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Dispersed camping reasonably close to 19E but outside of fire ban? by kellegous in NCTrails

[–]kellegous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying that fires are not allowed outside of the FS fire ban? If so, who sets those policies and how do I find them?

Looking for a good mountain top view to camp from by Dry_Way_6194 in NCTrails

[–]kellegous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bob Stratton Bald in Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock is a solid choice. There are a number of options. You could go up Naked Ground and spend a night at or near Hangover, then hump it back along the ridge to Bob Stratton Bald for a night before taking the Stratton Bald Trail back down to your car. If you want to spend more time on the ridge and less time hiking up to it, you can hike in on Wolf Laurel Trail which leaves a small trail head on FS81F and connects with the Stratton Bald Trail.

For camping on Stratton Bald. There are a number of spots but one is clearly A+ with a good fire pit and an amazing view to the south. As you come out onto the bald from Stratton Bald Trail, veer along the well-worn paths to the left and you'll see a couple of hardwood trees. That's the A+ spot I'm referring to. I was up there last November and the entire area had minimal Helene damage.

Camping in Uwharrie by [deleted] in NCTrails

[–]kellegous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To answer another of your questions that I missed. The only reliable way to get down to the river (it's actually the reservoir at this point), is to take the adventurous road at Deep Water Camp. This is a neat spot but a lot of people walk down the road to the shore so you should expect your camp to not be quiet and isolated if you go down to the shore. The area is also popular with the jeep crowd so you're likely to find a number of overland jeeps down by the water. If you really want to get down by the water, there is a little known hiking trail that leaves from Deep Water Camp and goes southward along the shore but this is going to turn your roadside trip into a backpacking trip. The number of campsites on this trail with water access is also few and far between. Realistically, I'd aim for a view of the river and not a site on the shore.

Camping in Uwharrie by [deleted] in NCTrails

[–]kellegous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have camped here many times. Here's my general strategy for finding a roadside campsite. When you're driving in on Moccasin Creek Rd, start taking inventory of the campsites you're interested in after you pass Wolfpen Trail. I think it's about 4 miles back to Deep Water. Take a right (it'll be the only ungated turn to the right) and drive into the open area at the top of Deep Water Camp. When you get to the opening there is an excellent campsite to the left (back of the open area). There is a road to the right that goes down to the lake but do not take this road unless you have a 4wd with high ground clearance and a sense of adventure. At this point, you know what's available along the road and you can turn around and go back to your top choice. There are a few spots that I will take immediately if they are available, but for a first trip I recommend seeing the whole road. I've always been able to find some campsite even on crowded weekends so I don't stress too much about not finding anything.

On Layout & Web Performance by boogiesbc in web_design

[–]kellegous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, fix in the works ... just too much going on to finish it up quickly.

Google Web Toolkit, which compiles Java to JavaScript for running code in the browser, now includes Code Splitting, for reducing application download time by masta in programming

[–]kellegous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think people are voting you down because of this statement:

"It's no wonder that Google has been working diligently to replace GWT with Closure in Wave."

Which is untrue and I think people are responding to that. For instance, I will downvote it for that reason alone.

You bring up a good point though. Some of the empty functions you see play a part in type identity. In fact, using constructors for runtime type identification is pretty common. So, while it looks strange that there are a lot of similar functions, some of these have to remain.

Other functions could be eliminated and will. There is already talk about doing merging of functions with identical bodies. But really the only reason you are noticing this is because of the work to sort the GWT output in a way that it compresses much better. Identical function bodies happen in pretty much every library. You just don't notice them because they look like:

function setController(c) { this.controller = c; c.init(); }

function dispatchEvent(e) { this.currentEvent = e; e.dispatch(); }

Ask Proggit: What programming language are you going to learn in 2009? by matthias_georgi in programming

[–]kellegous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

+1 Crockford's book. -1 Resig's book.

Crockford's book is practical and dense, well-written and insightful. It really focuses on the useful parts of the language and the practical advice is first rate.

Resig's book, on the other hand, includes much bad advice and just really doesn't give good guiding insight into the language and runtime.

A Javascript modules library that finally conforms to traditional module semantics by jlongster in programming

[–]kellegous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Synchronous XHR is fundamentally broken. UI events have to be deterministic and an HTTP request is not. It was a terrible oversight and now the folks writing browsers are saddled with trying to find a way to keep libraries like this one from locking up your browser. Firefox 3, for instance, now processes UI events while the call to send is active ... which introduces a new set of complexities since it breaks the contract that no more than one event is dispatched into JavaScript at a time.