornographic movies. i guess that helps with the "no questions asked" part. i got such a letter myself, but ISPs in europe don't have to give out personal data unless the request comes from a judge.
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by monos 17y ago
yes, it's better for DigiRights since they sell the software that will help you track down the law-breakers.
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by monos 17y ago
DigiRights "developed" the technology to automate those "requests for damages" letters, so they are marketing it as being very profitable - no big surprise. DigiRights, the company making those claims is highly suspicious. my parents actual
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by monos 17y ago
>light-years to go before it's a viable platform >for anything involving animation and graphics once all browsers support the canvas element (as does firefox3) its just a matter of time until some standard 2D animation lib

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