nolanw

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   by nolanw 15y ago

   In other news, go.com is still a thing.
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   Well it's certainly not a science as the scientific method is nowhere to be found. The closest thing to it at most universities is the math department, which seems to end up in the arts faculty as often as not. I'd argue there's widespread
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   This is so laughably wrong as to be absurd. Your explanation for Canadian telecom entrenchment and protectionism is that it's anti-American? Canada and its provinces have imported America's love of faux-competition in media, telecom, electr
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   Right.
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   If I recall, the issue with a public 0mq socket was that anyone driving by sending something 0mq didn't like would cause an assertion to fail, so your process would crash. It wasn't so much a "supposed to be exposed" as "expose it and crash
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   I'm curious why you ascribe that preference to historical reasons. My exposure was in reverse order to yours but we have the same preference.
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   > btw, swegr ~= hacker ? I think it's an abbreviation of 'software engineer(ing)'.
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   > Arguably, an ObjC programmer should know that booleans are YES and NO and not true or false It's just C. 0 is false, anything else is true.
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   by nolanw 15y ago

   > Python's auto-concatenation of runs of string literals is convenient but I don't know of another language that does the same thing. The C preprocessor (in GCC and Clang at least) will concatenate adjacent literals, so add C, C++, and
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Perhaps Apple thinks different by being better, not just different for the sake of being different. I think maybe you're giving evidence for, not against, the post you replied to.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    If I could, I would answer "As little as possible". If there's anyone building towards scripts that will, say, build an app and run it in the iOS simulator without using Xcode, I'd love to dive in and help out. Otherwise, someday I'll get t
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    This puzzle is mentioned in the lovely documentary Wordplay[1], which ostensibly follows a cadre of competitors in a year of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Well worth a watch, and I believe it's on Netflix. [1] http://www.imdb.c
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    It uses CoffeeScript's grammar, so there's no need to learn a new one or switch between two different grammars as you work. It's also way less code than Haml. CoffeeKup's src folder is 240 lines of code.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    You can certainly use the client for plain ol' Git. The GitHub-specific stuff is a "Push to GitHub" button on repositories that aren't already on GitHub, and a list of your GitHub repositories. It's more than useful without ever using GitHu
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    The "safety factor"... is huge for THC, LSD, mushrooms, DMT, K , etc., and much smaller for MDMA, Meth, K , opiates, coke. --- I spy a repeat...
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Egg carton!
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    I was looking into turns-into-whiteboard paints/stickers recently and turned up a handy comparison of various surfaces and their whiteboard-ability. Turns out washing machines and dryers often work great, though are likely impractical. htt
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    This article is unreadable. And that may be the point.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Is your refresh button broken?
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Any word on whether this affects version 2 of Skype for Mac OS X (the old one), the current Skype 5.1, or both? Neither the article nor the linked blog post would say. If the former, I don't imagine they'll update it, and this might finally
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    A very little color. Can you add anything that wasn't in the originally-posted article? For example, answers to any of these questions: Why was the accused infringer of trademarks not given specific, actionable information about the trade
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Were you actually confused, or are you just picking nits? If the latter, then it's not really a bug is it.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    "Big 'r'" and "small 'r'"?
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Very realistic until you need to debug your code. Debugging's JS-only, as far as I know, so you're picking through the compiled CS looking for errors. edit: Well listen to the man himself, but I learned tons about JS's semantics by picking
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Do you ask museum curators what point value they assigned the paintings in their exhibits? The curation still happens without numbers attached.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Good call, I had no idea. Looking into it, apparently the CRTC believes that internet audio and video broadcasting services are under its jurisdiction, but it has exempted all such services from regulation. The notice is at http://www.crtc
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    As far as I can tell, it's a combination of the licensing being different (as in the terms of your license probably only cover the United States to start), and the CRTC's content laws and other regulations being annoying enough not to bothe
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Great idea! Minor note: the "Think something should be here? Contact us about it." link text was very hard to read (Chrome 10, OS X). Maybe it's too small for that font and weight.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    Consider it done.
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    by nolanw 15y ago

    He's licensing the code to you under the GPL. He's free to use his own code however he likes.