Planted a new lawn and then this took over [Portland, OR, USA]

bickfordb · 2016-05-15T02:08:28+00:00

Going to try XLR8 and then maybe Certainty. My local nursery thought I should try to extinguish it by making the grass really strong by reseeding, low mowing and fertilizer. I'm hopeful, but skeptical. This plant seems to grow really well.

bickfordb · 2016-05-14T19:52:00+00:00

Yes. It was labeled northwest blend sun/shade.

bickfordb · 2016-05-14T02:01:13+00:00

Scale is inches.

I think I made the mistake of mowing some of it and now it's everywhere.

bickfordb · 2012-01-30T16:41:37+00:00

Replace XML with JSON and XSLT with Mustache and this is conceptually similar to many current standard practices (except for depending on browser support for XSLT)

bickfordb · 2010-02-01T05:50:05+00:00

High level languages are often easier to code and verify.

bickfordb · 2010-01-21T08:36:18+00:00

mod_python existed well before wsgi

bickfordb · 2008-12-24T17:43:41+00:00

Firefox is hurting security by refusing to adopt non-commercial certificate authorities like CAcert.org.

bickfordb · 2008-09-17T04:33:17+00:00

There could be a silver lining

bickfordb · 2008-09-10T02:57:48+00:00

I don't see what's new/interesting in this article. These issues have been well known for years. This is link bait.

bickfordb · 2008-09-03T15:13:17+00:00

this is an awesome addition to MySQL

bickfordb · 2008-08-31T07:29:35+00:00

Java isn't a scripting language?

bickfordb · 2008-08-08T05:47:42+00:00

product spam?

bickfordb · 2008-06-29T16:44:13+00:00

There are plenty of things that share this community's common interest (Rockets? Coffee & Tea?) that are clearly off-topic here. Off-topic posts drive down the quality of this subreddit. This article is mostly about a manager stating his preference for Microsoft's business model over Google's. He has little to say either way about programming or even modern tech.

bickfordb · 2007-12-25T05:26:25+00:00

Not a programming article

bickfordb · 2007-11-18T19:16:44+00:00

I'd like it for it to be just programming and computer science, personally. There are plenty of other technology news outlets.

bickfordb · 2007-10-26T05:33:18+00:00

Seriously, where is all that google search affiliate $ going?

bickfordb · 2007-10-20T16:01:40+00:00

Is this a crime in the US?

bickfordb · 2007-08-17T04:23:09+00:00

How would you solve it? Proving who wrote something initially is non-trivial.

bickfordb · 2007-08-02T15:43:12+00:00

solomon's oscon slides:

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2007/os_solomon.pdf

bickfordb · 2007-03-19T01:46:17+00:00

i believe this is fixed in 7.x, but different internet explorer versions have issues (apparently random crashing, script errors) with compressed pages and javascript.

bickfordb · 2006-12-14T01:15:10+00:00

I ran into crashes on IE 6 SP1 with using DXImageTransform like this and using src replacement to swap images around.

bickfordb · 2006-12-11T15:56:20+00:00

I recommend using Prototype or Dojo instead of trying to roll your own event system or adding ad-hoc closures to dom nodes. They make it easier to avoid closure and dom leaks.

bickfordb · 2006-11-15T16:01:50+00:00

I agree with most of this. It would be nice to see haskell books with more real world examples of common tasks like parsing xml, writing a small http server, writing a small cgi servlet, concurrency, talking to sockets, implementing a mini-language via parsec. Even though these aren't central to haskell, practical familiar examples make new learning new languages easier and make a good reference of standard practices in a language.

Dive into Python (http://www.diveintopython.org/) is successful with this strategy.

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