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by tveita 14y ago
The Linux kernel has over 15 million lines of code, people normally don't hold it against it. Judging a piece of software by its LOC count is a fallacy. A project with rigorous error handling and testing will have more LOCs than a correspon
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by tveita 14y ago
The description of the video the example was taken from ( http://vimeo.com/8569257 ) notes that the tests are done using his (Gary Bernhardt) own Mote framework ( https://github.com/garybernhardt/mote ) From a quick look, it does indeed use
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by tveita 14y ago
I'm sure it's convenient, but I wouldn't call this kind of operator overloading "pythonic". Not to say being pythonic is always better, but some of these tricks don't even seem that practical. Why "& FG" instead of .fg()? Using division
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by tveita 14y ago
So what does "found to be corrupt" mean in a blog context? "Please sue me for libel?" (Yes, I see the note. "I don't need journalistic integrity, I'm a registered journalist!") Good job on finding the other common meaning; you'll have notic
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by tveita 14y ago
At best that takes care of the security issues. The other thing that makes ActiveX an affront to the web is the platform lock-in. x86 code is not suitable as a web standard. (And neither is the LLVM intermediate representation, for reasons
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by tveita 14y ago
If you wanted to go about it scientifically, you could hire some fraction of the people that wouldn't have passed based on the current practices. That's a pretty scary thing to do, but it could be worth it for a large company which needs to
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by tveita 14y ago
I searched for presidents in hats and I got this: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jfkhat.asp Contrary to myth, JFK wore his hat prominently during his inauguration.