Xah Lee wrote:
here's a site: http://www.longbets.org/bets that takes socially
important predictions. I might have to enter one or two.
i longed for such a accountable predictions for a long time. Usually,
some fucking fart will do predictions, but the problem is that it's not
[...]
OMG,
Xah Lee wrote:
• The reason fucking languages like C and family mask technically
Contrary to popular opinion, languages don't multiply. Certainly they
don't have sex. Most (human) languages merely have something called
gender, and words don't interact. C has a bastard child called C++,
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
cut
Nice rant, btw in most EU countries the software creator can not
withdraw the responsibility of his/her/it creation, regardless of what
the disclaimer says. The law is the leading authority and not some
Disclaimer/EULA, that's why most US EULA's
Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
Do you have an Approved by Xah Lee seal logo they could put on their web
page?
Funny, that'd *exactly* mirror the opinion I have of PHP :D
(btw, why is this posted to every newsgroup EXCEPT a PHP one? make us
feel good?)
--
Majority, n.: That quality that
Xah Lee wrote:
To sort a list in Python, use the “sort” method. For example:
li=[1,9,2,3];
li.sort();
print li;
Likewise in Common Lisp. In Scheme there are probably packages for that
as well. My apologies for not being very fluent anymore.
CL-USER (setf list (sort '(1 9 2 3) #'))
Sherm Pendley wrote:
I'm guessing you didn't get the joke then. I think Richard's response was a
parody of Xah's style - a funny parody, at that.
If you take all the line noise in Perl as swearing ;)
I suppose I'm lucky I can't read it.
--
We're glad that graduates already know Java,
so we
Paul F. Dietz wrote:
Bart Lateur wrote:
As a similar example: I've been told by various women independently,
that there are more babies born near a full moon.
That's also a myth.
Right, everybody knows that it's not natural (moon) light that
influences reproductive behavior, it's
Mike Meyer wrote:
If your web apps are well-written, any of them should work. As
previously stated, Sturgeon's law applies to the web, so chances are
good they aren't well-written.
:)
But as soon as some user of platform 54 tries your website, she'll
encounter some weird behavior without
Mike Meyer wrote:
I'm still waiting for an answer to that one - where's the Java toolkit
that handles full-featured GUIs as well as character cell
interfaces. Without that, you aren't doing the job that the web
technologies do.
Where is the text-mode browser that would even run part of the
Mike Meyer wrote:
I'd rather develop a native client for the machine that people
actually WANT to use, instead of forcing them to use that
little-fiddly web browser on a teeny tiny display.
You missed the point: How are you going to provide native clients for
platforms you've never heard
Mike Meyer wrote:
This can be designed much better by using iframes, maybe even Ajax.
Definitely with Ajax. That's one of the things it does really well.
But then you're probably limited to the big 4 of browsers: MSIE,
Mozilla, KHTML/Safari, Opera. Ok, that should cover most desktop users,
John Bokma wrote:
Ulrich Hobelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the information side (in contrast to the discussion side) RSS is
replacing Usenet,
LOL, how? I can't post to RSS feeds. Or do you mean for lurkers?
I said information side, meaning stuff like RSS is used
Mike Meyer wrote:
Mike Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already
comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser)
No, they don't. Minimalist Unix distributions don't include a browser
by default. I know the BSD's don't, and
John Bokma wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ web based boards ]
And which useful tools do you require?
A choice of news readers to suit different people with different
interfaces,
- different browsers, different
John Bokma wrote:
Ulrich Hobelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I hate about most are the sites that don't even *mention* that
they want cookies. Often I have to wonder, reinput input fields etc.
and then after ten minutes trying *bang*, the idea, maybe to allow
cookies for that site
John Bokma wrote:
I have cookies off, with explicit exception for sites where
I want cookies. When the crappy website doesn't bother to MENTION that
it wants cookies, i.e. give me an error page, how am I to know that it
needs cookies? Do I want EVERY website to ask me do you allow XY to
John Bokma wrote:
[cookies]
Delete them after each session automatically, except the ones on the
exception list.
But why? I simply don't even take them, except my exception list ;)
Some people have all cookies turned off.
You are clearly not an average user, so your usage pattern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the argument that usenet should never change seems a little
heavy-handed and anachronistic.
No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards. Those
alternatives *do* support HTML formatting
l v wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
(circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995),
I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email and news
readers set to display in plain text only. It prevents the marketeers
Be generous in what you accept and conservative in what
Roger Leigh wrote:
At least he noticed that tar sucks. There's nothing better than tarring
your backup back to disk, only to notice that the pathnames were too
long. Great!
That's been fixed for quite some time, though. The current GNU tar
(1.15.1) writes POSIX.1-2001 (PAX) archives,
Keith Thompson wrote:
Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[the usual]
At least he noticed that tar sucks. There's nothing better than tarring
your backup back to disk, only to notice that the pathnames were too
long. Great!
--
I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people
Jürgen Exner wrote:
Just for the records at Google et.al. in case someone stumbles across Xah's
masterpieces in the future:
Xah is very well known as the resident troll in many NGs and his
'contributions' are less then useless.
And you are the resident troll-reply service, posting this reply
jan V wrote:
Did you know that some deranged people take sexual pleasure out of starting
fires? Apparently some of the latest forest/bush fires in southern Europe
were even started by firemen (with their pants down?).
I've only heard of people trying to extinguish fires with their pants
down.
alex goldman wrote:
Daniel Silva wrote:
At any rate, FOLD must fold.
I personally think GOTO was unduly criticized by Dijkstra. With the benefit
of hindsight, we can see that giving up GOTO in favor of other primitives
failed to solve the decades-old software crisis.
The fault of goto in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Python doc, though relatively incompetent, but the author have
Really, how could those morons even dream of creating a language,
and even writing docs to accompany it??
tried the best. This is in contrast to documentations in unix related
things (unix tools, perl,
Torsten Bronger wrote:
Hallchen!
Tach!
Moreover, I dislike the fact that new features are implemented
partly in the interpreter and partly in Python itself. It reminds
me of TeX/LaTeX, where the enormous flexibility of TeX is used to
let it change itself in order to become a LaTeX compiler.
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