webjprgm

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by webjprgm 15y ago
A real-time client-side library that ties in to their database hosting service, basically. Also, if you want to have any non-realtime parts of your web app that do server-side processing of data then it looks like you have to use Node.js to
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by webjprgm 15y ago
If it makes OP happy, I'll admit that PHP is a bad language. He certainly has the proof to back it up. But for me, I'm sufficiently used to those idiosyncrasies that I still use PHP for quickly tossing up a small site/app without the need
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Quick, leave the page before I waste more time ... !
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by webjprgm 15y ago
A futures library solves the case where, in an imperative programming language, the programmer writes a block to compute A, a block to compute B, then combines A and B. Pure FP works fine in that case, since writing (+ (compute-A) (compute
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in a formal sense you get the synchronous system inside the asynchronous one trivially. So the two are of equivalent power. If you imagine that in the case of threading systems, you can implement a multi-thread
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by webjprgm 15y ago
The article starts by mentioning data ownership, but then diverges after saying that didn't take hold in D and discusses just FP. Yes, FP works well for concurrency. But if you're complaining about data races, letting a thread own a piece
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Exactly. There's nothing stopping OP from using this method to get a bunch of applicants while also using other networking methods to reach out to the current top talent.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Fork Rust and change only the syntax, just to make it use whitespace for blocks. PL experts see syntax as secondary because it is something that can arbitrarily change. Take Racket for example. They built into the language the ability to
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I also find Rust very interesting. For the target of Go, I think it works just fine to use Python for most things and call out to C for performance-critical sections. But I have been annoyed for a long time by how often programs crash on
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by webjprgm 15y ago
It's like becoming bilingual. When you know only English other languages are completely confusing, but once you learn a second language you can more easily pick out pieces of others. If all you know is {}, then other code is harder to read
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Why can't I reply to the reply to my comment? Anyway, that's tab vs. space flamewar, best practices flame war, etc. Long story short, I don't like spaces because editors do not make it as easy to navigate back/forward 4 (or 2) spaces as it
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by webjprgm 15y ago
What counts as "good"? By your definition it's one that can provide helps with indentation-based blocks. :-) I can't depend on having a "good" editor. I have 2 work machines, 2 home machines, ssh to a VPS, ssh to a bunch of machines at wor
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I find that significant white space is a problem mainly when going between editors, and also mainly because of space vs. tab problems. E.g. if I copy-paste from vim in Terminal into TextWrangler (free BBEdit) then all the tabs have become
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Yes but do you trust Progressive to report rates from their competitors? (I don't. There's so much they could leave out to cause competitor's rates to look worse. Even if they aren't doing that I can't be sure and so don't trust them.)
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Huh. So now all of us "Software Engineers" will start claiming to be "Engineers" on our auto insurance, and then the insurance companies will have to recalculate their rates to raise them on the "Engineer" category.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Nice angle. Any way to hold them responsible when Leaky's quote does not match the insurer's quote? Force them to make the price 100% reproducible from public documents given the same information on the consumer.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
And this does have real value. Myself and 2 other friends were this close to doing exactly what Leaky is doing, but I (the programmer) did not want to spend a lot of time implementing that price prediction model off of hard-to-read (and co
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by webjprgm 15y ago
That's only if you want a piece of the affiliate sales / agent money. You can always go for just ad revenue.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Oh, never mind. I was confused, I thought I was suppose to type in the raw Markdown source area and didn't realize that the rendered markdown area was the editor. Sorry. Yeah, the floating toolbar like iOS. Cool stuff. I won't know if it
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Boring. It's not WYSIWYG at all. Boring: It just shows the rendered markdown next to the raw markdown. More interesting would be a solution that uses the same space to show the rendered form and for user input. E.g. as you type " cool " t
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by webjprgm 15y ago
> Maintenance should not be expected for free. Users who purchase an app definitely expect there to be maintenance on the app. This is because we know no one tests their app to 100% perfection. If I knew that the app I get at the time
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Another practical use of the technology in Shazam! Just gotta make it fast enough, which you probably could considering you just check it against one song vs. every song.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
That's basically Kinect for Windows, but using your built-in webcam, right? And targeting gesture controls for apps, vs. games. I can't find system requirements on their web page, but the demo video shows it running on a Mac.
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Yup, I agree. Also it would add extra CPU usage at all times. Of course, you could make it like Siri in that you have to press some key to turn it on. That solves all 3 problems, though I wonder if the webcam activates fast enough for th
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I don't know what kind of deals agents might be able to find, but I do know that some of them are a little loose on the facts, like leaving out bits of your history or nudging values into ranges they know will give better rates (like how fa
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I almost was part of a startup (which we were going to submit to YC) that did exactly the same thing. We were trying to negotiate with providers of insurance comparison quotes to get the data, with web scraping as a backup precisely becaus
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by webjprgm 15y ago
I have no idea how the fine art world works, but when I saw the HN headline I thought of places that let individuals sell T-Shirts with their designs. So on that note, would it make sense to have a free-for-all section of the site, or a se
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Why can't someone make a language where you can optionally use GC on one chunk of memory and use automated reference counting on another chunk? Tell the compiler which variables should be in which category, and then most of the quick progr
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by webjprgm 15y ago
Old news, been doing this for years. (I hadn't heard of bitbucket back then.) Also, my use case is extremely simple. I'm just sharing my own personal projects between my desktop and my laptop. I only ever use one of the two at a time, an
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by webjprgm 15y ago
+1000. I've run into this phone call game for other kinds of services as well, and I hate it. Just tell me what the price is.

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