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The Flow of Code(medium.com)
1 points by postfuturist 12y ago|0 comments
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by postfuturist 12y ago
Java 6 did not break backward compatibility (code written for Java 5 generally runs fine on Java 6).
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by postfuturist 12y ago
"One of the great strengths of Python 2 is the long tail of 3rd party libraries" does not imply it is the "only measure"
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by postfuturist 12y ago
Did you read the article? The long tail is the critical collection of libraries and most of them will never be ported. People write new Python 2 libraries every day, actually--the list is getting longer, not shorter. That said, gevent is an
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by postfuturist 12y ago
Python 2 has unicode literals and utf-8 available if you declare them at the top of your file. You don't need Python 3 for that.
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by postfuturist 12y ago
I'm the author. I've never worked at Microsoft (where did you get that?). I'm a Linux guy. The "lazy people" you refer to is 98% of the Python community. Python 3 didn't "gain" static type checking. Y
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by postfuturist 13y ago
> No one expects an app written for OSX 10.4 Tiger to work on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. That's truly sad.
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by postfuturist 13y ago
json.org/license
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by postfuturist 13y ago
That's just a license for software available on json.org, so no impact at all.
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by postfuturist 13y ago
OK, I'm moving to Finland.
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by postfuturist 13y ago
I like Prolog Also, I have a love/hate relationship with a lot of these langs, so votes go in both categories, I suppose.
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by postfuturist 13y ago
It's a common technique to serialize arbitrary data into blob fields in SQL databases--I've seen it for years. Usually, it is considered an anti-pattern. Postgres 9.1 doesn't do much other than verify the JSON data is valid J
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by postfuturist 13y ago
It will probably be available here forever: http://web.archive.org/web/20130806152657/http://blog.jgc.or...
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by postfuturist 13y ago
> They are a data structure invented by Rich Hickey for Clojure It is an implementation of a data structure invented by Phil Bagwell: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf
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by postfuturist 13y ago
Edit: he should have escaped the $title and $body.
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by postfuturist 13y ago
This isn't a search for SQL injection, its a search for a couple things that you often find in older PHP code that is generally hacked together and likely to have SQL injection vulnerabilities for historical and cultural reasons. However it
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by postfuturist 13y ago
"... antioxidants, probiotics, and nootropics. It's everything the body needs." - Soylent video "It's a single cell protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs." - from The Matrix
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by postfuturist 13y ago
People are working on this very problem: http://ecozoomstove.com/
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by postfuturist 13y ago
I enjoyed using an earlier version of Linux Mint, but the default gnome-shell UI had a massive memory leak ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/930402 ) which was never fixed and "upgrades" to the next version are wipe-and-reinstal
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by postfuturist 13y ago
1. Does being a cretin or a jerk or whatever mean it is OK to be imprisoned for non-crimes? 2. He wasn't the one who started the comparisons with Aaron Swartz, from weev's tweet: "CNN is also sitting around calling me a meanie. I'm a bad tr
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by postfuturist 13y ago
"automatic merging" upon consensus -- had to laugh at this idea, the ratio of merge requests that would merge cleanly, automatically is low. Generally they have to be rebased against the exact branch they are to be merged against with human
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by postfuturist 13y ago
Rosetta Code has Hello World in only 245 programming languages (but a huge corpus of other examples in various languages). http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Perseverence. Time and exposure is all you need. Eventually you will be comfortable with it. I know I am, and it probably took about a year.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Cookie handling needs to be visible, not just for devs, but normal users. Maybe a little bar that shows that first party and 3rd party domains are offering cookies and users can allow them as needed or set defaults they are happy with (like
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Quick Ubuntu Guide (tested with 12.10, should work with 12.04): sudo apt-add-repository ppa:efl/trunk sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install e17 libedje-bin Log out, select Enlightenment from menu, log in, enjoy!
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by postfuturist 14y ago
There's nothing in the LGPLv3 that prevents you from charging money, or distributing through app stores, so long as you comply with the requirements of the license.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
"Similarly, if an employee smuggles in GPLv3 code in to the company's codebase then the company can't just shrug that off, and must release their proprietary source code as GPLv3." No, assuming the company was in violation of the GPLv3, the
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by postfuturist 14y ago
Financial incentive is good, the developer is encouraged to continue maintaining and supporting the project and make it even better, listen to users, pull in useful features from popular forks, fix bugs, etc. The way to have the most popula
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by postfuturist 14y ago
It was a little rough at first, but it has smoothed out. I like it.
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by postfuturist 14y ago
What about Firefox which has shipped with Google search default since forever, which Google pays Mozilla for, which Google makes money on? Will you never use Firefox again?

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