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by nxn 15y ago
Anyone familiar with any good registrars that support both .me and .it domains? EDIT: gandi.net looks like the best bet if anyone else needs both .me and .it.
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by nxn 15y ago
necro said pick up the language and syntax -- I took "the language" part to mean the concepts of the language outside of the explicitly mentioned syntax. With that said, I felt addressing his comment was necessary since writing idiomatic co
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by nxn 15y ago
> A real dev can pick up a new language and syntax in a week ... So am I not a real developer because it took me longer than a week to get a hang of Haskell? Hell, it even took me many months before I understood JavaScript well enough t
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by nxn 15y ago
I can say for certain that the demand for solid .NET devs is really high in the Philadelphia area right now. I am constantly bombarded from recruiters, and now even old employers that are offering me new positions. Beyond this, I've actuall
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by nxn 15y ago
My most recent "meh" styled F# script had to parse 16MB of ugly XML that contained values which even unicode did not define. The goal was to create a lookup structure based on this data that could then be used from C#. I used seq expression
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by nxn 15y ago
There are some books that go over using functional programming for "real world" tasks. Two off of the top of my head are Real-World Functional Programming by Tomas Petricek and Jon Skeet (.NET focused, and might be a bit aged now), and Real
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by nxn 15y ago
Why did the price go up when vowelnoun and netspencer were retweeted? https://twitter.com/richestontheweb
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by nxn 15y ago
Right, I completely see how that would prevent it from qualifying as a tail call, my misunderstanding was still different though. For some reason I thought that even if the recursive function was defined within the try-catch block (as below
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by nxn 15y ago
I was under the impression that the article stated that a CALL to a recursive function inside of the try-* block would prevent it from being done with a tail call, and not that the recursive function contained a wrapping try-* block in its
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by nxn 15y ago
> For instance, use bindings implicitly generate a try-finally around the code that follows them to ensure that the Dispose method is called on the bound value. This means that no calls following a use binding will be tail calls. Readi
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by nxn 15y ago
Hmm, I don't think I ever consciously recognized this about JavaScript before. Even when I focus on the functional sides by using functions for namespacing, constructors (I avoid 'new'), scoping, and limiting external access, objects still
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by nxn 15y ago
My problem seems to be that despite desperately wanting to use Haskell for some decent sized project, it never seems to work out as my best option. Right now I'm interested in writing a metro styled app for win8, and even for the server sid
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by nxn 15y ago
http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/ Updates have gotten sort of rare lately, but it is hands down my favorite JS blog.
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by nxn 15y ago
I don't mind high level overviews of concepts if they manage to successfully lead the reader to the core of the idea. However, this slideshow was not effective at communicating anything to me. At some point during the second half of this "p
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by nxn 15y ago
"We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective." Or perhaps the hope should be to make more "effective" free software instead of having ill wishes towards your competitors. I mean, Stallman
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by nxn 15y ago
The big difference is that this application is for tracking what users are doing on other websites outside of facebook. Read the abstract: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
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by nxn 15y ago
I'm assuming they only chose to use this pattern for the purpose of keeping function/method signatures as uniform across the languages as possible? I can't see another advantage to this in JS. Seems like all it's doing is wrapping the call
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by nxn 15y ago
Well: > No it isn't. Instead I would say that the JVM, which took ages to release version 7 (and we'll probably wait another 2 years for version 8), is light-years ahead of .NET ... > while the DLR is somewhere in limbo ... > Bt
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by nxn 15y ago
If anyone wants to experience the pinnacle of "Does that make sense?", I highly suggest watching Stanford's "programming paradigm" lectures by Jerry Cain (they're on youtube). He's a fantastic professor, but it almost makes the lectures unb
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by nxn 15y ago
This is sort of what gets me confused: You say XHR was a good idea, and it's clear now that reverse engineering it and putting it into Mozilla's browser was a good move because it allowed that technology to advance the web -- but at the sam
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by nxn 15y ago
The ironic thing about this scenario of ActiveX being required by Gmail is that XHR sort of has its roots in ActiveX -- that is, before Mozilla and others had to replicate it to remain competitive.
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by nxn 15y ago
I agree with practically everything said in the post short of this part: > It's my hope (for that's all I can do right now...) that some of the great minds at Google actually hashed out some of the issues from js, put down a formal spec
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by nxn 15y ago
Just wondering, how do you know it's going to be the next version?
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by nxn 15y ago
PNaCl seems like a separate project from NaCl to me, and NaCl itself can't run LLVM IL. Also, there's really opposition of having it implemented in other browsers, at least Mozilla vocally opposed it. I think that if they managed to do it v
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by nxn 15y ago
How did we learn that lesson when Microsoft did exactly what you're describing when they created XHR, and now almost every website uses it? It took 6 years for it to become standard, and I almost doubt it would have if it wasn't already in
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by nxn 15y ago
A few people mentioned this already, but if you whois his blog's domain you get his address.
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by nxn 15y ago
For some reason this article irritates me on some internal level. It seems to almost completely disregard any language that isn't mainstream at this moment -- essentially making your options for the next 10 years just a rearrangement of the
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by nxn 15y ago
> However, the rendering or parsing in a dynamic language like JavaScript or Python typically takes one line of code. The equivalent in something like Java can be horrible. [...] you still have the problems of how to describe that forma
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by nxn 15y ago
> I don't hear a lot of complaints from the Python or Ruby camps about how much they desperately miss static typing. Perhaps you would if Python or Ruby were used more often for, and I hate to use this term, "Enterprise" type applicatio
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by nxn 15y ago
With regards to you saying we're not there when it comes to tools for parsing JSON/XML: Perhaps I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but I've been using frameworks and tools that handle JSON de/serialization for years now. For example, whene

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