yeahbutbut

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by yeahbutbut 8y ago
> This basically was at its root a "theory" vs. "getting it done" argument. Because worse is better. https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by yeahbutbut 9y ago
>> my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes. > You can throw in in the trash, you know :) I prefer to build forts for my cats out of my leftover boxes.
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by yeahbutbut 9y ago
You're the one deciding what you need out of the material so that's up to you ;-)
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by yeahbutbut 9y ago
I was trying to be punny by implying indecision... edit: also thanks for the link :)
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by yeahbutbut 9y ago
Maybe.
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by yeahbutbut 9y ago
That should probably be based on access patterns, not on mutability flags. If it's "archived", but has 1K downloads a day it should be in cache.
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by yeahbutbut 9y ago
Do people really click on ads on purpose?
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by yeahbutbut 10y ago
Found the emacs user! ;-)
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by yeahbutbut 10y ago
> If you attempt to read the script in your browser first, and everything's great, then go pipe to bash, the server can send alternate content based on your user agent. curl | less Or copy the request "as curl" from the n
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by yeahbutbut 10y ago
How did you handle shared writable storage and databases?
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by yeahbutbut 10y ago
They could be a shelf full of $2 novels. Owning a few hundred books doesn't cost very much (thanks printing press), and only implies an interest in reading not in being of a high socioeconomic status.
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
That strikes me as being less about controlling the message and more about making sure that the people entering the library know how to handle manuscripts that old (especially the part about not allowing undergraduates...). Digitizing the
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by "supports". If you use myisam or need DDL statement rollback MySQL is still not a great option. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transactional_DDL_in_Postgre... http:/&#x2
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
> f.ex. where did the fixed width files come from? Encrypted and signed files sent over the wire from a company we do business with. Additionally I was just pairing the values up with local names that I chose (the fixed width file had n
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
You're right, let is a macro so you can't pass binding forms from a variable, my mistake. But surely Scheme has some function for binding variables to the local scope... My point is that trusting user input is the error, not havi
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
> "Let's make a function that has the side effect of introducing variables into scope. That's a great idea." And ``let'' is? ;-) Doing a (let [request] (check-auth ...)) would be equally dumb. Let's no
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
I've found exactly two: Ghetto templating (using a PHP file as a template). Extract an object from the database into local vars to echo in the "template". Parsing fixed width files, zip the columns with their names, then ext
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
For two options, almost certainly not ;-) For N ports, or for a port list defined from a config file however it could be. It's even nicer in python: ports = [80, 443, ...] if port in ports and http: ... Or with un
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
And so far everyone has missed telling the poor OP how to avoid writing two equality checks... if( [80, 443].indexOf(port) !== -1 && http === false )
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by yeahbutbut 12y ago
The problems can be solved in other languages, the tools are just clunkier. Lisp lets you solve the hard problems simply, and the solutions (not their expression) are what matters.
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment that the framework "disease" has gotten a little out of hand (it seems like we have a new one every few weeks now...). However, these same people would come up with a dozen ways of routing URLs to handl
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
My first thought was CDATA, but he could also mean using multiple namespaces or something else I suppose. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CDATASectio...
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Definitely a management perspective.
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
That is a name I have not heard in a long time. A long, long time...
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
> Allow me this one; are your belongings really yours if you forget to lock the door? Practically, it depends on where you live. In major urban areas: no they're gone and they probably aren't coming back. Insurance might repl
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Creating an index of these files seems more like driving down the street taking pictures of all the houses with their front doors left open. Something Google seems to get away with on a regular basis.
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Is it really private if the owners made the data publicly available?
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that by HTTP client he meant rendering engines. And in this analogy the data integrity is "whatever crap I have to send to the client to get the expected output on all client machines". So it's somewhat
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Only for people who are comfortable speaking, have no speech impediments, communicate linearly (no backtracking), and are communicating things that resemble natural language. Good for grandma writing an email, bad for a lot of other UX cas
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
There is some value in being able to read non-expert code, you're more likely to run into non-expert code during your day to day job. Someone like Abelson, or Armstrong, will write clearer almost effortless code. Someone at work may

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