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by shubber 16y ago
As has been pointed out: this matters to you if you subscribe to MySQL support. The vast majority of MySQL users who just run the DB on their servers have nothing to worry about.
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by shubber 16y ago
Primarily, that the original article is presented as a report on a scientific survey, the subjects are called "scientists" (which they may well be) and yet for the fundamental question of "how many people believe in the paranormal" we're fa
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by shubber 16y ago
And who doesn't like a dick joke about the feds? That's the point here, right - it's just a dick joke?
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by shubber 16y ago
What's not clear from the project page is what I can do to mock the host application - since Lua is primarily an embedded language, it doesn't help to have setup, teardown and asserts if I can't say "and this host-function should return (X)
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by shubber 16y ago
There was a period in time where I needed to do the same thing for sports coverage - long story, but there's something amazingly gratifying about ingesting huge quantities of data from semi-public sources in a time-critical way.
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by shubber 16y ago
"There is no hard data on how common it is to believe in the paranormal ... But trends in television programming offer a sense that there is a widespread interest in mystical phenomena that is becoming more common." This is journalism?
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by shubber 16y ago
"Really? I think that is one of its strongest points. being able to switch branches by just going 'git checkout <branch>' and immediately having the entire file structure switched out to what's 'contained' in the new branch was a bi
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by shubber 16y ago
It may have improved a lot recently, but the one project I was using Darcs on had this workflow: 1. Pull revisions 2. Discover local workspace was corrupted. 3. Delete local workspace and restart. I'm not a fan of Darcs either. :)
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by shubber 16y ago
A big problem with git is that the commits-and-branching model is poorly thought through. It's very easy to find yourself on no branch at all, for instance, or for a developer to believe they've committed work to a shared branch when in fa
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by shubber 16y ago
I love JSON because it's a strict subset of YAML.
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No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by shubber 16y ago|1 comments
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by shubber 16y ago
I'm really tired of Git standing in for "DVCS" - there are so many better options. Bazaar, Mecurial, Monotone, Fossil - check those out. The only win I see in git is the adoption rate. Which doesn't seem like a real win, just populist sh
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by shubber 16y ago
My experience (Chrome on Linux) was smooth in both technologies (apart from a collision detection bug on the canvas side). Really neat demo though - when they're synced, it's weird to be aware that there's a sort of slight of hand happenin
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by shubber 16y ago
Best comment: "Overall, the paper isn't fantastic. There are some additional experiments and better controls that might have made for a more convincing case." It's so nice not to see science journalism gushing about their misunderstanding
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by shubber 16y ago
I'm a big fan of Capybara, but not so much of Cucumber, so this looks really awesome. The basic RackTest driver is so much faster than Selenium - if only env.js could play nicely with V8 and jQuery.
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by shubber 16y ago
I'd actual advise you to "Think in Lisp" while learning Javascript - I'd just read "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" when I started getting deeper in the JS, and it made a world of difference. The Javascript type syst
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by shubber 16y ago
I've had serious reservations about content from w3schools, to the point where I now skip them entirely when they come up in a Google search. They seem like a collection of all the bathroom-wall code ever: MySQL or SQLServer specific code