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by ratsbane 18y ago
This seems like such a simple and fundamental idea, why isn't every web site with access control doing it? I'm sure it's been done on the web before but rarely and usually not so well. Of course, it's the same thing you get on logging int
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Coming soon to GMail: See who is accessing your mail(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
5 points by ratsbane 18y ago|2 comments
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by ratsbane 18y ago
If the un-nerdly activities in high school had the prominence of sports then perhaps the kids who participated in them would be more popular. Think of the friday night football games - big crowds paying lots of money at the gate, football
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I like to see code that my mind can parse as easily as the machine can. Tasteful code likely is short, efficient, and readable... but perhaps there are exceptions to that? Good taste is like obscenity - hard to define but you know it when
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by ratsbane 18y ago
"Any degree at a good university will expose you to people much smarter..." and that is important, but I think you can also get the same benefit from working on projects with really smart people, reviewing their code, and having them review
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by ratsbane 18y ago
A lot of job ads which are very specific in listing degree requirements do so to fulfill legal or policy requirements to advertise a job and are really designed to exclude everyone except for one specific person the company wants to employ.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I saw the presentation of this at the Google IO conference. There was a marked audience reaction when they showed this on the screens, along with calls for "can we get the source code." We're toying with an interface like this that's user-
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by ratsbane 18y ago
That was good. PG's succinctness is perhaps a bit better but SY is in the same class of essayist. Malcolm Gladwell, too, I think. As I was reading this I was thinking that he's described something I've noticed but couldn't categorize pro
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I strongly second the thought here (and in a few other comments above) that .NET fails because it tries to make web programming work like desktop programming. It doesn't.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
Instead of "routines" why not just say "functions" - which then opens another can of worms because functions were studied long before they were ever used in programming.
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by ratsbane 18y ago
- The point implies (correctly, I think) that Python still is ahead. - I'd be willing to argue the "decent set of libraries" point but the .NET libraries still can't compare to those available for perl, python, et al. And .NET only runs on
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by ratsbane 18y ago
I think that's a really good question. There are (at least) two distinctly different skill sets or personality types essential for a successful entrepreneurial business - one is the thinking-of-new-ideas-and-making-them-work track and the
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Just got the invite - 12:03am Central.
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Instead of using Google map API, EveryBlock built their own(blog.everyblock.com)
33 points by ratsbane 19y ago|14 comments
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Good link. From that I found http://www.openlayers.org/ with all sorts of good stuff.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
REST does have an advantage over SOAP in that it more easily takes advantage of the properties of the HTTP over which it runs: verbs, caching, etc. With REST it's very easy to separate requests which change data from those which don't. Al
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by ratsbane 19y ago
In a RESTful world you might thing of moving a chess piece as POSTing a new location value to /chess/game/1234/piece/. To concede, You could POST a "concede" flag to /chess/game/1234. That seems to me like the simplest way to state the ac
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by ratsbane 19y ago
They're using the Google maps API to display genome data which doesn't have any relation to the underlying cartography. This seems like a neat trick and makes me wonder about what other kinds of structures you could represent this way. It
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Interesting use of Google maps API for non-cartographic data(xmap.picr.man.ac.uk)
9 points by ratsbane 19y ago|4 comments
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by ratsbane 19y ago
You're much more likely to be struck by lightning or bitten by a rattlesnake than you are to win a lottery (even assuming you buy a ticket.) Not being struck by lightning or bitten by a rattlesnake is one of my major goals and so I never b
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I've bought several CSS books over the years but the only reference I use consistently is the actual CSS specification from the World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ Also, it's free and you can keep a copy of the PDF o
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I don't think I'd want to starting out by learning to code relatively complicated things to a framework. If you learn a framework you won't be so much exposed to the real technologies - HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript. I think I'd start by re
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I voted for both the first and second choices. The thing we're working on now is sort of a mixed approach. Everything is assembled first on server but then sections can be swapped out without reloading the whole page.
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by ratsbane 19y ago
1) I like the way you implemented the poll. 2) But I'd like to be able to change a vote - even if just for a few minutes. I upvoted the third choice and then upvoted the second just to see if I could vote for more than one - but that was j
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I really dislike the thesis of this article. It implies that upper management SHOULD make decisions about technical matters based upon what someone wears. This is almost a guarantee of wrong decisions. When I see someone dressed non-trad
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Interesting and not what I would have expected. I just confirmed it in Opera. Also, null<=null is true. You can use the following javascript link to confirm this: (Note - I can't ever remember how to embed links properly in YC... is th
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by ratsbane 19y ago
You could buy a puppy from an animal shelter. Or you could buy one of the new Macbooks for each of them. Those would probably have about the same effect. After all, "two Airs is humane." [argh, sorry.]
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by ratsbane 19y ago
I've wondered about that too - what motivates people to vote something up or down? Is voting up more a measure of interest, agreement, surprise, appreciation...? Would you vote down because you don't agree with a comment or because you th
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Nice analysis. Does the complete data include timestamps on up/down votes? The ratio of up to down votes might show how controversial is a posting while the rate of rise/fall might show... whether the posting was submitted at an opportune
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by ratsbane 19y ago
Reading PG's essays makes me very happy. Quoting again: Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a ver

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