snorkel

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901.
by snorkel 18y ago
I think we all agree that we make the effort to avoid using table for layout but sometimes it's the only sure way to get a consistent layout without lots of glue and duct tape.
902.
by snorkel 18y ago
Here's what I learned: stock_market = legalize(gambling); Class dismissed.
903.
by snorkel 18y ago
ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years" I guess someone is not planning on updating any images or css for the next 10 years.
904.
by snorkel 18y ago
Conditional lexical scoping sounds like a recipe for disaster anyway.
905.
by snorkel 18y ago
Actually you're only 60% done because as every engineer knows the blueprints are always changing.
906.
by snorkel 18y ago
Merit compensation is OK. Comparative ranking cooworkers causes all kinds of problems, such as everything in the article. Comparing workers to each other doesn't mean much if all of the workers are excellent or if all of the workers suck.
907.
by snorkel 18y ago
Bah, mod_rewrite is for sissies! Parse the url in your handler code! <Location /dostuff> SetHandler mod_python PythonHandler DoStuff </Location> Any request starting with /dostuff gets passed to DoStuff
908.
by snorkel 18y ago
Bingo! Anyone who has seen room service in action knows housekeeping spends about 80 seconds spot vacuuming each room where Roomba wanders around aimlessly for about 30 minutes.
909.
by snorkel 18y ago
I agree. This implies that any java applet can steal your login info of any site and if that were true then java applets would have been banned 10 years ago.
910.
by snorkel 18y ago
Still no search results for Cobol.
911.
by snorkel 18y ago
I'm astonished. The internet hordes usually have impeccable taste in film and music. "Beverly Hills Chowahwah" is not even in the top 20?!!
912.
by snorkel 18y ago
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
913.
by snorkel 18y ago
Now it's not responding at all. Don't sell your Google stock just yet.
914.
by snorkel 18y ago
The problem with Grand Unified Login Theory is that it often goes against the primary goal of having your own web service which is to build your own user base. In the long run your user base is worth more if it is uniquely yours as opposed
915.
by snorkel 18y ago
So it's like turning your whole web site into a giant Facebook App, which as we have learned, has no business model.
916.
by snorkel 18y ago
He also ignores the fact that aside from hours of shooting, the wedding photographer also has to process the photos and create the albums, all told its many more hours of work. It's a grind.
917.
by snorkel 18y ago
That describes what every developer aspires to until sales and marketing gets involved and messes everything up.
918.
by snorkel 18y ago
The example is awkward but could be simplified as "click on the walking man's left arm", and if there were five images 150x150 side by side and only one image had the walking figure the spambot would have to choose the correct image and the
919.
by snorkel 18y ago
He didn't point out that directly but I do agree that $_ is overused among perl coders.
920.
by snorkel 18y ago
Perl isn't difficult, it's just quirky: Perl OO: In Perl classes are called "packages". There are no private methods or private members, everything is mutable. Sigils: @foo is an array, %foo is a hash, but $foo can either be a string (scala
921.
by snorkel 18y ago
sigh Why is it all who moan about Perl immediately point to a regex written in perl and cry "Look! That's perl! It's unreadable!" No dumbass, that's a regex, and regex by the way, looks about the same in every language. It just so happens
922.
by snorkel 18y ago
I've programmed in many styles until I read Martin Fowler's "Refactoring Code" and it taught me the best style is simple READABILITY! The only thing that matters is "Is it reabable"? For example, don't be afraid of replacing 5 lines of code
923.
by snorkel 18y ago
I am a reformed indentaholic. Now I adore early returns and use them often. If you follow the first cardinal rule of OOP, keep methods short, then early returns are easy to spot. This kind of short-sighted nesting annoys me: function fo
924.
by snorkel 18y ago
Lots and lots of CSS bugs. So many developer hours have been wasted debugging IE6 issues it's obscene.
925.
by snorkel 18y ago
Reminds me of SEOs who bitch whenever Google changes the ranking algorithm. Try a non-parasitic business model for a change.
926.
by snorkel 18y ago
Fascinating. I can't wait to hear the inside scoop on how they code their img tags.
927.
by snorkel 18y ago
Of course by the time they get close to release their graphics engine will be outdated and they'll have to start again and so it continues.
928.
by snorkel 18y ago
Oh no. You haxored my HN account. I'm so devastated. I am ruined. Simply ruined. Come to think of it I really don't care.
929.
by snorkel 18y ago
The press release mentions quotes would be available to Yahoo Finance users but didn't mention an API. Can we get some REST love out of this?
930.
by snorkel 18y ago
2 + 2 = 4

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