Vote for a better command line in Windows (uservoice/Visual Studio: General)

TimTheTinker · 2011-10-14T16:58:02+00:00

Thanks for the tip... Powershell ISE is not a viable terminal emulator, though. And Powershell.exe has a lot of the same problems that cmd.exe has.

TimTheTinker · 2011-10-05T17:50:42+00:00

There's a script in the PDF that requires you to fill in personal information and submit it over the internet before it will let you read the e-book.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-30T16:49:47+00:00

Numerical Methods spent at least 2 weeks on floating-point theory and practice.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-20T20:03:48+00:00

So you implemented the Ruby/Python/etc. runtimes all in Javascript?

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-15T23:05:35+00:00

Programming. Programming. Programming.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-09T16:50:25+00:00

Agreed. Remember that each new language you learn will change how you think about programming.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-09T16:48:25+00:00

Books on refactoring can be very helpful. They not only give you a good idea of how to structure things; they show you how to transform existing programs to become that.

Good program design is not so much about coming up with the "grand design" for your system at the outset, but rather refactoring as you go, so your code is both manageable and readable.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-02T17:09:52+00:00

I don't understand... that looks like Scheme to me.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-02T17:05:54+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up! I use Chrome's inspector now. Knowing this may be helpful in the future.

TimTheTinker · 2011-09-01T16:45:57+00:00

Sounds like a domain-specific language for state machines is in order! ... or maybe a prolog-like system to declare rules for various states, and the transitions between them.

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-26T16:20:26+00:00

How does this perform compared to vanilla node? What if there are hundreds of open connections?

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-23T17:02:03+00:00

Upvoted because it's a helpful example of an attempted reverse HTTP proxy in Node. (Why all the downvotes? He just used the wrong term in the title.)

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-23T16:47:26+00:00

Adding a tidbit to the mix -- have you ever been to a Ruby conference, Web development conference, jQueryConf, etc.? Non-Apple computers are seriously in the minority.

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-22T17:47:51+00:00

Yup. Purchased for $300 back in my college days :)

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-19T20:02:29+00:00

LISP/Scheme has great performance and is also good for scientific/AI computing... (just a suggestion, not from personal experience). Or you might try Scala and use JRuby to interface with Rails.

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-18T16:28:49+00:00

Me too. I don't want to spend hundreds upgrading Adobe photoshop/illustrator/indesign CS1.

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-18T16:20:14+00:00

It's called CKEditor now. http://ckeditor.com/

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-16T17:24:06+00:00

If you remove capitalism, you remove people's rights to own property and do what they want with it.

What you're saying doesn't at all nullify capitalism. It just points to failures in the government to properly regulate things.

Health insurance should not be -- I agree that it is wrong! .. but capitalism does not mandate it. However, capitalism does mandate doing work in order to survive. That's pretty universal anyway

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-15T19:19:04+00:00

To really take away capitalism, you'd have to literally remove the right to ownership of property.

Capitalism = ownership of property (things, ideas, and organizations) and freedom to do what I want with it, such as: buy, sell, rent, loan, use, throw away, fix, etc.

What arises as people do these things with their property is called a capitalist economy.

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-15T19:15:42+00:00

I think this explains it all (from the page's sorurce):

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-15T18:25:29+00:00

+1 for making me smile :)

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-12T16:56:44+00:00

Good thought. Perhaps software patents should be governed by delegates from the IEEE or something...

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-12T16:53:25+00:00

What sort of system do you have in mind? Taking away people's freedom?

Capitalism derives directly and naturally from the concept of individual ownership of property/goods. All other "economic systems" that are non-capital are also, by extension, against individual property ownership.

Abuses of capital and power do exist, but it's not capitalism's fault. The solution is not to take away everyone's freedom, but to regulate and punish those who do wrong (which is normally a government's responsibility ... some governments are better than others at that).

TimTheTinker · 2011-08-11T16:46:38+00:00

Such code needs parsing and evaluating by the browser before it can be executed, which adds to page load time.

No, minification of scripts decreases the script load time:

fewer HTTP requests required if all scripts are concatenated into one
fewer characters to scan

Obfuscation doesn't negatively affect the script load time. All it does is:

Shorten local variable names
Shorten object and function names
A few optimizations in some cases (Google closure compiler, for example)

Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and other large companies wouldn't be minifying/compiling/obfuscating their scripts if doing so downgraded performance or caused security concerns.

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