ghosttrails
Re:Y Combinator vs Seedcamp - Paul Graham nailed it?
on Sunday February 06, 2011 @10:03PM (#2187375)
The online programmer testing site mentioned in that story (http://codility.com) is pretty slick.
Re:Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @03:52AM (#1264434)
I've thought of a use for Cpedia: generating Mahalo pages.
Re:Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia
on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @03:28AM (#1264395)
One unexpected effect of Cpedia aggregating articles about things to build pages is that the page for the software I write and sell contains both it's description and links to where to get a cracked version :(
Re:Event Cancelled
on Monday March 22, 2010 @07:33PM (#1211704)
How about printing up a sticker that says "Support Act: Michael Bolton" and putting it on offending events
Re:This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone.
on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @05:45PM (#1179598)
Try it in Firefox and then in Chrome - really shows the JS speed advantages of Google's browser (at least for this).
Re:I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.
on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:11AM (#1142070)
worked for cuil
Re:Raising money for StackOverflow
on Monday February 15, 2010 @05:07PM (#1127658)
This is the thing about SO that really works. You almost always get a good answer within hours of asking any programming question (that's been my experience anyway).
Re:Secret language
on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @06:33PM (#1023491)
I find the similarity between the style of jargon in that job posting and the jargon used by the Church of Scientology ('sea-org', 'OT', 'out-ethics' etc.) a little creepy.
Re:Flawed climate data
on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @09:16PM (#973521)
Surely the flabbergasting thing is not whether this proves or disproves GW but that scientists are allowed to flat-out refuse to release the raw data they used to generate results.
Re:Why Perl Lost It
on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @10:11PM (#971412)
I don't think Perl lost "It", but it did lose the Web.
There's tons of Unix back-end glue written in Perl, and I imagine tons still being written right now, but as a language for web-apps it just didn't get critical mass for some reason.
I think krf's comment might be part of the answer. I've had to do some mod_perl recently and the documentation is very patchy even now. I shudder to think what it might have been like 5 years ago.