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by phaylon 15y ago
I was under the impression that NFC is for very small ranges. Wikipedia[1] says less than 0.2 meters. Is this correct or are there different kinds of NFC? [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Near_Field_Co... Edit: Forgot fo
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by phaylon 15y ago
It looks like the Jenkins guys are really doing what they can to make the best out of the namechange/backstory, and I'd say it's working. I'm a Perl 5 developer and haven't had anything to do with Java at all for a long, long time, and neve
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by phaylon 15y ago
I didn't install anything yet. I just googled for it to find out if it will be possible, since that was a rather large hassle during the last switch, and just recently got fixed and is now available as a checkbox option in the preferences.
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by phaylon 15y ago
Does that mean it doesn't support hiding usernames yet? I'm still trying to figure that out.
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by phaylon 15y ago
I'm wondering if this means I'll have to jump through hoops again to not have everybody know what usernames are available on my computer.
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by phaylon 15y ago
I would say DHTML, mod_php and CGI instead.
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by phaylon 15y ago
People "learning" by copying, coupled with large popularity, are what gave JavaScript, PHP and Perl such bad reputations. There are tutorials for most of the things newcomers might want to do in JavaScript. As such, I wouldn't place much va
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by phaylon 15y ago
Having said this though, it sure seems that software is alot more unreliable than most bridges and buildings, so the question is, "Why?" I'd say it is that way because for many use-cases, the point where software becomes useful is much lo
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by phaylon 15y ago
If those are the hurdles one sees, I'd suggest starting by contributing documentation. It's welcome help in almost all cases, since it's something the people that do know the problem domain in and out often have too little time, and too lit
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by phaylon 15y ago
If you're interested in what (part of) the community is up to, I'd suggest the IronMan feed ( http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ ).
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by phaylon 15y ago
If I'm interested in a book, I tend to read user reviews. A "351 people said this book is great" note won't help me much. I do the same thing for electronics. And most other things too, when the number of choices isn't very limited already,
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by phaylon 15y ago
That might explain it.
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by phaylon 15y ago
The -e is what tells perl that "this is code, not a filename." One I regularly use (with perl) that doesn't seem to be mentioned yet is -p -i -e to inline modify files line-by-line. This is very nice for global search/replace actions on fil
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by phaylon 15y ago
Even if the passwords were stored in a hashed format, people might have sent their credentials to a compromised system.
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by phaylon 15y ago
Genuine Question: They let you change your password without having you supply the old one?
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by phaylon 15y ago
It's nice to see an article that focuses on the common strengths of programming languages, and what came out of them, instead of the usual X vs. Y content. There is often so much common ground (especially between dynamic programming languag
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by phaylon 15y ago
> To be sure, it could be a misunderstanding, a technical glitch, or an attempt at trolling. The Dropbox folks aren't getting my benefit of the doubt on this, though. They have mine. Now where do we stand?
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by phaylon 15y ago
Have you read the replies? No context, but insults. Plus the original forked repo on github is still available. Someone complaining means nothing.
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by phaylon 15y ago
Since the original dropship repo mentioned on razorfast is still available (and has a pull request waiting), and the comment didn't really contain any context, I wouldn't give it much weight yet.
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by phaylon 15y ago
> Your comment does appear disingenuous, although I'm sure that's not deliberate. Neither false DMCA notifications nor github takedown requests are legitimate responses to "simple nerd-rage" when it's about MIT-licensed code. I don't
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by phaylon 15y ago
How about "Document A (succeeded by Doc B)", "Doc B (succeeded by Doc C)", "Doc C (current)"?
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by phaylon 16y ago
This might help: http://scheme-reports.org/2009/position-statement.html AFAICT r7rs will have two parts; a small core one (based on r5rs, with the additional features mentioned in the post), and a larger one building up something like a s
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by phaylon 16y ago
It's nice to see a module system on the list of features. IIRC there was some back and forth about this before/after r6rs went final.
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by phaylon 16y ago
> What a bizarre article. Lisp can't represent XML? This was the point where I thought "This can't be serious." I always found SXML a perfect example of where data and code meet.
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by phaylon 16y ago
I first started with long folders of bookmarks which I checked rather infrequently, thus missing lots of content. When Firefox first got Live Bookmarks, it was a huge step up. Now it redirects to my Google Reader account, which is another s
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by phaylon 16y ago
Perl (Catalyst, Web-Simple)
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by phaylon 16y ago
The upside is that it works on more sites than HN. I've customized most of the sites I visit regularly, but mostly only cosmetic things like colors and font-sizes.
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by phaylon 16y ago
I just tried this with Perl, and it looks great (the fold-column's a bit bright, but I don't have that on by default). Have you thought about uploading it to vim.org?
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by phaylon 16y ago
It seems to have been available for the beta, though. So I guess that is simply yet to come.
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by phaylon 16y ago
It might mean they'll have to support two versions for a longer while though. Which also means making sure all community patches are provided for both branches, or manually integrating them.

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