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by wamatt 14y ago
An ideological debate between collaborative vs dictatorial approaches, misses the point entirely. Markdown was a good effort, but I've been feeling for a while now can do better. It's rather encouraging, that there are others attempting
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The Premium Branch Manifesto(premium-branch.org)
3 points by wamatt 14y ago|1 comments
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by wamatt 14y ago
>This "something" refuses to use unknown or not fully understood tools. It refuses to let ugly line of code be. It's called being a perfectionist.
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UTF-8 Everywhere(utf8everywhere.org)
16 points by wamatt 14y ago|2 comments
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by wamatt 14y ago
Such great advice. While I was excited by this, I never actually ended up installing the game, because it was perceived as too much effort. I clicked on the article link expecting to be able to play something straight away without installin
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Activity Streams - a format for syndicating social activities around the web(activitystrea.ms)
2 points by wamatt 14y ago|0 comments
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by wamatt 14y ago
Bergie's halloJS is awesome! Would be great to see some keyboard support in the future however. eg Super-B/ctrl-b for bold. Haven't tested on Windows, but OS X is lacking working functionality in the latest build
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by wamatt 14y ago
/enqueue jokes about decentralized DVCS systems being hosted centrally... Srsly tho, the relationship between Git and GitHub, might be somewhat analogous to that of BitTorrent and TPB
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by wamatt 14y ago
>That's an outright lie. cf. http://opalang.org While I agree with you wrt to there being other examples, and the original claim was wrong/false, it could be considered presumptuous to label this as 'an outright lie' . Most people
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by wamatt 14y ago
>Tromp's entry is amazing. It really is, which leads me to wonder how difficult it would be, to deobfuscate this into code that can be understood by the average programmer? At least in terms of being able to say what it does , withou
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by wamatt 14y ago
The point of our current ecosystem is that you can write a moderately portable app, (HTML, CSS, JS) and it is able to run on an x86 OSX browser, or an ARM-based Android phone etc Either you going to write native machine code, in which case
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by wamatt 14y ago
Hmmm seem to recall reading 'AMD is toast' posts, over a decade ago on Slashdot. Somethings never change...
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by wamatt 14y ago
And this is why I love HN. I found myself nodding along in full agreement with the GP, then doing the same, after reading the top rebuttal. /enqueues 10 minutes of self-loathing, for being so fickle minded. ;)
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by wamatt 14y ago
>"The rocket will crash, or it will not, period." Indeed. We pretty much agree then. If you re-read the "real world probability" in the context, I was talking specifically about a belief network. The degree to which a justified beli
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LLJS: Low-Level JavaScript(lljs.org)
210 points by wamatt 14y ago|51 comments
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by wamatt 14y ago
>I'm very impressed by this private-enterprise venture into heavy-lift launch services. The fact that an engine failed, should be viewed as a success, as it allowed for the validation of the fault tolerant design. It's not that one sh
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by wamatt 14y ago
Good stuff OP, nice to see Bayesian getting more attention recently. However, after reading your blog post, I can't help get the feeling this is how a natural frequentist would approach the problem. This method is effectively relying on kno
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FitVids.JS - A lightweight, jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds(fitvidsjs.com)
3 points by wamatt 14y ago|0 comments
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by wamatt 14y ago
>"How does that make you feel" Mu. Obviously it's dead simple to guess the 'correct' answer. But wrapping it in a faux test of one's humanness is an off-putting premise, that can come across morally condescending (which probably was
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by wamatt 14y ago
Who knows, maybe I'm alone in thinking it's aesthetically out of place. However Google and Apple think simple, clean URL's are important too. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... PS: The irony of this link's str
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by wamatt 14y ago
Thanks (and @wcoenen), that's interesting. Thinking further on the risks of bitcoin, is it possible that the algorithm itself could have a yet to be discovered weakness, allowing for a trivial solution? (similar to what happens when some fo
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by wamatt 14y ago
While I'm rather ambivalent on Bitcoin, I feel the article should show transaction volume as well, in order for us to make an informed assessment on its future prospects. Displaying a prominent graph of only BTC/USD as proof of recovery,
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by wamatt 14y ago
>"Almost certainly" seems like a stretch. That's an big issue with our society. Unless you have huge following (eg PG), making moderate considered and balanced headlines and opinions, more often than not fails to get a reaction and he
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by wamatt 14y ago
Very cool project, thanks for sharing! :) What could be interesting addition, would be to see how these change over time, ie .vimrc trends. I had a similar idea for analyzing dotfiles stats, which was subsequently filed in evernote as a 'ye
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by wamatt 14y ago
Microsoft's website is a solid improvement, and glad they are spearheading the responsive design movement amongst corporates. But when it comes to their stated goals of simplification, it may seem odd that MS continue to promote unwieldy UR
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by wamatt 14y ago
Interesting. Now that I think about it a tldr could be "Use segmentation for UX" ;) (segmentation = groups = clustering) I was thinking a bit further on this last night, and thought why not use evolutionary methods as well? In other words
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by wamatt 14y ago
Maybe someday I'll get around to expressing this idea in a more refined blog post, but here is the rough thinking for now... Irrespective of whether one approaches UX using intuition/experience, or statistical methods, both tend to incur a
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by wamatt 14y ago
RailwayJS looks interesting, but wondering why they don't appear to support pushState routing with # fallback, out the box. hashbangs URLs are so 2010. :p
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by wamatt 14y ago
nginx is not a bad choice, but would instead recommend node-http-proxy for most projects (including production). It's fast, easy to setup (npm install), and relatively hardened, while still keeping everything JS. As for static assets, t
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by wamatt 14y ago
Did you edit your reply? Not sure, but I suddenly read my rebuttal and I sounded like a dick, so I toned it down. Sorry - unusually cranky this morning :) The article is quite probably BS as you point out, and I have no idea. However keepin

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