xaritas

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by xaritas 13y ago
I'm familiar in passing with Bakunin and Marx, so I'm not really surprised by anarchist tendencies in modern progressive movements. The passing down of mores, forms and customs among groups that tend to eschew tradition is interes
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by xaritas 13y ago
Fascinating to think that the organizational methods I saw on Youtube videos of OWS decision making groups last year is an echo of a response to Leninism. Any recommendations to sources on this connection in case I want to follow up?
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by xaritas 13y ago
I found Erlang to be much easier to digest the second time through. The first time I looked at Erlang, I knew of its benefits, but didn't have much experience with functional programming. The unusual syntax and unfamiliar paradigm led
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by xaritas 13y ago
Yep: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-313.01.02f01-driver.html Nominally these are to support higher end cards for things like CUDA and OpenCL. Interestingly, though, the official drivers contained in updates from A
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by xaritas 13y ago
It's not censorship, and they aren't going to be suing, because they have waived the right to consume this information freely. The purpose is to prevent somebody from combining an (undisclosed) secret with a leaked secret in order
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by xaritas 13y ago
It's an allusion to Steve Jobs' somewhat notorious "hell froze over" introduction to iTunes for Windows, from 10 years ago (... wow). This was also a widely anticipated introduction but it still seemed a little subversiv
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by xaritas 13y ago
Writing web apps involves wrangling a lot of warty technologies. If you try to grapple with them all simultaneously, it's going to feel like a quagmire. You should try to limit the number of unknowns and leverage the thing you know, Py
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by xaritas 13y ago
My take, from being a cube dweller at Amazon, circa 2003: Jeff Bezos' mantra (well, one of them): 90% of all commerce is local. I remember we even had a somewhat whimsical project to scan all local restaurant delivery menus... not that it p
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by xaritas 13y ago
No doubt about it. I think Elite was the first first-person, 3D game that I played. It pretty much wired my brain to y-invert, with lots of reinforcement from Flight Simulator II and Starglider... carrying it over to Doom and Duke seemed mo
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by xaritas 13y ago
I think we y-inverters are a dying breed, brother.
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by xaritas 13y ago
It is a bit terse. There is a very easy to miss show/hide details link in each section, but it does seem to omit mention of this technique. I think it is talking about using aggregations of data as documents in NoSQL databases. See http://
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by xaritas 13y ago
I use emacs but I also dislike the "you can rebind any keys you want, as long as the sequence begins with C-c". As it turns out emacs doesn't user the super key at all (Apple key on Mac keyboards, Windows key [I think?] on Other). You can d
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by xaritas 13y ago
I don't think that's the insane part. When I think of 'insanity' and 'PHP' together what usually comes to mind is: ambiguous semantics for common operations, dubious security practices, irritating syntax, inscrutable runtime. There are some
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by xaritas 13y ago
> Definitely cool as a piece of gear, but not terribly practical from a client-side perspective i'd think. Perhaps for PDFs are proprietary or sensitive. A related use case is transformation and extraction. I used this same technique re
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by xaritas 13y ago
I'm looking at GAE as a AWS alternative too, so what follows is not complete, just a few observations. Here is the run down on the runtime services available in the Java SDK (I think that it and Python are the most complete, not everything
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by xaritas 13y ago
Probably true. The reason I was introduced to Tufte is when he was invited to give a talk at an Amazon Fishbowl (informal, internal lecture/music series). This had a strong stamp of Jeff-approval. I don't think that this particular practice
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by xaritas 13y ago
Does not work because of the digest cycle consuming too much CPU for mobile hardware, or some conflict with Froyo, or what? This is kind of an alarming statement.
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by xaritas 13y ago
Were they were like baseball cards! ("You know, I would be rich if only my mother hadn't rm'd my three digital copies of Braid.") At least with baseball cards you might expect some to increase in value. I hardly ever play games anymore and
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by xaritas 13y ago
Exactly! I just started messing around with Clojure after meaning to get into Lisp for ages now. Mind, blown. With hiccup (HTML), cssgen (CSS), ClojureScript (Javascript) and Compojure (server), you can use one language to write the entire
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by xaritas 13y ago
Nope. Thanks for the pointer.
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by xaritas 13y ago
I think that this lingering perception is an artifact of two things. Firstly, in the mid-to-late 90s, Java was really was slow and back then C/C++ application layers were pretty common (perl if you could get away with it). So initially Java
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by xaritas 13y ago
I'm normally not a screencasts kind of guy, but is there a good one for using the REPL to assemble, oh, say a web app in Compojure? I started doing a Clojure/Compojure tutorial the other day and I thought I was doing way too much restarting
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by xaritas 13y ago
Well, you can put emacs into server mode and then connect with emacsclient, provided you tunnel X. I got this working once but I didn't like using the X Windows version emacs over the native desktop version. Sorry I don't remember the detai
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Angular JS, Lift 3, and Streaming Promises(lift.la)
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by xaritas 14y ago
The guy who wrote django-compressor fairly recently released a library to address the settings.py problem, django-configurations https://django-configurations.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ It uses classes to define your settings, and you can
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by xaritas 14y ago
If you maintain code that is a gigantic ball of if-foreach-else-switch-is_null or your class hierarchy looks like something a Java developer would produce, and you are constantly thinking "there must be a better way," you might benefit from
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by xaritas 14y ago
Well, Vagrant provides a hook for different provisioning frameworks. I believe that Puppet and Chef and officially supported. The project uses Chef, which is written in ruby and uses ruby-based cookbooks to do its work. So it is pretty unav
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by xaritas 14y ago
There is an immense amount of guilt and shame concerning the subject of markup and JavaScript living together. It may help if you rationalize it this way. The second one not HTML at all, rather it is written in an XML-like configuration lan
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by xaritas 14y ago
Seconded, they are extremely versatile, but make sure you do some research on how to use them effectively (books, videos, or trainers). Their unconventional shape, which makes them so effective, also makes it easy to lift in a way that is b
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by xaritas 14y ago
I probably could have used this recently when I had a project which required a close encounter with extracting data from PDFs. Fortunately the PDFs were generated as a report by a VB6 application (!) so they had a fairly regular format once

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