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by anonym 15y ago
Don't you think web crawling (for users with archival accounts, where the full text + associated images/resources for each bookmark is stored and indexed on Pinboard's servers) is probably using up more of those resources than actually serv
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by anonym 18y ago
Yes. I have to admit that this behavior confused me too when I was first learning Javascript. My only previous experience with lexical scope was in Common Lisp, which of course works the same way -- but the issue doesn't seem to come up as
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by anonym 18y ago
"<a href=" http://evilsite.com#/about ">About</a>" There is absolutely no reason to build links with your own hostname in them in the first place. Why on earth would you make a link like this instead of href="/about"? edited
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by anonym 18y ago
It's certainly technically extremely impressive. The user experience, though, is not great, and certainly not worth the effort it must have involved. Why reimplement draggable, modal windows? What does that get the user? Must we really dupl
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by anonym 18y ago
I use Dean Edwards's base2. I like it because it is very simple, and because it adheres to standards; that is, rather than creating a map and a forEach of its own, with its own semantics, it implements them according to the Javascript stand
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by anonym 18y ago
If you want speed, why not Common Lisp? Nice, high-level, a pleasure to work in, fast and compiled out of the box, with the ability to optimize the hell out of specific critical parts of your code (using, e.g., optional type declarations, s
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by anonym 18y ago
Why are you building, instead of downloading the binary?
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by anonym 18y ago
http://www.sbcl.org -> "Downloads" -> Linux/x86 (or your architecture/OS of choice). Hold on a second, I need to lie down for a moment after all that hard work there. OK. Yes, there's not one Lisp implementation that is canonical
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by anonym 18y ago
Now that's just cold.
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by anonym 18y ago
What's Common Lisp? I'm thinking either Barry Goldwater or Eugene McCarthy, kind of a toss-up.
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by anonym 18y ago
No, I backup my home directory and some web directories.
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by anonym 18y ago
I use http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ to backup to Amazon S3 (it has support for various other backends). It encrypts with GnuPG. S3 charges a few cents per GB of transfer and a few cents per GB of storage per month.
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by anonym 18y ago
"We now have technologies that effectively mix web and desktop technologies, something I like to call 'webtop clients', manifest in Adobe Flash Player, Java Applets, and Microsoft Silverlight." 1. Flash is used for: video, music, ads (usual
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by anonym 18y ago
I am reminded of Borges's "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" ( http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html ) (and what do you know, Borges even slips George Boole into it). "He did not want to compose another Quixote —which is
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by anonym 18y ago
And calling a place nicer than a shopping mall is like saying that my squalid, decomposing first apartment was nicer than a prison cell; true, and irrelevant.
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by anonym 18y ago
Jesus Christ, I just watched a video of Ken Tilton ranting on a beach (!?) and agreed with almost everything he said. That can't be a good sign at all. (Hey smanek, this is eli)
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by anonym 18y ago
I don't really know enough about Linux fonts to answer that. The window manager, Ion, does not support Xft because its author hates anti-aliasing, so I'm not sure what is rendering the title bars -- just X, I think. The terminal font is Inc
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by anonym 18y ago
Nice. I like flat desktops; I will never understand the appeal of faux-3D interface elements. I must, however, confess to a weakness for transparent terminals. http://scratch.flyoverblues.com/screen.png
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by anonym 18y ago
Vecto ( http://www.xach.com/lisp/vecto/ ) in Common Lisp is excellent for this sort of thing (see http://common-lisp.net/project/adw-charting/ , which uses it).
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by anonym 18y ago
They call 'em session beers for a reason. (He says, surrounded by empty cans of Old Style ($5.99 the 12-pack) and the husks of half-written late-night defuns.)
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by anonym 18y ago
"It didn’t try to pay for reviews, as some sites have." It certainly did, as someone points out in the comments at the Times. Craigslist was littered with ads for Yelp reviewers a few years ago when I was last looking for a job.
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by anonym 18y ago
Lisp is not a functional language except in the trivial sense that it supports HOFs. Common Lisp is not even functional in the sense of Scheme, where purely-functional programming is not enforced but seems to be encouraged (disclaimer: IANA
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by anonym 18y ago
"You don't have to read past that first sentence to realize that this is heavily biased opinion from a person who earns his living doing web design." Absolutely! Really, who could be less qualified to comment on web design?
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by anonym 19y ago
I've started using Inconsolata, which is both free and pretty nice. (It has particularly nice parentheses, which I appreciate as a Lisp programmer.)
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by anonym 19y ago
[Note: Although the system attributes this post to a single author, it was written by David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker] Oh, the irony.