olavk

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1411.
by olavk 19y ago
> Why would the JSON version of that fragment suck pretty hard? The fragment uses attributes and mixed content - something that would be quite ugly to express in JSON. I wont event try.
1412.
by olavk 19y ago
XML is supposed to be a human-readable platform- and language-independent format for data and document exchange. The article just shows that you can do all kinds of cool stuff with s-expressions if you happen to use CL. Just as if a smallt
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by olavk 19y ago
Those that don't know the history of philosophy are doomed to repeat it. For example Marx wrote in 1845 "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." This is almost exactly wha
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by olavk 19y ago
It is actually a scientific documented phenomenon that many people believe outrageous claims as long as they seem to be justified by random neurobabble . PDF: "The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations" http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7E
1415.
by olavk 19y ago
Perhaps I should have said querying recursive data structures. E.g. you can easily represent a family tree in a RDB, but it's not so easy to write a query to get all ancestors of a specific person.
1416.
by olavk 19y ago
Well, one drawback is that it is difficult to query tree-structured data.
1417.
by olavk 19y ago
There are probably all kinds. If you are the type that love DSL's, but _only_ if they are implemented in lisp, then I would place you in the first group.
1418.
by olavk 19y ago
Cant they just write a macro that automatically turns any scheme or lisp library into an Arc library?
1419.
by olavk 19y ago
Reddit contains lots of sneering references to Digg. There is probably an elevated place somewhere that contains lots of sneering references to hacker news. But people like you and med don't know that place.
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by olavk 19y ago
My theory is that there is two kinds of people. Those that like everything to be in the same language and environment, and those that like to combine lots of different languages where each language is optimized for a specific task.
1421.
by olavk 19y ago
Databases are not arrays, although they may be implemented as arrays. The whole point of the relational model is that the logical model is abstracted from the implementation. So if e.g. the DBA decides that it would be more efficient to sto
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by olavk 19y ago
He is probably Jewish. Anyway, if you tried to follow also the new testament it would get silly. E.g. just regarding the hair issue, the mosaic law say you must not cut your hair, Jesus say we have to follow the mosaic law, and Paul say tha
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by olavk 19y ago
It is just a small script that shows the word count for the current textbox in the lower right corner of the screen. Useful if you don't have a clear sense of how much 120 words is, and you don't like to count words manually.
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by olavk 19y ago
It is easy to add features to a language. It takes courage to take features away. If you just add every feature than anyone might want, then you end up with something like Perl. Which incidentally seem to be much more popular than Python, s
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Greasemonkey word-count script for your Y Combinator funding application(olav.dk)
8 points by olavk 19y ago|5 comments
1426.
by olavk 19y ago
The compatibility problems are not in the core language (which is surprisingly portable between browsers), but in the DOM API. This can be solved by a compatibility layer library like JQuery, Prototoype et al. Joel claims that this layer s
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by olavk 19y ago
No, w3c just redefined "px" in CSS to be a relative measurement, not necessarily corresponding an actual screen pixel. Problem solved!