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How to Implement Regular Expressions in JavaScript Using Derivatives(dpk.io)
2 points by dpkendal 9y ago|0 comments
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by dpkendal 9y ago
As a learner/non-native speaker of German, please don't abolish the only way to tell the vowel length of an unfamiliar word.
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by dpkendal 9y ago
Did we read the same paragraph? The problem with his first thesis was that, though he presented a brilliant and original result, he didn’t show that he’d studied enough prior research. Nothing to do with schmoozing, everything to do with sc
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What Brexit and austerity tell us about economics policy and the media [pdf](speri.dept.shef.ac.uk)
2 points by dpkendal 10y ago|0 comments
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by dpkendal 10y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER (Remote or Berlin, Germany) Abecedary Limited We’re looking for someone to help us integrate SAML authentication into a Python/Flask web app (as a Service Provider, wanting to authenticate against IdPs). There is alr
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by dpkendal 10y ago
> Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. “Sorry, you wrote this and we don’t like it, therefore you’re not invited to this conference on an irrelevant topic” or “… therefore we’re not going to a conference to which you were i
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by dpkendal 11y ago
SEEKING WORK Berlin, DE. Remote possible (preferred). 12 years experience, 5 professional, in Python and Ruby web development, with popular frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, Flask). Additional experience in PHP, JavaScript, etc. Open-source work
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by dpkendal 11y ago
Perl 6 uses rationals by default. They have the advantages of being base-agnostic, able to accurately represent any recurring digit expansion accurately regardless of eventual base, and also faster (since, especially if you normalize (conve
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by dpkendal 11y ago
The difference is in how the result is converted to a string, not in how the result is produced.
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by dpkendal 11y ago
This was published so he can get community help with finishing it: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/encyclopedia/preface.htm...
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by dpkendal 11y ago
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biograp... ) follows a similar model to the SEP to deliver on the comprehensive/authoritative/up-to-date trifec
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by dpkendal 11y ago
Unicode has things for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner And customization is done declaratively, not imperatively.
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by dpkendal 11y ago
It’s not certain yet that this is an antedating. OED editor Jesse Sheidlower calls it ‘putative’: https://twitter.com/jessesheidlower/status/64305138542510899... and slang lexicographer Jonathon Green concurs but
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by dpkendal 11y ago
The Unicode case-mapping algorithm is customizable by locale (e.g. uppercase i is İ in Turkish). A application which needed long s (for German Fraktur, for instance) could use a custom locale.
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by dpkendal 11y ago
My mistake, I meant O(2 ^ n) indeed. Regardless, having exponential time complexity in terms of the regular expression (which is usually controlled by the programmer) where the processing is done at compile-time is much better than having e
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by dpkendal 11y ago
Not true. Finite automata (NFAs, DFAs) can match that pattern (and any pattern that doesn't involve backreferences or lookaround) in O(n) time where n is the size of the input string. DFA implementations are worst-case O(n ^ 2) in the
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by dpkendal 11y ago
Why not store the log files in an FM-index? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index )
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by dpkendal 12y ago
Bears repeating: this does not affect stable versions of FreeBSD. FreeBSD-CURRENT is the development version.
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ASCII becomes an Internet Standard(mailarchive.ietf.org)
2 points by dpkendal 12y ago|0 comments
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by dpkendal 12y ago
Indeed, the W3C's work on HTML5 is irrelevant. It exists only for the purpose of giving the W3C-qua-organization the appearance of being involved in the further development of HTML.
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by dpkendal 12y ago
Which is exactly what djb says about Germany. It doesn’t affect public domain status.
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by dpkendal 12y ago
Provably false. http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html
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Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency(dpk.io)
106 points by dpkendal 13y ago|103 comments
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by dpkendal 13y ago
“Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs
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by dpkendal 13y ago
You seem to be the only person in this thread who has grasped this idea; though instinctively to me it feels another formalism like LC is the wrong way to go.
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by dpkendal 13y ago
Bret Victor is working on some amazing stuff right now. I suggest his talk Drawing Dynamic Visualizations to see how he’s making programing more direct and less “code”-ish: http://vimeo.com/66085662
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by dpkendal 13y ago
“If you believe that you have never tried to teach a class of non-programmers.” No, you’re trying to teach them with the same kind of tool that I call ‘clumsy and unsophisticated’ in the article. “Apple have made a lot of efforts to bring p
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by dpkendal 13y ago
I am a programmer, writer and musician, but I don’t find any of them easy. Programming is unique, though, because the tools you use to do it can also be used to make the task in general much easier.
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Modern computing: A short history and a shorter rant(dpk.io)
43 points by dpkendal 13y ago|60 comments
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by dpkendal 13y ago
Funny, that's exactly what people used to say when OS X came out, right after Steve Jobs came back …

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