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dochtman
8,644karma·837submissions·August 2, 2010
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Professional Rust maintainer.
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So is this better for the environment, or just cheaper? The article doesn't seem to mention it.
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Kind of weird that font.ubuntu.com doesn't just offer .ttf files or other easy downloads.
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We also commonly use tuples as light-weight types (a kind of heterogeneous collection).
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Title doesn't really reflect the contents of the article that well...
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So is the "davewiner" account here a sockpuppet? It wouldn't seem to make much sense for the real Dave Winer to post this here.
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I just don't see this being true. In what distro is it stuck at 2.4?
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Also, the article says that views can just be written in JavaScript. It's true that the default query server is written for JavaScript, but query servers exist for other languages, including but not l…
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I haven't written any CouchApps (I really don't like JS so much I'd like to write my whole app in it, even though the notion is quite awesome), but I've used CouchDB in a few projects. Most importantl…
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I still want my operator overloading back. Oh yeah, and something better than explicit getters and setters.
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Yeah, I'm not sure what he wants with the static methods. I always pine for first-class functions when coding in Java...
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Mercurial's subrepo is a pretty good stab at fixing this, IMO. It's unpolished, right now, in that it doesn't deal with some of the more complex scenarios well, but the idea is really getting there (a…
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In this context, the German use of caps is interesting. They capitalize every noun, and I believe that such a use has been proven to allow for speedier reading than the capital use in other Western la…
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It's pretty new, it should get enabled by default soon.
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I thought http://www.sparkleshare.org/ was more interesting.
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I wonder if the Sep 1 deadline is for just JM or the actual JM/TM integration.
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Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 4.0 (b3), which should have WebSockets... (I think it might be a different protocol version from what Chrome supports, which is exactly the reason it sucks when browser…
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Huh? Someone changed the title. Is that customary around here?
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I don't care for it. Jinja is pretty much the last word in Python templating, IMO.
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FWIW, and I realize not everyone likes it, but Gentoo goes a long way towards making Linux package management more like BSD ports (AFAICT; haven't used *BSD much). I really like that Gentoo encourages…
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Looks like a nice list of things for Google management to improve about their promotion process.