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by tsewlliw 13y ago
That quote is great, made all the better by the reality that writing code is doing that surgery manually.
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by tsewlliw 13y ago
Wow, that is a bunch of places to make the same change.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Amusingly, "losing stack trace information" is among the reasons the JVM doesn't do TCO -- it needs to keep it around for the security manager to do its thing. Its especially annoying there because references are held by higher stack frames
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I'd vote getting to use RAII is a better win than TCO. And really its by definition not a tail call when you have to run destructors after a "tail" call, and tricky/annoying to express that destructors should be run prior to a tail call.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I don't remember exactly how, but yeah, you can totally do that. Set up your DB as a data source or some such.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
the PHP devs I know really seem to embody a culture obsessed with 'shipping' that I'm not sure can be matched, and I'm really a big fan of it for that, in spite of PHP's huge wackyness.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Read this as a list of effective ways to communicate your point beyond mere facts. If anyone has ever said your appeals are dry, sprinkle in these lightly.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I'm totally going to read that. Also, I'm really interested in the debug-ability of Chicken. Instead of a stacktrace, which sort of captures "where you're going", a stacktrace in Chicken captures "how you got here", which in conjunction wit
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
The absolute most interesting thing about Chicken Scheme is the way it does allocations and garbage collection. I've wanted for a long time to make the time to add a always-on cpu and memory profiler to Chicken Scheme that just tallys the "
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Sucks for them, innovation doesn't always come at the right time for a big payday. But their payday can still be fantastic without (to my mind at least) ignoring what kind of activities patents are supposed to protect. RR crops still boost
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Monsanto already has a great incentive to make things "roundup ready" - they can sell more roundup as a result. They've done something of debatable patentability that drastically increases the value of their existing assets. If you want to
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Extensible php "functions"(gist.github.com)
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
you can chroot yourself away from access to /dev/random
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Wow, that reminds me of the classloader magic Eclipse/OSGi does so that plugins that depend on different versions of the same library can work together in the same JVM.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
it does wait for a timeout, so "route" was poorly chosen. it just wont get anywhere on most configurations because they respect the 192.0.2.x is examples only convention.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
for domains you don't want to route try 192.0.2.x - that range is reserved for examples and won't end up with spurious requests to stuff you're running on localhost.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
"Safe Sleep". Hopefully that campaign of education will eliminate the idea that these infants are just randomly dying and promote -- the mechanism is not unclear, just nobody wants to tell a grieving parent that they are responsible for dea
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I'm curious, but I think I'd need a practical example
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
> But if you want to go beyond a simple CRUD-app, Ruby poses a lot of challenges that can be hard to solve whereas PHP, well, just works. I write PHP professionally. I like PHP programmers. I'm starting to have a soft spot for PHP. PHP
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
> If he didn't want people to snoop he wouldn't have given them something to snoop into. This remark is rather parallel to "she shouldn't dress that way...". If doing something makes some people behave like creeps, its generally the fau
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
fast hashing is bad for storing one way functions of passwords because it makes them easier to attack and make many guesses about the original value from the transformed value, hence all the noise about using slow "key derivation functions"
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
if you can't fizzbuzz you are a 0x or worse programmer, or need to find some anxiety meds before your next interview.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Wow, this is truly absurd. Just the other day an article at theatlantic.com was posted here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4935679 ) and it was advocating exactly this kind of constitutional circumvention behavior. I think this is th
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Its not about statistics. If it were, we'd be contemplating things like taxing food in inverse proportion to its nutritional content and glycemic index.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
That article is utterly unimpressive, and its attempt to be smug at finding a "loophole in the constitution" is absurd.
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Reviews are undeniably important. I've spent a far above average time on this problem when I was on the dev team for CodeCollaborator so I feel qualified to suggest: a) its a code review, not an author review b) be respectful of your review
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
That sounds interesting. Want to post your writeup of your experience with it?
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
I really like knowing that there are people dedicated to thinking deep thoughts. There was a recent potential proof published on a tough math problem, and apparently the author had gone dark for 15 years creating a fantastic mathematical un
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Brilliant, I've definitely struggled before with how to get people to 1)not worry about being blamed and 2)claim they won't repeat a mistake. This is totally actionable, thanks!
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by tsewlliw 14y ago
Perhaps I am just much more impressed with the last 30 years than you. I'm not a point-by-point rebuttal man, but its very tempting. Try thinking about the massive changes if you don't limit radical progress to being in a straight line goin

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