onewland

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by onewland 17y ago
I think there is definitely a communicative advantage to the 'lingua franca' concept as it applies to programming languages. Think of programs as the semi-English (English is actually the true lingua franca of programming :)) representation
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by onewland 17y ago
This article is about HTTP server programming, but node.js implements a number of features that are just good for general-purpose programming of all kinds: a good system for including modules, a decent I/O interface, robust events. I'm not
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by onewland 17y ago
I think I've read a couple of perspectives on why JS would be the "NBL", and I wasn't trying to claim I was the first to come to that conclusion. I'm saying that I think that this is JavaScript's first implementation in the wild that I've l
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by onewland 17y ago
To me, the important part of node.js is that it's using the V8 ( http://code.google.com/p/v8/ ) JavaScript engine which Google has a strong, vested interest in being the fastest dynamic platform around and a lot of really smart programmers
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by onewland 17y ago
I'm excited about it. I've been attempting to blog, and using node.js as my subject matter. (Don't want to link-pimp as I need to enhance/edit, but you can check my profile if you're interested). It's my opinion that JS is the new lingua fr
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by onewland 17y ago
Yeah, a lot of it looks scammy to me.
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by onewland 17y ago
Were you at SF DevDays? Saw some of your reps there.
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by onewland 17y ago
I get 12 vacation and 5 sick days/year, plus a few (maybe 9) holidays off. I think I'm probably at about the median of vacation days for a standard American professional (maybe on the low end for the software industry). I like the month pla
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by onewland 17y ago
In high school, I thought that the CodeWarrior IDE (which was, as far as I knew, the dominant development environment) was absolutely terrible. I'm not sure how good my judgment at that time was. That said, with OS X they really became a lo
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by onewland 17y ago
Maybe it won't compile, but: /spoj/c_run: line 5: 3844 Segmentation fault ./prog is the error I got, and that doesn't look like a compile error. (Also, just to be pedantic, I had noted the stack overflow possibility in my origi
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by onewland 17y ago
I'm getting an infinite (>5m wait time) "waiting for compilation" message with the above code. Are you trying to traverse function calls before compilation? You'll eventually run into the halting problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
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by onewland 17y ago
I don't want to test on somebody's server and cause them to have a bad day, but does this thing have proper stack overflow/memory protection? #include <stdio.h> int evil(int y) { char *x = (char *) malloc(y); ret
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by onewland 17y ago
With regards to (2), I can't believe he wasn't using Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera. I work at a (non-web based) MS shop, and even there you'd be hard-pressed to find a developer or hacker type who touches IE. Those who do use IE are only usin
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by onewland 17y ago
I think this is barfing on a lack of punctuation. "this is the most shittest game online ever full of little nooby kids" (taken from a youtube comment) is "not likely stupid". Add a period at the end, though, and it works. Maybe the parsin
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by onewland 17y ago
"o hai, sup?" also 11
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by onewland 17y ago
This would interest me.
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by onewland 17y ago
Under Tutorials > Demonstrate how your project “feels.” bullet, the second sentence is: This means you that it should be pretty cross-sectional; a good tutorial should show off most of the different areas of the project. I think it shou
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by onewland 17y ago
You probably haven't intentionally done it, but let's say you're looking for information on the arrest of Bernard Madoff or the Lehman bankruptcy: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS345US... http://www.google.com/sear
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by onewland 17y ago
It makes me wonder: Does he even talk to people outside the tech industry? 90% of people I know that aren't in software/technology think that Twitter is a retarded fad. While I don't agree with that, they have an enormous amount of credibil
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by onewland 17y ago
Quote as a predefined macro could be important though, in a Lisp, if you expect to be doing a lot of macro magic, and I don't see it here. This is cool, though, and very readable; I know what all the code is doing with a quick glance. Cheer
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by onewland 17y ago
Prostitutes do ANYTHING for revenue. Mark Pincus maybe did a few things he didn't want to.
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by onewland 17y ago
Canonical is canonical. How many great Rails coders would you guess DON'T have Agile Web Development with Rails? Agreed on the preference of vim, but I wouldn't knock de facto standards. I bet most people use the idiomatic NULL=0 in conditi
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by onewland 17y ago
I'd like to add that for web-related Ruby stuff, OS X is definitely the first class platform, with Linux/other Unixes coming in second. TextMate is considered the canonical rails editor for a reason.
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by onewland 17y ago
Yes. Tangentially related but not quite the same, I work at a company that makes barcode recognition software and some of our most performance-sensitive areas use assembly. It is mostly C, though.
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by onewland 17y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I'll assume that you're implying that college girls are slutty partiers, and respond to that. That may be somewhat true, but in general women with college degrees come from financial backgrounds/house
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by onewland 17y ago
Agreed. The #1 goal of a platform is adoption. Maybe I'm reading Google Wave wrong, but it does seem to be a platform. So unless you're adjusting for scale, why would you do anything at all to slow adoption? In fact, Twitter's failures to i
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by onewland 17y ago
"Thus, the more the dollar is debased, the more capital gains taxes must be paid on holdings of gold and other precious metals. For individuals who may wish to use gold and silver in everyday transactions, this can quickly become a complica
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by onewland 17y ago
I can't find anywhere on the website that states where (geographically) this actually takes place.
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by onewland 17y ago
While I don't like the quality of their news reporting, I think CNN is one of the few news entertainment companies that really understands web design and has a minimally coherent plan for integrating with the internet. A UX guy at my work w
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by onewland 17y ago
I know useless comments are frowned upon, but this title/post really gave me a strong chuckle.

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