samstokes

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by samstokes 17y ago
> I'm unconvinced it needs special syntax at all. What's interesting is that it's actually not special syntax - at least, it's not special syntax for regex usage. The syntax obj[arg, arg, arg] looks weird because in most languages th
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Looks like a useful tool. I've been using a similar one: http://regex.powertoy.org/ The latter supports several languages' regex dialects, and I like the visual way it displays group matches, particularly when groups are nested. It can
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Thoughts on semantics for 3D graphics(conal.net)
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PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."(quirksmode.org)
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I faced the same question a few days ago. I went for Tumblr in the end, mostly because of the polished feel both of the website and of individual Tumblr blogs, the low barrier to entry, and theme customisability. I've quite liked how litt
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Gustavo Duarte's blog posts are excellent. Clear, readable and detailed explanations of things like what actually happens when booting up and how memory management works. He links to relevant parts of the Linux source code for added conte
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"I want to share hard-won “a ha!” moments in clear and simple language." I looked at a couple of articles and they seem to achieve this pretty well. http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-quakes-fas... is a great explanation (
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This is a pretty big deal, if it goes through. It means free-even-for-commercial-use mapping data for the whole of the UK, rather than having to pay royalties to the Ordnance Survey or guess what Google considers acceptable use of their AP
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This got posted earlier and flagged, presumably by someone who didn't realise it was meant as humour (come on - "data.map.reduce" and you took it seriously?). This is actually quite clever satire (although tagging it as such makes it slight
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Fluxbox, we meet again (minimal *nix WM)(briancarper.net)
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I'm late to comment on this post, but I've read several posts on rating systems recently and not many seemed to mention this. Have you tested the theory that response bias is skewing the ratings upward? In other words, given that not every
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It's an Uncyclopedia article - fake Oscar Wilde quotes are an established meme: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Making_up_Oscar_Wilde_quo... "Officially listed as the National Sport of England, making up Oscar Wilde quotes is widely re
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by samstokes 17y ago
Actually, 'code' isn't a function - that would require different syntax for declaration and usage: def dont(code: () => Unit) = // ... dont { () => println("foo") } It's actually a lazily-evaluated parameter of type Unit -
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It diminishes the weight of their argument for legislative action, when the default is to take no action. The fact that illegal activity is occurring is not, on its own, sufficient justification to put extra time, money or legislation in
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> It is about giving people challenges and a good collaborative place to work. Definitely agree on the latter. From personal experience, having a cordial editor war in the office is a great way for coders to bounce ideas off each other,
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You don't really say what specific startup mentality you want to promote, but it seems to me a good generic startup mentality would include creativity and flexibility. That suggests the strategy: let each developer pick her own work rig. Gi
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Broadersheet is a startup trying to solve this sort of problem. They have an iPhone app which serves up an electronic newspaper personalised to your interests. (Sadly they don't yet cater to iPhone denialists like me, so I can't report from
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by samstokes 17y ago
Magnatune ( http://magnatune.com ) CC-licenses all of their music. It's free for non-commercial use. They also do royalty-free licenses for commercial use, as for example Braid which used some of their music.
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by samstokes 17y ago
IETester is useful, but I've found it gives different results than a clean installation of the relevant IE version. For example (dimly remembered so details may be off), I had a site with one of the standard PNG transparency fixes for IE6.
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Cambridge has the advantage that people outside the UK don't know whether you mean Cambridge, UK or Cambridge, Massachusetts. So it's almost like you went to MIT as well . (Tongue firmly in cheek.)
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Microsoft seems to think it will work for mainstream languages, as they're developing an STM implementation for .NET. It's in "incubation", which means they're not certain to productise it but they are actively working toward doing so. The
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I also find I use lambdas less in Haskell than in other languages. I think it's because in Haskell, constructs like partial application, function composition or lifting are concise and natural to express, and those constructs cover most com
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Another E71 fan here. I don't like the Nokia Music Player either - I use Symbian OggPlay (which despite its name can play most audio formats) from http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/ . I wonder how many of those "other" responses (the