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by samdk 17y ago
OCaml does type checking at compile-time and therefore is statically typed. It often can infer what those types are, but it doesn't wait until runtime to do so.
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He's done a great job of marketing this. I haven't picked it up yet (purchasing addictive games mid-semester is a bad idea), but I keep being reminded about it every few weeks anyway.
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I generally recommend HTML Dog ( http://htmldog.com/ ) to people learning HTML and CSS. It's fairly comprehensive (from what I remember it covers just about everything mentioned in the article), teaches good practices, and has helpful examp
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This makes me very, very happy. I use Chrome on my netbook for two reasons: it's faster, and it takes up significantly less screen space. It's nice to see Firefox beginning to compete in at least one of those two areas.
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by samdk 17y ago
The source for this story puts IE6 at 10-12% in North America and Europe and 20-35% in South America, Africa, and Asia. Whether or not IE6 support is still necessary depends on who your target audience is. Are you targeting a young and tech
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Recursion is very hard for most people. Lisp is quite simple, yes, but FP is an entirely different style of programming that takes a lot of people time to learn and get used to.
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Lisp is significantly harder to learn for most people--especially those people who are programming only as a means to an end and not for fun. Lisp goes significantly farther towards shoving FP down your throat than Python does any individua
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by samdk 17y ago
"But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said." Right. Because people in third-world countries are clearly far too backwards and ignorant to understand anything involving computers or t
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I'm pretty sure it's something to the effect of: But Not The Right Type Of Physicist .
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I hadn't seen the other two, but I've now read (and enjoyed) all three. Thanks!
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From the article: Tom says that one out of every three sites he's gained access to store user data in plain text databases.
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I played Munchkin for the first time this summer. By far the most fun I've had playing a game in a long, long time.
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It would be nice if this degraded more gracefully. There are going to be people that arrive at that link without hitting the JS for whatever reason. Arriving at a blank white page is going to confuse them.
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While I think your argument is very valid for consumer-level interfaces, I don't think it holds for more skilled and specialized tasks like server administration. Someone who's never done it before should be following a guide regardless (fo
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You don't need to put much time or money into it. The bare minimum of a weekly cron-automated rsync job can be done in a few minutes, even if you've never done it before.
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You can still make it work that way if you want. The about:config option is browser.tabs.closeButtons, and the value you want for a single close button for all tabs is '3'.
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Both are good languages. I would suggest Python if you're going to be doing any scientific computing for its excellent library support (numpy/scipy/matplotlib especially), and Ruby if you want to being doing web application programming.
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Perl may have once been the duct tape of the internet, but it's pretty solidly into its 'drying and peeling off' phase right now.
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I agree. My eyes hit the page and have no idea where I'm supposed to be looking. The white-on-black text that's interspersed with the images is also painful to read. There are a lot of good and interesting ideas there. The problem, I think
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Immediately bookmarked. Others have mostly covered the things I like (in short: the idea is great, the implementation is very good). A few notes: It would be nice to have the AJAX search stuff change the URL so searches can be linked to. (
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Playlists are not something I have much use for (I prefer listening to whole albums at a time), but as a graphic designer I'd like to second the thing about the stock photo.
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That's likely because USB (as strictly defined by the spec) can only put out a limited amount of power. Some devices are made to be able to handle more than is strictly necessary to meet USB specs. So given a comparatively powerful AC outle
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I'm sorry to be so brutally honest, but a lot of those things you can't do with HTML/CSS/JS are things you really shouldn't be doing at all. Full-page flash breaks usability in so many ways. It completely kills accessibility. It makes thi
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I'm a college student and I'm looking for an internship at a startup or small business. I do not care at all about accumulating resume buzzwords. None of the good programmers I know have any trouble filling their resume with actual accompli
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Oh, Windows Update on XP was terrible. And Vista's was far from perfect. But it was integrated into the OS and it did, for the most part, do its job of keeping software updated (however annoying it was about it). By 'good' I simply meant
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Windows has had a good auto-update system since Vista. However, one of the biggest issues with IE 6 is that its use is still mandated by a lot of companies because they have old, unmaintained webapps that only run on IE 6.
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We do have a lot of new tools for solving crimes, yes. But criminals also have a lot of new tools for committing crimes and evading detection. Even if we are getting better, we have a long way to go. Murder and Aggravated Assault are the on
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"I'm not sure anyone ever defined creativity as design." I don't think people do it consciously, but I do know that there are a lot of people who use 'good design' and 'looks nice' interchangeably. If you want to see examples, go over to Sm