rabz

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by rabz 10y ago
Beyond being the first wiki wiki and the model for Wikipedia, the Portland Pattern Repository was a place where many of the principles of Agile software development were hashed out through discussion of the leading members of that movement.
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by rabz 10y ago
It's Bentley's _Programming pearls_ column from the _Communications of the ACM_, which was collected into a series of books, such as _Programming Pearls_ and _More Programming Pearls_, where you probably saw it.
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by rabz 10y ago
The only subreddits in my experience that approach this "professional," disinterested standard of moderation are /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians. I know AH has a huge team devoted to enforcing their rules, a
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by rabz 10y ago
I'll piggyback on your comment to add another functional version of C to the discussion, Single Assignment C. http://www.sac-home.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Assignment_C
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by rabz 10y ago
Not who you were asking, but it's pretty much steeping coarse coffee grounds and cold water in a cup overnight, then filter out the grounds, sort of like cold sun tea. In New Orleans toss in some chicory. I use the Toddy, which steeps
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by rabz 10y ago
The code at that location in the Ethereum blockchain implements a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that takes Ether from participants in exchange for tokens granting them the right to vote on proposals for this specific DAO to fund and
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by rabz 10y ago
Not a lawyer, but a contract requires that all parties must gain some consideration for their entry into the contract. That the blockchain enforces the proposer's "smart contract" without giving material return to the token-h
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by rabz 12y ago
I like extended figures, but also sumptuous language and formal rigor. Ah heck, I love each poet for their own quirks and idiosyncrasies. Stephen Dobyns. John Bricuth. Wallace Stevens. Weldon Kees. Shakespeare. Donne. Marvell.
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by rabz 12y ago
Does this have anything with the old ios game by Frank Li and Jason Ma?
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by rabz 13y ago
These products or services are not guaranteed by Kickstarter or Kickstartees though, so we backers aren't paying for a product alone. In many cases, the value of the product is not commensurate with the money paid. Notch certainly didn
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by rabz 13y ago
From what I recall post-9/11, the FBI do not carry badges, but written identification, like a large social security card.
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by rabz 13y ago
Coffee in other places is expensive precisely because the price is a stand-in for table-space and queuing rent. The cafe charges for the opportunity cost of someone peeking in seeing the line too long or the tables too full and running out.
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by rabz 14y ago
> In ancient versions of R from the early 2000s, the underscore operator was synonymous for '<-', aka assignment. Huh, early Smalltalk mapped the left arrow to the underscore key; I'm not sure if Squeak and Pharo still do it, though
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by rabz 14y ago
Does it? I typed in http://webdevchecklist.com/robots.txt and it gave me a bog-standard IIS 404 page, not a custom one.
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by rabz 15y ago
Once Google has the patents to start injunctions and stoppages, they can get their competitors to the table. That's not nuclear war. Google is a young company, but it's been in the phone industry at least since it bought Android in 2005. Ap