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by pwpwp 14y ago
I'd expect this to show something other than a blank screen on older versions of Chrome (18), at least.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Another point: you're implying that not blocking the OS level process is in itself good thing. But that then requires that your runtime implements its own scheduler, in effect duplicating work the OS is already doing.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Programming against system calls doesn't suffer from this problem. In fact, if you use synchronous system calls, the OS does exactly what you're asking for: switching contexts when appropriate.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by pwpwp 14y ago
"[India's] not a pleasant place to be" What a stupid and close-minded thing to say.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
This can't be a ghost town, I saw 2 pedestrians, more than on my weeklong visit to Silicon Valley.</yada>
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by pwpwp 14y ago
That Kudos shit even fires if you come close to it, not only if you actually move over the kudos shit circle. Sorry, but I find this highly annoying and indecent.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Outrageous, IMHO.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Problem with PBs is that the receiver needs a schema to parse. JSON or S-expressions obviate that need.
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Corporate Everything (Twitter embedding cards only from whitelisted domains)(scripting.com)
1 points by pwpwp 14y ago|0 comments
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More Femgineers, Less Nerds(forbes.com)
1 points by pwpwp 14y ago|0 comments
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Given that IME most women's eyes immediately glaze over when the word "computer" is mentioned, I doubt that "our community isn’t great at encouraging women contributors" is the reason why few women are in computing.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
But what if you want to store the links in the content? (E.g. if you have no control over the headers a server sends.)
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by pwpwp 14y ago
I'm biased but I like my own design better: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/restful-j... (Google Groups breakage; link is meant to go to first post in discussion) Instead of requiring that objects have a special _links
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by pwpwp 14y ago
I ♥ it.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Yes. At the zoom level that's comfortable to read for me it disappears, which is why I didn't see it.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Oh, there's no way to get from your blog to your product.
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F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business(research.google.com)
201 points by pwpwp 14y ago|56 comments
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by pwpwp 14y ago
TL;DR: --Windows 8 is not Windows, it's a new operating system with Windows 7 compatibility tacked onto it. --Although Windows 8 looks pretty and is great for tablet-style content consumption, I question its benefits for traditional PC prod
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Why Windows 8 Scares Me -- and Should Scare You Too(mobileopportunity.blogspot.com)
27 points by pwpwp 14y ago|25 comments
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Is there a relation to registerProtocolHandler, somehow?
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by pwpwp 14y ago
AFAIU, the upcoming browser-to-browser networking in RTCWeb will be SCTP over DTLS over UDP.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
SPDY is one frackin' cool protocol. I could easily see it being used as the default protocol for everything in the future, including inter-app comms in an OS.
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Well, there are a lot of folks from companies like Ericsson and Cisco working on IETF's RTCWeb¹, so I guess they'll figure it out. And BitTorrent clients manage to do it, too. ¹ http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/
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by pwpwp 14y ago
I find this funny coming from someone whose handle is "lispm". You probably would have found McCarthy's original Lisp demo¹ unconvincing, too. Think about it. ¹ http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html
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by pwpwp 14y ago
End users want that the damn thing do what it is supposed to do Which often requires programming, in some form or another. The need for end-user extensibility is documented¹, and remember that VisiCalc was one of the reasons for the uptak
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by pwpwp 14y ago
You have to start small to do big things. Check out this paper for more - I find it highly interesting: http://dynamicaspects.org/papers/PADL2010Final.pdf
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by pwpwp 14y ago
Also on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/tokmh/interactive_p...
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by pwpwp 14y ago
I've been in the compiler camp originally, simply because I found it more intuitive to translate a language into another one than interpret syntax tree data structures. But recently I've started playing with interpreters and have found them
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by pwpwp 14y ago
(Common) Lisp has at least as much runtime dynamicity as the scripting languages you mention. It's hard to quantify, but I have the feeling that CL errs even more in favor of dynamicity than e.g. Python and JS.

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