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by wmil 13y ago
Perl was a possibility, but CGI is/was a pain to use. To get started you had to understand things like headers. You frequently had scripts refusing to run for whitespace issues relating to CRLF vs LF. You'd need to come up with
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by wmil 13y ago
That's more problematic than you think. Many architects and / or building owners assert intellectual property rights over the building. Movies can be sued if they are used prominently in shots without permission. So scanning cou
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by wmil 13y ago
Because the most common format isn't really pay to win, it's pay to avoid grinding. Gamers have weird psychological issues with grinding in games. Some of them like the delayed rewards from grinding and feel that people who don&#x
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by wmil 13y ago
Not by design. TCGs didn't really exist before MtG, they stumbled into a successful business model.
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by wmil 13y ago
The following are all equivalent: request(url, (response) -> handle response , (error) -> handle error ) request(url, (response) -> handle response (error) -> handle er
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by wmil 13y ago
Coffeescript definitely has some warts. The syntax for functions that take parameters after an anonymous function isn't obvious. In fact the Codeschool.com course gets it wrong. And there have been slight changes to the syntax betw
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by wmil 13y ago
Technically yes, but the C++ spec gives the optimizer a lot of leeway, in ways that aren't necessarily safe. Few programmers have a deep enough understanding of the C++ spec to realize things like how the optimizer is free to ignore NU
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by wmil 13y ago
I think it's most important feature is fast restarts. Too many game devs think a 30 second loading screen is no big deal.
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by wmil 13y ago
Your information is badly out of date. Studies have been consistently showing biology beating culture for the last 20 years.
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by wmil 13y ago
But if we exclude C/C++/Java then static typing is just an obscure feature of some academic languages.
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by wmil 13y ago
It's not clear if there was any pressure. Carmen Ortiz was rumoured to be planning a run at MA governor. She might have thought this case was a good way to get her name in the press.
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by wmil 13y ago
Actually they're being quite clear and referring to sucrose (table sugar) the whole time.
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by wmil 13y ago
Many codes are unbreakable (or are effectively so) if you only use them once, statistical attacks become possible with multiple messages. In this case if you send two messages of the same length with the same code both can be broken. Also
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by wmil 13y ago
I think the obsession with accuracy is actually a bad thing. The author glosses over it, but many games are improved by having slightly higher clock speeds. Game breaking bugs are usually only a problem on lower end games where the devs w
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by wmil 13y ago
Back in the 80s and 90s the Canadian government frequently used ECHELON to help the Canadian Wheat Board win contracts. So this sort of thing isn't new.
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by wmil 13y ago
From looking at the screenshots I'd say it's most likely Cordova/Phonegap w/ JQuery Mobile.
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by wmil 13y ago
I think he's referring to the fact that there wasn't a major OS update for 5 years (XP: 2001, Vista: 2006). Every part of Vista was a significant change leading to a lot of application incompatibilities. App developers hadn'
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by wmil 13y ago
The problem is that he simply states 1-2 years more quickly as if it's an indisputable fact. The USSR's first nuclear test was in 1949. The UK had access to some Manhattan Project data and didn't detonate a test bomb until 19
859.
by wmil 13y ago
Everyone supports reforming criminals. However we don't have any system that can achieve that reliably. I find three strikes to be to strict. But if they've proven unwilling or unable to reform it's preposterous to let them o
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by wmil 13y ago
Nonsense. The primary way prisons reduce crime is by people who commit crimes. The problem is generally their personality. Habitual criminals are impulsive, aggressive, and bad at thinking ahead. It's unfair to expect everyone else to
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by wmil 13y ago
> Having evaluated nearly every database for my own startup I find it extraordinary that there such angst towards a technology. It's a cultural problem. When you go to a web dev meetup you inevitably meet a programmer in their early
862.
by wmil 13y ago
Don't worry about it, it's not like features have feelings. There's always a fight between sticking to what your ORM supports and trying to use every feature of the database. Either can simplify your code under certain circum
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by wmil 13y ago
It knows that I'm male and employed. Not particularly impressive.
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by wmil 13y ago
Iterating over a collection in the controller and manually calling that on each element as needed is a huge pain. Does it work in filters?
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by wmil 13y ago
ng-bind-html-unsafe has been removed in the latest release candidates, it won't be in 1.2 So try not to get attached.
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by wmil 13y ago
I'm surprised that this issue is being raised now. It seems like it should have been obvious. It looks like a fundamental design problem with a client side token... You can limit intrusions by adding an expires_at value to the cookie d
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by wmil 13y ago
You shouldn't be. Ultra minimalist code using every language feature tends to be difficult to understand and maintain. It's usually written by young coders eager to show how clever they are.
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by wmil 13y ago
Gladwell's books aren't aimed at nerds in the HN sense. They're actually targeted at people in communications / advertising who want an edge and also something to read on the plane. That's what makes him so influen
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by wmil 13y ago
"feature parity" is a poor choice of words, but nVidia builds their Windows and Linux drivers from a single code base. Keeping support for four monitors in the linux code probably meant adding a bunch of #ifdefs in various files.
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by wmil 13y ago
> it's often processed by a succession of "segfault-y" and "arbitrary-code-running" software such as Apache and Linux. If your web code has ~20 years of security audits and fixes it's probably perfectly safe

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