chrismear

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by chrismear 17y ago
Can we squeeze bear/bare (the verbs) in there?
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by chrismear 17y ago
I agree that for a novice a trivial example doesn't inspire them to learn more. But an experienced programmer who just wasn't familiar with this concept might appreciate more a stripped-down example like this that demonstrates the essential
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by chrismear 17y ago
I've found that the concept of anonymous functions is the biggest hurdle to get over -- closures seem to follow as a natural extension of that. I explained this to someone recently in the context of event handlers in ActionScript/JavaScript
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by chrismear 17y ago
Belvedere is particularly mind-bending: http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/belvedere.html
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by chrismear 17y ago
Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to delete a hundred comments...
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by chrismear 17y ago
With a decent error page, you can at least give ordinary people a link back to the home page.
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by chrismear 17y ago
The more they produce, the more I can't help but feel that Boston Dynamics must be stopped at all costs.
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by chrismear 17y ago
I thought this a while ago with Basecamp. Although I'm sure they use it internally to manage their own projects, since they don't do client work anymore they're not using it for its primary use case, which is collaborating with clients. It'
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by chrismear 17y ago
It's slang from Cambridge University (and maybe elsewhere, but that's where I encountered it) for a student studying mathematics. Related: 'NatSci' (pronounced natskee) for someone studying Natural Sciences (the course that covers all the t
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by chrismear 17y ago
I was totally expecting this to be something about automatically-persisting document interfaces.
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by chrismear 17y ago
OAuth is great, but the app doesn't actually say what it's going to do with my Twitter account. Developers especially are wary of handing over access to their accounts (OAuth or not), so it might be good to summarise what your app will po
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by chrismear 17y ago
Actually, the double slash is useful for at least one thing. You can use it in web pages to make relative URLs which preserve the protocol, but change the server. Suppose you have pages on a server www.example.com that reference images on a
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by chrismear 17y ago
"Who would build something like this? Just as in the early days of the mouse and windowed GUI, a system based upon 10/GUI's principles would likely be best suited to a systems builder capable of full vertical integration." I wonder who they
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by chrismear 17y ago
It might actually reduce clutter, since plenty of apps are now individually adding rotation options to their settings. Having a system-wide setting would simply consolidate all of these in one place.
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by chrismear 17y ago
MUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR REAL MEN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yH_j8-VVLo
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by chrismear 17y ago
Huh, that approach would never have occurred to me. Very elegant.
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by chrismear 17y ago
This is cool, but I won't truly be happy until someone's implemented Conway's Game of Life in Conway's Game of Life.
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by chrismear 17y ago
I think perhaps it was a play on 'chichi', meaning 'affectedly trendy': http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chichi#Adjective
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by chrismear 17y ago
Of course, it's not too tricky to configure, say, Apache to block access to all the .svn directories: http://www.subversionary.org/martintomes/preventing-access-t... http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/05/01/hivelogic-prev...
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by chrismear 17y ago
It's the former. Sure, it's not a problem if your code is already open-sourced, but plenty of people are working on things that aren't. And aside from code, you may have private data stored in your repository, such as API keys, or even just
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by chrismear 17y ago
I find this quote confusing. I can accept that gratis sex is better than paid-for sex, but then it's a pretty banal analogy to make -- in simplistic terms, anything is 'better' if you can get it without paying for it, software or otherwis
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by chrismear 17y ago
Drawing people's attention to a vote and promoting yourself isn't vote rigging in any sense. Vote rigging is tricking people to vote for you, or directly manipulating the voting mechanism.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Badly.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Probably something really sinister, like the ability to route your phone calls to you, or something.
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by chrismear 17y ago
From the article: "The app isn't running in the background; it's working server-to-server." So presumably all they've done is a deal with AT&T to access the cell-location data for a subscriber, and using the app to tie that into their L
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by chrismear 17y ago
I cannot for the life of me understand what this person is talking about. I've read it twice now. Isn't this less about being 'horizontal' or 'vertical', and more about the fact that we display information on flat areas, and about different
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by chrismear 17y ago
Not that I'm condoning the behaviour of the Twestival organisers, but I find it hard to sympathise with the venue, given that they continued reserving the date for 'months' with no contract and no deposit paid. They took a risk on a clearly
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by chrismear 17y ago
As someone who's pretty happy with iTunes, I'm genuinely interested to find out what I'm missing out on. What do these other management applications do that can't be done using the tools in iTunes? I admit, my usage isn't particularly sophi
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by chrismear 17y ago
In fairness, it's given an aside in the Hockey Puck Mouse section.
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by chrismear 17y ago
Maybe this is the issue -- I've seen these things explained the other way around. My experience is in Ruby (specifically Rails), with Test::Unit (usually used to espouse TDD), and RSpec (recommended for BDD-style development). With TDD, I f

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