If you gathered up a bunch of old, proven data representation methods,
packaged it as XML 2.0, formed an XML 2.0 consortium and put it out
there energetically with bullet points and with a straight face, people
would buy it.
No, listen, it's true, they would. The straight face part is import
> The suggestion has come up 8000 times in as many forums, to no avail.
>
> Supposedly, the excess verbosity makes it more readable/less error-prone.
to paraphrase, a sufficient amount of readable data is
as good as unreadable data.
- erik
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:43 PM, ron minnich wrote:
>
> as long as you don't care about the (observed) 100:1 ratio of XML glop
> to data in, e.g., the Python XMLRPC stuff, it's great. Yep, I observed
> that ratio when Xen made the cut to XML-
On 30 June 2010 15:54, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> A friend on AIM who I showed this quote to suggested XML should drop named
> close tags as a solution: stuff
> "C and Ratfor programmers find BEGIN and END bulky compared to { and }." -
> bwk
>
The suggestion has come up 8000 times in as many foru
On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:43 PM, ron minnich wrote:
as long as you don't care about the (observed) 100:1 ratio of XML glop
to data in, e.g., the Python XMLRPC stuff, it's great. Yep, I observed
that ratio when Xen made the cut to XML-RPC: 3000 bytes of RPC to send
30 bytes of data. It's impressive: g
> To add to the madness you can write XML files that translate XML files to
> other files (possibly other XML files) in an XML defined language called
> XSLT. XSLT is a bit like writing in a functional programming language with
> the worst syntax possible :-).
>
> The reason I say "worst syntax po
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:25 AM, David Leimbach wrote:
>
> Eventually you'll find that the entire world became a nail for the XML
> hammer and that things like SOAP, XML-RPC, are just not very good due to the
> fact that sending XML documents on a wire for simple RPC calls is grossly
> inefficien
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:47 AM, hugo rivera wrote:
> Now that I had a closer look to xml files, I think I get the main idea.
> From my point of view, xml doesn't seem so bad after all (please,
> please, this is just an uninformed opinion) but perhaps in the future
> I'll be able to see its defec
2010/6/30 erik quanstrom :
>> I certainly have several nonsensical words / names for my cats. None
>> of them contain numbers or punctuation or anything associated with a
>> strong passphrase. The longest of these is probably about 12
>> characters. And a system that can try a billion RSA keys per
erik quanstrom wrote:
also, an atm card is a 2-factor authentication scheme. and
you get 3 guesses. assuming you can steal the card
Assuming you are a member of the main source of Net fraud, that is, a
customer of one of the botnet builders doing 30 thousand victims at a
time from your com
Now that I had a closer look to xml files, I think I get the main idea.
>From my point of view, xml doesn't seem so bad after all (please,
please, this is just an uninformed opinion) but perhaps in the future
I'll be able to see its defects.
--
Hugo
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:11 PM, John Floren wrote:
>
>> Hey, there's a way to end the mouse/keyboard switching argument once
>> and for all! With 18 buttons, you can just make the mouse a chording
>> keyboard as well and never move your hand
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Not a place for an ad but if you are interested in working on Casella
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Casella Digital Media will be launched within the hour. I'm looking
for workers, from contractors, thru BWOC (Bondi Winter of Code) dudes,
and beta testers for the
> I certainly have several nonsensical words / names for my cats. None
> of them contain numbers or punctuation or anything associated with a
> strong passphrase. The longest of these is probably about 12
> characters. And a system that can try a billion RSA keys per second is
> going to quickly ex
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:54:25PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote:
>
> the go toolchain is replete with go-specific things,
> and produces incompatible .8 files (and perhaps for other architectures),
> because of the way certain changes were made.
>
I've had the Go toolchain successfully compile wo
On 06/30/10 12:17 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
See also http://cyborggaming.com/ for complicated mice :)
2010/6/29 David Leimbach:
http://warmouse.com/pr062810.html
Looks complicated.
I like the R.A.T. from cyborggaming.
I think the big question is: how do you guys find these thingies ???
-
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> i think people get too hung up on trying to make
> the port back perfect. just make it work.
> then make it better.
>
But it's the toolchain I'm after. I like Go a lot, but I feel that
a viable toolchain that produces ELF files for L
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