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by pak 15y ago
Beisdes analyzing properties of the commit graph, which doesn't seem to be a common task, what about them is so useful that they need to be stored in commit headers now? For instance, what day-to-day operations do they actually make faster
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by pak 15y ago
Which would be a success of Google's new algorithm, as far as Google's users are concerned: force the website owner to separate out his own garbage, and only the good stuff makes it to the search results. Although I wonder: if a website spr
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by pak 15y ago
It was an interesting read, and thanks for coming here to talk about it! There were a few questions that came to mind... - In what ways does Facebook prioritize social science over technology? By all accounts it's just as engineer-driven
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by pak 15y ago
Whoa, didn't realize WebGL used canvas. Cool.
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by pak 15y ago
Canvas is still 2D though, so unless they develop a 3D drawingContext for canvas, you won't be able to do what's in this article with the same kind of hardware acceleration. With canvas you'd still need to run all your own poly drawing rou
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by pak 15y ago
FUD at its best. Not only is the Facebook TOS just as convoluted and subject to arbitrary BS as Google's but for every story about some user having his crap deleted on a Google property, there's 10 people complaining that Facebook did the
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by pak 15y ago
Facebook's investment from Jim Breyer in 2005 came with million-dollar bonuses for Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, and Parker. Just sayin'...
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by pak 15y ago
I sympathize with all arguments here. However, if the client expects a lot of the audience to be using IE, and is willing to pay for the extra effort, some conditionally commented CSS and JS could layer on the extra images for the corners
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Secret Service seizes artist's illicit Apple Store photo project(nyconvergence.com)
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by pak 15y ago
It's a bit dated, but the Python Cookbook does a great job of teaching you practical examples of Python if you already know other languages and want to quickly grok what is "pythonic." It starts with string crunching and hits just about ev
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by pak 15y ago
I would say there are three main elements of game mechanics: 1) rewards or penalties; 2) unpredictability, either through interaction with other players or pure chance; 3) utilizing player skills that can be improved with repeated play expe
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by pak 15y ago
This is correct. As soon as I saw his lex_html function, I could see that he was using regexes to tokenize and then basically drop into different contexts while consuming the document, thereby tracking multiple levels of state throughout.
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by pak 15y ago
How do you (or the OP) know the implementation details of the consumption path for display? The author assumes it was the direct JSON feed from Twitter. That's overly simplistic and betrays his inability to understand how these sort of th
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by pak 15y ago
"This is SUCH a classic sloppy programmer mistake that I'm disappointed" Oh come off of it. This happens everywhere on the web on probably something like 25% of websites. And it's NOT always the consuming program's fault: very often someb
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by pak 15y ago
Linkbait. One person's opinion, and the article doesn't even attempt to validate it against other experts or people with real knowledge of what Facebook's architecture and current concerns are.
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by pak 15y ago
That's still a bad analogy, and you've used it way too many times in this thread. Whether or not accessing anything on a webserver is illegal depends partly on your intentions while doing so. That's a basic function of most court trials-
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by pak 15y ago
Kind of a cute idea, although if I'm seeing this trail correctly, you wouldn't be starting at the edge of the Facebook parking lot--you cross a hill, then cut through an elementary school, walk a few blocks to Junipero Serra and start up th
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by pak 15y ago
What state are you talking about? AFAIK when you say >I can order a copy of my drivers license and change the address to "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC" and they'll ship it to me quick as can be. some states (e.g. New Jersey
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by pak 15y ago
> Advocating for "proper link formatting or better content presentation" reflects the fact that you've never had to dig deep into the complex SEO, user, customization, and other general business requirements that arise when running a CM
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by pak 15y ago
Asynchronous or one-way sharing is fundamentally incompatible with the current Facebook friends model. They'd have to rework a lot of the privacy code. Probably all of it, actually. It would also be a major UX shift to bring Lists back to
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by pak 15y ago
Yet another reason for URL shorteners to be banished from the web (not that this will ever happen). Besides the arcane input requirements of Twitter and the semi-retarded behavior of certain email clients, I haven't found a good use case f
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by pak 15y ago
>Obviously mathematicians don't leave "exercises for the reader" in research papers ORLY? I'll leave this right here for you: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=left+as+an+exe... That's >100k hits from what Google Scho
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by pak 15y ago
You must have only seen this phrase in places where it was used in the bright, sparkling, professorial manner assumed by your comment. I take no offense when it appears in a textbook, where the intent is to have me practice a skill. I do
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by pak 15y ago
The most irritating trope of math and CS literature has to be whenever something interesting or useful is "left as an exercise to the reader." I always felt that phrase has no place in the internet age, where the concept of a "page limit"
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by pak 15y ago
The huge super-dotty background actually makes my monitor sound different when I have his page open. I can literally hear the scanlines firing. And this is a laptop LCD. I've never heard this sound before.
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Yes, but I believe their intent was to rewrite the other script as it functioned, not for it to be any more effective.
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by pak 15y ago
I think you meant if (strpos(@file_get_contents('http://'.long2ip($c), false, stream_context_create(array('http’ => array('timeout’ => $argv[3])))), $argv[4]) !== false)
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by pak 15y ago
Meh. Neither are particularly inspiring. Yeah, thejester's is pedantically long and uses way too many variables, while lulzsec seems to have an aversion to variables, running ip2long($argv[1]) up to three times per loop. Also, the "lulzie
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by pak 15y ago
Not unique to PHP in the slightest. In C sizeof(int, 2) will return a parse error, because sizeof is an unary operator despite looking like a function (the parentheses are mandatory when using it with a type name). In PHP, isset
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by pak 15y ago
> Did you read what I wrote? I mentioned Google Maps as one of the two places I found AJAX useful. Yes, and I was dissecting why you may have found it useful, because the same principle applies to hundreds of other situations that you

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