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by stuhacking 14y ago
It's called "Vulture's Eye" these days and I think it's still in development... http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture
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by stuhacking 15y ago
I think you can be polite and terse, friend.
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by stuhacking 15y ago
You mean when it wasn't up to your standard? The total number of upvotes on an article determines what the wider HN community thinks of it.
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by stuhacking 15y ago
On the other hand (and I'm slightly playing Devil's advocate here), books and other physical media go out of print eventually. It can become difficult to find a copy of some archaic technical manual that interests you. (Anyone selling any S
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by stuhacking 15y ago
This is not bloat, it's flexibility. Emacs does not come with a lot of features built in, it comes with lots of loadable modules. If you don't need them then don't load them. The notion that Emacs is bloated has not really stood since aroun
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by stuhacking 15y ago
I'm asking a different question. Rendering a page as a semantically structured document won't remove the ability to globally disable a feature. (In fact, I would argue that it would make it easier.) It's fair enough that pg does whatever he
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by stuhacking 15y ago
Why not stop rendering HN pages in tables with inline formatting and render the page as a semantically structured document with a default style sheet. This will allow others to come along and restyle the site as they see fit. Don't like com
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by stuhacking 15y ago
Actually, I'm wondering what Haskell has to do with any of this at all. You're comparing the size of the current incarnation of a fairly modern functional programming runtime with the capacity of computers that existed 10 years before the f
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by stuhacking 15y ago
1990? I think the issue of mutability in OOP vs FP pre-dates that.
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by stuhacking 15y ago
Mutable objects are there so that you don't have to create new instances whenever a field changes. The danger of shared mutable objects is that the ground can change beneath your feet. Immutable objects enable safe sharing, however, if you
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by stuhacking 15y ago
This is probably aimed at the subset of HN readers that haven't quite made it yet.
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by stuhacking 15y ago
Freetard, iFag, luser, Microdroid, B1ff, Pointy haired, Marketroid. The 'us and them' mentality exists across many boundaries and I don't think it's going away any time soon. Most just learn to ignore it because whatever you decide is good,
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by stuhacking 16y ago
I'm sorry, I misunderstood the situation you described.
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by stuhacking 16y ago
Testing a DB connection sounds more like integration than unit testing. Mocks are used to fake things that add significant overhead but no value. If you have a suite of 1000 unit tests, you really don't want half of them making actual datab
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by stuhacking 16y ago
So, maybe IE isn't a great browser, but it still has actual people working on it. I bet at least one person on the IE team uses Firefox or Chrome in the office for regular browsing. Think of it this way: The people who work on IE are prob
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by stuhacking 16y ago
I'm afraid I can't personally provide a detailed run down - I played the game for about 6 months near the end of university and after that I never really found enough free time to justify continuing the subscription. The Wikipedia page seem
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by stuhacking 16y ago
I just realised I screwed up the second link - should have been: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8132547.stm
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by stuhacking 16y ago
You mean like Eve Online? :-) http://www.eveonline.com/ Actually, this response is directed towards shogunmike also. Just in case you haven't heard of Eve, it's a spaced themed MMO very much to the tune of Elite. You can make a living min
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by stuhacking 16y ago
2) the ``This sucks'' response lets you vent anger. Now there are two conflicting theories about controlling strong emotions... ;-) I realise that this is intended for humour, but more seriously, I have experienced much better anger reduc
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by stuhacking 16y ago
I would say a lot of Brits really do enjoy talking to people, not as an obligation of 'politeness'. The culture of politeness is more likely to be a cause than a symptom. (Speaking for myself) I find it hard to talk randomly to strangers be
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by stuhacking 16y ago
DMs and @mentions will now be redirected to the new account until the original user is able to send the change of username notification. There's now a chance, however slim, that a private message will arrive at the wrong person as a result
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by stuhacking 16y ago
It's certainly a lot cheaper than ~$3000 /year (MSDN?), or ~$4000 /year (IBM?) or ~$3600 /year (Lispworks?). In the grand scheme of things, Apple's tools and developer membership schemes are fairly generous. It's still making a big step fro
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by stuhacking 16y ago
Apple are really driving me to put Linux on both my machines. I'm not happy about that, but it's seems ever more likely since Linux is getting a lot more usable and the Apple tax is getting a lot more expensive.
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by stuhacking 16y ago
A collection of essays like this would make a very nice book. It's taking me a while to read in short bursts during work ("It's compiling.") but I'm determined to finish.
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by stuhacking 16y ago
I agree. There's plenty of literature supporting almost the opposite of what Dijkstra preaches. While it's good to aim for formal specification, in practice you're likely to overdesign, deliver late and potentially find yourself unable to r
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by stuhacking 16y ago
Isn't it poignant though? These were quotes with all the cruft removed to reveal the heart of the message. It was minimalist in an almost Ive-esque manner.
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by stuhacking 16y ago
Mythical Mammoth Is this a quirky, alternate title? :-)
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by stuhacking 16y ago
We can see what it measures. I'm just saying that it's a pretty nebulous metric when used out of context. Taking 2 numbers and condensing them into 1 (à la Megapixels) is an exercise in marketing.
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by stuhacking 16y ago
but, Tests/LLOC seems to state even less than LLOC. LLOC gives an indication of the complexity of the application (or a component). All Tests/LLOC seems to state is that some lines of code exist and potentially, some test cases are testing
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by stuhacking 16y ago
We all love farmers in our group - fighting to join up those fields to try and swing the game in the final few tile placements is really fun. :-)

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