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++,
tru
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>
> 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
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?)
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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.
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so we
Richard Gration wrote:
> Are you fucking seriously fucking expecting some fucking moron to
> translate your tech geeking fucking code moronicity? Fucking try writing
> it fucking properly in fucking Perl first.
Fucking excuse me?
Fucking maybe you should fucking go fucking fuck your fucking self.
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'
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 with
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
Mike Meyer wrote:
> Try turning off JavaScript (I assume you don't because you didn't
> complain about it). Most of the sites on the web that use it don't
> even use the NOSCRIPT tag to notify you that you have to turn the
> things on - much less use it to do something useful.
I had JS off for a l
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 user
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
> prob
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
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
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, d
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,
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 s
[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 HTM
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) a
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
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!
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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
dow
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 rep
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 imperati
[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, apa
Torsten Bronger wrote:
HallÃchen!
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. Howe
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