thomasmallen

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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Not to be petty, but West Virginia isn't really a southern state. It, along with portions of Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee, is part of what we call Appalachia, a mostly rural rust-belt region.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
The WSJ is officially yellow journalism. This map is a real trip. South Carolina splitting from Georgia? Mexico owning New Mexico but not Arizona? If he's going to prop up ridiculous fantasies, at least he could try harder. What pains the t
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Random concern: I think spending too much time in a hammock is a bad thing because it hyperextends your knees.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Comment stalking makes Santa sad...
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I knew as soon as this popped up in my feed reader that it would be the top link on HN because it's very flattering, not that there's anything wrong with that.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Crows are technically the most intelligent birds, but people expect parrots to be due to their speech capabilities.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
People can choose to style their pages however they please.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Merb will continue to be maintained and improved: "To be perfectly clear: we are not abandoning the Merb project. There are many production applications running on Merb that are relying on both timely bug fixes and a clear path to the futu
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
CSS is pretty much universally a superior way to manage your page styling, which is why us "CSS Zealots" have that attitude.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
If you can't beat 'em...
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
And I wish I had a silent bicycle...
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
And my point is that every language is flawed. If you only focus on the unique features of the languages you learn, you may not become a better program when working with languages that lack these features. But simply assimilating these idea
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Enthusiasts always put their language of choice on a pedestal. Python is a very good language, but I often find it to be too restrictive and will use Ruby/Perl for elegant metaprogramming and Erlang for functional programming.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I'll briefly recommend "The Black Jacobins" by CLR James: A classical quasi-Marxist study of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution (the only widely successful slave revolt). Toussaint hacked the slave trade, colonial oppression,
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Oh, I saw the link and didn't read your username clearly. I have the TextMate bundle here...I suppose some interested person will have to get to writing a few io.vims :^)
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
> Care to elaborate on why it's not an admirable goal? It smells like rank materialism when put in those terms.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Ah, I see you're the creator of Io. Do you know of any Io tools for Vim? Syntax and indent would be great if nothing else...Google didn't turn up anything.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I'm looking over your stuff at http://markbao.com/ ... it looks like you're more concerned with appearing to be an entrepeneur than with the work itself and product quality. These sites are simply fluff. Also, I'm not sure how you can rea
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Because of crippled lambdas, Python never felt to me like it really supported functional programming.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I thought that was Google Code.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Yep. The iPhone is a console.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Call me crazy, but I think that a solid business plan doesn't depend on the whims of a single party.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Saw that exact comment on Reddit. Make of that what you will.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Error suppression: bad. Exception handling: good. Some of my earliest code has stuff like @mysql_query() because many books recommend this...and that's not even a reasonable place to suppress an error!
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
1a. Does HN have any kind of hidden search engine? 1b. If so, could OpenSearch be implemented over it, enabling a real HN search extension?
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
And it's only $20...I can understand why people steal Microsoft Office and the Adobe Suite, but I can't understand the incentive in stealing something like Transmit or TextMate. It seems that some people can't accept that some software cost
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Like preteens...
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
If the results are proportional between trials and are well-accepted (which these seem to be), I'll admit that I'm less interested in the specifics. If I saw aberrations, I would dig deeper, and I'll admit that my analysis was not rigorous.
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
I assumed the units to be in seconds, but after looking closer, I can't find a good definition of the units used here. It's the mean of a series of ratios, but the base unit is not on this page. A combination of the lower totals and the fac
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by thomasmallen 18y ago
Firing a gun from the other side of the world is not so easy. Or firing the gun when it's in the hand of another.

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