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by ijoshua 18y ago
> Where can you point me to "better documentation than PHP"? This is a major difficulty for new people getting into Python-- the documentation is really quite poor and out-dated. I disagree that the Python documentation is poor or out-d
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by ijoshua 18y ago
Python‘s way of accomplishing this is as easy, although the use of `locals` should indicate that this isn’t generally something you should be doing: post = {'name': 'ijoshua', 'email': 'spam@example.com', 'extra': 'data'} fil
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by ijoshua 18y ago
I don’t know the details of the compiler, but the negation operator on int objects also has a corresponding method: `__neg__` -1 == (1).__neg__()
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Principia Discordia; or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her
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by ijoshua 19y ago
See those arrows? That’s human moderation. Just don’t click on the up arrow if you think it’s spam.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
The privacy implications and “unintended consequences” of participating in Facebook are shocking.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
It was an apostrophe, but since Arc doesnaEURXt support Unicode, fuck it.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
The patent appears to predate PLTaEURXs work.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
How did you arrive at these conclusions? Did you use some programmatic analysis of CL source code to report these stats? Which codebases were your reference?
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by ijoshua 19y ago
mzscheme (PLT) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11994
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by ijoshua 19y ago
I looked at it very briefly. The codebase is actually pretty small. It appears to depend heavily on memcached.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Whatever language, I just hope it comes with decent documentation.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Given Lisp, I can implement a Lisp interpreter easily: (loop (print (eval (read)))
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by ijoshua 19y ago
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Here-say and speculation, although not that far fetched.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
"Honour thy error as a hidden intention" - Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies
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by ijoshua 19y ago
I'd like to see a scoring system that evaluates the discussion or thread as a whole, rather than the individual contributions; a metric like a signal-to-noise ratio, where a thread gets a higher score for being on-topic and relevant, or a l
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by ijoshua 19y ago
<q>You just participated.</q> I did not realize this was an argument. I guess I lost. Seriously, though, the most interesting arguments don't resolve for quite some time, if ever. For example, who was the winner in the inf
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Easy. The losers are usually the ones who participate.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Are you referring to the "JavaScript API" or the "Data APIs?" Because the Data APIs are pretty plainly based on the Atom Publishing protocol, with only a few extensions. Yes, many of Google's APIs are now based on Atompub, but that isn't
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Google doesn't have to keep your data for you. The OpenSocial API is just a specification. Google's own applications implement the specification, and you can too. The API is designed to be able to work with data on any host. It's in the
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by ijoshua 19y ago
"But I think they're inherently slower for things like reporting." I wouldn't say the deficiency is _inherent_, but the powerful indexing ability of a relational DB that we take for granted seems to be necessarily _ad hoc_ in an object-orie
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by ijoshua 19y ago
PG, I'd be interested to know why you chose to implement a voting/rating system for stories on news.yc. That is, did you consider a "weightless" submission system like, for example, MetaFilter, where front-page postings are a privilege tha
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by ijoshua 19y ago
"Most people aren't smart at all." Very correct. In fact, nearly half of all the people you'll meet have a "below average" intelligence.
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by ijoshua 19y ago
"Maybe" is one option too many http://www.zeldman.com/2007/06/20/remove-maybe-from-invitati...
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by ijoshua 19y ago
I would like it better if the "Comments" box didn't obscure the content. Even on my 1680 by 1050 monitor, with the browser window scaled to full width, I cannot move the comments completely out of the way. If the main content area was ali
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by ijoshua 19y ago
Oh noes! Write your congressperson!
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Password Security: A Case History(wolfram.schneider.org)
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by ijoshua 19y ago
As stated in the last few paragraphs, the simplest way to guard against this sort of attack is to salt the data before hashing it. What he doesn't discuss is how to choose a salt value. In a good hash function, every bit should affect the