snorkel

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811.
by snorkel 18y ago
"Further, the output format ought to be determined hubristically from the HTTP Accept header; that lets clients select output formats without resorting to ugly ?format=xml crap." I have to disagree. First of all, do not assume anything base
812.
by snorkel 18y ago
The auto-pairing annoyed me at first, but when using other editors I find myself expecting them to give me a matching close brace whenever I type an open brace. It's grown on me.
813.
by snorkel 18y ago
Verizon cripples the OS on their phones so that no content can be downloaded to the phone other than what Verizon sells. In fact Verizon even locks out USB and Bluetooth file transfers from the phones I've tried. I don't see how a company w
814.
by snorkel 18y ago
Why are people still recommending SVN? Do some people enjoy merge conflicts?
815.
by snorkel 18y ago
I'm sorry but if every programming language out there uses ?: then that's not ambiguous at all.
816.
by snorkel 18y ago
It has taken me years to absorb perl's little idiosyncrasies and I've learned to like it. Then I read perl6 docs and I can no longer defend using perl. For example, here's the perl6 tertiary assignment: my $foo = $bar < 1 ?? 0 !!
817.
by snorkel 18y ago
Vanity pages are fun.
818.
by snorkel 18y ago
I think it looks good. I'd keep the OPTIONS panel open since it's not taking up a lot of space and make it's a little more obvious what the purpose of the page is.
819.
by snorkel 18y ago
Dear Google, Thank you, it's nice to write OpenGL code in Javascript, but if you're going to write a plugin that lets JavaScript access OpenGL then please don't rewrite the entire OpenGL API.
820.
by snorkel 18y ago
Forgive my ignorance but why not wrap the fallback_algorithm() call in it's own try/catch throws a more explicit exception?? try { this_might_fail(); } catch (exception& e) { try { fallback_algorithm
821.
by snorkel 18y ago
If Google pays for half of the $50k price tag they can insert all of the location-based ads they want.
822.
by snorkel 18y ago
JAVA - Can we please have SWT controls built into the standard JRE? Or at least add some new controls to Swing?
823.
by snorkel 18y ago
Right on. Twitter succeeds where others have failed because of its shear simplicity. Complicating the interface with advanced features that few people will use will not add to its appeal.
824.
by snorkel 18y ago
"Google Killer": The tech journalists' kiss of death. "AI Google Killer": The kiss of death and a box of poisoned chocolates. I get the impression that tech journalists purposely overhype new ideas just so 6 months later they can trash the
825.
by snorkel 18y ago
Because Erlang sucks.
826.
The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang(infoq.com)
7 points by snorkel 18y ago|4 comments
827.
by snorkel 18y ago
Wow, Amber Alert is evil. Never thought of it that way. How about lifeguards at the beach? Also evil?
828.
by snorkel 18y ago
Most buildings don't catch on fire. So is requiring fire alarms in buildings evil too?
829.
by snorkel 18y ago
The app is on hold because Apple's review team can't find the FART button. It would do Apple a world of good to democratize the app review process. Let the reviewers and customers decide what is App Store-worthy.
830.
by snorkel 18y ago
Spoken like a true non-parent. And yes you are a callous bastard too.
831.
by snorkel 18y ago
"Wolfram Alpha is not HAL 9000, and it wasn't intended to be. It doesn't have a sense of self or opinions or feelings." Too bad for that because right away I was thinking "Wow! It's a sentient version of Google only a bazillion times better
832.
by snorkel 18y ago
And it's all because of those damn kids and their recordable cassette tapes.
833.
by snorkel 18y ago
I don't hate Lisp but I do agree that in those days limited stack depth was a problem. I don't know if this is an accurate assessment of Lisp but I think of pure Lisp as language where all of the data is stored entirely in the call stack. I
834.
by snorkel 18y ago
I've tried it. The code quality was OK but it took a lot of time just to document and explain the project to each coder over email, and time to do progress checks with each coder, answer their questions, and generally keep everyone coordina
835.
by snorkel 18y ago
Because they add 50 parked subdomains to every domain you register? Because they spam you mercilessly to renew your domains every week? Because to make a simple DNS change you have to wander through 10 pages cluttered with cross promotional
836.
by snorkel 18y ago
I installed web 3.0 but it crashes whenever my hyperspace drive goes into warp mode so I downgraded back to web 2.6 until the service patch is released.
837.
by snorkel 18y ago
It's the tyranny of the cloud. You trust Facebook with your personal contacts, Gmail with your mail, and YouTube with your videos until the day a nameless admin script decides you crossed an unwritten threshold and dumps your account into t
838.
by snorkel 18y ago
Play on paper first. Pick a stock, pretend you bought N shares at X dollars today. Then see what happens. When you "sell" be sure to subtract transaction fees and short term capital gains tax from the profit. So play on paper for a month o
839.
by snorkel 18y ago
...or according to the wikipedia article it was intended to support C code entry on keyboards that don't have characters for [, ], {, }, #, etc. In other words torture.
840.
by snorkel 18y ago
Nice interface and you can try before registering. This would be great for making custom cartoon clips for children if only the voices matched the characters.

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