zephjc

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by zephjc 13y ago
Yeah, the less runtime reflection you make it use, the better the speed gains (I'm glad type hints are optional though).
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by zephjc 13y ago
5% is pretty steep. The rate's been relatively low for the last couple years. In 2007, it went over 4%. http://usinflation.org/us-inflation-rate/
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by zephjc 13y ago
This is basically the power source on Romulan starships :)
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by zephjc 13y ago
If theres ever a time to do the right thing, it's in the President's second term: it's all downhill, what the pundits say doesn't matter to re-electability, since there is none (unless you plan on going to another office
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by zephjc 13y ago
That is some ridiculous bikeshedding
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by zephjc 13y ago
typo here in your readme: this.define('isFemale', female, String.Boolean); should be this.define('isFemale', female, Strict.Boolean);
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by zephjc 13y ago
I think that was the joke :)
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by zephjc 13y ago
Targeting another popular platform, Objective-C with the Apple libraries, makes a lot of sense to me . That, and C#/.NET (which is already a thing with clojure-clr) seem like the obvious candidates.
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by zephjc 13y ago
no trailing space is a convenient shorthand - print by itself prints with a newline (so it might make sense to have print() vs println()); print + comma omits the newline and waits for the next print statement, so that print 'hi&
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by zephjc 13y ago
I don't think it's a leading question - I think if they get a large enough sample size, it will be a worthwhile survey of the Python community's 2/3 behavior. Ultimately, you did pro-Python 3 supporters a disservice by n
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by zephjc 13y ago
Consider a generator that yields results indefinitely, or even merely millions of results. Are you still sure you want those printed to the repl? :)
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by zephjc 13y ago
The subreddit /r/tinyhouses has lots of this sort of thing, and is a pretty good collation of various blogs and articles on the subject, with some pretty decent conversation.
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by zephjc 13y ago
Those halcyon days, I remember them well.
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by zephjc 13y ago
I think people are aiming to create the original geocities experience too: Examples: http://poeks.neocities.org/ http://skry.neocities.org/ http://jeremy.neocities.org/
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by zephjc 13y ago
SCO v. IBM, aka "The Thing That Wouldn't Die"
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Don't Like The Look Of iOS 7? Consider These Alternative Designs(appadvice.com)
2 points by zephjc 13y ago|0 comments
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by zephjc 13y ago
I think he means Netscape Communicator, which used the lighthouse icon (where the metaphor has something to do with guiding you around in the dark?); Navigator had the boat wheel icon. http://dialup.pacbell.net/images/1
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PRISM Would Have Come Off Better With Better PowerPoint Design(techcrunch.com)
1 points by zephjc 13y ago|0 comments
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by zephjc 13y ago
Math uses symbols heavily as its own jargon, and someone approaching formulae that have unspecified symbols, without knowing this jargon, is typically fruitless. That said, I agree that math is terribly taught. My mother and my wife both h
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by zephjc 13y ago
> If he was planning to commit the atrocity he did, why would you stand & talk to someone? (unless they were perhaps working together) They are photographed together in both photos, both carrying bags. But I believe it's jumping to
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by zephjc 14y ago
No. Hacker News is serious business.
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by zephjc 14y ago
I have played with Win 8 Metro only a bit, so I can't speak for it's practical usage, but I own a WinPhone8 (Lumia 920) and the UI i think is not at all overdone, and other than tiles having their non-standard images sometimes, it's all ver
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by zephjc 14y ago
Add a chat/texting app and give it to teenagers and it will be instantly considered "cool".
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by zephjc 14y ago
Should show ratings in the movie directory pages, instead of just on the movie details pages.
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by zephjc 14y ago
Note, this is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992062 which went overlooked, but I added a vimeo album to link to all 4 videos.
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Monads explained in Clojure by Brian Marick(vimeo.com)
3 points by zephjc 14y ago|2 comments
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by zephjc 14y ago
You can also do them online at http://www.4clojure.com/
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by zephjc 14y ago
> Set and map constructor functions allow duplicates Awesome, finally!
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by zephjc 14y ago
The diagram in the Building Blocks section of http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about&l=en hurts my eyes. I had to zoom in to see if my eyes or the image was to blame.
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by zephjc 14y ago
I don't know - when I first heard the name, 'Safari' made sense to me after a moment of thinking about it. Netscape Navigator , Internet Explorer , and Safari - all named around the theme of discovery.

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